11/11 - The Rundown

I don't really have a thesis statement for how my day went. I apologize.

But I can explain how my day went with props. Decent trade? I think so.

In music history, we talked about opera. Well... the teacher did. And my friend Eric and I wrote a chorale. But then she started playing Don Giovanni, my favorite opera, so I watched. You can watch too!



I love that song so much.

Then I had a "test" in theory that took literally ten minutes.

Ate lunch, took a nap, worked on drum corps exercises almost the rest of the day.

Side note - I'm auditioning for Troopers and Blue Knights if I can find the time to get to the audition camps. Hopefully I can. But it means taking my finals early, during jury week, and that will be a major pain.

I can't legally show you the Troopers exercises I have to learn, but they're silly. If I have more time tomorrow, I'll write out bits and pieces (legally) and show them to you. But the Blue Knights exercises are free, and they are here:

http://www.bknights.org/bknights.org/membership/bkdbc/download/percussion/BK2011QuadAudition.pdf

They're not too difficult. They have a thing for 5s, which I can handle. The last page, the timing exercises are like the beat displacement things we've been doing in South Indian ensemble, kinda.

Now I just have to get to the auditions.

And then I went to the Jazz Repertory Ensemble concert, they played "A Night in Tunisia," one of my favorites:



It was a good day.

I'll talk more tomorrow. Have a good Friday.

M