Blog #19- Answer 2

EQ:
 What is the best way to become an accomplished guitar player?

Answer 2:
 Guitarist don't play along the rules of it's the player not the guitar. There needs to be an equivalent amount of effort required from the two. That's why I believe that learning how to properly maintain your guitar would better allow someone to become a more accomplished guitarist.

Evidence:
• As I did my research I found out about all these things having to do with my guitar that could potentially affect it's playability. I learned about truss rod adjustment and how that can bend your guitar too much or too little. Knowing something like this can really help someone out.
• I think one of the most essential things one needs to know is how to properly remove and put new strings. Seeing as I own both a classical and electric guitar I had to learn how to do both. As I learned I found that it can either be easy or a pain in the neck depending on what tools you use. Knowing what strings and how to place them can end with a much better sound.
• I learned that pieces of guitars have to be replaced such as the nut or saddle of guitars. I learned how to remove nut and sand them down to the right size providing correct string adjustment and maximum playability.

Source:
For my information I used 2 sources mostly. • My main source that I register my information was my service learning. I work under the wing of a guitar repair man you can call him. He has 30 years of guitar playing experience and he is teaching me what he knows. I learned that maintaining your guitar is one of the main things every accomplished guitarist needs to know.
• My second important source was a book I had been using with my service learning mentor. It is a book that explains all about guitar repairs that you can do on your own and how to do it. this book really helped me a lot because it gave step by step and exact measurements.

Conclusion:
Becoming a guitarist isn't all about just knowing how to play chords and sing songs with it. You need to be experienced all around to be at your prime condition. That's why I believe it is essential to know proper guitar maintenance because without a working guitar there is no great guitarist.

Blog #18- The Product

     As of March, my product is having a wider knowledge of guitar playing and the guitar itself. Throughout the senior project so far there have been components that have given me knowledge I didn't once posses and also practice time to better hone my skills.
      The Independent Component 1 helped me further my playing skills by playing alongside my choir and have 30 recorded hours. I noticed that little by little as I applied myself more it became easier to play along others and learn what my leader was teaching.
     My science fair project allowed me to research and understand the physics side to guitar. This was something I would have never thought to look up on my own and knowing about how a guitar actually works. I learned all about the sound and how vibrations created and how you can easily find a strings frequency speed and wavelength.

This is a picture during one of the choir practices.