David+S

I am David Sherwood, and I am part of Ms. Upton's guitar class. I'm in grade 11, but I'm 15 years old. My favourite thing to do is watch movies, mostly action/adventure movies. In fact, my favourite action picture is Rambo II. My two "sports" include fencing and, most recently, skateboarding. Before taking this course, I had hardly picked up a guitar. Now I practice my steel string guitar at home at least every second day. Eventually I would like to switch to electric guitar and start my own band. My favourite genres of music are Heavy Metal, Punk Rock, Alternative Rock, and Classic Rock. Some of my favourite bands include Nickelback, The Offspring, and Three Days Grace.

__**Week 1:**__ Song Title: Bad Moon Rising Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival media type="youtube" key="4YlTUDnsWMo" height="315" width="420"

Song: Sweet Home Alabama Artist: Lynyrd Skynyrd media type="youtube" key="C29Fs-WNIrg" height="315" width="420"
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Song: So Far Away Artist: Avenged Sevenfold media type="youtube" key="A7ry4cx6HfY" height="263" width="438" __**Week 4:**__ Song: Smoke On The Water Artist: Deep Purple media type="youtube" key="2WX_4FNoto4" height="315" width="420"
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Song: New Divide Artist: Linkin Park media type="youtube" key="ysSxxIqKNN0" height="293" width="455"
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Song: I Hate Everything About You Artist: Three Days Grace media type="youtube" key="d8ekz_CSBVg" height="317" width="498"
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Title: The Spanish Song Artist: David Sherwood Album: Sherwoodmania
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__**Week 8:**__ Title: 21 Guns Artist: Green Day media type="youtube" key="r00ikilDxW4" height="315" width="560"

__**Week 9:**__ Title: Good Riddance, Stand By Me Artist: Green Day media type="youtube" key="CnQ8N1KacJc" height="315" width="420"

Title: Big Brown Eyes Artist: VA
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Song: Damnit Artist: Blink 182
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 * 1) ** What performance was your strongest? Why? What song was it? Who did you work with? ** My performance of Good Riddance by Green Day was the strongest, because I practiced it a lot even during after-school hours. I performed it with Jason and Seung Ho.
 * ** What performance was your weakest? Why? What song was it? Who did you work with? ** My performance of The Spanish Song was the weakest because I wrote it myself. I worked with myself while practicing the self-wrote song that I performed by myself.
 * ** What songs did you learn in class that were your favorite? **
 * I learned about the song Good Riddance, which is freaking awesome to play on the guitar.
 * ** What was your favorite part of Guitar 11? (projects, performances, classroom experience) What did you enjoy the most about this course? ** My favorite part of Guitar 11 was the classroom experience, playing guitar everyday except monday, and saturday, and also sunday. Which was ok because I have a guitar at home. Guitar playing is pretty damn awesome.