Christmas

Well I have to say that I'm a very sad person for updating my blog on Christmas day but I don't really care. My lack of a life has kept me going for so long now.
Anyway I would like to say that I have a Camcorder now so i can test that and if its any good I will record some songs on it and upload them to Youtube. I also have some guitar slides which can make my songs a little more interesting. But for now I shall tuck into my chocolate and listen to AC/DC since I now have the Iron Man 2 OST (and then I can listen to 2112 by Rush 'cause I just got that as well)

A Holiday Message

MERRY FREAKING CHRISTMAS!
I hope you all have fun and get lot's of the things you probably wanted. Then you can all get fat on Christmas Dinner.

Epic Ninja Devices

I have found my Game Boy Colour, and Pokémon Blue. I haven't seen this thing for about three years, so I  decided to play Pokémon since it was the only game I got (well I have Pokémon Yellow somewhere).  I'm not very far into the game but I am trying to keep all my Pokémon at a similar level so I levelling up my Pikachu ready to defeat Misty. This literally has been all that's on my mind recently Pokémon, mostly thinking about how crap the newer episodes are. I also think that 150 Pokémon was enough and now there is about 500 making it nigh impossible to catch em all.
I did have Pokémon pearl on my Nintendo DS which I don't really use much any more, the only thing I really did like about it was about a quarter of the way through the game Ash (if like me you were playing as Dawn, it would be Dawn if you were playing as Ash) came to me and said "pick a hand" and in the hand I got was a device which I could strap to a Pokémon and it got XP as if it did all the fighting (which is a brilliant way to get Gyarados).
Another question is "What happened to Misty?" I like Misty as a character I thought she was ace, especially when she beats Ash out of the way when Togepi hatches, I never saw the episode where Togepi evolves and leaves.
Whilst writing the last paragraph I found the answere for my question, I did this while search for the spelling of Togepi. What happens is her sisters all leave the Cerulean City Gym to find better work, so Misty returns to keep the Gym open. Either way they could of came up with a decent character to replace her.

Recycling

Ive basically scrapped my previous songs, sorry about that The Spaceman unfortunately wont cometh. However, I am going to recycle the riffs and put them into my new ideas which haven't yet came to me. That is all.

Stickin' It To The Man

The problem with "Stickin' it to the man" is that once the man is defeated, a new man is created that man is the people who just defeated the previous man. I guess this means the man will never be defeated and that it's a pointless quest to venture on.


As a side note I wish Jazz would stop flirting with me. She dumped me and that's that, no more chances.

The Art Of Not Falling Off

Well as you probably know I have been skating on my newly obtained skateboard, and I can now actually get somewhere on it without falling off every 3.5 seconds. So I'm very happy. It must of been the moral support from Dana which allowed my success, by that I mean she laughed, clapped and cheered when I fell off my board. That is until I fell on my face trying to ollie, that got me a hug.
I've also been told by my ninja skater (sorry sk8r) friend that pop shove its are easier than ollies, so I'm going to try them instead for a bit.
Finally I've decided I'm going to take bass lessons after the Christmas holidays. To clarify I'm a Pagan I celebrate Christmas as a time of giving, sharing and receiving. A time to say Ayup to the parts of the family you rarely see. A time to stuff your face and stay up late watching the crap on TV. I don't celebrate Christmas because of the birth of Jesus, because I don't believe his birthday is worth celebrating, but England is a Christian country, so I won't be able to escape it, instead I have adapted it.

Almost Correct

My skateboard came, so me and Dana walked down to the tar-maced section of the tracks so she could laugh when I fell off, which I did on many occasions. The only time I fell off and hurt my self was when I attempted an ollie, I had almost the right idea about how its done, my only problem was that I didn't snap my board back hard enough to launch me into the air. The strange little avatar on the deck must of had a troll face at that point. I didn't get very far when actually skating either, but at least I tried.

