SUMMARY
Write your daily summary last, at the end of the day here… Only one to two sentences.
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LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY
- EVERYONE: Write a couple sentence update about what you completed on your ‘afternoon’ project in this section of this blog post.
- Remember to also add an entry to your SMART Goal Page underneath your goal statement.
- Create a heading titled, ‘July 15th Work’.
- Write one descriptive paragraph detailing WHAT YOU DID and LEARNED today
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Goal Page: Progress For Today
- Welcome to show and tell, well sorta!
- Embed media as evidence of today’s progress (SHOW)
- EXAMPLE: a YouTube video of your practicing guitar
- EXAMPLE: Soundcloud audio of a song idea
- EXAMPLE: a screenshot image of Soundtrap or HookLab tracks
- Write an update about your leadership project progress (TELL)
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PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)
- Continue Justin’s 117 Free Lessons YouTube Playlist
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched (Just one is fine)
- Want a bigger challenge?
- Complete Jake Lizzio’s 5 blues guitar tutorials
- Check his channel, you won’t regret it!
- Read How to Practice Guitar Chords: Exercises, Tips, and Advice
- Write a few key things you learned and which videos you learned from today.
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CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
- Read Chapter 2: How Habit Shape your Identity from James Clear’s Atomic Habits
- The Secret of Musical Imposters by Cameron at Venus Theory on YouTube
- Explore Jake Lizzio’s The Music Theory of POWER CHORDS
- Explore SongExploder.net episodes
- Explore Holistic Songwriting’s Artist Series
- Explore Genius’ Songs Deconstructed Series
- Explore Rick Beato’s What Makes This Song Great Series
- Embed a YouTube video link you watched or the link of the SongExploder.net episode
- Write a reflection of the key topics that got your attention.
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LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
- Explore the tutorials (but you do not need to watch all of them – just pick what looks interesting to you) from the:
- Hooktheory.com/videos
- Songwriting Series. (4 videos)
- Lyrics to music videos (2 videos)
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
- Write a reflection on what you learned.
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STUDIO (SONGWRITING)
- Watch The Mistake All Beginner Songwriters Make (and how to avoid it!) by How To Write Songs on YouTube
- Explore Jake Lizzio’s The Music Theory of POWER CHORDS
- Watch and practice any of the following playlists on YouTube
- Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
- Specifically: Songwriting Corner
- Specifically: Songwriting Exercises (you do not need the cards)
- Specifically: 5 Minute Lessons
- Jake Lizzio’s Signals Music Studio Playlists
- Andrew Huang’s Playlists
- Paul David’s Playlists
- Rick Beato’s Playlists
- Marty Schwartz’s Playlists
- Mary Spender’s Playlists
- Holistic Songwriting’s Playlists
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
- Write what was most interesting to you learned.
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CONTROL ROOM (RECORDING & MIXING)
- Watch Clark Eagling: Soundtrap tutorial 5 – Arranging the song, Mixing and adding effects
- Watch all five videos in the playlist, if you are interested.
- Use Soundtrap Support (Effects and Mixing)
- Search for other creative people online using Soundtrap and see how they are using it, like Swick’s Classroom Recreating Chainsmokers on Soundtrap.
- Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
- Write a reflection of the key topics that grabbed your attention.
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)
The Marshmallow Experiment and Delayed Gratification
“…a seemingly simple experiment devised by Walter Mischel to test will power: put a kid in a room with a marshmallow, and tell her if she can resist eating it for 15 minutes, she can have 2 marshmallows. It turns out the kids who could wait were much more likely to be successful as adults. “- RadioLab.org – Your Future in a Marshmallow
- Two sources for more information on your success and delayed gratification
- Radio Lab
- RadioLab.org – Your Future in a Marshmallow
- Listen from 5:00 to 16:25 minutes
- Take notes
- This American Life
- This American Life podcast Back to School
- Listen to act 1 from minute 3:45 to 37:00. Then skipped to Act 2 from 43:00 until the end.
- Take notes
- Take notes on important steps to help you succeed
- Go for a walk and think about what this video meant to you.
- Journal here about that. The more detail the better.
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STAGE
- Finish watching from 1:20:00 minutes of Hitsville: The Making Of Motown
- We will work on MusicWill.org materials when ‘on stage’.
- This is the performance room.
- Reflect on which instrument you picked to work on first.
- ALSO: We will share student work that people are working on and give them feedback
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WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
- Tell your daily story here! Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
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TODAY’s ACTIVITY EVALUATION
- Give feedback on the class Content and Process
- Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
- Fill in the Daily Activity Evaluation