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Week 1: 2/15/21-2/21/21
2/21/21
To begin my project, I will be learning basic chords and gathering as much knowledge. By doing this, I will be able to set the stage for the rest of my project. The chords are not super easy to learn, and I don't have the best memory so I think that will probably carry over into next week and maybe week three depending on how well I can remember the chords. This week is a little boring if I'm being honest. A big part of this project for me that's not directly related to guitar is working on being patient with things like this. Sometimes it's hard for me to go into things knowing that I will not immediately be good at them because they take time to learn, causing me to be impatient. Not jumping directly into playing the guitar is a little bit of the boring part. Even though the first week or two may not be as entertaining as the rest, I plan to stand firm.
For a general timeline for the next few weeks, I would like to follow something like this:
1. For the first 2-3 weeks, take time to learn the basic chords. Put forth real effort into learning them and remembering them. Almost like studying them.
2. For the weeks 3/4-6, I will take time to learn how to move my hands around the guitar. If I catch on quick enough, I would like to learn a quick and easy solo. In order to do this, my hands have to be comfortable moving around the guitar and knowing where things are.
3. For the weeks 6-8, I think maybe I will begin looking at parts of songs and seeing how well I can play them from studying the chords and learning where they are at on the guitar.
This timeline isn't the whole 12 weeks, but it is still pretty far into the future. This plan might change, depending on how things actually go. Right now it's just a general idea, but I may not need as much time on the chords or learning where they are on the guitar.
Week 2: 2/22/21-2/28/21
2/28/21
This week I spent most of my time studying guitar theory. Guitar theory is pretty much an explanation as to how you can play, improvise, and compose different music on the guitar fretboard. Studying the guitar fretboard shows you notes along the strings of the guitar which is obviously important to know for learning the guitar. To play guitar, you have to know the notes on the fretboard. This is important in order to know the scale patterns. Most scale patterns and chords are along the fifth and sixth strings, so most guitarists memorize the natural notes along those two strings. After looking over guitar theory this week, I learned that the major scale is a series of notes played in ascension to descension. The major scale is used to play riffs, melodies, bass lines, and solos. It's also used in order to build chords, play intervals, and chart progressions. The major scale is stacked in thirds, forming triads and chords. Every scale degree makes a triad and a major/minor chord. For example, the first degree of chords on the major scale goes major-minor-minor-major-major-minor-minorb5. Through guitar theory I learned words like mode, tonic, and scale. The starting position of the major scale isn't always going to be the first degree, there's others that are focused on as well. Starting on the sixth degree creates the minor scale. You could say that the major scale has two different modes because the first and sixth degree creates the major and minor scales. After reading about and studying guitar theory this week, I feel comfortable enough to begin using my brothers guitar and actually start playing. I plan to go to get his acoustic guitar on Monday to begin practicing, and depending on how I do with that I could get the electric guitar that next week or the week after that.
Week 3: 3/1/21-3/7/21
5/23/21
This week I went off of what I did last week a lot but incorporating guitar a lot more. After spending the previous week studying guitar theory and continuing to study guitar theory, I've found myself running into some difficulties. I expected all of these problems to occur at some point, I was pretty much just waiting on them to happen. One of the problems I was expecting was difficulty moving across the fretboard. When first starting out, you don't know all of the chords and how to move very quickly. I expected this to be a problem for awhile. Another problem is moving across the strings themselves if you're playing something with more than just one note. With that being said, these problems were still problems and were still difficult, but not as hard as I thought they were going to be. Going into this, I thought this was going to be significantly harder than it was. Not that it's not hard, just not the most difficult project I've ever taken up. One of the hardest things for me is time management. I have a job, so that's hard to juggle with something that you know is important but feel like you have time with. I think that this project is fun, but I think I speak for a lot of teens when I say that when you're told to do something, it makes it feel like a burden.
Week 4: 3/8/21-3/14/21
5/23/21
This week will be pretty slow. My brother moved to Texas for college about 8 years ago so he's not home all the time anymore. He got married in January of freshman year, and they just had a kid. They're home this week so I'm not going to be around that much. I'm not really sure what this blog post should be about since I don't have much time to do anything this week. I think though that the best thing would be to build off of what I said in the previous post, about how when you get told to do something, mostly school related, it becomes unappealing. I've found over the short time this project has been taking place that I love guitar. I love listening to the guitar in songs, I think it adds so much. I think I will love to play guitar when it doesn't feel like such a burden. This project itself isn't really a burden, but the weight of school and feeling like I have to do something that I enjoy just to make a good grade is a burden. It's hard to continue doing something when it constantly feels like you have to do it by this date or you fail. I think that's another reason kids are struggling more this year too because there's a lot of hard due dates. This project does push you, though. I've always wanted to start playing guitar but if this project didn't exist I probably would've waited a little while longer to start.
