*gasp*
I didn't know there was anything on then. Bummer.

Did you? Any good?

wasups guys hows life

I have not posted in the jam session for a long time.

How rude of me.

[QUOTE=Trigger_003]*gasp*
I didn't know there was anything on then. Bummer.

Did you? Any good?[/QUOTE]
Yeah it was alright!

The Mozart concerto rocked my socks. Da[size=2]mn[/size] Azns!

The psyciatrist put my meds up :( now I have to feel ill for a few days whilst my body adjusts :(

Holy crap the best thing happened on Thursday.

So I had period one off, so I got up to school and went to see if my friend wanted my help in music group 3/4 and he didn't so I got a room with a piano in it and there are two rooms next to eachother and in one of them this guy was teaching, so I went into the other room and played with the soft pedal on so as to not disturb him.

So after a while I decide that I'll bust out just once quickly without the soft pedal so I played Chopin's Revolutionary Etude and I heard a door open and footsteps and I was like "oh no.. he's going to tell me to turn it down" and he knocks on the door 'cause it was locked and I look up and he's like giving me the thumbs up with this big grin on his face and he's like "that's awesome!" and I thank him and he goes to turn off and he's like "I don't know why you don't learn from this school you really should" and stuff like that so I get up and talk to him about lessons and stuff and he's like "you have to let me teach you!" and I'm like "awesome!".

Now, here's the special part:

This guy is, like, amazing. I quote:

[QUOTE]Jeremy began piano lessons at the age of five, [b]achieved his A.Mus.A in 1991[/b], and furthered his studies through the Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Victorian College of the Arts. His teachers have included Michael Harvey, the late Keith Humble and Donna Coleman. [b]He has won over 70 [U]first[/U] prizes and major scholarships in competitions[/b], and in 1998 gained a distinction in his Licentiate Piano Exam - [B]later receiving the Kault Piano Prize for the best result in a diploma level piano exam.[/B]

Jeremy has appeared as a soloist and associate artist in the Port Fairy Music Festival and numerous other recitals and concert series. He also recorded Mark Pollard's "a handful of rain" (1995) for ABC Radio in 1996. He is a sought after accompanist and in 1999 won both the Bill Burrell Scholarship for piano accompaniment and the Alan McArthur Memorial Award for the best voice and piano ensemble performance in the 18th National Liederfest.

Jeremy has a very busy performance schedule with the Victorian Chamber Musicians, and as an accompanist and soloist at various recitals and concerts. [B]He is currently employed as Musical Director of the Victorian Boys' Choir[/B], and piano teacher at both Blackburn High School and Caulfield Grammar School. He recently completed the Master of Music Performance course at the Victorian College of the Arts and is studying for a Graduate Diploma of Education through Monash University.[/QUOTE]

It made me so happy because people have to audition to get lessons from him because he's so special and he taught "that Asian guy" and everything. I'm so excited!

[QUOTE=Diatonic Dissonance™]he's so special and he taught "that Asian guy" and everything. I'm so excited![/QUOTE]

:lol: I don't get it but it's still funny. You're an odd one Gav0n. Do you have any recordings to send me?

Anyway, I'm fed up of waiting for an answer in the music theory thread, someone please tell me what function Ab fulfils in the key of C, is it a secondary dominant or something?

[QUOTE=KKKKKocaine]The psyciatrist put my meds up :( now I have to feel ill for a few days whilst my body adjusts :([/QUOTE]

maybe your newfound agnosticism comes from your happy pills? :D


Does anybody know if the harmonica on the canned heat song "on the road again" is a special minor pentatonic harmonica or faultless bending?

[QUOTE=Alive]:lol: I don't get it but it's still funny. You're an odd one Gav0n. Do you have any recordings to send me?

Anyway, I'm fed up of waiting for an answer in the music theory thread, someone please tell me what function Ab fulfils in the key of C, is it a secondary dominant or something?[/QUOTE]
Oh.. that was more directed at Trea and Ben.

There's this freak Asian guy that played like the Grieg Concerto in Am when he was 16 and stuff... mega freak-pianist.

And no I don't, sorry.

You know that book that I was working on before, doing the typesetting and the designing of the cover of?
It's all printed and published now. I even scored a free copy.
It looks pretty good.

[QUOTE=Alive]
someone please tell me what function Ab fulfils in the key of C, is it a secondary dominant or something?[/QUOTE]

Ab isn't in the key of C, so if you see it, it probably is a member of a secondary-dominant/secondary-leading tone chord. But alone, it has no function, except maybe a chromatic passing tone.
A single note can't serve a harmonic function such as secondary dominant... though it can be a part of one.

[QUOTE=moogoogaipan]Ab isn't in the key of C, so if you see it, it probably is a member of a secondary-dominant/secondary-leading tone chord. But alone, it has no function, except maybe a chromatic passing tone.
A single note can't serve a harmonic function such as secondary dominant... though it can be a part of one.[/QUOTE]

Ah, thanks for helping anyway. :) I'll look around for some more stuff.

