Performance/Activity

Something that I worked on during this course was the outsiders blue song, as we played it with two other people the reason I think this helped me the most was because it helped me with my timing as well as being able to help my partners understand the rhythm which helped me get a better understanding of music and how to combine instruments together.

A. Curricular and Core Competencies Reflections:

  What are some guitar techniques and musical skills you have shown success with through this chosen experience?

I learned how to improvise better when we used scales in the songs to try and create something ourselves.

What are some skills and techniques you would like to improve on and how will you do that?

some skills that I would like to improve on would mostly be improvising over songs, as well as learning music theory so that I am able to learn other instruments as well, I would also like to learn how to make my picking more efficient so that I can play fast solos, I would also like to improve my playing speed.

What are your plans for continuing with playing guitar in the future?

I will continue to learn how to play guitar and pickup more instruments in the future such as violin and piano, my goal is to be able to make/create my own music incorporating different techniques from my favorite artists.

B.Thinking

Share the experience of critical/reflective thinking for your activity (Consider strategies you used to solve a problem, how you analyzed evidence to make decisions or draw conclusions, how you used feedback to improve, how you conducted investigations into topics, and what you would improve on for next time).

When we did the first group song, He’s a pirate, it went well but the one thing i did not focus on was getting their timing right, so when we did the outsiders blue I played the rhythm and corrected as many mistakes as I could and I tried a different approach where i made them practice the parts that they were good at and then made them switch their parts at the end so that they would have to play the harder bit, that way there fingers would get more used to playing the song, then I switched it back and had them play their original parts which made the song easier to play for us.