A crazy week!

What the title says... This week has been pretty insane in terms of personal pressure to perform and the overall mass of things to do.

Monday and tuesday held nothing special besides an artist showcase performance on tuesday afternoon (between 4 and 6). The biggest anticipation was for thursday which had a stagecraft final AND the final rehearsal of a monologue for Art of Preparation class (in simple terms: acting class). My monologue is very personal and I will not reveal any details here since I want to keep that information from reaching the people it affects.

Monologue comments info in short: My teacher, Katie thought that my performance was fantastic and asked if I was into acting. I did say that I had contemplated taking classes but hadn't made a big deal of it. Maybe I will look into it in the future. I know that her own teacher has a class going close to where I live.

The second class I had was one of my electives, stagecraft. Where we had a final test. This test consisted of four songs. Two of them being popular songs of old, one being a blues melody where we had to write our own vocal melody and lyric, and one being ourselves accompanying on piano.

My setlist was as follows:

1. Do You Know The Way To San Jose
2. Route 66
3. Own blues song
4. I'm Sorry (piano, Evergrey cover of Dilba's hit song)

All in all, the performances went pretty well. I am still bummed out that my bottom end (my lower register) decided to not support me well, the only time it didn't work out of dozens of practice trials. It was such a relief to have performed this set, since my brain was pretty overwhelmed by having this burden on my shoulders, on top of preparing for final exams next week.

Examples of the songs listed above:

Route 66:



Do You Know The Way To San Jose:



I'm Sorry (this version is transposed down, I played it in a higher pitch than this):



Random great video from Lady Gaga:





Closing statement:

Last weeks have been hectic, but life has at the same time never felt better. I am constantly stimulated by all the great friends I've made and all the challenges I face here. I highly enjoy it!