Month: November 2023

11/6 – 11/9 Weekly Work Log

11/6 – 11/9 Weekly Work Log

Session Number: 2
Week Number: 3
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 1.5
What is/was your overall goal for this week? To try and get more original ideas out

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent  Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
11/6 I mostly worked on my Smart Goal

Then worked on an original piece

 ~9 minutes

~15 minutes

 About the same as usual, but I think I could be doing a little better with my articulation.

Not so much with this. I’ve found I’m pretty decent at writing percussion parts by themselves (and I enjoy it quite a bit), but once I try to come up with a melody to go with it I really struggle. It’s not really my forte, I guess. (pun intended)
11/7 I worked on my original piece ~40 minutes I tried to come up with at least a bass line to go over it, but I wasn’t really feeling it. I should probably just put it down for a while and try something else.
11/8 I worked on a different piece ~30 minutes This also didn’t really go places. I think I’ll go back to working on my Smart Goal soon – or learn some music theory.
11/9 I was absent today. N/A N/A
11/10 Veteran’s Day N/A

 

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10/30 – 11/3 Weekly Work Log

10/30 – 11/3 Weekly Work Log

Session Number: 2
Week Number: 2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 2
What is/was your overall goal for this week? To work on my Smart Goal

Work Tasks

Date Task Description Time Spent  Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why? 
10/30 We watched the studio tour. 1 hour N/A
10/31 I worked on my Smart Goal. ~30 minutes Maybe. I learned the notes to the song pretty fast, so I tried CI by playing without looking. It went pretty decently.
11/1 I worked on my Smart Goal some more. 10 minutes I was a bit slower today, but I think I’m getting better. I have a bad habit of using a metronome and then completely ignoring it while I play, which I should learn to not do in the future.
11/2 I worked on my Smart Goal for a bit.

Then I tried working on an original song.

 ~8 minutes

~15 minutes

 My Smart Goal’s going pretty well, considering how much time I’ve actually spent with it.

The song, not so much. I think I’ve kind of run myself dry on original ideas, haha.
11/3 I worked on my Smart Goal.

Then I worked on another original idea.

 ~10 minutes

 

 It went well, but I think I could do better with articulating notes — they kind of blend into each other with how fast I try to play. The Rickenbacker is pretty cool, though!

I liked what I had going here much better than yesterday. I thought of a drum beat that’s in 6/8, and I worked from there to make a bassline that fits with it. It’s not done, but I’m liking it so far.