Lögdö Music Expo

This weekend i was at Lögdö Music Expo, A great event with lots of people in the music business holding seminaries about what they do for a living and discuss how to make your music into your living. At night there where live performances from local bands.

One thing that i really took with me was when i record label guy told us "I never listen to more then 10 sec of the songs on demos that we get" I wanted to try this, so what i did when came home was to open up Spotify and listen for 15 sec (10 sec is too short.) of all the songs in the top lists. I copied every song that i liked after 15 sec into this playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/frejtlejs/playlist/7wQi7l9d4RWtotkSrxbFqU

Its all good songs! they really are pop-hits, or at-least mainstream hits. This bothers me a bit, the man told us that he never gave it more then 10 sec. Which means that the music i listen to should never have been picked up at a label, cuz it usually takes more then a few listenings to get the idea and start liking it. anyway.....


Chapters 4 and 5 are done. Chapter 4 I managed to score a VG+ (18/20) and 5 i got MVG (19/20)
Its been stressful to do two chapters in a week and I fear that I will forget everything much sooner this way. Next week I'll have to do two more chapters to come up to speed. hopefully it will go well and I wont forget to much. I noticed that there is a Quiz for all chapters, thats really nice, It can act as my final exam.

I recovered a book from my parents storage today, "Bass Guitar for Dummies" I'm going to try and use it when I teach. not figured out in what way yet thou. More on that later.


Cheers!

Between angels and insects.

So, my proud student wants to learn Between angels and insects by Papa Roach. its a cool song! not really great for a first song but, he needs to know it for his band situation so I started to learn it, so i could help him with it. I've learned the first four bars of the solo now and Im really starting to like Papa Roach, funny how music gets better when you can play along with it!


The music theory goes kind of well too, Im having some problems with what we call "kvint cirkeln" in swedish, i dont know the english term for it, (more homework!) All in all a good week for music!

Cheers.

First lesson as a bass teacher held.

Today I tried my wings as a teacher for the first time.
Oh, I was not prepared enough! I talked a lot about myself and my life. It's good as an introduction I guess. The lessons are one on one and the student is a friend of mine. We also talked about the different parts of the bass, discussed some finger exercises and slapping. He has to lern a few songs for his band, so next time we're gonna takle that. All in all I'm fairly pleased with my first lesson, although I know that I have quite a large mountain to climb.
Also I'm now three chapters behind on musikteori.se so I have to study hard this week in order to catch up.

Pale has started the pre-production on our up coming EP. I'm not as involved in the creative procses as I would like but, I'm learning a great deal.

/cheers!

soooo lazy...

I've done nothing since the first of September.. so i have to cover two chapter this week, i read trough them both and did the quizes today, MVG on both. 19/20 and 18/20.

ive learned that a Major scale are built up in two whole steps then a half step followed by three whole steps and finally a half. example: F G A Bb C D E F. im very pleased with that. It takes me forever to figure out which notes goes in a scale thou, Practice makes perfect.

Stopped smoking

Today at 15:30 i stopped smoking.

it have not affected my musical talent I'm happy to say. Chapter 3 MVG 20/20.

Scattered thoughts.

Its been an interesting day today. I've gotten some aid in my job-hunting and recorded some pre-production stuff for Pale.

Recently I discovered that Tommy Emmanuel has been added to the Spotify library (http://open.spotify.com/user/frejtlejs/playlist/4sBjF8fWQMYOHbuT9Rp6If)

Tommy made me think, People that are determined and got the right attitude seems to be able to anything. I've know this for a while, thats why I start projects like this one.
I start off determined, filled with joy and hoping for glory every time. Although..
I always seem to stray off the path, find something else to occupy my mind with, never finishing what i started. Now, why is this?

I cant really put my finger on the issue here, somewhere in the back of my head it echos "insecurity." I refuse to accept that thou, this project will be finished.

I'm sticking to the schedule, here I go, Chapter 3. (3:12 am)