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A Cookie's Music Life

Well, if somehow, you came to chance upon this undeclared blog by clicking on my profile, please do pop a message at the tag board? Wonder who actually bothers to click on my profile. Hahaha (Bored. It's the holidays). Well, this is more of my music journal than a blog. As to why it's undeclared, you could ask me.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Finally

Phew, as of today, I've more or less completed those 12 keys I think. The only unstable key is in the key of Ab. Funny that I could manage Db better than Ab. Oh well... guess it's more focus on music theory and the dreaded sight-reading now...



Thursday, December 07, 2006

Ab and B

Well, I'm finally started on B and 0.5 of Ab. Let's hope this holidays do some good to it. =)



Sunday, September 17, 2006

E

Yay! The key of E is complete. Starting on Eb - nightmare of nightmares. All notes/chords are inverted from the 1st to 7th positions. Sigh... 7 complete - 5 more to go. And they are nightmarish =\



Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Status check

As of today...

Completion of Keys
C - 100%
G - 100%
D - 100%
A - 90-100%
E - 80%

F - 90-100%
Bb - 90-100%
Eb - 30%

Hearing/Usage of chords (+ inversions and any sustains)
Chord 1, 2, 2maj, 3, 3 maj, 4, 4min, 5, 6, 6maj

Aims
Complete the keys of E and Eb.

One thing that I wanted to thank the Lord was a lesson learnt. Give and it will come back to you, good measure... etc. I helped a friend before His M&D audition (sigh, he didn't get in, since he's new to chords). When you have certain arrangements/improvisations that took time to develop, one may be hesitant to teach it, lest it's easily learnt by others, plus it could be your trademark/pattern. But at that point of time, I felt something within me saying "give and it will come back to you, good measure...". And also, I had this feeling that it could well be a test, to see if I was truly a selfish brat. I was struggling. But being assured by that initial prompting of "give and it will come back to you", I decided to teach him whatever I tried to hold back.

Somehow, within a day, playing in the key of E was smooth. If it were 3 days ago, the percentage completion of the key of E would be 30%. I'm serious. This is no joke. I'm shocked at it myself. Hee, the Lord's generous =)



Testing testing...

Mi re do re mi re mi do re re re re...
Re do ti do re do re ti do do do do...

(Can you decipher the melody?)

Here's the anwer (gosh, I'm really feeling crappy. Well, it's the holidays after all. Crap while I may):
http://www.snapdrive.net/files/29229/looney_tunes_opening2.mp3