Project Presentation Overview

My presentation was so fun and I did really well! I got a 99% as my grade! I wonder what I did wrong on that 1%  😁. Anyways, the project went great and my mom and dad came to watch my presentation. I presented for a lot of people so I got really tired of talking and standing but it was really fun to present to students, teachers and parents. Everyone's presentation looked great!

My speech

The project presentation was so fun to do and I had my speech memorized perfectly. I started off with a speech that I wasn't very proud of. I kept wanting to change it but didn't know how. When I wrote my notecards, I kept coming up with more ideas to write. So I finally changed my speech to something that I am very proud of and I used it in the presentation. Here it is:





  

Madison Farr

Language

20% Time

 

            My project is based on my hobby, something I love, which is guitar. My original project was a kindness project. I changed it because I felt as if I couldn’t do much with that certain project. Since I love guitar and am very passionate about it, I decided to do my project on it. I learned a lot throughout this whole project. I accomplished a lot as well and had fun doing it.

My first goal was to do random acts of kindness for my original project, since it was a kindness project. Another goal was to learn how to tune my guitar, as well as learn how to play bar chords. There is nothing special about bar chords, really. In fact, they sound about the same as regular chords. The only difference is that bar chords have fuller sounds.

I accomplished my goal of learning how to tune my guitar. It took a lot of searching and watching YouTube videos to figure it out. Finally online, I found a recommendation of an app called Guitar Tuner. I downloaded it and found it really useful. My next accomplishment was for my original project. Since it was a kindness project, my goal was to do random acts of kindness. If you think about it, you do random acts of kindness everyday in your life. From complimenting someone to helping them when they need it, they are all random acts of kindness. Therefore, I accomplish my goal every day. One thing I need to accomplish is bar chords. I intend to learn it even after this project is over.

That brings me to my failures. Even though this project was fun, there were still challenges along the way. A challenge with my guitar project is that I couldn’t learn bar chords. A challenge with my original project is that I couldn’t do many things with it and I couldn’t reach some goals.

Despite not completely achieving my goals, I enjoyed both projects because I got to do my hobby and something I love and believe in. I will try to accomplish my goals after this project is over. Hopefully, I will accomplish them. 20% time taught me that I should do more things with my time. It also taught me that me that if you set a goal, you can achieve it. Just like when I set my goals, I achieved the ones I spent the most time in. Honestly, I didn’t put that much time into learning bar chords, but did put time into learning to tune my guitar. Therefore, if you set a goal and spend your time trying to achieve it, you will.

Me playing guitar

Me playing guitar!!!! The first video is of me tuning my guitar!!!!! The second one is me singing and playing Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. That is not my favorite band or song but I know how to play it and I think the acoustic version sounds really cool!!!

Then these are pictures of me and my guitar that I will put on my poster board for my project!!!

Update

Now in the project, when we are starting to actually set up all the poster boards and write the essays, it actually worries me that I wont get done with it. Since I didn't really accomplish much with my project, its hard to write the speech and do the poster boards.

Lesson 6

The only chords on the guitar that I don't know how to play, are bar chords. They are more complex chords that take a long time to learn. There are other chords that u can play instead of bar chords that sound really similar. I have been watching YouTube videos to teach me how to play bar chords. Another thing that I didn't know how to do was tuning a guitar. But I found an app that helps you tune your guitar and I downloaded it on my phone. When you open the app, it will have the names of the strings. You click on one of them and it makes the sound that the string is supposed to sound like. Then just play the string and then on the screen, there will be a line in the middle. If the dot is to the left of the line, its too low. If the dot goes to the right of the line, then its too high. Then you should already know to turn the tuning peg counter clockwise. This app really helped me learn to tune my guitar! So that is one of the things that I have learned from  this project and hopefully, soon, bar chords.

Lesson 5

Sweet Home Alabama is actually really simple once you know how to play D, G and C9 very well. A guitar exercise that I did with my guitar teacher really helped with me learning my chords. He would call out random chords and I would have to play the chords in the same order he called them out and in the strumming pattern he told me to do. This would really help you learn chords. At first, getting your fingers on the chords might be a little bit hard and you might be a little slow. But, after you learn them and get used to them, then you'll know exactly where they are, how to play them and you will be able to get to the chord right away. Just try this exercise and have someone call out the chords to you and you practice playing.

Lesson 4

In this post I will explain more chords and strumming patterns. The first song I learned how to play on guitar was Sweet Home Alabama. It requires you to know the D chord and two new chords (C9 and G) Before the video, I will teach you how to play those two new chords.

This is a C9 chord. To play this, you put your 1st finger on the 5th string, of the 2nd fret. Then, put your 2nd finger on the 6th string of the 2nd fret. After that, put your 3rd finger on the 2nd string of, again, the 2nd fret. Finally, put your 4th finger on the 1st string of, of course, the 2nd fret. That's how you play C9 chord!