Episode IV: A New Hope

Week 4 – 7.10.09 – 8.10.09

This week has been quite a different week for me. The week began with the departure of my drummer, due to commitment issues with his University course. Obviously quite gutted, i then looked to finding a new drummer. A good friend of mine, John Green smith, has kindly agreed to session one of the tracks for me, so i can go ahead with the scheduled recording. This will allow me to have one professional track to show a potential new drummer, who can hear what the band is all about! Things seem to be looking up for my career outside of the college.
Things are also going well with my band in Creative Musicianship. We have 3 covers completed now and a few originals floating around. First study was as useless as ever being honest. I’m really not enjoying this aspect of the college. I prepared two Beatles solo guitar compositions as requested and he didn’t even listen to them. In Creative Musiccianship classroom edition, we looked at more Beatles albums and started to create our own version of the track, ‘’insert track name’’

Thursday kicked off with Graded Unit where we had a guest speaker from the Scottish Arts Council. Clare the music officer talked about what funds are available to us and how the whole system works. After spending the first 10 minutes trying to figure out what accent she was speaking in, i found this talk quite interesting. I learned that i could get funding from up to £2000 which would be very helpful towards my musical carreer. In Music Theory we were reinforcing our knowledge of time signatures and rhythm recognition. I feel quite confident about the exam in two weeks time, although my rhythm recognition needs much work. Session skills became interesting as we went into the rehearsal studios. Little did i know that we would be playing ‘’what becomes of the broken hearted’’ on loop, for about 2 hours! Although the sight reading was very useful, i was confident in the fact that i had changed my graded unit from Session Musician to Instrumental instructor!

Here come the holidays!!!!