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=__Weekly Blog updates on guitar class 2012__=

Hi my name is Amelia Knight I chose to join guitar because I have never played before and I think it would be alot of fun to learn how to play I hope I can play pretty well by the end of the semester.I used to play piano then quit because i found it boring I would like learn how to write my own songs I also think that the radio bumper assingment seems fun to do. Last week rachelle,thalia and I learned the spanish fandango and something in the air by tom petty. We had a lot of fun learning the E and D chords. We are excited to learn more in the up coming weeks. The spanish fandango was also the first finger picking song the Mr.Mancell learned. We enjoyed learning how to do a finger picking song. It was challenging at first then we kept on playing it over and over again and we finally got the hang of it we have to perform both of them as a group tomorrow and Mr.Mancell is going to give us a new song today too.

February 20th 2012 monday Last week did our performance on the spanish fandango and something in the air by tom petty. Thaila and I did well on something in the air by Tom Petty but then we didn't do too well.on the spanish fandango. I practiced all that week and knew it really well but then we performed in front of the class it was like my hands were completely frozen and I totally messed up. But thats ok new start this week learning..... The brown eyed girl by Van Morrison. Then maybe in a couple of weeks once we learn more chords we will be able to perform some of the songs that we chose. So the chords that we are learning this week are G,C and D. So we will how it goes and hope my performance goes better then last week.

[|Brown eyed girl Van morrison]

February 27th 2012 Last week we did a performance on Brown eyed girl by van morrison. This week we are learning pumped up kicks by foster the people. So we have learned a total of 5 songs and many more this week coming up. So that is what we are doing this week. Rachelle and I might switch the song to something else but we are just going to wait and see about it first. The link below is the song pumped up kicks the acoustic version(because we are playong acoustic guitar) this is not a cover this the real band. That's all for this week. [|pumped up kicks foster the people]

March 26th 2012 The last two weeks were spring break before the break we started learning I'm yours by Jason Mraz we are starting to learn the intro only and then hopefully move on to the whole song. the chords in this song are G,D,E minor and C so the challenge with this song is too get it to sound as close as we can to the original video our teacher recommended the below attached video to help us learn this song faster [|I'm Yours Jason Mraz]

April 1st 2012 Last week we performed I'm Yours be Jason Mraz the intro I thought was very challenging to do but the actually song seemed easier because it was all the chords we had already learned so even though the intro was challenging it was still fun to learn and maybe if I have extra time in class I can try and practice it some more. So now this week we have friday off so we won't be performing till next week we have the choice to learn either the river,mother and me or one tin soldier.I am not to sure which one to do yet still thinking and i want to talk to the other girls in my group. This week I think is still going to be challenging because we have to learn the F bar chord and that is the one big challenge we have to learn. That is why he is giving us a longer time to learn this there is a cheater F but he would rather us learn the real one.So I guess we have to try and see what happens then. So I will update after how my group did on the performance so hopefully we do well I will just have to wait and see but it should be ok if i keep on practicing

April 16th 2012 Hi didn't update last week because of easter long weekend but on friday we performed one tin solider I found it challlenging even though I had practiced all week long with randi and Rachelle. This week we get the choice between grenade by bruno mars and house of the rising sun by the animals. I like both of those songs but i really want to do grenade by bruno mars.No performance this week he just told us that we are two songs in two weeks. Grenade Bruno Mars House of the rising sun

April 23rd 2012 so we are still learning grenade and house of the rising sun and performing on friday both the songs so finger picking and bar cords and the rest of the song are the chords that we learned

April 30th 2012 so we get to write our own song for two weeks and learn two other songs one song per week and perform one song per week then at the end of next week we perform the song that we wrote and made:) should be fun and challenging just have to wait and see how it goes

May 14th 2012 So this week we are learning times like these by jack johnson and taylor by jack johnson as well but of course we can still choose our own song. So now to go and talk about the song that Rachelle and I wrote so we decided that we didn't want to perform it at all at the beginning of the class and then we decided that we would just play the chords and not sing but we did not get full marks but that is ok because we still did very well and i think we got quite a good mark on it but this week rachelle and i moght be doing upside down by jack johnson

May 22nd 2012 So this week we have to learn a song with 4 barchords in but we could also perform father and son that he gave us last week we performed upside down by jack johnson but i didnt perform because my barcords dont have the right sound to them yet so i am trying to work on that but i cant seem to get it but practice makes perfect. So this week we could perform father and son but rachelle and I want to try and find our own song with 4 bar chords in it because that is the criteria

May 28th 2012 So this week Rachelle and few other people we are going to do blackout by breathe carolina its the same group as the week coming up June 6th group so this is one of my favorite

June 6th 2012 So this week we are learning stand by me by Ben E King we have to finger pick so this week we are performing wtih chantel,rachelle,carlin and victoria so last weeks performance went very well we ended up all singing and adding a bunch of cool little things to the song it was amazing and we did amazing said Mr.Mancell it was probably one of our favorite performances it was fun and we sounded great so this week the finger picking is a bit challenging but not too bad we are stilling doing it as a big group the same as last weeks amazing performance

June 11th 2012 This week is our last week in this guitar class WWWAAAAHHHHH i am going to miss this class so much but for the last week we are going to playing the way I am by Ingrid Michaelson this is going to be a sad and fun week I am going to miss everyone in our group that we played with our class is so much fun going to be weird without this class but we will have fun this last week