Ok, here I have to comment on a piece of technology that has been extremely helpful for me so far on this 20% Project. Before when you wanted to play a song, you would go to the local music store and look to see if they had the sheet music in store. Invariably they wouldn't and then you had to order it through them and then come back a week later and pick it up. Not anymore. Now you can find dozens of sheet music sites that are just waiting to assist you. All that needs to be done is to simple enter in you card number, click a few times, and you can have virtually any sheet music for any instrument in seconds that you can keep as a PDF or print out for no additional cost. So this is a shameless plug for Musicnotes. That is the vendor I go through to order my music and it has been crucial for the development of this project. Aside from bombarding you with emails, it has be a great tool to find new projects to work on. Highly recommended. If you need music, Musicnotes.com.
One of the critiques that was given to our class as a whole on this project was the need for collaboration. So for this week I was able to meet with my family (who also play guitar and sing) to come together and make some music. We were all gathered around the dinner table on Easter Sunday when we break out the guitar and start playing. It was so calming to be in a room full of people chattering and moving about and then to have some soothing guitar playing in the background. I just set my Garage Band to record as my uncle was playing and this is the result that we got. It is a little ironic that he playing Imagine on Easter Sunday depending on your perspective, but I think that it came out really nice. Take a listen.
Imagine Easter |