Week 5: 3/15/21-3/21/21
5/23/21
Okay, I changed my mind. Maybe this project is a bit of a burden. My brother and his kid were home last week, and this week. The reason I say this project is a burden is because as I was spending time with my nephew I was thinking a lot about how I should probably be in my room mastering some Zeppelin. I definitely thought this project was a burden last week too, I just hadn't realized it. And that's not to be mean, the project is fun. But, a burden. That's not really anyone's fault, though. I have had far worse projects assigned to me before, I wouldn't even think about calling those fun in the slightest. Now, while my brother is home, I haven't studied the works of the guitar as much as I should be, but what I can do is think. One thing I want to do after this project when it doesn't feel like a burden (again, no disrespect) is really start playing guitar. I'm playing guitar now, just this time it's for a school project so it feels different if that makes sense. What I'm trying to say is that outside of school I'd really like to push myself to play guitar. That will most definitely be something I do this summer.
Week 6: 3/22/21-3/28/21
5/23/21
My brother went back to Texas so things should be right back on track, except, they're not. Collectively, this week has been a struggle. I've had a struggle to find motivation with pretty much everything school related. It sounds bad to say, but I'm getting to the point in the school year where I don't really care as much anymore. Not that I don't care at all, though. With all of that being said, despite my lack of motivation, I did still put time into this project this week. I picked up a guitar for a solid 10 minutes this whole week, so the struggle to find any sort of motivation is definitely noticeable. So that wasn't much, but I did go back to guitar theory. Since I have the memory of a goldfish, it doesn't hurt for me to go back to things from the beginning and touch up on some things. My hands have become used to the movements that I'm usually doing for whatever I'm playing on the guitar, but my mind has forgotten pretty much everything I learned. So I just went back through and looked over pretty much everything. This includes all things strumming patterns. Another difficult thing for me when I first started and still was strumming patterns. There's so much going on when you're playing, sometimes when you're first starting out you just kind of wing it and hope for the best and that what you're doing is right. The first few minutes of playing is the hardest. Every time you pick up a guitar. It takes time to get into that focus where nothing else is going on around you it's just music.
Week 7: 3/29/21-4/4/21
5/23/21
Once again, we have circled back to guitar theory. Guitar theory is pretty much my main resource for precise information that's also professional. I look back on it when I know I need to actually get up and work on this project. I think that for as long as I play guitar, guitar theory will be one of the biggest resources I use. I've pretty much accepted that. Apart from guitar theory, there's a lot to learn from videos and actual guidance. I like reading things and watching things better than going to an instructor. Actually, most of the things I'm really good at are things that I've taught myself how to do. The reason I don't want to go to an instructor for lessons is because I don't like being told what to do. If I need help, then I'll ask. When I first started my job, we all had to get trained. I don't have a problem with someone teaching me how to do something in that sense. I just don't feel the need to go to someone for lessons if I could probably do it myself. And the, "I don't like being told what to do" thing, too. One person I have been asking for help is my brother. Not the Texas one though, for obvious reasons. He's like 1500 miles away. But one of my other brothers plays guitar. He can be a little difficult sometimes especially when you ask him how to do something. Sometimes it gives him a bit too big of an ego boost for my liking. But, he's still help and he's still my brother so I always have a good time with him. He's been able to help me a lot.
