It is now the 2 weeks of learning to play “Fast Car” on the ukulele and my fluidity in playing the intro to the song hasn’t changed much. It is still difficult for me to progress smoothly through the picking pattern and to match my tempo to the tempo of the actual song. One of the most annoying things I am finding it how I can play the strumming pattern and the chords at a tempo I am happy with, however, I cannot change tempo just when the song starts getting easy so I am finding myself having to play the strumming annoyingly slow to match my introduction. Another issue that has been a longterm one throughout all my ukulele playing is I seem to have a hard time controlling my fingers and getting them to go where I want them to. I believe this is partly due to lack of mobility of my fingers as they are quite small and lack the ability to stretch, but also, I find myself looking gat them trying to move them and they simply refuse. This may be an issue of beginning the ukulele or could be a legit mobility problem (needless to say I searched this problem on the web and couldn’t find an answer that made me happy). At this point in my learning, I only have a week left until I have to submit my video, this concerns me slightly because I feel like compared to my progress on “Riptide” my progress on “Fast Car” is kind of pathetic. I know that I am still just beginning to learn the ukulele and that picking is extremely difficult especially when adding in singing and strumming later on. Yet, I have 10 days to improve and try my best to reach this goal so there is no giving up now. I am starting a new plan of action by practicing each picking sequence and change on its own until I am happy with the tempo and consistency, and then after strumming them all together. I hope this will help me feel more confident and agile in the picking patterns and will also lead to the strumming sounding a lot more fluid. I will post my final reflection blog the night before the final evaluation to see how these next few days go, hopefully, I will see the progression I want.