FINAL REFLECTION--Guitar Lessons

I happen to write this reflection immediately after returning from my last guitar lesson of the school year. We worked harder than usual today, and I learned the notes to Let Her Go by Passenger. In guitar, my primary objectives were just to be able to learn more sosngs. Sure I wanted to learn more skills, to get better at holding bar chords, to improve my knowledge of scales, but ultimately, what i wanted most was to just be able to pick up a guitar and start playing, and have people recognize the tune I was playing. I did a wide variety of things. Primarily each month i focused on a different song, and by learning that song I learned various advanced techniques. When I learned Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes, I learned plam muting, Hotel California taught me slides. I learned a multitude of songs from classic to classic rock to pop. Now I can profeciently play No Woman No Cry and Redmption Song by Bob Marley, and can play Hotel California and many other songs. I was very succesful in achieving my goals, I now know a couple of songs that I really like and can just play whenever I pick up a guitar. Whenever I started a new song, I encountered difficulties, a new chord i wasn't used to holding, a pattern of notes that just went by too fast. However, practice makes perfect and I got great satisfaction from eventually mastering these songs. From the activity i not only learned many more songs and developed my guitar skills, I also learned the value of determination, and even if a challenge seems insurmountable at first, keep at it and eventually you can overcome it.