After practicing the chords for my two short songs, I met up with my sister to have her help me with strumming. She corrected my form for strumming and also helped me to practice the strumming patterns for my two pieces, “The Wandering Cowboy” and “Boll Weevil”. After listening to the songs closely, we decided that it would sound best to just strum down for “The Wandering Cowboy”, and have a d,d,d,u,d strumming pattern for “Boll Weevil”. These strumming patterns are different from what is written on my musicianship goal assignment, but I feel more confident with the revisions I have made. One thing that I am particularly struggling with is the timing of switching chords in “Boll Weevil”, as there are parts where I have to switch back and forth between F and C quite quickly. I have practiced playing the songs all the way through, and even though it is far from perfect, I feel that I have made good progress since the beginning of the term.