This past week was a little tougher for me to work on this project. As I'm sure a lot of other students can relate to, I was just really weighed down with schoolwork. I still did work on the Genius Hour project some, just not as much as I should have or wanted to. Nonetheless, I did make some pretty good progress this week even though I didn't have much time to work on it.
I finally was able to get the second lick pretty much down and up to speed. I need to spend some more time perfecting it before I can say it is completely perfect. The same theory for the first lick I used worked just fine with the second lick. I just took it slow at first, then moved up to speed and worked more on it as it got faster. As for the in-between parts, I'm still struggling with them. They're so finicky, I have to slow the song down just to hear them better, and even then they're really vague and I can't exactly tell what it's supposed to sound like. I just got a general idea of how they were played, and moved on to the lick I was really concentrating on. After that part, I moved on to the next part which was quite a relief. It's just a section of about five seconds that are just descending quarter notes on the D and A strings. Pretty simple stuff compared to everything else in the solo. Then it moves onto a part where he uses the whammy bar, the fun part. If you don't know, the whammy bar is a slender piece of metal on the bridge of the guitar that lets you lower the pitch of whatever you're playing by just pressing it down. It is an easy thing to get the hang of if you know what you're doing. I have an idea of how I want to change this part of the song up to make it more personalized. I don't want it to be a carbon copy of the exact solo. With now only nine weeks left and only being through about seventeen seconds of the song, I need to really get a move on. It is a very difficult solo, especially if you aren't experienced in that style of playing. However, I have a plan on what to do. This week on Monday night, I'm going to do my schoolwork for the next following days so I won't have nearly as much to do. During the following days, I'm going to spend as much time as I can on moving forward with the song. Nine weeks seems like a long time, but is it really? This first quarter went by in no time at all, and that was nine weeks. No, I'm not saying I'm behind, but I need to pick up the pace. I hate to say this, but I'll start focusing more on learning the part without it being 100% perfect, but good enough to where it wouldn't take me long to get it perfect. The last couple of weeks I will work on perfecting everything and rounding up the rough edges.
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