Jason+K

My name is Jason Kang and welcome to my WiKi !!

This is my first WiKi post and stay tuned for upcoming posts !!
Week 1: I learned D Chord and E minor Chord. Gatherd around with my friends, deciding on music. It's been a long time since I played guitar. It's exciting playing guitar with my friends and sharing with classmate. Looking forward to upcoming performance, my fingers are aching from playing guitar.

Week 1 cont.: I performed "Something In The Air" and "Spanish Fandango" with my friends. Since it was our first performance, I knew I should have practiced harder. Next week, I'll be looking forward, learning a new chord and trying out new genres of music.

Week 2: I'll be practicing G Chord and C Chord and going to play a classic pop song. It was hard practicing a pop song because I never enjoyed singing pop song, just listening. Throughout many practice and discussion, we have polished our song and ready to go.

Week 2 cont.: I performed "Knocking On Heavens Door" by Guns n Roses with my friends. For sure it's a beautiful music and loved the way audiences were participating in our song. It's unbelievable how guns n roses were able to compose such a beautiful music with 4 chords.

Week 3: I will learn F Chord and perform our first tab music. Since it's a tab music, it's going to be probably a song with arpegio strum pattern. It's autumn, we've decided we are going to play a mellow music. Practicing F chord is very hard. I have a midget like fingers and pressing againts a whole fret is very painful.

Week 4: We performed "Falling Slowly". I think we could have done better on transition between arpegio and strumming. Changing between G chord and F chord was very hard since F chord is a bar chord.

Week 5: This week, my buddies are going to practice "Ban Mal Song" This is our first korean song. Since only some people in the audience, we are going to sing with our best smile ^^. I had no choice but to sing in womens key. My throat hurts!!

Week 6: This week, I will be practicing "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton but not sure if we are going to perform. Decided not going to perform wonderful tonight but still a very beautiful song and a favorite song of eric clapton.

Week 7: Practicing "Let It Be" by Beatles. This song is our second song with bar chords. This song consists of C,G,Am,Dm,F chord. Since we practiced f chord from falling slowly, I have a confidence that we are going to present a better performance. the lyrics were very touching and we tried very hard to concentrate on lyrics while practicing.

Week 8: Practicing "Creep" by Radiohead. It's original version is a heavy metal rock theme, but we have re composed the song in a sad mood. This song consists of 4 barcodes, differentiated with major and minor chords.

Week 9: We are going to play Instinct by Kang Seung Yoon. This song is very sentimental and famous song as a Acoustic Guitar song. Although it may not be complicated as arpegio pattern, it has very distinctive and complicated strumming pattern. Going to put more intrest in vocal.

Week 10: We are going to play For you its me, for me its you by JATANPOONG. This song is first song that consists of both arpegio and strumming. We are going to seperate the music into two parts and alternate between members.

Week 11: There was no performance this week. Continuing with our practice. Practicing Instinct by Kang Seung Yoon and For you For me by Jatanpoong. I miss the old Mr.Mancell!! hope he is okay.

Week 12: Our buddys feel very confident with Instinct by Kang Seung Yoon and For you For me by Jatanpoong. Today, we are going to practice another acoustic feel song called Into the dust. This song has a amazing vocal section and the audiences are going to love it.

Week 13: Performed Turn Into the Dust by Kim Gwang Suk This performance is one of our best and satisfying performance.

Week 14: Practicing Thorn by Buzz. I was away this monday. I miss my friends and guitar class.

Week 15: Mr.Mancell is finally back!! Got started on making my own music. I'm sure I'm going to start with lyrics.

Week 16: Rough draft of my lyrics are done. Trying to decide a starting chord. maybe E chord with minor transitions. I have great chorus that I want to use for my song.

Week 17:Decided on my starting chord. E, B, A, A, Am, G#m, Dsus9. My music consists of three verses, a chorus, and a bridge. Going to name it 'Losing".

Week 18: Last Week of Guitar. Playing the guitar, I could heal my self and get away from the stresses that I got from everyday lives. It was very fun getting to know many people and be connected with them through music. Taking Guitar was a great joy, it filled me up with the joy I received from playing in concer band. It was also a very pleasant surprise taking a course with many friends and Mr.Mancell.