Semester Goal

1. The area or I would like to change or improve is:
 Music - Getting better at improv and swing on the drums by at least getting an A- by the end of the semester as my final grade.


2. Pick a primary goal in your lifestyle within the above mentioned Wellness Wheel
area that you want to work on achieving. 
Intellectual, Social, Physical, Occupational

3. What health benefits would you receive if you made a change in this area? 
With my new style of playing the drum set, I'm bringing in a brand new concept in my mind. I'm open for new ideas and I'm not afraid to stay in my enclosed spot in my brain. It will broaden my intellect and allow me to improve my skills in accepting new things that come at me in life. As for social, knowing how to play the drums better and having more knowledge and ideas about the drumset, I can incorporate those thoughts into everyday conversations I have with people, I could get closer to people who play the drums and they could help me improve. This way I could make new friends and at the same time, have more conversation about the instrument I love. As for physical, for playing jazz music, you really need good hand and feet movement. By getting better at swing drumming, my hands and feet would be able to feel relaxed and not too stressed as I play the drums. Also, if I end up loving swing and shuffle, I could maybe take it up in my future and hopefully get some pay out of it, also getting at least an A- this year will help my gpa broadening my choices of colleges.


4. What difficulties might make achieving this goal a challenge? 
Making time for a lot of practice for I have many other things I have to do for school and outside of school such as volleyball, kumon, drum lessons, homework.


5. The people you will ask for support and assistance are: 
Mr. Taylor and my drum tutor for they are the people guiding my in my drumming career
In what way will they help you? 
They will teach me the basics of swing and jazz drumming and help me build on top of that to make the most out of my skills.


6. Three specific steps involved in making this change/improvement are (be specific) 
a.Whenever I don't have JV Volleyball practice or JV Basketball, I will make sure those extra hours will be counted for my jazz drumming at home.


b. In my drum classes, I will request my teacher to teach me the basics of swing.


c. Listen to more jazz music to get the feel of it.

7. How will you record of your progress? 
My Jazz band grade will reflect how I'm doing in class and as a Jazz drummer. My goal is at least to get an A- in the class or above.


8. Date you will start / have started: 
(4/09/2011)


9. Date you are going to complete: 
End of first semester, before winter break


10. Reward for completion (should be appropriate):
A good grade in Jazz band which will help my GPA as it is my lowest grade at the moment.