Music Wise

1. Stuff done this week It has been a while since I updated my blog. I have been bogged down with work and my family-life is not in balance. I'm finding it so hard to combine everything. My neck hurts and I'm so damn tired all the time. Spend half the weekend sleeping.  Work unfortunately cannot be put on hold. Bernice and I decided to contact a coach to help us structure our family-life. On monday we had our first meeting. I decided to take break from study. Anyway me and the band had a nice gig on the 22nd of October at Utrecht's TivoliVredenburg. It was the Ramblin' Roots festival 2016. Crimson Inc announc We were scouted by one of the festival's programmers, who saw us at a gig supporting The Yearlings.  Here some footage of me singing my murder ballad Since you left me.  Sorry, the video flips over at the end: My opening got a good crowd response; I feel more confident singing. I believe the vocal exercises I do while driving to work ar

1. Stuff done this week Finished working on a song called Lay Me Down . Last thursday I presented it to the band and started to arrange it together. Great to have the other instruments coming together. I used a rather odd chord in the bridge : C#DAE. Either this is an suspended D chord with a C# in the bass, or an A major (AC#E) chord with an added D. I am not sure how to make sense of this, but musically I think it sounds good. I like the tinge of dissonance. Found some old footage from a radio show with my band: Radio interview "De Mannen van Maandag" I've worked through the examples in the OCA course. One of them is a "beaming" exercise. This is my solution, and it is - clever me - also the correct answer! The music theory exercise up till now are not difficult; it makes me feel good, that I am starting to get an elementary grasp of reading music. So, using all my Sibelius skills learned so far, I worked on my first assignment for the Mus