Week 8: 4/5/21-4/11/21
5/23/21
This week was literally the exact same as last week. I went back to guitar theory, continued to study it and be sure that I know everything I need to know. I watched videos to help, and I got help from my brother. I did actually play guitar a lot more than I did last week. Last week I played for about 30 minutes total but this week has been a good 70 minutes total. My mom also tried to tell me that she thinks I should go to an instructor after the project is over if I want to keep on really playing. I told her that some of the best musicians have been self taught, and she told me that some of the other best musicians have been professionally trained. I can't really argue with that, because she is right. That doesn't mean I want lessons though. I am her daughter so I'm pretty sure she knows I don't want someone holding me back when I could be moving quicker. She also did not like being told what to do in this kind of sense when she was younger either. I kind of make it sound like I have problems with authority in these blog posts. I don't I can accept authority where I know it's justified. Anyways, the 70 minutes of playing guitar this week was spent at my brothers house completely. We kind of just sat and played. He has an acoustic guitar, and mine is electric. He pretty much just told me to match his vibe and play. That's kind of hard to do when you just started playing guitar two months ago but I tried, and succeeded. Kind of, at least. I think I did pretty good for our first "sit here and match my vibe" session.
Week 9: 4/12/21-4/18/21
5/23/21
I really struggled to find motivation this week. Not so much because of other school work, but because it's nearing summer and all I want to do is go out. I'm tired of school, and I'm tired of feeling like there's always this project in the back of my head. To be honest, I did not play guitar this week at all. I did do some stuff relating to this project though. A lot of the parts of this project are not physical. This sounds really hippie to say, but I genuinely think that to understand guitar you just have to sit and listen to music. I've mentioned time and time again that before this project I had wanted to play guitar and I would've started eventually, but before this project I started my guitar playing days as a master air-guitarist. I think I speak for everyone who listens to rock that headbanging and playing air guitar are two of the most fun part of listening to rock. So before this project I definitely listened to the guitar in songs, but not the same way that I do now. In the past when I would be listening to a song I would be saying "this is so sick" to myself. Now it's "this is so sick, I bet it's so hard to play". Little things like that take up a large piece of this project and become a significant part in the project itself.
Week 10: 4/19/21-4/25/21
5/23/21
I feel like during this project I have said "I struggled with this week a lot" so much. But yet again, here I am. Week 10 was definitely a struggle. My brother came back home from Texas, so there's that. But with him coming back home I have a lot less time than I usually would, which leads me back to the whole "this project has been a burden" thing. Just like the last time my brother was home, I feel this constant voice in the back of my head telling me I need to come work on this project when I'm just trying to spend time with my family. So then I am put back into this vicious cycle of "well I do need to work on this, but I also need to see my family while they're here". I guess I could just whip out my amp and everything and play for my family, but that's not gonna happen yet. I'm just not doing that yet. In the last blog I mentioned the small things of this project actually ending up being very big things, and making a significant difference in the project as a whole. So while my brother is here the only thing I can really do are these small things, which is pretty much just listen to music and feel the guitar. I love music and I love music even more now that I have a better understanding of it, so this part of the project will never feel like a burden to me.
Week 11: 4/26/21-5/2/21
5/23/21
This week has been pretty fun for me. Even though I've been doing this project for 11 weeks now, I kind of forgot about it for a few days. During these few days I was just playing guitar as I please. Since I forgot that this project existed for quite some time, the burden aspect was taken away. I just played guitar because I wanted to play, rather than feeling like I absolutely have to play for the sake of this project. I wish I had forgotten about it more, honestly. I say that because I did everything I would do in a normal week, like go out with friends and do other things I would want to do, and I still played guitar and had something to write about. It's like managing your time is easier when you're not thinking about having to manage it. I learned Smoke on the Water, which was literally one of the easiest things I've ever done. Seriously it took me like 5 minutes. This week has really taught me that guitar is something I'm good at and kind of have a natural thing for it, I just have to put my time into it, which I will absolutely be doing this summer.
Week 12: 5/3/21-5/9/21
5/23/21
Now that the final week is here I'll just use this blog post as a reflection. All I did this week was play a little and get ideas for my presentation. Going into this, I thought it was going to be way harder than it was. The blog posts and finding motivation for a school project was hard, but the guitar part itself wasn't. I think I said in the last post that I have slowly learned that when I started playing guitar for myself and not for the project I realized I have a talent for it. I think that was a reason why the guitar part of the project wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I've learned a lot about time management over the course of these last 12 weeks, I still don't really have good time management as far as school goes but I don't think it's as bad as it once was. I'm also still incredibly impulsive and impatient. Being an impatient person is hard for this project cause after I do something 20 times and still don't get it right, I'm pretty much ready to throw the guitar at the wall and go do something else. Being impulsive is also hard for this project because if someone wanted to hang out I was probably going to choose going downtown over working on a project. But overall, I had fun and I'm going to keep playing guitar.
