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CAS Blog: April 2019

The ISAS Festival is upcoming within the next week, which I guess is overshadowed somewhat by me parting ways with Blake; I've just decided that his style of instruction and working out wasn't for me I don't exactly know how I'm going to perform my activity going forward, but I'll find a way. Anyway, in regards to ISAS, I've been quite busy revising and determining what songs/passages to play, and how to play them and interpret them to properly suit my playing ability. To be honest, I'm a little nervous. I've performed in front of people before, but these performances have been few and far between. Plus, they've been in front of adults mostly, whereas at the festival it will be in front of almost exclusively fellow peers and teens from various parts of the country, not just Texas. Nevertheless, I believe that these nerves will possibly influence me to play and perform even better.

(Learning Outcome #1, #2, #3, #5)

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