So heres an update:

Friends can be so stupid sometimes.  One of my “friends” dropped out of school because she was stupid and and clearly couldnt handle university. Theres more to that story but i really dont want to get into it. Basically she was a whore and always skipped class. And I am using whore in its literally meaning.

My other friend is just skipping all the time.  We are 1/4 done second semester and she hasnt been to a single Music History class and only 1 theory class. Im kinda dissociating myself with her because i dont really understand how someone could waste all this money to literally sit in there bed and watch re-runs of old tv shows. This mean that I usually keep to myself in my room. In the beginning, especially in first semester when I didnt have to many friends, i didnt like living alone at all, but now i dont really mind it.

Music is getting a little better. I have a new teacher who is getting my technique up. I better be getting better because I am paying 50 dollars a lesson, and its out of my own account too.  Im trying to learn guitar, but its not going to well. I see people playing like its nothing and it makes me kinda jelouse. I guess i just have to memorize the chords and hopefully ill get a lot better.

Thanks for Reading

Drew

That is all

I applied to University for Music Therapy and I hate to say that I did not get accepted to either of the Music therapy program that I applied to. But I did get accepted to Bachelor of Arts in music and can then re-apply next year for the Music Therapy Program. Apparently in Universities in Canada you need to play at a grade nine level for your audition. Now the people at the university said that i could play two grade eight songs and one grade nine song for the audition into my program, so that exactly what I did. But i think they kinda forgot about this and this is why i didnt not get it, because i didnt play three grade nine songs. At this point im like whatever ill just take private lessons at the university and re-apply next year and not be behind or anything. Oh shit only one problem. YOU HAVE TO AUDITION TO TAKE PRIVATE LESSONS!!!! Pissed off about this dilemma, I e-mailed the school asking what the requirement were for this new audition. Well apparently its the same as the first one I had to do, so now I have to learn two more grade nine songs by September and Its practically June. And This isnt even the half of it

Now I have considered staying back a year and working with my current piano teacher and re-auditioning next year but there are a number of reasons why I have chosen not to.

The reason that fired my anger and why i am writing this: I kinda hate my parents. They always make snooty remarks at me like “Oh will you make me coffee…oh never mind you do bull shit around here” Its comments like these that make me wanna… I dunno…   I mean im not saying that i have the worst life ever and how much i wish i could stop cutting myself like the dumb asses on 6 billion secrets who just want attention ( I’m not asking you to read this, im looking for insight and guidance) But i wanna move away from university so i dont have to hear these snooty bullshit remarks.

If you do so happen to read this and make it this far, you probably have no idea what the fuck im talking about, but thanks for reading and please leave a comment suggesting what i should do or just saying that you even read it.

Thanks

Drew

In case you were wondering this is my Tumblr where i post a lot more stuff, and have actually stolen stuff from here. Plus i add more stuff like pictures, quotes and music:

http://drewsipher3.tumblr.com/

The kid that I’m referring to is MattyBRaps. I mean, This kid is only eight years old and is managed by his father. I think that thats rather unethical, because he’s only eight years old and should be playing with friends, sports, and working on school and not trying to look for a major record deal. There are many example of child stars like Justin Bieber, Greyson Chance, Maria Aragon, and Rebecca Black, who i think should have waited a decade or so until they decided to seek out the opportunity. Unfortunately its to late for these stars to take back their fame, and will probably end up like half of the other child stars that have lost their ways.

Unfortunately, many of these child stars are getting all this attention, when there are many other artist on Youtube that are better than these child stars, and deserve a record deal more than these child stars because they are old enough to handle what comes with fame. A few example of these include The Shures, Tyler Ward, Alex Goot, and Jake Coco. These are just to name a few. Since people are obsessed with child stars, many musicians who are older, don’t get discovered.

One of the many reasons why these older musicians don’t get discovered is because of their looks. Children like this MattyBRaps, are “cute” because their young and people think they can make money off their looks. If you listen to the his cover of Ditty-Dirty Money’s song, you can tell that  most of the rap parts are clearly auto tuned. Most artist, even some of the older one, use auto tune and most of the raw talent is disappearing in the music world. People think that they can be a singer even if they can’t sing and somehow end up famous because of this.

In my opinion, new talent needs to be found of people over the age of twenty. These people can handle the pressure of fame and handle criticism. I hope that you guys take the time to look at the song that these artist that i have shown above made and leave a comment on some artists that you think should be a part of a record label.

• Claude Debussy – Golliwog’s Cakewalk
• J. S. Bach – Invention No. 13 in A Minor
• Frederic Chopin – Prelude in B Minor
• Coldplay – Viva La Vida
• Stephen Heller – Etude in D Minor
• Samual Arnold – Sonata in D Major
• Astor Piazzolla – Milonga del Ángel

Music Festival:

• Invention in A Minor
• Prelude in B Minor

Audition (Both of them):

• Invention in A minor
• Golliwog’s Cakewalk
• Prelude in B Minor
• Sonata in D Major

Royal Conservatory of Music Exam:

• Invention in A Minor
• Sonata in D Major
• Prelude in B minor
• Milonga del Ángel
• Viva La Vida
• Etude in D Minor

What do you think about them? Thought? Which is your Favourite? Mine Are definitely Golliwog’s Cakewalk, Prelude in B Minor and Invention in A Minor

Last year, at around this time, I was apart of my schools production of Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. I played keyboard 3. Now I was pretty bad at it because i felt like I was sight reading the music all the time, and never really practise. It was soon revealed that This year we will be doing the classic Beauty and the Beast.  I wasn’t sure if i was even going to do it this year, but i decided that i would because i found out the I was on the “fantasy orchestra” (long story). When my music teacher, who is the musical director of Beauty and the Beast, asked me if i was going to do it this year i said i wasnt sure. And here is where the problem begins! He said that a student who is in the musical as the insane asylum keeper also want to play in the pit since his role is not that big. So i was given the part that he was on stage for.  There are many reasons why i am troubled:

1. I only get to play like 5 songs
2. I dont get to play any of the good songs

reasons why this is a good thing:

1. Practise piano songs for exam/university/kawanis
2. get to put it on my university application
3. still apart of it

Although there are more pros than cons it still makes me angry because i dont get to actually be apart of the music, but a fill in.  What do you think?

• Piano – 15 mins
• Guitar – 0 mins.
• Saxophone – 0 mins.

• Piano – 30 mins.

1. Repertoire – 30 mins.
2. Studies – 0
3. Scales/Technique – 0
4. Theory – 0

• Guitar – 30 mins.
• Saxophone – 15 mins.

• Piano – 0

1. Repertoire – 0
2. Studies – 0
3. Scales/Technique – 0
4. Theory – 3

• Guitar – 0
• Saxophone – 0

EDIT:

Soon after i posted this blog i went to WebMd to see if it had anything to do with the excessive  drinking i did on New years when it finally disappeared.  So, here are the new practising results:

• Piano – 0:46

1. Repertoire – 11 mins
2. Studies – 0
3. Scales/Technique – 35 mins.
4. Theory – 0

• Guitar – 0
• Saxophone – 0

*I did write about 5 hours of theory notes though