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I'm a grade twelve student currently taking 'Guitar 11' for the second time. Just for fun :)



BIOGRAPHY:

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I am virtuous and have strong values. I am Blood Type "O Positive" I aim to find beauty everywhere. I'm weird and childish but in the best possible ways. I'm different. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel like I'm seven years old again :) I'm a complete geek and I am proud to be one. DFTBA NERDFIGHTERS!  Someday I want to be an elementary school teacher. That is my dream.  My favorite musical artist is Yiruma. He's a Korean Pianist.  I am.. me!

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JOURNAL _ Hello, this is me, Jessica. Today is September 19th. Mr. Mancell is't here today. Since the start of the semester I have learned "The Superman Song" by Crash Test Dummies and "Spanish Fandango" by Mr. Mancell's grandpa. Today I am looking up a new song to learn. Maybe I'll learn the "B" chord. That one is hard.

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Today is September 27th. We're in the computer lab. Last week I learned "Pumped up Kicks" by Foster the People and I was learning "When Will My Life Begin" from the movie 'Tangled'. I learned "Pumped up Kicks" with ease, but "When Will My Life Begin" is harder. That's because it has barchords and I am new at those. I think I will have this mastered in in two weeks time. We'll see!

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__Today is October 5th, 2011__ __This week, I've been practicing the song "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day with my group.__ __Cassidy and I are singing / playing guitar while the others play along. At some point in the preformance, Stephanie might play us a violin solo!__ __I hope so. It's a pretty great song and I think we'll do well. The chords are G, C, D, and Em.__

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__October 17th 2011, __ __We have been learning "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz in class. __ __Here's a tutorial for that song: __ media type="youtube" key="wbK09ClEFL0?version=3" height="360" width="640"

__Happy Halloween! Yes, it's October 31st and also a Monday. Me and my group preformed "Grenade" by Bruno Mars last Friday and let me just say that we were awful. Our timing was off and I swear I messed up on chords like 5 million times throughout our preformance. The song was just too hard for our group, and we only had a week to learn it. That being said, I can now play Grenade and have it sound like I want it too. It just takes a lot of concentration and I can't play it under pressure or with others yet. It will come in time, I'm sure :) This week we are allowed to pick our own songs. So me, Cassidy, Maureen and Stephanie are going to ROCK next week's preformance! <3 __

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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">So much for rocking our preformance XD <span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">We chose to play "Perfect" by Hedley. It was a fairly simple song, and very fun to play, but we all had different rhythms and strumming patterns so it sounded really off during our preformance Friday. If we would have all gone individually we would have each gotten an A, for sure :) media type="youtube" key="xgSznuYZ_UA" width="425" height="350"

<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Hello again :) this is my first log in two weeks because last week was very short and we only preformed once between the 14 days. Me and my group learned "One Tin Soldier" the folk song but we decided to preform "When You're Gone" by Avril Lavigne instead. This was a good choice I think, it was a little more creative than sticking to the prompt song and we did okay preforming it too. This week we're learning Jingle Bells. That means Christmas is soon :D yay!

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<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Greetings :3 <span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jingle Bells was fine, the chords were really easy and we did a performance as a class. I personally prefer to preform in our smaller groups to the class because being packed like sardines onto the risers wasn't fun. And THEN on top of that we had to play our instruments in that confined space. Good experience, trial and error, didn't like it. Song was good though I'm glad that I learned it. Should come in handy later in life.

<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This week me, Stephanie, Cassidy and Maureen are doing a medley of four songs. They are "What a Wonderful World", "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", "Don't Worry Be Happy" and Don't Stop Believing".

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__<span style="background-color: #fffff0; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">It was pretty great, the Medley performance. I think that we did well. We messed up a bit in the ending but whatever, that just means you're watching a live show haha. The next week we did "Deck The Halls" which had really easy chords (G,C,D,E) but we were allowed to do it because Cassidy wasn't here a lot of the time because of field trips and also because it's getting closer to the holidays. That performance wasn't great, but it was alright, nothing wrong with it. No clue what we're doing this week yet, probably something Christmassy in honor of the holiday season but not as simple as "Deck the Halls". Because come on, that was vomitly easy.We'll see! :D __

__<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">HAI __ __<span style="background-color: #ffffe5; color: #5c0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">We ended up learning the Christmas Carol "Oh Holy Night". It was really pretty and fairly easy to play once I got a hang of it. We haven't presented it yet, and it's January 10th, because of Winter Break and I was sick for a couple days :(. We will be preforming it withing a couple of days. Also, we are supposed to have written a song (three verses, with chords) and handed it in. I'll be writing and posting that later tonight. I've never written a proper song before and I'm sort of scared that I won't be good at it. We'll never know if I don't try. Ttys ^_^ __

<span style="background-color: #e6fefb; color: #5c0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">THIS IS MY SONG:

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">Shoes Em I always knew I wanted you

C I needed to impress

A Each day finding new ways you were

Em so different from the rest

Em It was heaven for the longest time

C Till suddenly nothing was fine

D You were killing me, I set you free

C No one could have ever guessed

**Chorus:**

Em

My shoes keep walking back to you

C Back to your heart that was untrue

D G D Em I know better but my shoes walk on

Em My shoes keep walking back in time

C they pray your heart'll return to mine

D C Though everything about that would be wrong

Em My shoes walk on

Em She was created to be yours

C Honest I understand

A And she will make you smile

Em She steals your heart from in your hand

Em Together you'll have perfect lives

C I wish I could open my eyes

D Escape this dream, this hope unseen

C But I don't think I can

**Chorus**

C G I loved you once

D C Now I don't not anymore

C G But my heart thinks

D C Of you every time my heart is sore

C G How it would be

D C If I felt that I belonged

C D And with you nothing's ever wrong

D That's why...

**Chorus**

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We're singing/playing this song this week, called Pretty Unpretty by Glee

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