Zoe+P

Hey hey!!

I'm Zoe, sixteen years old and I don't really have much to say... Well, my dad is an artist (painter) and my whole family is academically helpless! So art was a major go-to for me and it's always been something I enjoyed. It was the only thing I was good at. Then in middle school, we were forced to learn guitar in music class, so that got me started in that but we only learned the basic chords and I wasn't very coordinated at all. Although, once I got to highschool, my love for guitar just shot through the roof once I got more skills and knowledge of it. My art abilities have grown even more so I can kind of see that my career will be somewhere along these lines.

Anyways, I'm loving every moment of this crazy: Painting, photo taking, guitar playing and writing experience! :) I'm obsessed with this crazy thing called Art and extremely fascinated by how much of yourself can be portrayed in your work and how much of yourself you can discover through your work. How much it's changed and so on...

So! That's all.

:)

My first performance consisted of myself, Lia, Alice and Airie. We played Perfect by Hedley!

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My second performance didn't go as well as I wanted it to. I played "I wish we had all been ready" by Larry Norman. It's not a love song, but it sounded like one so it was an appropriate choice I think :)) I played it by myself so I was really nervous... which caused my hands to shake... and then I played it kind of badly. Oh well.

My third performance was better, probably because I performed with other people. I was with Airi, Alice, Ruth and Allan, and we played Taylor Swift's single: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. It didn't sound a lot like the song because we struggled at first with the strumming pattern and we discovered that we had the wrong chords all along. So on the performance day, we had to change things around. It went pretty well though.

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Hello!!!! :) Lia and I performed a song that I wrote and we worked on the chords and strumming together! It was so much fun and I think we didnt pretty well concidering that Lia was ill a couple of our practice days. The song is called "Downfall" and the verses are really slow and kind of sad, but the chorus becomes faster and a bit more exciting. The only reason this isn't a sad song, (or sounds like a sad song I should say) is because there was a season recently in my life where everything was just so up and down. One day would be perfect and my life would be so enjoyable and I was really happy, and then I would come crashing down for no reason. It was stressful and annoying, so I guess my song really reveals that switch from being sad to happy.