Punk Rock

The best thing about punk rock is the energy, the fast tempo which gets you pumped. I've been listening to a lot of punk (Zebrahead and Blitzkid mainly) and I just felt a little strange about it, since I don't have a skateboard and I can't skate. Admittedly I haven't tried it since I was 10, and my idiotic balance hasn't really improved but my want to do more has. So I brought a skateboard for about £13. Now I can teach myself to skate, I know the theory behind skateboarding, and a pop shuvit. Maybe I can actually succeed if not I'll just seek instruction.

A Feeling Ever So Strange

This has been an odd day for me, at 07:38 this morning I received an email from Jazz telling me it's over. And I didn't care. She said our relationship was going no where, but she wouldn't let it go anywhere because about 3 weeks ago she dumped me as a publicity stunt since her family and friends all of a sudden hate me. So we spent the last 3 weeks in "secret". All she would of had to do is talk to her family and convince them to like me, they did until they heard the rumours, which I won't bother explaining. At least she took the blame for the cock up, which means that my third "proper" relationship wasn't screwed up by me, just the others.
Overall I'm currently happy, which is odd, I shouldn't be happy, I just got disconnected from my life's greatest relationship so far. Then again I was originally planning to just walk up to Jazz and her friends and just dump so they knew that we were still together, and they didn't know.
Apparently I'm in a band, well the band has been an idea for about 8 months, but we've finally decided to do this. I somehow doubt it will last too long though since one of the vocalists doesn't really like me and may cause a scene, when he leaves the others may just get annoyed and forget about the band idea, but I don't care about that either.
I'm the Bassist.

A challenge Worth Doing

I've been listening to "Teenage Necrophilian Love" by "Blitzkid" a lot, and just before the main body of the song starts he asks the listeners to dance with their loved ones. This made me think, "What makes good dance music?" I came to the conclusion that dance music involves a fast steady beat, and a good bass line to hold it together. I came up with that conclusion from the lyrics of some dance song, "I like my beats fast, and my bass down low" I don't know what the song is but I don't really care.

While listening to "Teenage Necrophilian Love" I did realise that I most likely could dance to it (providing that I could dance in the first place). So my challenge is to create Metal dance Music. So now I just need to create the music and then test it on a dancer. Thankfully I know a dancer.

Threads

I have recently viewed to absolutely ridiculous threads on forums.

Number 1 was some 12 year old kid wanting some girls to add him on skype because he couldn't be bothered to get a girlfriend any other way, so he just asks the people on planetminecraft.

Number 2 was someone wondering if animals felt emotion. We are animals and we feel it, and evidently he/she has never seen a dog in his/her life (they're always happy, how often do you find a depressed dog?), so they thought instead of searching for a dog they should just ask the people on goodreads.

Is this how low humanity has sunk? Damn. Now if you don't mind I'm going to go make Spaceman Cometh make sense.

Possible Minor Depression

Ever since last Wednesday's revelation my life has slowly slipped down the shitter socially. Thankfully I had an "anti-depressant" on Sunday, By that I mean I went down my friend Jess's house and played a lot of Guitar Hero/Rock Band, the part that links that to an anti-depressant is that after raising my spirits they were quickly dropped again at school to a possibly lower level than before. The main problem is that now the rumours happily spreading around school (like all rumours do) have reached Jazz's family, they now hate my guts, meaning that me and Jazz have to be more ninja in order to get time together outside of school, that is where my buddy Bruce comes in. Jazz's mum trusts him.
The next part of this problem is a simple question: Do I choose Jazz or Dana?  Now I choose Jazz, no matter what my brain says, my acting heart says Jazz. I say "acting heart" because I'm not 100% sure whether or not I have a metaphorical heart, the "heart" which is used in the saying "follow your heart" or "listen to your heart". If you are wonder the rumour mentioned earlier are that I'm supposedly "using Jazz to make Dana jealous so I can get her instead" all FALSE not true. I'm happy with Jazz, very happy, but right now I can't see us going anywhere since the rumours have restricted her so much (her mother will rip her face off if she found out we're still together). This makes me confused, and confusion is part of the word equation for minor depression.
The next part is stress. Oh! Why did I choose Graphic Products as my D&T option? Put simply, because I'm an idiot who thought he could survive two whole years of it. So much work, dead lines to meet and a week of detentions for failing to meet those dead lines. Naturally, I'm failing to meet these dead lines and I have my teacher preparing to carve of my face with a compass (yes a compass). Brilliant.
To top it off tomorrow I must face the wrath of my geography teacher because my coursework is incomplete and today was the deadline for that, I can not do tomorrow's work now, most likely another PPP (pupil performance something or other, I can't really remember what it stands for), this will make three PPP's and it will put me in Isolation, where I'll have no friends. Especially since I'm second to bottom on the social ladder, (the last being about three or four people), everyone else in Isolation is usually towards the top of said ladder, and are "too cool" for me (basically it means that it will be filled with Dicks).
So here it is STRESS+CONFUSION=MINOR DEPRESSION, I wonder what it is that creates the next stage... in fact I don't want to find out.

