Results

Yesterday I picked up my GCSE results, and I'm actually happy with them. here they are...

Geography: D

Graphics: C

English Language: C

English Literature: D

GCSE Music: E

Religious Education: G

Mathematics: C

Statistics: D

Science: A

Additional Science: A

BTEC Music: Distinction (A)

I.C.T: Distinction (A)

Those are acceptable I think.

Improvisation Is The Future

OK well I'm back in school tomorrow, which is neither good or bad. Now my plan was to record a song during my music lesson for my GCSE the way I shall do that is by making up a riff/chord pattern now and tomorrow I'll make up the lyrics as I go along. This could be fun, especially since I'll put that forward to my teacher using it to get my music GCSE, I can't wait.

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.

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.

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.