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Music Post 4

I have still been having a lot of trouble in transitioning between chords fluently. When I play each chord individually, they sound like they are supposed to, however, it seems whenever I need to transition -specifically from and to the G-chord- the chords sound clumsy. I find that my fingers are larger than I anticipate and I accidentally touch a string I shouldn’t which makes the strum sound flat and dull.  I have been trying to improve this by just practicing specific transitions back and forth that are needed for the song I am working on, Skinny Love by Bon Iver. By isolating the specific transitions and not having to focus on the rhythm or strumming pattern it makes it easier to work on the dexterity needed in switching between chords. I have made a decent amount of improvement of switching from G to F but am still finding it very difficult to get a clear G sound when I am switching from F to G.

Photo by Samuel Ramos on Unsplash

Small painting

This week I was feeling pretty stressed with being midway through the semester so I just felt like doodling. For this painting I used painters tape and painted the different sections a different colour. I then doodled with a thin sharpie in the black space the tape left, and lastly I put a little razzle-dazzle sparkle here and there. 

1st painting and colour blending practice

I began playing with acrylic paint this weekend and started my first painting on canvas. I haven’s finished it yet, but will post an updated picture once it is done. My inspiration came from looking up simple painting ideas for acrylic paint, and I found a picture of a kitty looking at the moon and decided to do my own take on that. The three cats will be modelled after my three cats: King, Charlotte and Sadie. Initially I was feeling quite frustrated with painting because the paint was not covering the pencil marks on the canvas… and I made a couple of mistakes with where I was using the black paint. However, I reminded myself that I am doing this as my inquiry project as a way to reduce stress, and that my paintings do not need to be perfect they just need to be myself expressing myself on canvas. I did find blending the paints and seeing how different brush strokes look on paper to be very relaxing and fun.