ON the point of thinking I'm starting a band, I have written one complete song myself, with three on the way, and wrote one with my friend. I went to his house to show him what I'd written and he really liked it, we started recording on it and improving it and it was great fun. Then we started writing our own song together, and that was great. The best bit was when we improvised an instrumental out of the blue (i was playing lead guitar, him rythm) and we just went for it, and it sounded really good (to us, for now, until we both improve and look back on it in two years and see it wasnt actually that good at all! : ) He has a friend who plays drums, and a friend who plays base who enjoy jamming and such, and maybe if we showed them what we got, played for a couple of hours, write another song....ah but I am dreaming. I would love to be in a band though.Like most people : )
However, to the point of the blog. I am a die hard Queen fan, I am a huge fan of all the lads, and love all their songs, I collect memrobillia, blah, blah, blah......BUT! over the past couple of months Queen just hasnt made me feel like it normally does. They are everything to me, I mean everything, normally I get lost in their music and it can pick me up when I'm pissed off or sad, and when I just want to feel good I just play a Queen song. But as I say over the past couple of months it just isnt working for me. Because I do listen to a lot of Queen, a lot of the time, there are times when I just need to listen to something else. I do have a large range of excellent artists who I listen to as well as Queen, but never have I actually not wanted to listen to them. I am not enjoying it like I used to. I dont know, it just feels strange, sad almost that i dont seem to be into it as much any more. When I listen to the music, i am trying to enjoy it, I am making myself get into what I am hearing.
Has anyone else ever felt like this?
I hope that it wont last much longer. I really love Queen and I dont want that to change. I know that people move on to different things, but I dont want to. It sounds very silly, but thats how I feel.
ah well, back to studying.
Take care all : )
M.H
BEEN BUSY.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. -Berthold Auerbach
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
Damn Straight
M.H
The reason for the above exclamation is that Back To The Future Three on Channel Ten (Australian Channel). Yeh I havent been on the site in ages. Nothing's changed, and to be honest that's a little disapointing. Nobody is posting any interesting posts, there's no good discussions, it's nothing like it was when I first started posting, about three years ago.
I have been racking my brains trying to think about some good topics to start, but I cant, and perhaps this is the problem with everyone. Or perhaps everyone has already posted all the interesting posts. I mean, some come up every now and then, but not as much as they used to.
On another note, I AM LOVING GUITAR!! I had my first leson of the new term today, and it was the best I've ever had (admitedly I've only had five so far). But it was really great. My Guitar teacher was quite sick, so it was very commendable of him to come in and teach.
We recounted over what we did last term (going through the basics, learning chords and blues scales) and then we got on to playing through different variations of the E chord. We played Emajor, Eminor, E7 and Esus4. I strummed the rote note and then played the chord, four times for each one. What I loved was the sound of the chords, but also the fact that I got it first time. This is obviously a small feat to those experienced guitarits on the site (of whom there are a few) but to me it was great, because it usually takes a while for me to even get the fingering right. Then we looked at a few chord progressions, discussed where I wanted to go with the lessons and how we should do it. Then, he said something really surprising:
"Lets do some soloing."
I really didn't want to look like an idiot but then again I'm learning so if I stuff up how bad could it be. My teacher started playing a blues rythm, and I waited untill I had got the rythm in my fingers, and then I started strumming. To my surprise I actually played something (that to my ears) sounded decent. I based it on a scale I had learnt further up on the neck, but brought it down from the top to nearer the bottom of the neck. I'll try and explain with a tab:
----------------------------------------------------------------12--15--
-------------------------------------------------------12--15-----------
-----------------------------------------12---14--15-------------------
--------------------------------12--14----------------------------------
-----------------12--13--14--------------------------------------------
----12----15------------------------------------------------------------
I have practiced this for ages playing it from the e string at the top to the e string at the bottom, and then back down again. I used this but played it in different ways, adding bends and playing it in a different order. After I had finished. My teacher said that he was happy with how I'm going, and that I played the 'solo' in a rythmic style. That was a real boost for me, after I've come back to school and realised that it may be impossible to do all the work that I have to do this term and pass my exams and graduate year elleven and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and.....
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
That was the sound of a sudden human combustion.
The only other thing I have to say is that my friend told me about his friend who is now at Uni and has a drum kit. Huzza! I must admit to Band Dreams, and I have gone crazy around my room with my guitar pretending to be Brian May or Angus Young. Whilst we cant form a band (with him being in Uni and all, and him actually being a musician not a beginer) it will be fun to collaborate with him on music and such.
Untill next time,
M.H
PS: WATCH BOSTON LEGAL, OR BETTER YET, BY THE DVD's.
Denny Cr
It's the holdidays! Huzzah Huzzah and all such other celebratory expressions...
Yey, it's the holidays, but there is still work to be done. I have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots, and even lots more than that of art work to do for Art and Design and Visual Art, there's a P+L assignment and study for term four exams. ={ But not to fear, there is rest and lay ins and joy.