2/21/21
To begin my project, I will be learning basic chords and gathering as much knowledge. By doing this, I will be able to set the stage for the rest of my project. The chords are not super easy to learn, and I don't have the best memory so I think that will probably carry over into next week and maybe week three depending on how well I can remember the chords. This week is a little boring if I'm being honest. A big part of this project for me that's not directly related to guitar is working on being patient with things like this. Sometimes it's hard for me to go into things knowing that I will not immediately be good at them because they take time to learn, causing me to be impatient. Not jumping directly into playing the guitar is a little bit of the boring part. Even though the first week or two may not be as entertaining as the rest, I plan to stand firm.
For a general timeline for the next few weeks, I would like to follow something like this:
1. For the first 2-3 weeks, take time to learn the basic chords. Put forth real effort into learning them and remembering them. Almost like studying them.
2. For the weeks 3/4-6, I will take time to learn how to move my hands around the guitar. If I catch on quick enough, I would like to learn a quick and easy solo. In order to do this, my hands have to be comfortable moving around the guitar and knowing where things are.
3. For the weeks 6-8, I think maybe I will begin looking at parts of songs and seeing how well I can play them from studying the chords and learning where they are at on the guitar.
This timeline isn't the whole 12 weeks, but it is still pretty far into the future. This plan might change, depending on how things actually go. Right now it's just a general idea, but I may not need as much time on the chords or learning where they are on the guitar.
Week 2: 2/22/21-2/28/21
2/28/21
This week I spent most of my time studying guitar theory. Guitar theory is pretty much an explanation as to how you can play, improvise, and compose different music on the guitar fretboard. Studying the guitar fretboard shows you notes along the strings of the guitar which is obviously important to know for learning the guitar. To play guitar, you have to know the notes on the fretboard. This is important in order to know the scale patterns. Most scale patterns and chords are along the fifth and sixth strings, so most guitarists memorize the natural notes along those two strings. After looking over guitar theory this week, I learned that the major scale is a series of notes played in ascension to descension. The major scale is used to play riffs, melodies, bass lines, and solos. It's also used in order to build chords, play intervals, and chart progressions. The major scale is stacked in thirds, forming triads and chords. Every scale degree makes a triad and a major/minor chord. For example, the first degree of chords on the major scale goes major-minor-minor-major-major-minor-minorb5. Through guitar theory I learned words like mode, tonic, and scale. The starting position of the major scale isn't always going to be the first degree, there's others that are focused on as well. Starting on the sixth degree creates the minor scale. You could say that the major scale has two different modes because the first and sixth degree creates the major and minor scales. After reading about and studying guitar theory this week, I feel comfortable enough to begin using my brothers guitar and actually start playing. I plan to go to get his acoustic guitar on Monday to begin practicing, and depending on how I do with that I could get the electric guitar that next week or the week after that.
Week 3: 3/1/21-3/7/21
5/23/21
This week I went off of what I did last week a lot but incorporating guitar a lot more. After spending the previous week studying guitar theory and continuing to study guitar theory, I've found myself running into some difficulties. I expected all of these problems to occur at some point, I was pretty much just waiting on them to happen. One of the problems I was expecting was difficulty moving across the fretboard. When first starting out, you don't know all of the chords and how to move very quickly. I expected this to be a problem for awhile. Another problem is moving across the strings themselves if you're playing something with more than just one note. With that being said, these problems were still problems and were still difficult, but not as hard as I thought they were going to be. Going into this, I thought this was going to be significantly harder than it was. Not that it's not hard, just not the most difficult project I've ever taken up. One of the hardest things for me is time management. I have a job, so that's hard to juggle with something that you know is important but feel like you have time with. I think that this project is fun, but I think I speak for a lot of teens when I say that when you're told to do something, it makes it feel like a burden.
Week 4: 3/8/21-3/14/21
5/23/21
This week will be pretty slow. My brother moved to Texas for college about 8 years ago so he's not home all the time anymore. He got married in January of freshman year, and they just had a kid. They're home this week so I'm not going to be around that much. I'm not really sure what this blog post should be about since I don't have much time to do anything this week. I think though that the best thing would be to build off of what I said in the previous post, about how when you get told to do something, mostly school related, it becomes unappealing. I've found over the short time this project has been taking place that I love guitar. I love listening to the guitar in songs, I think it adds so much. I think I will love to play guitar when it doesn't feel like such a burden. This project itself isn't really a burden, but the weight of school and feeling like I have to do something that I enjoy just to make a good grade is a burden. It's hard to continue doing something when it constantly feels like you have to do it by this date or you fail. I think that's another reason kids are struggling more this year too because there's a lot of hard due dates. This project does push you, though. I've always wanted to start playing guitar but if this project didn't exist I probably would've waited a little while longer to start.
