Nikki

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I am a person who needs music in their life. I have not met one person with the same music taste as I have. My iPod has genres ranging from latin to rock. Every type of genre has its specific feeling, and theres are certain moments where I want to listen to whichever.

My mother enrolled me into possibly everysingle intsrumental class. I studied each ranging from a month to a couple years. I spent ages 5 - 10 learning piano, however I never practised and only remember basics. I do wish I took advantage of my young age and ability to learn then, but I was too young to understand how important music is at that time. I did take a year of guitar lessons for the mere reason of learning basic chords. Now during family partys me and brother can play together while my parents sing. It definitly brings us together! I also learned the clarinet thoughrolly, however do not remember a single note.

Other then music, I love to draw. Even though im not as good as it gets, it feels great to grab a pencil and paper and draw whatever I imagine and turn it into real life.

I started dance in grade 8. It wasn't the regular dance style most girls do. With a russian background

I studied latin ballroom and a little bit of classical ballroom. I did it for two years until the commute got in the way. However, I am now picking it up again, and since I am at an older age I can get there on my own without disturbing my parents.

I started gymnastics at age 5 and at age 10 started participating in it competitively. It got a little out of hand, especially once it began involving my family to volunteer. I still regret to this day that I quit, but now i have more time to focus on my studies and plan out the rest of my future with travel and meeting amazing people that will effect my life in different ways.

As for guitar, I hope to be able to recognize music well and play along myself. I want to get a better sense of rhythm in strumming and learn many different and more difficult chords.

__Week One__ Sweet Home Alabama Performance Nikki Kheifets; Kimberley Seina Amini; Jamil Adamu

-This is a more complex tutorial of Sweet Home Alabama

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__Week Two__ Sweet Home Alabama Individual Test

-This is the simple version we performed two weeks in a row
 * The beginning is an intro to the tutorial

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__Week Three__ Wonderwall By: Oasis

Group of three: Nikki Kheifets, Kimberley Amini, and Jamil Adamu

I must say, our chords weren't matched but we played it after a few days of practice with an early performance.

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__Week Four__ Hey There Delilah By: The Plain White T's This was out tab week! media type="youtube" key="JNciA_HZgUA" width="425" height="350" __Week Five__ Hakuna Matata

Group of Nikki Kheifets, Kimberley Seina Amini, and Jamil Adamu

We sang a part of the song, but even though we all definitely can't sing, it turned out alright! media type="youtube" key="_u4u5-dFzi4" width="425" height="350"

__Week Six__ Me and Kim performes Lucky by Jason Mraz! "IM LUCKY IM IN LOVE WITH MY BEST FRIEND" ...true story.

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__Week Seven__ I performed a song I wrote about my bestfriend Kimberley Seina Amini! She missed it though :( i wanted to sing for her. It's a private song, its so personal no one will get it....

__Week Eight__ Kimberley Seina Amini and I preformed Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Jamil sat in and sang with us

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__Week Nine__ Waltz

Adam, Jamil, and I performed this song. I played it for my mom, and she LOVED it. Even she tried to learn it, but it didn't go very well... haha

__For week 10 and 11__, we worked on our music video for the song Friends Forever, Vitamin C

__Guitar 11__ 1.) I think my strongest performance was the spanish song that i performed with Jamil, and Adam. I played it for my mom, and she was tempted to learn it herself!

2.) I think my weakest performance was Hey There Delilah, with Jamil and kim. The tab was really difficult to sync.

3.) Mt favourite song I learned in class was Im Yours by Jason Mraz.

4.) I loved that you gave us the music for up to date song, that we listen to on the daily. And I was so happy that we got to make a music video! I think it turned out great!