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Keep a record of yourself practicing. You can listen to yourself playing afterwards and check for your strengths and weaknesses. You do not need extensive equipment to record yourself as your primary goal is to gauge your own proficiency. You can use your laptop or phone to record practice sessions. Lessons can be a great way to increase your proficiency. There are many different techniques and styles involved in playing the snare drum. After learning some basics, consider seeing a professional instructor. He or she will be able to observe you playing and offer specific feedback based on your style. If money is an issue, consider buying a book on the snare drum. While this is not the same as one-on-one instruction, it could provide some additional insight on technique and style.

summary: Record yourself. Consider lessons.

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In your Works Cited entry, type the interviewee's last name first, followed by a comma, then their first name. Place a period at the end of the person's first name. Example: Spears, Britney. For a published interview that has a title, type the title in quotation marks. Use title case, capitalizing all nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs. Place a period at the end of the title, inside the closing quotation marks. If the interview doesn't have a title, describe it as an interview and identify the interviewer. Place a period at the end of your description. Titled interview example: Amis, Kingsley. "Mimic and Moralist." Untitled interview example: Gaitskill, Mary. Interview by Charles Bock. If you interviewed the person yourself, use the descriptive phrase "Personal interview." You don't have to include your name. For example: Spears, Britney. Personal interview. If the interview was published in a book, magazine, or journal, type the name of the larger work in italics following the title or description. Place a comma after the name of the larger work. Include volume and issue numbers, if available, separated by commas. If the interview was published online, type the name of the website in italics, also followed by a comma. Print example: Gaitskill, Mary. Interview by Charles Bock. Mississippi Review, vol. 27, no. 3, Online example: Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed, If a date is provided, list it as the next item in your Works Cited entry. Express the date in day-month-year format. Place a period after the date if it is the last item in your entry. If you are adding page numbers or a date, place a comma after the date. Personal interview example: Spears, Britney. Personal Interview. 27 July 2018. Online published interview example: Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed, 27 Apr. 2009, For interviews published in print, type the abbreviation "pp." followed by the page range where the interview appears. Place a period after the last page number. If the interview was published online, copy the direct URL or permalink for the interview, without the "http://" part of the address. Place a period at the end of the URL. Then type the word "Accessed" followed by the date you last visited the page in day-month-year format. Place a period at the end of the date. Print example: Gaitskill, Mary. Interview by Charles Bock. Mississippi Review, vol. 27, no. 3, 1999, pp. 129-50. Online example: Zinkievich, Craig. Interview by Gareth Von Kallenbach. Skewed & Reviewed, 27 Apr. 2009, www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/1056940-skewed-%2526-reviewed-interviews-craig. Accessed 27 July 2018. MLA requires parenthetical citations following any quote or paraphrase of the source. Since the person interviewed is listed first in your Works Cited entry, use their last name. If the source has page numbers, include the page number where the material quoted or paraphrased appears. Otherwise, just use the person's name. Place a period after the closing parentheses. Example: (Gaitskill 140). If you mention the person's name in your text, you only need the page number in the parenthetical citation. For example: "In her interview, Mary Gaitskill asserted that literature doesn't have to be polite, and should challenge the reader (140)." No parenthetical citation is necessary if you identify the source in the text of your paper unless you need to add a page number. For example: "Craig Zinkievich provided details about the Star Trek game in his online interview with Gareth Von Kallenbach."

summary: List the name of the person interviewed first. Provide a title or description of the interview. Include publication information, if available. Note the date of the interview. Close with page numbers or a URL. Use the last name of the person interviewed for in-text citations.

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Quitting any addiction cold-turkey has a low rate of success. Relapse rates are high for addicts with chemical addictions like nicotine or alcohol, as well as those with behavioral or procedural addictions like gambling, shopping, or internet addictions. Instead of trying to quit cold turkey, make a plan to scale back your internet usage in a manageable way, so you don't feel overwhelmed by the sudden loss of an important part of your life. Set manageable goals. If scaling back to one hour a day is your ultimate goal, maybe start with three hours a day. When you feel comfortable with one step down, reduce your daily allotment by half an hour. Keep scaling back your internet usage until you reach your goal. After you've made your plan, you need to stick to it, and you can't do that unless you're keeping careful track of how much time you're spending on the internet. If you're allowing yourself three hours a day at first, you might break that up into three sessions that are one hour each. If that's the case, make sure to set a timer to let yourself know when your hour is up each time you sit down at your computer. Egg timers can be purchased very inexpensively at any grocery store in the kitchen tools sections. Most phones have a timer app on them. You addiction may be so heavy that you don't trust yourself to stick to the schedule you've set for yourself. If that's the case, there are programs you can install that will limit your internet time for you. The program called Freedom will block you from the entire internet for up to eight hours at a time, whereas Anti-Social will block only social media sites like Facebook. If you don't trust yourself not to just turn those programs off, purchase one that requires a password to disable its settings, and have a friend set up the password. Choose a friend you trust not to give you the password!
summary: Make a plan. Set a timer. Buy or download an internet-blocking app.