Week Two:I brought a ticket to the Arts society orientation camp last Friday, which is on the 23rd-25th of March. I’m pretty excited to go to the camp, and hopefully make heaps of friends, but I’m also nervous that I’ll be with 125 other first years who I don’t know very well (and this camps going to be heaps different to my school camps as well).
At the moment I’m finding my education lectures and tutes seem really boring and slow which was not what I was expecting seeing I was really excited for my education unit. It’s different from music where I am enjoying all of my classes (except for some of the theory).
I’m finding wind symphony really fun at the moment, theres heaps of clarinets and it sounds amazing being around great musicians. The pieces are a bit difficult though so I’m going to have to practise seeing I get assessed on it.
I’m definitely getting sick of ice breakers, speed friending and introductions, but I am starting to get familiar with everyone in music (even if I don’t know a huge amount of names yet). I’ve also bumped into a few people from AN at uni, which has been great!
8/3/18:We began an aural studio today for M&S1. In this studio, we have to sing and work on our pitch. This was something that I was really nervous about, mainly because I don’t sing at all. However, the teacher was really good and it turned out to be a fun class, although I still felt a little weird singing (hopefully that goes away soon). We mainly just went through some scales and warm up stuff today but we’ll do more next week.
We also Performance Lab this afternoon. My studio only has around 15 people so it’s pretty small compared to everything else. Today, we went through general stuff on musician’s health (like posture, warming up,etc.). However, for our next studio we need to each play a 3 minute piece to the class. We need to do it formally (with walking on from the side, & bowing and stuff). It should be good but I still need to pick a piece for it (the one’s i’m working on at the moment are around 4-6 minutes).
I didn’t have to move the music tute to Friday so I have the day off tomorrow, which is going to be great. My little brother wants me to come in to watch his item at school.