As a completely irrelevant side note, I just read a comic one of my friends (Lucie) has been working on :P it's quite entertaining and funny, it's drawn in a Sonic The Hedgehog anime style.
here is the link: http://darkangel0006.deviantart.com/gallery/33413720

Oh Crap!

Brilliant just bloody brilliant, the wires on my guitar tuner have snapped so I can't use it to tune my guitar, when i asked our music teacher to tune it it just kept slipping out of tune. Now I have a busted tuner and a guitar which is being a pain in the arse. Thankfully my amp isn't broken my jack was, I had a spare so I've plugged that in instead, and dumped the broken jack on my pathetic "friend" Danny.
I even have to re-resit a maths test tomorrow and I honestly don't remember anything that I did in year 9, so I think I'll be failing that. The only reason I have to re-resit is because the last time my results weren't taken down and the time before I was on holiday in Corfu (very nice place, go there if you get the chance. If you do go drop by La Palma and say Ayup).
I also have a really annoying social problem going on, well it's not really a problem it's still extremely annoying. Either way the people involved are informed and aware about what is going on in my head, hopefully they can make sense of it all and sort my life out.

Smeghead

My step-mum Lyudmila decided she likes this 3 year-old stray cat that's living in our back garden and for the past month she has been trying to keep him healthy. The other day she decided to get him neutered when she gets back from Russia in January, the we adopt him. But yesterday she realised that he wasn't named and that he needed one (but for now he has no official name and gets all benefits of a homeless cat), so we all came up with various names, I took the approach of naming him what he'll most likely be in a few years time "Sausages", dad took the racist approach of naming him various things that mean "Black", Lyudmila just went for various Russian names including the most popular name for a cat in Russia, I can't remember the name. We gave up arguing and sort of agreed to just name the cat "Smeghead".

Lies

I have just wrote another song, called "Lies". Seems to sound fairly mainstream but oh well. It's about a guy without a name who gets dumped and depressed, especially when he see's his ex with some American guy. He ends up getting a new sexier girlfriend which he can boast to his ex about... until he finds out that she has a penis. he runs off angry at God and decides to kill himself, only to find his ex at his side while he dies...
i won't tab it since the entire song is just power chords (G,A,B,C,B) same as the chorus of "The Spaceman Cometh".

OK I lied... But Now It has Drums.

I didn't like leaving "The Spaceman Cometh" without a drum beat. So I decided to get the sound banks for Guitar Pro 6, and then use that to create drum beat. I would of used a real drum kit if I had one, and if I knew how to play drums, but I don't and I can't. I also did a slight edit before the solo and under the solo, the acoustic guitar was also replaced with an electric running on the clean pickup. This wasn't enough so I slightly Edited the lyrics so they all fit together better and then added them to the tab. The lyrics follow the lead guitar, basically every syllable is sung on top of every quarter not played. Only the chorus and the outro are different, as long as you spread the lyrics out enough for the chord change you should be fine singing.

Download (.PDF): http://www.mediafire.com/?8hg13k5wwmle9q7
Download (.GPX): http://www.mediafire.com/?lw4c5691pikbyl6

The other Downloads have been taken down because "Shark" needs re-writing and that was an outdated version of "The Spaceman Cometh".