Week 5: 3/15/21-3/21/21
5/23/21
Okay, I changed my mind. Maybe this project is a bit of a burden. My brother and his kid were home last week, and this week. The reason I say this project is a burden is because as I was spending time with my nephew I was thinking a lot about how I should probably be in my room mastering some Zeppelin. I definitely thought this project was a burden last week too, I just hadn't realized it. And that's not to be mean, the project is fun. But, a burden. That's not really anyone's fault, though. I have had far worse projects assigned to me before, I wouldn't even think about calling those fun in the slightest. Now, while my brother is home, I haven't studied the works of the guitar as much as I should be, but what I can do is think. One thing I want to do after this project when it doesn't feel like a burden (again, no disrespect) is really start playing guitar. I'm playing guitar now, just this time it's for a school project so it feels different if that makes sense. What I'm trying to say is that outside of school I'd really like to push myself to play guitar. That will most definitely be something I do this summer.
Week 6: 3/22/21-3/28/21
5/23/21
My brother went back to Texas so things should be right back on track, except, they're not. Collectively, this week has been a struggle. I've had a struggle to find motivation with pretty much everything school related. It sounds bad to say, but I'm getting to the point in the school year where I don't really care as much anymore. Not that I don't care at all, though. With all of that being said, despite my lack of motivation, I did still put time into this project this week. I picked up a guitar for a solid 10 minutes this whole week, so the struggle to find any sort of motivation is definitely noticeable. So that wasn't much, but I did go back to guitar theory. Since I have the memory of a goldfish, it doesn't hurt for me to go back to things from the beginning and touch up on some things. My hands have become used to the movements that I'm usually doing for whatever I'm playing on the guitar, but my mind has forgotten pretty much everything I learned. So I just went back through and looked over pretty much everything. This includes all things strumming patterns. Another difficult thing for me when I first started and still was strumming patterns. There's so much going on when you're playing, sometimes when you're first starting out you just kind of wing it and hope for the best and that what you're doing is right. The first few minutes of playing is the hardest. Every time you pick up a guitar. It takes time to get into that focus where nothing else is going on around you it's just music.
Week 7: 3/29/21-4/4/21
5/23/21
Once again, we have circled back to guitar theory. Guitar theory is pretty much my main resource for precise information that's also professional. I look back on it when I know I need to actually get up and work on this project. I think that for as long as I play guitar, guitar theory will be one of the biggest resources I use. I've pretty much accepted that. Apart from guitar theory, there's a lot to learn from videos and actual guidance. I like reading things and watching things better than going to an instructor. Actually, most of the things I'm really good at are things that I've taught myself how to do. The reason I don't want to go to an instructor for lessons is because I don't like being told what to do. If I need help, then I'll ask. When I first started my job, we all had to get trained. I don't have a problem with someone teaching me how to do something in that sense. I just don't feel the need to go to someone for lessons if I could probably do it myself. And the, "I don't like being told what to do" thing, too. One person I have been asking for help is my brother. Not the Texas one though, for obvious reasons. He's like 1500 miles away. But one of my other brothers plays guitar. He can be a little difficult sometimes especially when you ask him how to do something. Sometimes it gives him a bit too big of an ego boost for my liking. But, he's still help and he's still my brother so I always have a good time with him. He's been able to help me a lot.
