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This week on my genius hour project, my song is almost completely done. The deadline for this project is getting really close, but I should be able to finish this project by the deadline. I wish for my song to be heard by all kinds of people. To do this I will need to have a full band to play this song with me. Now I play with people at church so I might ask them if they would play with me. Since we have a base player in the band I would have to change up a few chords, but that is not that hard to do if you understand music.
I want to take a moment to thank all the people that have helped me get to where I am with this project. It has changed since the time I had started this project. When I started this project I was planning on learning four new songs. It fascinates me how much I have learned. Talking to the people around me changed how I hope to affect the world with my project. Instead of me learning songs countless others have learned, I can bring something new to the table with my song. Great artists have made countless songs that people listen to all the time. So what makes my song different than all the rest? Now, I have done what all song writers have done, take time and find inspiration to write their song. My inspiration is the people around me. People I have grown to know have helped me through this process of writing a song. Whenever I feel down and can’t come up with anything I turn to those people tp inspire me to rise above what I think I’m capable of.
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This week on my genius hour project I got a lot of work done and I think i'm getting really close to finishing up my song. I still have to write a little bit more of it, but I have finished a lot of it. I’m going to try and add a second bridge and work a little bit more with my chorus. I haven’t decided on how long my song is going to be, but I want to make it at least three minutes long. As I have said before in previous posts, this song is going to be all instrumental. I think it's going to sound really cool. My end goal of this project is I might try to do a video with other musicians I know, and play it together.
This Monday with my guitar teacher I got some really cool advice. So what I did was I played what I had written for him and he said I was doing good. He showed me some changes to how I was playing some of my notes, but making it the same sound. This made it sound better and it plays a lot smoother. This experience of writing my own song has given me a chance to explore possibilities that I probably never would have done on my own. I’m really excited. This Wednesday on my genius hour day I got to get more practice in on my song. I believe having lots of people around me criticizing me on what I could do helped me make a better song. Great bands like The Eagles or Lynyrd Skynyrd didn’t just make a good song in a day. It takes time and effort to create a song that will be loved by everyone. This is my dream with this genius hour project is to do that. This week on my genius hour project I was able to get a lot done. I was able to write and finish the base core of my song. From here on out it's smooth sailing with this song, I hope. I have decided that for my song is going to be an instrumental. What this means is that my song will not have any lyrics, just music. I think these are cool because, there’s no lyrics to interrupt and it has a cool flow. I’m not sure if I want to write chords for the base and try to make a music video where I have a band playing with me or not. That would be fun though.
I have memorized what I have written so far for the chorus. I have also started working on some of the bridge of my song and trying to find what I want that to sound like. I’m writing my song with the acoustic guitar as the main instrument but, i’m not sure if I want to add others in or not. I know mostly every song has more than one instrument but, I want to try and see if I can do it on my own first. I really have enjoyed this project because, it lets me branch out and do something I never thought about doing, which is writing my own song. I tried this in the past but, not in as much detail as this project is letting me do. This Monday with my guitar teacher, Kip Snow, I was able to explore more into my song. He helped me try and find a melody or tune for my song. I still haven’t found it yet but, this process takes time. Today I went to church and practiced with my youth band and I told our youth leader about how i’m writing a song for a project for school. He asked me to play it for him, so I did. He helped me a lot after I got finished. He pointed stuff out me, to help me improve my song and my guitar skills. Specifically he told me I needed to make a note clearer and showed me different ways to strum the chord. This helped me get my song in better working order. This week on my Genius hour project I had a rough time finding time to practice and get stuff done. It’s been a busy week and I haven’t been able to time it right, but I have still been able to get a few things done. When I have had free time I listen to different kinds of music so I can continue exploring the world of music and song writing. Writing a song has been more difficult to do because, I haven’t been able to come up with a core or purpose of my song. Almost every song in the world has a purpose or reason for why it was written.
This Monday I was not able to meet up with my guitar teacher so I had to take things into my own hands. I practiced a little bit and experimented more on different songs and played different little toons to help fine tune my skills. Knowing how to play music from all different kinds of genres can help you be a better guitarist in my opinion. This helps you get an idea of what you want to do. So that's how I’ve been trying to write my song and make it how I want to. There are limitless options when it comes to writing a song. It’s just been more difficult than I thought it would. This Wednesday on my Genius hour day at school I wasn’t able to practice very much at all. Circumstances prevented me from having a space at school where I can work while not bothering the people around me. Right now I’m feeling a little frustrated by a lack of time to do the project. T knew there would be a few speed bumps when I started this project, but it's been tougher than I expected. All I can do is push through it and keep working as hard as I can. Hopefully I’ll be able to finish my song by the time it is due. This week on my Genius hour project I worked more on the song that I’m writing. I don’t have a name or lyrics for it because, to me coming up with lyrics is harder than writing the actual music for the song. I have been thinking about making my song with just music and no lyrics in it. Some cool songs don’t have music, like the Metallica will have songs that have no words. I like those kind of songs because, sometimes words interrupt the flow of your song, but if you just have music it's just a straight beat of chords without stopping.
This Monday with my guitar teacher we talked about the rate on how i’m writing my song. What i’m trying to do is learn each piece of my song that I write then start writing the next part of it. One thing i’m thinking about doing is to collaborate with another guitarist I know. At church I play with the youth band and our youth leader, is a really good guitarist. I might start working with him on writing my song because, I think the more people that are giving you feedback the better song you can write. This Wednesday on my Genius hour time at school I started experimenting with other songs. I put bits and pieces of different songs together and tried to play it. With a few tweaks to it so I can get different sounds and figure out what I haven’t figured out what my song is going to be about but, it takes time to write anything. Like a book it takes time and effort. A song is just like books, because songs are just poetry with music. |
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