Undergraduate / My love for guitar - Common App Activities Essay [9]

Ever since I got my first guitar one Christmas, I would spend countless hours teaching myself how to play off of online tabs, YouTube videos, and later through private lessons. The more I played, the more my love for playing guitar exponentially increased. I played for my church youth ministry, and even performed at a wedding. Eventually I considered starting my own band. I shared this dream with a friend, who was a drummer, and we found two other people and our band was made. With permission from my private tutor to use his studio, we met weekly either to play songs like "An Cat Dubh" by U2, or to work on original songs. When our school's Battle of the Bands came up, we signed up instantly. I never imagined performing live in front of so many people. Even though we did not win first place, it was still an amazing experience. To this day I still jam weekly with my friends, and perform for as many school events as possible. No matter what I do with my future, playing guitar will always be a significant part of my life.

I realized as I typed this that it sounds weaker than I had first imagined it would be in my head :/ Advice/suggestions?