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.