Oh, the harmonic introduction is very badly tabbed, I put the right finger positions but the timings off, I just thought I'd make it easy for me. Laziness I know. It's basically the "2001: A Space Odyssey" theme tune. If you play the song on Guitar Pro 6 it sounds weird, and harmonics sound crap on it.

Completion

The Spaceman Cometh is complete! Will be hitting YouTube when I can get all instruments together for a recording session (and when I get a Camcorder). New features include: harmonic introduction, rhythm and lead guitars, bass, improved lyrics and a better solo.
Download here (.PDF file shows all instruments... feel free to add your own drum riff since I don't have a drum kit, but remember to give me credit): http://www.mediafire.com/?ma74g5g22nr7pei

Lyrics and structure:
[intro]
[verse 1]
I've been livin' up in space
I don't know whats goin' on
I just wanna go back home
Still don't understand the ship
Hoping to be rid off it
I just wanna go back home
[chorus]
they'll recieve me greatly
when the spaceman cometh
but from the first sighting
the spaceman will runeth
[verse 2]
Entering the hyperdrive
Maybe we'll be home on time
I just wanna go back home
Hurtling through the slipspace
Flying fast and flying far
I just wanna go back home
[chorus]
[verse 3]
Something has attacked my ship
Taken out all the engines
I just wanna go back home
deflector shields are down
I can here them boarding
I doubt I'll be goin home
[solo]
[chorus]
[chorus]
[outro]
i lay here bleeding
slowly dying
i'm not going
not going home

Expenses

Conveniently enough with me trying to save £380 to buy that Dearmmond M75-T, I'm finding more things to spend money on. The list so far: guitar amp, bass amp (because mine has died), full size violin (I'm going to get an electric one which costs £99 instead of a £40 acoustic vilonin because I'm only going to buy it anyway so why waste the extra £40), Christmas, My mums birthday, my brother Charlie's birthday and my brother William's Birthday. That just takes me up to Spring, but out of all those the violin and bass amps are my lowest priority.

The Weekend

I must say I've had an interesting weekend, well fun weekend. Started off on Friday bored until I got a message on Skype telling me I can finally go (to Jess's) and when I got there we all played guitar hero for six hours (I was mostly on the drums, there really hard for me).
Next comes Saturday, I woke up, went to my brothers house, helped him to do a "tombola" sign for his mate, went back to my brothers house, played that awesome Dearmmond guitar (that will be mine), went to see my brothers fiancée, had tea at a vicars house and befriended his daughters. There was a lot of motorbike riding that day... I loved it, and one day I'll own my own motorcycle, a Kawasaki Ninja 750R. For now my goal is the Dearmmond M75-T.
Sunday was a bit more relaxed, I basically sat down playing guitar, Jamming with my Bro. and on the way home from his house the car broke down, so I spent two hours and fifty-eight minutes sitting on a seat which is only comfortable for an hour and a half. didn't get home until about half two this morning.
Today I was playing a random four chord riff on guitar, and putting on a ridiculous cowboy styled accent while I monologued to it, I even sung a song for Jazz (which was completely improvised). With it being Hallowe'en I went Trick-or Treating, you may say I'm too old to trick-or-treat, but I say "you're never to old to have fun". either way i got fifty tasty treats and seventy-one pence.

METAL

Well I've been blasting metal down my speakers almost constantly for the past seven days, I've even found a very nice and heavy version of "smells like teen spirit" by "Nirvana" who I think are crap, but the cover by "Bruthal-6" is completely awesome. I've also had a nice amount of "Metallica" pumped into my skull, mostly "whiskey in the jar" which is a tribute to "Thin Lizzy" which is a cover of a boring folk song by "The Dubliners". The weird part of this is the amount of "Nightwish" I've been listening to, the reason it's weird is because I introduced Dana to them and she got me into them, or isn't that as weird as I initially thought?
I've also decided I'm not going to play bass for the school production since I'm getting confused with traditional notation and the fact that Guitar Pro 6 won't convert it to tablature, this is just getting annoying. I guess I'll have to find something else to do for my music GCSE.
i also had a very interesting day with Jazz and my southern cousins (they thankfully didn't annoy us too much and left us to happily kill zombies) but I found her weak spot and then watched the latest "Shrek" film. All-in-all a good day, and tomorrow I get to annoy one half of my social circle.

