Archive for May 2015

End of the road

Monday, May 11, 2015

I mentioned this before but I'll be continuing my project. There's still a lot of things that I want to learn. In terms of updating the blog, I don't know. That seems like a lot of work, and you know me; I don't like work. In fact I've recorded a song like two weeks ago, and I can upload it any day now, but I still haven't uploaded it. Why? I dunno. Throughout the year, I learned piano, sure. But I didn't really enjoy the process all that much. It's really slow and I hate being slow; I want to learn songs quick and easily, and for piano I'm not that fast. So I stopped and I procrastinated. I'm trying to get better though. I enjoyed it, and I also hated it. But for certain, I can say that this project was fun.

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20% Time Speech

20% Time Speech (I don't know why it's over here)

Jisung Ko
       
I think making music is a lot of fun. The vibrations that you feel after you press each individual note, every note making its own sound to create harmony, and just the fact that you’re creating all of this unified music; it’s very satisfying. That’s why I really love piano. Well, not actually love. It’s more of a love-hate relationship. Piano is challenging, and you have to put in a lot of work, but in the end it’s rewarding. But getting to the end is a lot easier said than done.
       
        I accomplished many things in 20% time. I learned how to read sheet music, and I’ve learned songs that I’ve wanted to play for a long time, and really that’s all I wanted to do for 20% time. My goal was to learn how to read sheet music, and I accomplished that fairly easily. However, I think I still have room to improve. I still need to read sheet music more efficiently, I need to learn more terms, I have a lot of songs that I want to learn; even though I accomplished my goal, I still have a really long way to go.
        While accomplishing my goal, there were lots of roadblocks in the way. I procrastinated, I had no motivation, and learning songs was just really boring. I’m not trying to contradict myself; I like playing the piano a lot… but learning songs isn’t the most fun thing to do. It takes a very long time to learn a song (at least for me), and while doing it I get really bored and I don’t feel like doing it anymore. It’s like… doing homework, except at the end it’s actually worth it. I haven’t been able to deal with these problems all that well, especially the lack of motivation. I’ve been trying to practice every day, but I think it’s just that I’m a lazy person, and I probably shouldn’t try to do things that I’m uncomfortable with.
        Despite the things I’ve said that might discourage you, I think this project was worth it. I learned how to play piano. I learned how to make music, and making music is very fun. However, I think you have to be devoted in order to play piano. When I say that, I mean that you should really consider putting in a lot of time when playing piano. When I was starting to play piano, I got really into it. But, as time went on, I became bored and I procrastinated. There were days where I’d be doing nothing, and I’d think to myself, “I should really play some piano…” and then that’s it. I wouldn’t actually play piano. It’s very easy to stop playing. But the piano is an instrument with unlimited musical potential, and you shouldn’t stop playing just because you don’t feel like it. It’s a lot easier said than done; I don’t even follow my own advice, but that’s what I think of piano.  

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Upcoming stuff

Friday, May 1, 2015

Uhh, yup. There's some stuff going on. I don't know what I'm supposed to type about. I'm a bit anxious, I guess. I also feel unprepared. I'm supposed to be presenting on what I learned during 20% time, but I only learned like two songs. Both songs are two minutes top each, too. Soo that's four minutes, and the total amount of the presentation is a whole entire class period. I don't know what to do. Maybe I can play arpeggios and then expect nobody to know what arpeggios are. That sounds like a good plan.

My speech is complete, so that's good too. I haven't started on my poster-board but I'm planning on doing that after I finish typing this update post. Which is right now! See you.


I really don't have anything else to say, but here's a picture of a man I drew

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