{"id":511,"date":"2018-06-22T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2018-06-22T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T19:47:39","slug":"pre-semester-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Pre-semester worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m signed up at HCC for music classes!!! Currently these are just a few of the worries burbling through my mind.<br \/>\nWhat do I wear?<br \/>\nHow oh how will I ever be able to drive there so early in the morning?!<br \/>\nWill the textbook that I ordered ever show up?<br \/>\nDo I have to chase the f-ing thing down?<br \/>\nWill Dr. Composition accept me as a student?<br \/>\nI will have to meet with Dr. Voice to be assigned a teacher, oh dear oh dear<\/p>\n<p>I suggested to Dr. Composition that I could treat this as an independent study and submit lessons as blog entries and\/or Youtube videos. I made a list of possible projects. Clearly this list could occupy me for the next 5 years. I always aim too high and then feel disappointed. I can already feel the burn of shame! Well, I figured, try to work on this list over the summer and see how long each type of exercise takes. Do a trial run and see how much I can accomplish in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dr. Head-of-Department says I should work on my bass clef skills over the summer.<br \/>\nAnd for my own edification, I should start singing again &#8212; warm-ups, breath exercises, just getting used to the sound of my own voice!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is my massive 5-year list<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Go through the episodes of the podcast &#8220;Top Score&#8221; and write a brief summary of each; start with introduction. &#8220;This podcast series started out as a weekly feature on NPR&#8230; &#8220;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Go through the episodes of Hans Zimmer&#8217;s masterclass. Write a summary of the whole thing<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Go through the episodes of Deadmau5&#8217;s masterclass. Write a summary<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Other interviews with composers. Eric Whitacre? Our Lutheran guy?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Book on Bach <strong>My Only Comfort<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Take music which I composed for my playlist of 8 No Man&#8217;s Sky videos, and write it out in music notation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Analyze music which we did in choir last year. ex. &#8220;Eternal Light&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Create new music and present it in Youtube video form. Perhaps one every 2 weeks?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Write a personal essay on music composition (what, why, how)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Take composition &#8220;A Cantata for Lent&#8221; and re-enter it into Finale<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I need to think about what might be a good &#8220;end of semester&#8221; project. Collecting all the songs for the No Man&#8217;s Sky videos, improving them, printing out the music in Finale?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m signed up at HCC for music classes!!! Currently these are just a few of the worries burbling through my mind. What do I wear? How oh how will I ever be able to drive there so early in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}