Week 8: 4/5/21-4/11/21
5/23/21
This week was literally the exact same as last week. I went back to guitar theory, continued to study it and be sure that I know everything I need to know. I watched videos to help, and I got help from my brother. I did actually play guitar a lot more than I did last week. Last week I played for about 30 minutes total but this week has been a good 70 minutes total. My mom also tried to tell me that she thinks I should go to an instructor after the project is over if I want to keep on really playing. I told her that some of the best musicians have been self taught, and she told me that some of the other best musicians have been professionally trained. I can't really argue with that, because she is right. That doesn't mean I want lessons though. I am her daughter so I'm pretty sure she knows I don't want someone holding me back when I could be moving quicker. She also did not like being told what to do in this kind of sense when she was younger either. I kind of make it sound like I have problems with authority in these blog posts. I don't I can accept authority where I know it's justified. Anyways, the 70 minutes of playing guitar this week was spent at my brothers house completely. We kind of just sat and played. He has an acoustic guitar, and mine is electric. He pretty much just told me to match his vibe and play. That's kind of hard to do when you just started playing guitar two months ago but I tried, and succeeded. Kind of, at least. I think I did pretty good for our first "sit here and match my vibe" session.
Week 9: 4/12/21-4/18/21
5/23/21
I really struggled to find motivation this week. Not so much because of other school work, but because it's nearing summer and all I want to do is go out. I'm tired of school, and I'm tired of feeling like there's always this project in the back of my head. To be honest, I did not play guitar this week at all. I did do some stuff relating to this project though. A lot of the parts of this project are not physical. This sounds really hippie to say, but I genuinely think that to understand guitar you just have to sit and listen to music. I've mentioned time and time again that before this project I had wanted to play guitar and I would've started eventually, but before this project I started my guitar playing days as a master air-guitarist. I think I speak for everyone who listens to rock that headbanging and playing air guitar are two of the most fun part of listening to rock. So before this project I definitely listened to the guitar in songs, but not the same way that I do now. In the past when I would be listening to a song I would be saying "this is so sick" to myself. Now it's "this is so sick, I bet it's so hard to play". Little things like that take up a large piece of this project and become a significant part in the project itself.
Week 10: 4/19/21-4/25/21
5/23/21
I feel like during this project I have said "I struggled with this week a lot" so much. But yet again, here I am. Week 10 was definitely a struggle. My brother came back home from Texas, so there's that. But with him coming back home I have a lot less time than I usually would, which leads me back to the whole "this project has been a burden" thing. Just like the last time my brother was home, I feel this constant voice in the back of my head telling me I need to come work on this project when I'm just trying to spend time with my family. So then I am put back into this vicious cycle of "well I do need to work on this, but I also need to see my family while they're here". I guess I could just whip out my amp and everything and play for my family, but that's not gonna happen yet. I'm just not doing that yet. In the last blog I mentioned the small things of this project actually ending up being very big things, and making a significant difference in the project as a whole. So while my brother is here the only thing I can really do are these small things, which is pretty much just listen to music and feel the guitar. I love music and I love music even more now that I have a better understanding of it, so this part of the project will never feel like a burden to me.
Week 11: 4/26/21-5/2/21
5/23/21
This week has been pretty fun for me. Even though I've been doing this project for 11 weeks now, I kind of forgot about it for a few days. During these few days I was just playing guitar as I please. Since I forgot that this project existed for quite some time, the burden aspect was taken away. I just played guitar because I wanted to play, rather than feeling like I absolutely have to play for the sake of this project. I wish I had forgotten about it more, honestly. I say that because I did everything I would do in a normal week, like go out with friends and do other things I would want to do, and I still played guitar and had something to write about. It's like managing your time is easier when you're not thinking about having to manage it. I learned Smoke on the Water, which was literally one of the easiest things I've ever done. Seriously it took me like 5 minutes. This week has really taught me that guitar is something I'm good at and kind of have a natural thing for it, I just have to put my time into it, which I will absolutely be doing this summer.
Week 12: 5/3/21-5/9/21
5/23/21
Now that the final week is here I'll just use this blog post as a reflection. All I did this week was play a little and get ideas for my presentation. Going into this, I thought it was going to be way harder than it was. The blog posts and finding motivation for a school project was hard, but the guitar part itself wasn't. I think I said in the last post that I have slowly learned that when I started playing guitar for myself and not for the project I realized I have a talent for it. I think that was a reason why the guitar part of the project wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. I've learned a lot about time management over the course of these last 12 weeks, I still don't really have good time management as far as school goes but I don't think it's as bad as it once was. I'm also still incredibly impulsive and impatient. Being an impatient person is hard for this project cause after I do something 20 times and still don't get it right, I'm pretty much ready to throw the guitar at the wall and go do something else. Being impulsive is also hard for this project because if someone wanted to hang out I was probably going to choose going downtown over working on a project. But overall, I had fun and I'm going to keep playing guitar.