Sunday, November 13, 2011

11/13/11

Tomorrow will be the second-to-last in-class project day. We need to decide which songs we'll perform for our presentation.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

11/09/11

This is Christian.

I have one vocal melody stuck in my head, and I think I wrote it. I need to add words and apply it to a song.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Progress. 11/1/11

This is Alex. Yesterday was an awesome Google day!

     We started out by working on a piece that we began forming at Connor's house last week after school. I quite like it, and it will likely be posted soon in a video or sound form.
     After this song, we started up a mellow tune with very tribal sounding drums and slowly picked guitar. I quite like the beginning, and we will be certain to develop it into a full song.
     We then quickly ran through a few songs that we know very well, such as "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2 and "Firework" by Katy Perry.
     Our band teacher, Mr. Matthys, then told us to perform one of our songs for the students who were in the room (around 15 to 20 people). We played our tune "Broken". It was very rough, and we didn't play all the way through, but they seemed to like it.

     Also, I wrote a song for Spanish 4 and performed it for the class. It is a simple chord arrangement on the guitar with Spanish vocals. The teacher liked it enough to have me perform it again for our class and a Spanish 5 class (in all, around 40-50 students). She said that my class may possibly memorize and sing the song together, and that she may teach it to students who take the class in years to come.
     This greatly boosted my confidence in playing the guitar in front of a crowd, and gave me wonderful experience. I had a great time.