My favorite quote of the day: "Life is what happens to you whilst your busy making other plans"-John Lennon
I really like that one...
M.H
WATCH THIS SHOW!!
It's the best comedy to come out of America in a while, and with Califorication now on Mondays, it's the best night of comedy on TV.
Yes, watch it.
Danny Crane
And am I getting it?
Thats what I asked myself this morning after reading my blog that I wrote last night, and the answer is, no, I dont think so. I'm writing about things that dont really matter, and there's something about it that seems wrong. There are things that fustrate me that I dont talk about because for some reason I thinks it's wrong to dicuss them on the net for some reason. I want this blog to be interesting, not just for those of you who decide to read it, but for me as well.
And I'm going to stick to this thing like crazy from now on. And I'm not going to leave it so late to write either.
Thats my plan anyway.
Take care...
M.H
It has been quite an eventfull few days in terms of my auditions, guitar lessons, and the play that I am involved in. I havent mentioned this previously, but I am currently in Cosi, an Australian play about a youn student who attempts to direct a group of madmen (and madwomen) in a mental institution to do a play. I am playing ther character of Doug, a pyromaniac (hoping I spelt that right) who, as a pyromaniac does, enjoys burning everything and anything, or anyone. I am loving the role, it is crazy, entertaining, gives me room for improv, has a nasty attitude and has been sexually represed, which makes for a very interesting scene when Lewis, the young director is arguing with his very attractive girlfirend, and my character 'happens' to stumble in.
My guitar lessons are going very well, I have a great teacher and I am really, really enjoying being able to do something with it other than strum. I have learned two different versions of the twevlve bar blues (involves chords, the other is a complete tab), and after recording a blues rythm that is incorperated into the 12Bb's, I am now improvising through several different blues scales. Also, I have learnt and can play in sequence all the major chords, minus the F Chord, which I am still getting my fingers around. I have also started learning the minor chords and the 7th Chords, playing them in different sequences, which helps me practice gettting the chords right after I change from one to another. I went through some of the Queen songs that I can learn, and there aren't many. Brian's too bloody good. I have, though, found one song that I may be able to do, albeit it may take me several lifetimes to get right. I saw the Backchat tab, and got the intro straight away (anyone with a sense of timing could get it in five minutes), but the solo is a different matter. It's funny really, I choose that song and started looking at the solo, and then came on here, and saw the thread about Brian's best solo, and Backchat came up. But, I am actually not doing bad. I am getting it bit, by bit, by bit, by bit, and when I have learnt the whole thing, I'll speed it up. Of course I'm going to have to speed it up a hell of a lot, I read the tab whilst listening to the music, and he plays it really fast. He's finished by the time I have read half way.
Whilst I'm talking about all this though, I actualy missed my third lesson yesterday, and feel sick for doing so. It's my fault, and it was such a stupid mistake. My lesson starts at 12:30am, and the music shop is half an hour away. So, it's 11:10am, and I think, I'll have enough time to have a nice shower, get dressed and maybe even get some practice before going off. My mum says she'll only take a second to get ready, so off I go. I'm in the shower and am actually really tired (the last few weeks of school have been frigin nuts). I stand under the water, letting time pass me by.
Unfortunatley, I hadn't read the right clock. We had recentley had a power cut, and when that happens the clock goes wrong and resets to a random time when the power comes back on. The Lap top computer, which had the right time, said 11:50. So, I get out the shower, get dressed, go into the living room to find mum fuming (and rightly so, she's paid for all my lessons), and the time is 12:22. I was absoloutley gutted, I phoned the shop and apologised, but I couldn't believe I had been so stupid, I'm still kicking myself now. Anyway, I did Art and Design for the rest of the day, and completed my Drama essay (or most of it) today.
Oh, before I forget, I had my audition and it went pretty well. Despite writing in my last blog that I was going to do Frank Sinatra, I ended up doing Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon. I am seriously regretting doing that now though. When I got home, I put Windows media player on shuffle, and started singing along to My Mel
My drama teacher in his infinate wisdom has chosen to do the Wiz for our classes major year twelve production. I'm not really happy about doing this, but there is a wizard in it which I want to play, just because he's a wizard. As it's a musical, I have to choose a song, but I'm not sure which one to choose. Here are the options;
New York-Frank Sinatra
Let It Be-The Beatles
Show Must Go On-Queen
Teo Torriatte-Queen
I cant decide and my auditions on monday....
M.H
M.H
At long last I got myself some guitar lessons. The teacher showed me some blues scales, and two rifts I had to learn, 'Last Kiss', and 'Boulivard of Broken Dreams'. I am practicing every day and it's going quite well. After trying to teach myself, I am so glad to finally having someone who knows what their doing show me what to do with a guitar. Plus, the teacher showed me some rythms to learn as well, using the basic chords, and it was great to see the guitar I bought, which is a really beautiful instrument, being played properly. I can't wait for my next lesson, and to get better, so I can make the guitar sing.
M.H
