jazz workshop 4

Rythem changes....these are REALLY HARD and though i feel like im hangin in there. Im starting to struggle a little bit. I have been practising my butt of and i learned the head to oleo so i hope i do alright today. Im learning so much from this workshop. I LOVE it

Jazz workshop 3

I LOVE this workshop! Our last Session was great! We talked about bebop scales, flat 9ths, and 2 5 1s! It was really interesting! And the fact that I'm keeping up with two other seniors who have been doing this for a long time really hosts my self confidence! :) our homework was to write a solo and I'm really proud of mine! I can't wait to show Dave!

Jazz woekshsop 2

The second workshop with Dave was even better than the first one! He was nice again and that made me quite happy. He gave us packets about Blues and improvisation which showed us techniques that really helped my soloing. Our two assignments are scrapple from the apple (G scale) and my little suede shoes (F scale) I do have NYSSMA coming up and that's a lot to practises but I think I will be fine. I'm really excited to show Dave what I have practised.

Song writing workshop #1

I have been writing songs for a while now. Last year my English scholars project was songwriting, but i got no good songs out of it. I brought one of those old songs to robin to help me work on it. He helped a lot! Before, it was a finished song that i did not like at all. I played it for him, and he helped me take it apart. Now, It isn't nearly finished. It is just a bunch of little pieces of a song that have not been put together yet. But i love it! :) I like this song fraction way more than i liked the original. I cant wait to show my new stuff to robin.

Lalama workshop day 1

I was placed in the jazz workshop with Dave Lalama, and even though I have only done one work shop with him I'm loving it already. Honestly, I was scared going into it because Leah told me that he is an awesome guy, but he will pick me apart completly. That made me very nervous.

The first question he asked me was if i knew my major scales. I knew a bunch of them, but im not perfect with all of them. I got nervous, and like a dumbass, i said yes. He proved me wrong right away. He was really nice about it though. I was supprised. I though he would yell at me or make fun of me for something when i couldnt play my Db major scale, but he didnt. He told me what i needed to do and he was very strait forward, but he wasnt mean. After that i was comfortable. We worked on changes from "scrapple from the apple" and we played a lot of scales in intervuls. I learned a lot already. Its great! :)

For this next workshop i have to learn the head to "Scrapple from the apple" and practise my major scales. I have been working on it but im a little bit scared for this next workshop cause my scrapple from the apple still isnt great. I hope he is as nice as he was last time.

Core Values and Issues

My three core values are:
1. Vanity
2. Recognition but modesty (I do not go around advertising how good I am at certain things but i want to be recognized for them anyway)
3. love (Romance)

My issues are:
1. Shyness In love, or performance, or not being outgoing.

I do not really know any of my other issues because mainly what i do is music and i would not know how to define an issue in that...When i am playing saxophone I like to play to blues if you would consider that an issue...and when i am writing guitar parts, i happen to use a lot of minor seven chords...but i don't know if those are issues.

Blogging everyday was harder than i thought...

Today I had the interesting experience of cleaning the STAC room, and let me be the first to say that that place needed cleaning. There was crap everywhere and some of it was as old as 2 years ago.

Why did i have to clean the STAC room you ask?
Well the answer is quite simple. I haven't been keeping up on my blogs.

Sure, at the begging of this quarter i decided i was going to blog every day to help me discipline myself...That, i have learned is easier said than done. The blogger website is blocked on the computer that i use so i have to ask my mom to use her laptop every time i needed to blog then (being an easily distracted kid) slowly forgot about blogging all together. So here i go again blogging every day. I will try to stay on top of it this time. And if i do well i wont have to clean the STAC room!

thats a good thing