I have been thinking a lot about my graded unit profession this week. To begin with, i saw this as a requirement for the course, and that nothing would come out of it. Now i am seeing this is a realistic career for myself. Granted my dream is to play in a successful band and live on the stage, but there is no harm in delving into other areas! What i am finding most advantageous is that my girlfriend is studying to be a primary school teacher. This has allowed me to see the amount of work necessary for an efficient lesson and how the curriculum for excellence works. Through helping her with her work, i am learning invaluable information.
I have began working on my Rock School lesson plans this week. I only have 6-8 weeks to do this, so my lessons have to be precise and relevant.
Graded Unit this week was very helpful as we were shown examples of 'A' pass plans. I took a healthy amount of notes and i now understand fully what is expected of me. In Music Theory, we looked at chord inversions, melodic and harmonic minors, 7th and Dominant 7th chords and modes. As we studied this in great detail last year in First Study, i felt quite comfortable with these subjects. I have also been keeping up with my 20 minutes of sight reading a night which has helped a great deal in this class. I am finding Session Skills more tedious each week. I feel the pieces that we are given are not challenging enough on guitar, so i am not gaining anything new from it. So instead, our band played Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' with myself rapping. I gained more satisfaction from this that in the last few weeks of this class! I think i am going to explore my new found desire to be a Rapstar...
In other news, my band outside of college, aptly named 'New Delusion' has been quite active. Myself and my bassist have been working on a lot of new material in which we hope to show to Greensmith in the next few weeks. We have also set a date to hit the studio and record 'Liquid'. I am still searching for a permanent drummer, but the addition of Greensmith has given the band the boost it needs.
Right now, i am working on my presentation for the Composition Class. I am having way too much fun creating this powerpoint...
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