May 8 – May 12 Weekly Work Log
| Session Number | 5 |
| Week Number | 8 |
| Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week | ~1.5 hours |
| What is/was your overall goal for this week? | To learn more about music theory |
Work Tasks
| Date | Task Description | Time Spent | Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? |
| 5/8 | I finished watching “Music Theory in 16 Minutes”.
I spent the rest of my time practicing playing bass with a pick, using songs in the “Modern Band Method” booklet. |
~6 minutes
10 minutes |
Pretty much recapping what I learned last week about the Circle of Fifths, so not really.
I think so? Using a pick is weird. It might just be something I have to get used to, but I’m not sure I like the sound that’s made with it either. |
| 5/9 | I spent the period watching “The Secret to What Chords Work – Putting Tunes and Chords Together”. | ~25 minutes | Most of the video had him going through a song composition, which was pretty cool to watch. I’m not sure how much I learned from it, per se, but I got a bit of inspiration from seeing the process. |
| 5/10 | I practiced more with “Modern Band Method”. | ~20 minutes | Yes. It’s the first time I’ve tried playing via staff notation, and I think it went well. |
| 5/11 | I tried making a little composition in Online Sequencer. | ~20 minutes | I think so. I started off with a percussion beat that had been in my head this morning, and worked from there with a tune that just came off the top of my head. I don’t think it’s groundbreaking or anything, but it was pretty invigorating to actually get a musical idea, haha. |
| 5/12 | I spent a little bit working on the composition from yesterday. | ~8 minutes | Not much. I only tweaked the percussion slightly during a re-listen. |