Hello there. ~ de arimasu

This past couple of weeks have been pretty interesting. I've been in the studio at the school trying to record all of the compositions I consider decent enough to make demos and maybe produce them professionally later on. In average, I've spent like 3-4 hours each time I get in there. ~ de arimasu

The average time I take to record all the instruments and sing a song, and mix everything in a decent way is about 10-12 hours. ~ de arimasu

Wait... do I play all the instruments? No, I'm not a genius >.>... however, I can make some drum loops, imagine what the base would sound like and play it with the midi keyboard; and about the piano, guitar and voice... well, I do play those myself. ~ de arimasu

So yeah, so far I've recorded 4 songs, have 3 half-way through, and another one I haven't started yet. ~ de arimasune

With that said, one of those compositions is my homework for my composition subject, and it has to be related to Christmas. So I wrote my first jazz song. I never though I would get to this point in life. ~ de arimasu

My composition teacher would be singing, one teacher the base guitar, and two other teachers would be playing the alto sax... all just to help me. I would be playing the piano, and I just need to confirm the person who'll play the acoustic guitar and the drums.~ de arimasune

The problem, which is not so much of a problem, is that now I'm helping 3 other people with their own compositions so they can get it done. ~ de arimasu

Anyway, one of those three people is a girl, who... ~ de arimasu

Wait, do I want to share this now? It would make this blog really long. If you guys want to read the story, tell me though, and I could dedicate the next blog to it. ~ de arimasu

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Yesterday I was really sick. I woke up at 8:00am feeling really bad, and I was supposed to get to the school to help with the cafeteria at 8:30am. I finally made it and got there at 9:12am. All morning all I wanted to do was to return home and sleep. Obviously, I couldn't do it since I was in charge of the cafeteria =_=... so I was there all morning, and later they told me they needed help with some tech stuff for the devotional time in the afternoon, so I stayed there until 3:00pm. ~ de arimasu

Then, I felt the urge to go to the studio and record [evil: yes, go and do it! ~desu]... and I basically did something (like an hour) and then slept all afternoon in there xD... ~ de arimasu

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Today was pretty "interesting"... we (the school band) got lost trying to get to a church to play. I would blame the leader, who got directions in MapQuest although I told him to get them in Google Map. ~ de arimasu

So anyway, we made a 2 hour trip which was actually 40 minutes long (the time it took to return), and missed the food they were offering before the service. You can't imagine how hungry (and happy) I was when I finally got to eat at 4:56pm in Wendy's >.> ~ de arimasu

Also, we obviously didn't make a sound check or anything, and they told us "don't worry, we'll make it while you play the first song"... that first song was horrible! I couldn't hear anybody, and in the part of a guitar solo we all got lost! ~ de arimasu

The rest of the playing was fine, I guess... and tomorrow we are playing along a Brazilian band (pretty famous in Brazil, I heard), so we really need to rehearse a couple of things (like our drummer putting the wrong loop in a song ) ~ de arimasu

I think that is all for now. Have a good night. ~ de arimasune

Hi guys, I'm back! ~ de arimasu

Yup, I was waiting until I could get the pics from my friends (I don't have a digital camera >.>) so I could write this blog. ~ de arimasu

Ok, here are a couple of pics of my trip to Alabama with the school band:~ de arimasu

I usually play the piano, but I played the acoustic guitar in this concert. I received pretty good commentaries though. Seems that I've improved a lot (I'm the one in the far right) =O ~ de arimasu

What's with the ghost in the bottom of the picture? ~ de arimasuka o_o

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This Saturday (11/01/200 was my presentation in the recital. I had to present an original composition (obviously that implied forming a band with some friends), so I gave it a try. The thing went pretty smoothly and I had tons of fun in only 5 minutes, so I'm really happy about it. People told me that I should copyright my songs, so I won't be giving a public youtube link. However, for those who want, you can add to your friends my youtube account Link3F (just look for it in youtube), and I'll share it with you, provided that you promise not to do anything more than watch my video and comment it. ~ de arimasu

Oh! People also told me that my singing has improved a lot, and that they loved the arrangements I made for the guitar and piano. ~ de arimasu

For those who don't want to go through the trouble, I've uploaded some pics of it, so you can get an idea of what it was like. ~ de arimasu

Here you go. Pics! ~ de arimasu

Yes, I was wearing a Pac-Man t-shirt, and it says in Spanish "love your enemies". ~ de arimasu =3

I'm glad to be back. And I'll try to comment in your blogs as soon as I have an opportunity. ~ de arimasu

Hello; ~ de arimasu

I really need to take a break. October has been a frustrating month, if also a lot of fun and learning. ~ de arimasu

Tomorrow, I'm going to play with the school band in Alabama, it's like a tour. I'll come back on Monday. ~ de arimasu

The thing is, I won't come back until Friday to GS. ~ de arimasune

Why? Well, lots of things have happened, and I need to think them through. It is also a good time to study more of the Bible. ~ de arimasu

Will you guys miss me? I don't know, but if you are one of the people who has a blog I usually comment on, I'm sorry I haven't posted lately ~ de arimasu

[evil: it is just a week, jeez! >.> ~desu]

Shh! A week is a lot of time if you think of it as 604,800 seconds ~ de arimasu