It's getting near midterm time and do you know what that means for a music student?

Well in most cases, absolutely nothing, unless you're actually real classes. By real classes I mean theory and history classes [which I am taking]. Fortunately, I don't have any big midterms. My assignment in my theory class was to write a classical style Minuet [think Viennese waltz] for four instruments. And we just took a test in my middle ages/baroque history class.

But it also means that for all the ensemble classes it's getting close to crunch time. I'm supposed to be near 'off book' (memorized) by this time. It puts pressure on me, especially when you're trying to memorize a song in a language that's not your first [like French!] Also, there's a new requirement for voice majors - basically, we have to sing in a recital setting. So this means that on Monday November 15th I'll be singing an aria from one of Wolgang Amadeus Mozart's operas [that he wrote when he was 18.]

Gee look at me complaining about memorizing music.

Hahaha that's the cool thing about majoring in this sh!t

Makin' Mine Music

~No Tations~

I had my first mentally taxing week as a musician these past five days.

First, on Tuesday I realized I left my notebook at work and therefore left the assignment for theory there. So I had to dig into the deep recessed of my cerebral cortex to try and remember the assignment. Luckily I did find it but it took about 30 minutes for me to remember.

Then on Wednesday, my friend asked me to arrange a 'Happy Birthday' type song for treble [women's voices] for her friend. She actually asked me a couple of weeks ago but said there was no rush. Then on Wednesday, she said 'ASAP'. So I went into a practice room and made up a bluesy, simple, but cool song called 'Birthday Blues.' But I did it in about 20 minutes so I fried my brain for the day.

Then Thursday I went to go turn in part II of the theory assignment only to realize that I did the assignment wrong - so I ran into a practice room and wrote, erased, and rewrote like a madman so that I would have something to show to the teacher.

Then Friday another friend told me that I needed to come up with an arrangement of the 'Star Spangled Banner' because we are performing it this Thursday at SF State's March Madness kickoff for the hoops season. So I did that all day at work. (Shh!)

Luckily Friday night was full of drinks and fun at a friend's house. The perfect way to end the week.

But I'm still tired.

Makin' Mine Music

~No Tations~

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Go Niners!