JAZZY jazz jazz. today we made our improvisations for the 12 bar blues. i think that the 12 bar blues song had sum voodoo inside. i mean, it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE for me to not remember that song. its like a catchy commercial song that see on TV. after noting down the improvisations, we listened to sum of the JAZZ presentations. We played "All Of Me" again at the instrument class. i did better. but then i had the chords messed up, but this ALL OF ME, mght be the funnest song to learn yet. STAY JAZZEY! :D
9 February 2010
the most un-fun part about this whole JAZZ thing. THE REPORT! mygat it was somewhat frustrating, i mean, getting the grammars right, putting it the right picture, summing up everything online, going through the artists one by one. all though in the end i did put pictures to fill up the 15 pages (peace). well today we gave our 12 bar blues note to Mr.Herry. I lost my paper, so i had to copy ade's chords. but i think i did well, it might sound pretty good.
12 February 2010
TODAY, we listened to the improvisations that the others made. W-O-W they are GOOD. mine sucked. well thats because i got the chords all wrong, but uhm, no worries, ade and tiff got it all wrong too, well partially because i cheat off ade's paper, and she copied tiffany's SO! its tiffs fault! loljk tiff. again, we get to listen to the super catchy-yet-annoying 12 bar blues song. thennn, at the instrument class, we did the walking base. i think i failed. i mean, i can't play according to the score sheet. my fingers'll play whatever they want. WHICH IS BAD! :| it was hard for me to actually figure out what to hit next, cos my fingers were allways aiming for 1 3 5 7 1 7 5 3 2 rather than 1 2 3 5 1 5 3 2 . but i guess i'll just have to learn more then.
16 February 2010
so today we perfected our 12 bar blues improv. noting down the final stuffs .. uhm making sure the chords are correct, cos i DONT WANT to repeat the same stupid mistake. then the class got into sum discussion about the HISTORY OF JAZZ. Andrew Sie talked about something-a-majigy about how .. jazz was like THAT, and not like THIS. it was (to be honest) boring LOL. i dont like histories, or anykind. but at least i did manage to get the 12 bar blues done. at the instrument class, we played the "ALL OF ME" song AGAIN! .. i did somewhat better now, but i still got to do more practice!
19 feb 2010
today was pretty much fun. we listened to the all the "all of me"s from the other instruments. they WERE (as usual) AWESOME! i still need lost and lots of practice to play perfectly. at the instrument class, we did the "All of Me" again.. and again. i helped Jeok with her part. She was awesome. and i played like junk. the walking base part is .. doable, but i still need to practice the right melodies, and chords.
