Blog Post #9: The Path to Accomplishing My Goals (hopefully)

Progress: I'm back!!! I had originally planned to post earlier but I couldn't find the time. This video was taken on the same day as my last video butttttt this song is different. I had asked my friends in person for some song suggestions a couple weeks back since I keep forgetting to send them the link to my website and "Riptide" by Vance Joy was a very popular song choice so here I am :). I learned the song from a tutorial by this brilliant little girl named Annie Rose that I had spoken about in a previous blog. I'll add the video here:

But this song, like the last one, is also pretty simple. The chord progression is A minor, G, and C twice and the strum pattern is exactly like the last song! Sounds pretty simple, right? Well, that's what I thought too. But dang, I messed up so many times so I had to take the video that I messed up the least in. I'm not sure why but I feel like this song was much harder than the last. I also couldn't play it like Annie, which irritated me greatly. It just sounds really off, but I know I have to be optimistic and practice more in order to make it sound the way I want it to.

Reflection: I struggled so much with this song but I'm glad that I was able to post a video with not too many mistakes at least. This is the second song this quarter that I have decided to blog about which completes one of my goals of learning parts from more than one song!! There definitely are a lot of pauses in this video, sadly, but of course, I will work on that. My time management certainly wasn't so great this time around since I'm so busy with other school work and don't have much time to practice and work on my blogs. However, I will work on that too and practice whenever I have the chance!

#Riptide #youtube