Well, so far, life has been good lately.
No big events happening.
Just another normal month of June.
Recently I was enrolled back in Music World for violin lessons. Finally, after more than 1 year of no formal training/lessons with my violin. I was glad my dad enrolled me again. The reason he stopped me, was because of lack of practice and enthusiasm as well as interest in violin. Well, I loved my violin, it feels good to play it, after finishing wonderful pieces from the book.
Music has been a really big part of my life. I started to take interest, since I've playing computers games at a young age. Especially Red Alert, the main theme really caught my ear.
Eventually I was so interested, I tried to make my own music. My first program was called ModPlug Tracker, it is used to convert .s3m and other tracker files to mp3 or .wav.
I used it mainly because Unreal tournament music was really cool, and I just had to place it in my mp3.
Anyways, I fiddled around with ModPlug, got some .wav samples from other songs and finally composing my first song, called Curiosity. This was just a simple chord, it starts with B G E then B G D#, B G D and finally B G C#. But ModPlug was extremely hard to use since it's not really a composing tool. So I looked for a better one, that's when I found Orion Platinum 7, of course you have to buy it, but I have another "technique". Anyways using Orion was like a dream come true, it really gave me a big interest in composing electronic music, hard part is I hardly know anything about chords, chord progression and chord theory. So, it was all dependant on the "cool" sound generators. Orion got dull so I looked for another, and I find FL Studio 6. When I first used it, it was very very complicated. I only got the demo version so, I couldn't do much. Somehow, someway I found it and I started to use FL, I forced myself to learn everything and finally after 2 weeks I got the hang of it. I started joining music communities and others and tried to get tips from the pros.
So, what about the open doors?
Well, O2Jam, the online music game, just hosted a contest about compositions and how you can get your song into o2jam and actually play it. So, that's what I've been waiting for, and finally the event has arrived. I've specially remixed my song Phase Seven for this event, and had it notecharted with my friend. So, all I have to do now is wait.
That's one open door.
The next is violin, as I have mentioned, and the other is guitar.
So I actually have a chance of learning guitar, which I like too.
Another open door is that this is my final year in high school, and well, it isn't really a door, more like a corridor, but anyways, I cannot believe I'm a 4th year HS Student. @_@
I have to finish a couple of stuff and review for my biggest exam in my life.
As for now, I know there will be more yet to come, but this college entrance exam is the biggest at the moment.
That's as much open doors as I can think of right now. I might add some more, if I can recall or see another open door.