The Attack

This isn't as dramatic as it sounds. The attack I'm referring to isn't really an attack it's just a crap load of furry caterpillars along a section of the old train tracks, but seriously there was a lot me and Dana kept needed to dodge them (because we didn't want to get attacked by a swarm of furry caterpillars), but that isn't the highlight of my day.
The most entertaining thing that happened was Dana tried to straighten my hair, she didn't do a bad job, but her mum had to redo it and not it's awesome. I now have a fairly straight mop to head-bang with. From behind I look like more of a girl than before but oh well, it's the price you have to pay to look like an idiot.

Bass Time

Finally my new strings had came for my bass guitar. When I saw the packet in my room I was strangely ecstatic, I quickly stripped the old strings of my Vintage Metal Axxe Wraith and rushed downstairs to get something to clean and polish the fretboard/body/headstock, Cilit Bang! that'll do. Turns out Cilit Bang! is a lie, can't clean the small stains off my fretboard the way Mr Clean would, but I didn't realise that until it had fully dried and I already had one string replaced. Damn.
Now my bass is fully strung, tuned and ready to rock. thicker strings than before, now I'm using Ernie Ball Power Slinky Bass, the thicker strings give a heavier sound which is great for metal. The fact they are shiny as well just makes me smile since they don't have a black layer of crap on them.
So after my bass was fully sorted I decided to go on a walk with Dana and nothing special happened, except this Cyclops Kitty we saw and I scared. Since it was a cat sitting on the other side of a window I thought I'd raise my hands like a monster in an old film and say "ROAR", the cat retreated of the window, it was back on the window when we walked past again so I scared it off in the same way.

Damn

I've just read through all my previous blog posts, and I've realised that the entire thing is filled with bad grammar. this isn't good news at all considering I was planning on doing A-Level English. I guess I'll have to pay more attention to what is written and put more thought into it.
On the upside I've improved the little riff which was giving me problems, The only problem is the way I've done it means I need to get better at singing while playing (especially since I'll be rapping while playing in the Year 11 Concert).
As a side note: rainbows are wonderful, YAY!

Threats

I'm scared shitless right now...
Why? Well it started about 6 months back I was getting annoyed and bothered by this girl complaining about my fashion sense, when we have a school uniform, she was also complaining about my hair and how I wear my trousers. One day when she was being an excessive pain in the arse I said "shut up or I'll kill you, then I'll eat your kids" as a joke to shut her up, which is said a lot in my family but without the I'll eat your kids at the end, I thought I'd add that as improvisation. she asked how i was planning on killing her so I said "I was thinking gas."
About twenty minutes ago Jazz goes to talk to one of her mates (who I have never met) and his mate (who I also haven't met) the guy she talks to is going out with the girl I threatened as a joke to shut her up, his mate walks up to and says "'Ey! If you ever threaten my families girlfriends again, 'cause I treat him as my brother, I'll put a knife in your throat!" at first I didn't get what he meant so I asked him what he meant so he said "you threatened you'd stick a petrol bomb through (censored name here) door!" Now I have never threatened to use a petrol bomb before because if you want to get away with murder you have to kill them quietly and dispose of the body quickly and with a petrol bomb you have noise and a big fire and its hard to get to the body your trying to dispose of.
Then he added "Do you get me?" and repeated that a lot until I finally got out "Yeah I get you but I don't remember this" and at the time I didn't remember, it's only just got back to me.
Now that I'm sitting here feeling like death and listening to Slipknot I have no idea on what I'll do while I wait for the time I can go to Jazz. I'm thinking I will just murder people on Oblivion.

