dinsdag 26 januari 2010

Klassiek en unplugged

With our music class, we had to perform a song on a music festival we have once a year on our school, its called klassiek & unplugged.

To be honest, this was my first real time playing for a big crowd and I had to admit, from the two songs I had to do, the first one I was pretty nervous. The songs I had to play were Billie Jean with Coen of my class too, and because of the beatles. Both songs were fairly easy, but still somehow I remained nervous.

about every lesson we practised the song, and it went pretty good I think, though I am not sure because I was paying more attention to whether I was playing the chords right than how my classmates were singing. The billie jean song was very fun to do, I saw it as a little tribute to Michael Jackson. The singer chose to do a cover version of billie jean by krezip, this cover was more jazzy and actually only needed two guitars. Coen decided to concentrate more on the lower notes, while I played the higher notes (he had a capo, I don't .(Mine comes in tomorow by the way))

The performance of both songs went pretty well, actually exaclty like how we rehearsed it. I am very glad that I competed with it because now I am less shaky when performing on stage, and less shy when my family wants me to play guitar for them.


donderdag 21 januari 2010

A few days I have decided to search for a few new artists to listen to, because I felt like I needed some refreshment on my Ipod.
Throughout the winterbreak I have discovered the band Sum 41. I knew this band before but this time listened to several songs of them. And it turns out I really like their music. The band as a whole has been through several phases, which is noticable in their music. On their first album they were playing punk rock only, catchy tunes with funny lyrics. After that they went through a somewhat more metal phase, in which the guitarist wanted more metal. Because he didn't like the punk rock. The music they made in this phase was really awesome, and is most of what I listen to now.

I also got the Help! album of the beatles which I listen to a lot now. Yesterday is just beautiful and Help is also a great song. Another artist that I listen to a lot now is Norah Jones, she makes wonderful jazzy music.