This week! :D x

'If its not love, then its the bond that'll bring us together!' .. Nothing like The Smiths to brighten your morning!
 Haha. This week has been an incredibly exciting one so far, It started slow, and really quite dull, maybe to do with the weather as well. However as the day progressed, things got much brighter, as did the weather. Monday, in vocals we were told to choose 3 songs for our next vocal assessment on April 4th. We are to try and differ the genres this time, which will make the choices more interesting, and be more challenging overall. I havent properly decided on my choices yet, although i know one will be something from the 50s i think.
In Music Theory we were told our exam is now in 2 weeks, to give us a chance to finish going through our new workbooks, i find it beneficial sitting through both Music Theory classes, as i dont feel an hour is enough to really take everything in. Anyway my very exciting news for this week, has definitely been the proposal of doing a concert in June. I have been lucky enough to have been asked by my vocal teacher, to sing up to 20 songs, as a sort of tribute night to the 50s and Peggy Lee and all the wonderful artists from that classic era. The proposal came at such surprise, and has really made my week, already i have been thinking of ideas for songs and ideas for the theme of the event and look i will go for etc. I will defintiely be taking inspiration from my nanny for this one, who was a glamorous dancer at The Windmill Theatre in London in the 1950s.

Other news from college this week.. On tuesday we began practice in our new Creative Project bands. Both bands seem to have got to work extremely quickly and i think we all made a very productive start yesterday on a first song. Our band have a song now, that we jammed through several times to really get in the swing feel, and me and my fellow singer, sat with a notepad and tried to come up with lyric ideas, yesterday i jotted down 2 verses, and we practiced fitting them in. At the moment the lyrics a very 'Moon Dance' feel, that glamorous 1950s'60s jazz concept, where everything was based around romance and dancing. We also got a recording of the song, so that we can go away and write some more lyrics at home, with the music,and see what we can come up with for next week.  :)


So that was us for this week, today i am up in the library working on the corrections for my Graded Unit, in order to submit for next mondays planning stage deadline. Then at half 12 i will be in the practice rooms, rehearsing with the Honors band 'Punk Project' that i am a part of. The gigs in May, so we've got quite a few songs to get through. So now better turn off The Smiths and put on my punkiest attitude in order to unleash the Johnny Rotten in me haha
For this week, until next time :)
X.Alissa.X