With only a few weeks left until the final is upon me I have stayed true to my practicing schedule for this project. I have had some unexpected days where I was overwhelmed with homework or had to take a day for mental health reasons. However, when I did have to skip certain days for practicing, I always made up for it some other time in the week this way I wouldn’t fall behind. My issue with this weeks progression is I have noticed that I am quite a perfectionist which has posed an issue because once I mess up I won’t stop practicing until I get it closer to my end goal. The main problem with this is that my fingers started to callouse and began being quite painful as the more frustrated I became with myself, the harder I would press on the chords! After taking a break from playing I saw past this and decided that it doesnt have to be perfect. As for song updates, my “Island in the Sun” song has continued to show minimal progress which is slightly infuriating but I will continue to be persistent with my practicing. I have come up with a certain practicing regime where I play the song 4 times, then I only play the D chord and the G chord in order to succeed with the transition progress. For “Stay With Me” and “Counting Stars” I have decided to focus on keeping the beat as I have now memorized the “Counting Stars” chords so now all that is left is the transitions and staying on beat and not speeding up. I have noticed the best way to do this is to play the song with the youtube tutorial and follow along with the video, this way I have something to follow. With all that considered, I am excited to show my progress from the midterm to the final very shortly and hope that Anita will be as impressed as I am!