Well I've decided change things up a little bit. I originally was going to try and play the song " Roads Untraveled" by Linkin Park. I printed out sheet music and everything because I thought that song would be a good "starter" song, but I quickly learned otherwise. When you listen to the song, it doesn't actually sound very hard because I just sounds like couple of chords. There are more than a couple of chords. After trying to play the song for about 2-3 weeks I learned about 3-4 lines on the first page. There are 3 pages. So I decided to talk to my mentor, Zach, about it. He looked over the sheet music and he said that this song was definitely not a beginner song. One song that he did suggest was "How To Save A Life" by The Fray. I've known this song for a long time but when picking a song to play I didn't even think to play it. For the past week or so I've been learning "How To Save A Life". This song is actually really easy and fun to play! I wouldn't be able to get my mentor to come and help me all the time to I decided that I would also try and look up some video tutorials on YouTube. I came across this guy, Joe Raciti. He has a YouTube channel that is just him either play video tutorials or piano covers for various songs. So I've been using this video to help me learn the chords for the song, along with the sheet music my mentor had given to me.
I really enjoy using this video to help me learn the song. I actually like it better than using sheet music because with sheet music you can't see exactly what's going on with your hands, so using a video is so much easier than trying to figure out how to read sheet music. As I beginner I still am finding it a little more difficult to read sheet music easily. That is definitely something that I am going to need to work on. But, I feel that because I changed the song I am learning, this project is going to get going so much better!
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