[QUOTE=Alive]Ah, thanks for helping anyway. :) I'll look around for some more stuff.[/QUOTE]
just ask and I'll help. I don't know what kind of answer your looking for, but i'll be glad to just keep shoveling out answers:thumb:

Guys I think Trea's dead.

Don't worry, she'll be reincarnated as Trea the White with some more instrumental skills.

^ Hehe, sorry for the absence guys. Just been so busy lately :(.

[QUOTE=Diatonic Dissonance™]Oh.. that was more directed at Trea and Ben.

There's this freak Asian guy that played like the Grieg Concerto in Am when he was 16 and stuff... mega freak-pianist.[/QUOTE]
Haha yeah that was insane. Dam[SIZE="2"]n[/SIZE] your school with its awesome sounding music program.
That's great news Gav! Simon's right - we need recordings :p.

Guess what? Our band was so loved at the Davis Cup that we got invited to do on-court/in-the-stands entertainment at the Australian Open as well. That's like... woah!
/is psyched

What's everyone getting up to for Easter? We've got a couple of consecutive gigs so we're doing an overnighter for that - yay.

Woot for sticky.

Hello? Anyone?

Hi Trea.
Yeah. I stickied it.
You on holidays now?

Coolio.

Nah. We had ours earlier this year (first term was only 6 weeks long, this one's 12 :/ ), so we only got a long weekend. How was your easter? Manage to get away at all?

Nope. I stayed local during Easter.
I've been working on my front yard again, plus have also been doing the odd little private job to make myself a few dollars on the side of the usual 9 to 5 thing.
I typeset and did the cover design for that book, finished off a CD Rom application thing on Monday, and am starting another website probably this week.
So I am keeping myself busy.

Those consecutive gigs were for the AYB, right?
How'd they go?

Nice. You've put in the lawn now yea?

What's the new webite gonna be on? Anything interesting?
This IT class is so slowww.

Yeah, they were for AYB, but I didn't end up going :(. That guy my parents don't want me to relate with is in the band... they weren't going to let me exactly go on an overnighter where he was. Apparently it was great though.
We're doing a service for Anzac day - that should be alright.
You guys been gigging much lately?

wow. :o when did this fred get stickied?

There's no lawn yet. I probably wont even start anything like that until after winter either. Spring is a good time for the lawn. And at that water tank i've got will have to be for the most part full of water, it's close to dry at the moment.

This new website is going to be for a new cafe and function centre thing that's opening up near my place. I think it'll just be a little 5 or 6 page brochure site, so it should be simple.

And playing at Anzac day would be a dead set honour. Have a good one with that.

Good ol' water tanks. You're so Aussie Chris - it rocks :).

Yeah I'll be quite honoured to do it.

Hey Kev.... just a couple of days ago. How's it going mate?

I just got home from parent teacher interviews. We missed my Italian teacher (Fab) so we sat in the car outside the staffroom while the teachers had dinner... my dad saw us out there and said that we were probably waiting for Fab. So he came out, got in our car as if it was an entirely normal thing to do, and did the interview there instead.
Different, lol.

Your old man is a teacher, right?
Does he teach you for any classes specifically?
Because then everynight would be parent teacher night. That'll not be much fun.

Hehe yeah.
Nah, he doesn't teach me now, but he had me for homegroup, CFA (firefighting class - that was a strange class, but fun), [B]and [/B]maths in year 9. Everyone (teachers and other kids alike) was going around feeling sorry for me, but it was okay actually. We got along really well back then.. still kinda do, but you know, typical teenage rebellion and all that jazz :p.

I'm alright. Drum Major next year. woot. I hope. Most of the seniors are persuading my Band Director to select me since I am the only choice they can think of at the moment. I dunno it would be kinda cool and I would get respect from everyone in the band.

How about yourself?

[QUOTE=Trigger_003]Hehe yeah.
Nah, he doesn't teach me now, but he had me for homegroup, CFA (firefighting class - that was a strange class, but fun), [B]and [/B]maths in year 9. Everyone (teachers and other kids alike) was going around feeling sorry for me, but it was okay actually. We got along really well back then.. still kinda do, but you know, typical teenage rebellion and all that jazz :p.[/QUOTE]

:lol:

From what we hear you say, you're really quite a good teenager.

so um. have you noticed that the people who post in this thread rarely post in the forum?

This is supposed to be the community, but we have just become JS eliteist bastards that control the chaos that has commenced on our humble forum and corupted it into a hub for the cheap prostitution of bad emo bands and untalented "hardcore". The forum history makeup of the majority of the thread starters are old lurkers and/or posters in the AA, SL, guitar, drums and alt indie forums who have migrated here becasue of one changed rule. I need a support group.

[QUOTE=kevbud187] a hub for the cheap prostitution of bad emo bands and untalented "hardcore". [/QUOTE]
In the jam session we don't draw such dispersions on differnt genres of music.