Challenge Accepted

OK it's not much of a challenge.
Anyway what I have to do is master twenty-two songs (all the songs from the wedding singer) on the bass guitar. My only problem is that everything is in Traditional Notation which until about five minutes ago I didn't understand (I barely understand it now) but either way i will master these songs, I will play them as part of the school production and they will count towards my music GCSE.
I'm expecting my music teacher would have a big ol' troll face when I see him after the play.
Five weeks, twenty-two songs, four strings, six fingers, three pick-ups, one cable, one amplifier, one band, one production, one school and I'm just going to leave it there because I'm out of things to number.

Information Gathering

Well today I found out a few things, two of which I found quite interesting and fairly entertaining. The first thing is that I have a really big arse, I don't know if that's an insult or not (if it was then it was a terrible insult). The fact this was brought up is strange I was happily playing "Ace Of Spades" on my guitar (which I left at school, damn) when a voice appears somewhere behind me saying "George, you have a REALLY big bum."
The second thing is that I did absolutely terrible with my biology coursework, I'm not surprised really, Miss didn't explain it very well.
Finally that my mate Sam can't stand the sight of blood, we were dissecting a heart in biology and he just fled the room and puked his guts out. So me and me other mate Tree decided to annoy him by talking about ways to prepare hearts for a meal.
All in all a fairly boring day since Dana was ill and Jazz had a trip leaving me with very little to occupy myself with at break and lunch.

A Little Dilemma

I've ran into a small problem where I have an intro riff and i can't think of anything to follow it. This makes me sad and I don't like it. I have the start of a song, and nothing else, no lyrics, no verse riffs, nothing. However the intro sounds a little magical so I expect the lyrics to be about unicorns and elves.
As a side note I may consider putting the old keyboard that is in the spare room to use. Nothing wrong with being a multi-instrumentalist. (If that isn't a word it is now).

Winning

The first part of this is about the violin, it's a small high pitched instrument which can be played with a bow or by plucking the individual string, and I've been playing one. The reason I've been playing violin is because they are awesome and since Dana plays violin I asked her to teach me to play(especially since I'm teaching her guitar and bass). They're a pain in the neck missing the frets so it means you have to guess where to put your fingers, luckily there are little dot stickers on her violin which mark out the points to place your fingers. So far the only thing I don't like about violins is how much of a pain they are to tune, it took me most of my break time tuning it, leaving me with about five minutes left to play, long enough for Dana to teach me how to play "My heart will go on" which is simple enough at least. Now I shall have to get myself an electric violin... but for the time being i can just take my brothers acoustic.
The next part is about my graphics work, which was great since our usual teacher was away we had a cover lesson held by the queen of derps (and I think she's ace because we get nothing done with her). this meant I could quickly finish and print out my graphics work which needs handing in in lesson instead of after school. Win.
Finally I had a day with Jazz which naturally went well. Unfortunately I can't think of a way to describe it in an interesting way (for you readers).

Shark

I've just wrote a new song which is entitled "Shark". Conveniently the song is about a shark who terrorises the local fishermen because he thinks that all fishermen are complete and total dicks which must be annihilated (or something along those lines) but does it matter why a shark is trying to kill someone? of course it doesn't its a shark and they don't like people.

Download tab here: http://www.mediafire.com/?g324c3noj72b36y
Tab includes lyrics and is saved as a .PDF so you just need Acrobat Aeader (which is free) instead of guitar pro 6 (which isnt free)

When Will The Spaceman Cometh?

I just thought I'd post a brief update on the current status of "The Spaceman Cometh" (for those that don't know it's the song I wrote around the last week of August). Originally it was just one electric guitar using the clean pick-up, but I'm now thinking of using an acoustic guitar for rhythm and an electric guitar (distortion) as the lead and a bass line. This will involve some changes.
My first idea was to add a harmonic recreation of the "2001: A Space Odyssey" intro theme just before my current introduction, and the recreation does sound pretty good at the moment. I'm also planning on adding squealies (pinch harmonics if you insist) to the solo, which I'll most likely change from the current creepy sound to a more EPIC METAL solo.
So when will the spaceman cometh? Technically he never will come, however, the song will must likely be uploaded to my YouTube when I have a camcorder (which I'll hopefully get for Christmas) and when the song is finished (which I'm aiming to do before Christmas). I'll hopefully get it uploaded in January. So when the spaceman is arriving I'll update the ETA on here.

