SUMMARY

Write your daily summary last, at the end of the day here… Only one to two sentences. – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY

• EVERYONE: Write a couple sentence update about what you hope to complete on your ‘afternoon’ today.
  • Remember to also add an entry to your SMART Goal Page underneath your goal statement.
  • Create a heading titled, ‘July 18th Work’.
  • Write one descriptive paragraph detailing WHAT YOU DID and LEARNED today
  • … AND THEN DELETE ALL THESE WORDS!

 Goal Page: Progress For Today

1. Welcome to show and tell, well sorta!
2. Embed media as evidence of today’s progress (SHOW)
   • EXAMPLE: a YouTube video of your practicing guitar
     • Watch How to Upload and Embed UNLISTED YouTube videos
   • EXAMPLE: Soundcloud audio of a song idea
     • Watch How to Upload and Embed using Soundcloud with Your Blog
   • EXAMPLE: a screenshot image of Soundtrap or HookLab tracks
     • Watch How to Upload and Embed using Flickr with Your Blog
3. Write an update about your leadership project progress (TELL)
4. Delete Mr. Le Duc’s instructions – yes, these instructions – yes the instructions you are reading right now!

PRACTICE ROOM (GUITAR LESSONS)

I returned to this video, and continued practicing the piano. I’m finally playing chords, and for once I can make sounds that aren’t terrible.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

I listened to the Song Exploder episode 175 (Vampire Weekend’s Harmony Hall). It’s a song that’s been listened to a lot in my family, especially by my mom who is coincidentally named Harmony. It was interesting to find out that each of the different parts of the song weren’t made thinking about each other, but with Ariel’s help they all fit together perfectly. I also never really understood the lyrics, but now I understand that it’s about an imagined place called the Harmony Hall, which is tainted by evil people. The cycle of power too. I didn’t really finish it, but I definitely will later. (I think I might listen to other Song Exploder episodes in my own time later too.)

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

I made a song. At first I was just messing around with new techniques, but it sounded nice so it became a first attempt at the song that would play when you increase your bond with another person. Part of me says that it doesn’t exactly capture the essence of one-on-one time with another, but I like it nonetheless.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Listen to Freakonomics – Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)? (Ep. 355)
• WYNTON MARSALIS
  • “My first thing I have my students do is write a mission statement. And that mission statement has three sentences. What do I want to do, how do I achieve it, and why am I doing it? And based on that mission statement, I teach them. And I have, my fundamental teaching to them is, I want you to rise above the cycle of punishment and reward. I’m not going to reward you or punish you. This is information, and you can do what you want with this information. So, you’re always actualizing. And I always tell them, if you want to learn something I can’t stop you. If you don’t want to learn it, I cannot teach you.”
• Go for a walk and think about what this podcast meant to you.
• Journal here about that. The more detail the better – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

STUDIO (SONGWRITING)

• 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
• Embed a YouTube video link or links you watched
• Write what was most interesting to you learned – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

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 – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

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 – AND THEN DELETE THESE WORDS!

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