This week, I have been focusing on the new song that my mentor gave me. This song is called Old Joe Clark. He told me that the song was written in the late 1800’s during the time that slaves were around. He said the name of the song has a interesting history. Mr. Snow told me that this slave named Joe was forced to play music for the master and his friends to dance to. This slave was one of the older slaves, and the masters last name was clark. Hence the name Old Joe Clark. This is one of the more fast paced songs compared to the previous songs that my mentor gave me. This made it difficult to learn the style and rhythm of the song. In-order to learn the song, I first learned the entire song by memory, and then continued with getting faster,