Squealies

Now that I'm done with my geography detentions I can concentrate on my graphics detentions. Oh joy! Any way that's actually two subjects off my back because I realised that Imogen is six times better at singing than playing the bass guitar (and she's barely average at singing). this means instead I can teach Dana bass and she is willing to learn it as well.
Squealies are really what I wanted to talk about because I've now worked out roughly how to do them but I can't yet get them done quickly there is about a second delay between the initial note until it becomes a squealy, or pinch harmonic if you prefer. I ended up rushing from my geography lesson to the music practise room at lunch just to claim it before anyone else can, which involved saying no to Jazz, and when I got my guitar and got in to find the EPIC amplifier I was using earlier still there someone else came in then left because I beat him. I connected my Lodgestone guitar to the amp and started playing "pumpkinpatch murders" by "Blitzkid" and after god knows how many tries I hit the squealy in the intro and it sounded so epic with the effect of the amp (it was all a bit high pitched made it sound like stereotypical metal, a bit like "3 Inches of Blood") and I was very impressed with that.
Overall it was a good day too.

Stress

Well the problem with school is that you always get lessons where you have a mountain of work lying on your back... I have lessons each coming with a mountain of work: Graphics, Geography and Music. For graphics I have to do what seems like a million pages of work all in size 6 font with pretty pictures, graphs and amazing presentation (which is a pain), for geography I have to get all my results copied up from a trip to Bakewell which would be easy enough if I actually had results to copy (which gives me another hour detention tomorrow) and music is only bad because I have to teach Imogen bass and she WONT STOP LAUGHING! I'm just gonna beat into submission until she becomes Steve Harris at this rate she is driving me mental. But, with all these mountains piled upon my clockwork brain I'm getting EXTREMELY STRESSED.
The cure however resided within Jazz (not the genre of music I mean my girlfriend) and the song "we're not gonna take it" by "Twisted Sister" (I heard it played through an open window and it cheered me up in some strange way). The main part in cheering me up was in Jazz's warm grip, speaking softy and sweetly, making bad jokes and trying not to stand in horse crap, which there was lots of. But now I'm not near Jazz I can take my mind off all this using my good friend METAL which is always there for me.
I can also get back to writing my book too.

Entertainment

I have been able to keep myself happily entertained by singing and playing guitar and video games (mostly video games). I've been having fun with a song and dance, I've been rockin' out with the guitar, and I've walked into a decent amount of inanimate objects in a similar fashion  as how I met Matty Brass (yes I met him by running into him while knocking on for a friend, we were 3 years old at the time). About 90% of the objects I walked into (like the annoying doors outside my form room) I called Philip the remaining 10% just weren't named at all.
The biggest highlight so far is that I successfully obtained a girlfriend (the best way to describe her is off her rocking chair and my cup of tea), she's called Jazz, I thought I'd mention that because this blog is about a teenagers dream to become a rock star and the quest of getting there, it's also a day in the life of a teenager wishing to become a rock star, I'm that teenager, my name is George and I'm completely awesome (well that depends on who you ask really).
And right now, as a side note, she is bothering me on MSN (because she wont get Skype which is so much better).

Practicing

Since my music teacher wants a recorded version of The Spaceman Cometh I guess I'll have to practise in order to make sure as little mistakes as possible are made. I also have to practise mental health and anthem since those are the songs being performed at the Year 11 Concert, so I have a decent amount to keep myself entertained for awhile at least. When all that is done I need to write that baroque classic (or maybe some other form of classical music), to be honest, I may need to do that before anything else is completed.
On a side note my GUITARMAN GM11 MINI TUNER has arrived and it makes tuning my guitar/bass so much easier since i no longer have to plug it into my bass effects pedal for it to struggle picking up the notes i play, I feel so much better, despite my irrelevant social conflict.

