jueves, 20 de octubre de 2016

Music

 Now, I can say that music is like the 90% of my life. But this wasn't always like that. When I was a child I didn't play any instrument and I didn't listen much music. When I was thirtheen I started to play the guitar, but in a mechanical way. So I have always had to effort to learn and listen a lot of things for make that music be something natural in me.

 Well, that's my little story with music. But in that little story, I have listened many styles, so I think that I'm gonna talk about that because my english it's not very enough to talk about something more complex haha.

 I started to listen with more attention with rock music in general. My father recommended me some bands and I like them. Metallica, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and all that stuff. But in particular, I liked Nirvana. I still like them and I don't care that it could be understimated by the 'elite musicians' because I think that technique it's not necessary sometimes. But that's another point.



 Through rock music I find many different styles and bands. I think that everyone can get an idea of that. But there's a band that a liked a lot: Radiohead. I'm not gonna say why because I don't know really, I just like them. Now I can talk about composition and all that stuff but when I was thirteen I didn't know anything about that. Maybe I liked because it's a 'depressive band'. It's funny to think about that now.



 When the guitar appears I started to listen not-rock music. My uncle teached my, and he likes folclore music so I started to learn a bit about that. Also I started to study basic music theory, So, here's the point when I start to listen many differents styles of music. I watched videos of Paco de Lucía, and now I'm studying flamenco guitar.

To finish, I'm gonna share something that I've been listening a lot now. It's a brasilian musician named Chico Buarque. Hope you enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNNUU_AbXs

miércoles, 19 de octubre de 2016

My future job

 Well, in the future I would like to live of music. I mean, live of playing music, that's the dream, but no one knows what will happen, so I have another options. I would really like to be a teacher of music in a university or an institute, making classes of theory or guitar. I don't know if I would like to do classes at school, maybe I could do a music or guitar workshop. In fact, this year I was going to do a guitar workshop in my ex-school, but I couldn't because I didn't have much time. Another option is to do particular classes of guitar, and I think that I'm gonna do this for sure.

 The first option it's to play and travel, but that it's like a weird job because everything it's so irregular, so I'm gonna talk about the teacher job because it's more 'secure'.

 I think that I would enjoy to do classes or something like that using my instrument, so I think that the guitar classes it would be the perfect 'normal' job for me. Actually, I'm thinking go to my ex-school and do the guitar workship. Like four years ago there was a guitar workship there, and I was there. We were like ten students and we do version of songs only with guitars, and sounds very well. So, I would like to do something like that, but not only play things. My idea is to do guitar classes and also do the 'band of guitars', but I don't know if it will work. Sometimes you have much excitement for something but the rest no. Aaaand obviously, I would like to do particular classes, because if you are a good guitarrist you can charge a lot of money haha. (but always the money it's not enough)

 I googled 'guitar teacher' and there are many pictures of happy people having classes but that it's not true because the teacher lives in the misery of not have money and the student lives in the misery of have to practice a lot and not be good enough so I'm very dissapointed of Google.



miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2016

The last concert.

 On November 23, 2013, Paco de Lucía did his last concert before that he died. And that concert was in the city of Santiago, Chile. Obiously, when I went to the concert I didn't know that it would be the last one. So, since that Paco died on February 25, 2014, the concert in Chile is something very specially for me, because I can say that I saw the last concert of someone that I admire a lot.

                           
                                   A picture of Paco in his last concert in Chile.

 Paco de Lucía was one of the most important flamenco guitarrist, and he shared experiencie with a lot of musician of all the styles, so he is very famous in the musical and the popular world.

 The concert was in the casino monticello, outdoor. Because of that, it was very cold, but that doesn't matter when you are listening to elite musicians. Paco played with a septet. There was a bass guitarist, a percussionist, a guy that played keyboard and harmonica, two 'cantaores', a 'bailaor' and another guitarrist. Everyone in the concert were amazed of the quality of the musicians. It was a show of a very high level, and I'm very happy to have been there. In the future the people will want to have had the opportunity to hear one of the best musicians of the twentieth century.