Over the weekend I had a lot of extra time. I am ahead in my other courses so I used last weekend to work on my growth plan. I am missing the last week of school and I know it will be stressful before I leave so I am working hard to get my work done that I can at the moment. I was at my grandparent’s house so I was able to practice my recorder for many hours without having the worry of annoying my neighbours in residence. I ended up learning my second song which is Happy Birthday. I took many recordings of myself so I could hear where I needed more work. There was one point in the song where I found very challenging because the notes went from G to F#. I worked and focussed on that section of the song for a long time to get more comfortable with the hard finger positions. The very bottom hole on the recorder is supposed to be on an angle to make it more comfortable and easier for your pinky to cover, unfortunately mine is directly in line with the other holes which makes this piece of music more challenging. I tried to move it but my recorder does not come apart there. To record the video I waited until Tuesday for a couple different reasons. Firstly, to give myself a couple more days of practice and secondly, to record it in the music room where I did not have to worry about being too loud. Kiya also came to the music room and we decided she would sing in the video for fun. The video is attached below. 

I did not think I was going to learn my second song this fast. Since I was behind at midterm, I worked extra hard to get caught up and ended up reaching my growth plan goals. I found it much easier to learn a song when you give yourself many hours to sit down and learn it because you get in the zone and your fingers seem to get adjusted to the finger positions. Although I learned this piece of music over the course of a week, it was not easy. I worked long hours, mostly because I enjoyed the challenge.

 

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