Distractions

I have been doing very little musically related recently instead I have been playing Minecraft and trying to get friends to go on a walk with me. When I succeeded in getting Dana to join me on this walk I ended up extremely embarrassed (which is unusual for me but I have good reason), what happened was somewhere down Biddulph Valley Way I turn around and see a man running wearing a white jumper and Lycra trousers, and from 20 metres (which is roughly how far apart we were from each other) and with my bad eyesight I say "Hey, it's my dad." because they look exactly alike at the time my dad has that jumper and those trousers. Then he runs past and says "Bet your embarrassed now." and I was embarrassed very embarrassed and Dana is in laughing her head off. Not the most productive walk I've been on, especially when I realised that my dad wouldn't be back from work until about 22:30 so I just generally failed.
What little I have done on guitar is learn the intro to falling apart by Zebrahead and the first parts of Halo Mjolnir Mix by Martin O'Donnell. So not much basically now I shall fix the tabs since they didn't print properly and then check that my guitar is in tune, I have ordered a clip on guitar tuner to make this easier.

Sheet Music

I finally managed to get a printed copy of the sheet music / tablature for mental health (guitar and bass), anthem (guitar and bass) and the spaceman cometh (just guitar, there is no bass line yet). This made it easier to teach my padawan learner the only problem was that my bass was VERY out of tune and my music teacher couldn't hear it without the amp, this means I definitely need clip on tuner because I'm going to need to tune my bass every few times i get it out of the case.

The Apprentice Part 2

After spending most of my lunch time trying to get Imogen to play my bass I finally got to teaching her to play Mental Health by Zebrahead of course naturally the bell went then after I got her playing the intro. Well I guess that's what happens when you spend the first half of lunch eating then getting smacked (and that will be uploaded to YouTube) and the other half trying to get a fiendish git to play bass.

The Apprentice

So today i had to start work on teaching my good friend Imogen how to play the bass guitar. I started off with the strings E, A, D and G, to remember I told her "Every Asshole Dies Gracefully." I thought it best then to get her to place her thumb on the pick-up and play the E string by making a finger person and having him/her walk on the string. Then the bell went and she had to go to her next lesson while I just moved my bass into the music room and got funky.
Naturally sir had to be a pain in the arse by making us attempt to write world music using a pentatonic scale or some others I can't remember, conveniently enough the notes he wrote on the board belong to the treble clef scale and not the bass (scales are unique to the four clefs). Plus I don't know the notes by name. Instead I just played the first riff from the bass battle off Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (which is an amazing movie by the way) and when I got bored of that I just played Mental Health by Zebrahead

The Problem With GP6

It appears that my music teacher doesn't have Guitar Pro 6 installed on his laptop, which means that I can't print my song off there. Instead I must either buy a printer or think of an alternative. I'd rather not buy a printer because that's £X (X being the price of the printer) off my new guitar fund.

Musical Interlude

I stumbled upon this while searching baroque classics to research the style for my next composition (I do so hope that makes sense).

The First Song

In order for me to get my music GCSE at school I must write one song, perform twice (once solo and once as an ensemble), sit an exam and do two other extra curricular activities related to music. To do the upgraded version worth six instead of four GCSE's I must do all that plus another song of a completely different genre to the first and sit another exam. I choose to do the latter.

So far I have done the first performance and the first exam. For the concert I just sang because I (at the time) didn't have a guitar or know how to play anything on bass. I sung "No More Mr Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper and a strange song I found on YouTube called "I Got Minecraft" by Viktor Cepeda. The concert wasn't a complete failure in fact it was the opposite it wasn't a complete success.

The exam was easy anyway since our class was told all the answers the previous day by our teacher so we all finished within five minutes and ended up doodling for the remaining fifty-five. Success.

Now as I mentioned earlier we have to have two songs, I have just completed the first and its called "The Spaceman Cometh" its about a young nameless asteroid who hates being in space, and his spaceship falls under attack from the alien specimens taken from a near-by asteroid. I have tabbed it in GP6 (Guitar Pro 6) format (.GPX file) I may put up a download on MediaFire but I haven't decided yet.

Now all I have to do is is attempt to write a classical piece (I'm thinking a Baroque classic) this is due to the simplicity in the melodies (even though I am a METAL fanatic) however it should sound good i just need to wait until I can get my guitar back.