I "kneed" to practice more often

     So to be honest, I haven't actually practiced a whole lot since the fair. Since I haven't been doing as much and this post may not be as action-packed as I hoped, I've decided to supplement its shortcomings with pictures of people's knees that look like faces. Because why not.


Bonus points if you can come up with a celebrity that the knees resemble!
      Anyways, it's been super busy with AP testing, prom, dance rehearsals, then I had the actual dance recital, and after that I took an SAT during a earthquake...so yeah. There wasn't much time left for guitar.

     I mean, it was so long since I played, I actually had nails on my fingers! (You have to keep them super short in order to actually make it sound good. Especially when finger picking, like in "House of the Rising Sun", because if you have long nails, it just sounds like a guitar pick anyway and what's the point then?)


     Speaking of the 20 Time fair last week, I think it was a success! And by success, I mean I was not absolutely awkward when speaking to people (only a little bit awkward) and I also did not drop my instrument down a flight of stairs.

     Those were the two things I was most worried about, because I have, in fact, done both of those things in the past. (To clarify, I haven't dropped the guitar, but there was this one incident at a sixth grade band performance involving  a wooden gym floor and a surprisingly resilient flute ten feet above that floor. And then very fast and very loudly, there wasn't ten feet between them anymore. Don't judge me. I can feel your judgment through my computer screen right now.)

     This week's 20 Time day though, I was super focused and ready to attack that sheet music. I was so focused, you could almost hear "let's get down to business. To defeat. the HUNS!" playing in the background.

    










     I want to be able to play the entire song by the end of the project, so I just went measure by measure. I played one measure over and over again until I got it down, and then I would add the next measure on. Baby steps, guys!

Until next post,
Sarah

Sources for face knee photos:

·         http://hypervocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/knees1.jpg

·         http://images.instagram.com/media/2011/08/13/7f97890e5f99428d80abc024520a0697_7.jpg

·         http://www.fropky.com/xlmpdt/Rahul/2013/nov/01/Faces/knee-faces-0012.jpg

·         https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-1/p160x160/1395119_219669634861541_455226668_n.jpg?oh=d067021254d5175e3f169f26d7bd7a8d&oe=55CF6BFE&__gda__=1440543017_8a2acdab750b6591fee8023410752cb5

·         http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/my-friends-knees-look-like-sloths-240x180.jpg

·         http://static.hudo.com/images/posters/2110/image.jpg