Second session began
with a much greater workload and full time uni really did take up all my time!
The course, teachers and assignments still bringing me lots of
inspiration…started doing a daily singing practice and journal, on top of my
yoga practices, lucky I like getting up early!!
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I continue the slow
and painful process of reading notes on paper, to transform them into rhythms
and melodies. I am still a baby at this but over and over practice is opening
up a new world to me. To hear a song, find the bass line, work out the chords,
write out the melody, the drum pattern, pen to paper, and drawing pictures onto
staves. Or the other way, making chord charts of my own songs as I write them,
enabling me to perform with other musicians quickly and easily (if they can
read music too!!)Here are some new tunz I wrote! Love your feedback :)
Plus a live gig I did
(teehee you can see some of my fellow muzo’s reading my charts if you look
carefully!)
Also made a video clip
as part of a subject called ‘Music and the Internet’. A very fun project that
involved dancing, choreography, rehearsals, hiring a hall, lighting, organising
cameras, collaborations and sharing with some gorgeous new creative friends :)
Check it out here:
These forest pictures
were also part of a uni project to update my websites with new images. Our
intention was to reflect my time here at uni, learning to write music. Ha, ha,
ha most of the sheet music I used is original, hand written charts of my songs
and we were slightly worried they’d blow into the creek :)
The other band was
focused on world music. Singing songs in Portuguese from Brazil, tunz from
India and Africa too. I mostly sung backup harmonies and played percussion but
also had a dabble on the keys as well…really loving the opportunities to explore
new instruments :)
I continued my regular
performances as an MC, telling silly stories, playing charades and even did a
soap box stint leading up to the election ;)
On top of my regular
uni work, I also went through the process of applying for an exchange to the
University of New Orleans for 5 months in their Jazz Studies Course. It has
been an unbelievable amount of paperwork…swimming in forms and red tape for
months….but….I’m very excited to tell you…I got in!!! Waaaaahhh!!!!!!
Here are the two Jazz
songs I performed and sent as my audition material:
So I’ll be off on a
long flight to the US in early January, ready to have an experience of a
lifetime, with deep gratitude and love in my heart, as I follow my dreams and
passion for music.
Thank you all for your
love and support.
Wishing you a lovely
Christmas and New Years!!!
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