creativekitty

I’ve learnt the song! Wow, it feels really good to have made this achievement today. This is my first ever song I’ve learnt on guitar. I worked out what notes and the rhythm surprisingly quickly, but I had no idea just how difficult it would be to add in the lyrics. It’s like multitasking and I just couldn’t play and sing at the same time. I thought it would be impossible, but I kept going and now I’ve worked it out and can play and sing in time. I hope that the more songs I learn the easier it will be to sing and play together at the same time.

I’m not going to tick this off until tomorrow because I’ve been singing quietly in my room as I don’t want to draw attention to myself, too self conscious of people overhearing me so I feel I’ve not sung it properly. I’m going to try and go down to the bottom of the garden into my shed and sing it properly when everyone has gone to bed.

When I was practising and making progress along the way, like getting the notes and the rhythm right, I was amazed how happy I felt about it and felt like I was making a real achievement. This has given me momentum and shall act as reminder when tackling other tasks that I’ll set myself this week, that I really can complete them if I work at it :)

When I tick this goal off I’m going to add another song I want to learn in its place. I think this is a great hobby for me, and I’m learning a lot from this process as well as the song itself.

As I’m back using 43 Things again, I wanted to start straight away with a goal that I know I can achieve today, and that is to learn to play The Nicest Thing by Kate Nash. I own an acoustic guitar but I’ve never really played it and now I’ve got an overwhelming desire to, and I think this is a great song to start off with. You only need to pluck two strings and learn the lyrics to go with it. I’m off to tune my guitar up and will have this goal completed by end of the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41R1jN26b4I

This time the courses I want to do are:

Introduction to the social sciences pt1 – registered now just need to send off another financial application form have to go back to the doctors and get it signed properly! Urgh!

Making sense of the arts – have to print and send this app off or do it online and pay straight away. I think I will have to pay for this one, as there is not much time before it starts (march) and it’s much more tricky to get funding as it is a short course they have got catches on it. Annoying but it is not as much money as the others.

Heritage whose heritage? – another short course that is the same as making sense of the arts. But because this starts later and if I am approved for my first lot of funding from the Social Sciences course, I should get this one paid for too!

Completion of these courses will give me 60 credit points. Then when I go onto do that other course I was so close to starting in feb but now is too late, that will mean I would have completed a first year of study at a university. And I’ll get a Humanities certificate too!