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).
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Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Monday, 12 September 2011
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
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
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