It's Showtime!

Next week brings a busy time for myself as I look forward to performances and an audition before the Christmas break.
Firstly I would like to thank Brian Lane Green for taking the time to leave a comment on my blog.
This week of college was strange as everyone seemed a bit anxious with regards to the gig next Tuesday in the theatre. Our Beatles band practice felt a bit mundane but we did manage to push through this feeling and get some constructive work done. Hopefully with a small practice on Tuesday afternoon everyone will be feeling more confident, including myself.
On the same day as the gig I have a small carol singing performance which will be a good experience as we will have a small first time practice just shortly before performing. These types of short time-scales within projects are helping me develop at a satisfactory rate and I have more confidence now that I will be able to provide quality evidence in my portfolio as a west end singer.
The biggest positive of the week was finding out I passed the next 2 outcomes of music theory and have only 2 left to do before the end of semester one. Through music theory and session skills I am seeing good progress with my sight reading skills and am also finding through a better practice and warm up routine I am developing better control within my vocal range which I am hoping to expand.
Having submitted my final draft of the planning stage of my graded unit I now look forward towards creating a portfolio. I will have to gather as much evidence as I can before editing the final content. As I have mentioned I am concerned by my lack of experience but believe I can collate enough evidence to show that I am willing and able to deliver as a west end singer.
On Thursday we had a visit form an ex-degree student named Laura. She now works for Perth and Kinross Council amidst the joy of community music. Laura showed great passion for music and also for the individual during her talk and I'm sure she motivated a lot of students discussing her experiences. For myself I liked how she discussed the historical links and importance of music in culture and also how she repeated the importance of transferable skills. I did agree with her assumptions of 99% of musicians and have found similar problems throughout my music career. Overall her talk was comforting and probably more relative than previous talks as not so long ago she was in our shoes herself.
It has really been a week of tying up loose ends and in DAW class this week I completed the work required for outcome 1 and also got a sneak preview of the content of outcome 2 which I will now investigate further.
Fuzzy Buck have finished most of the work on the 4 written songs and will now take a little break before Christmas although myself and one of the guitarists do have some work to do on vocals and lead guitar which we hope to do soon.
I am also almost done with the Daniel Dundee track for the John Lennon Songwriting Competition 2009 and am hoping to have the track uploaded for consideration by midday on Monday.
Most of my weekend will now be spent brushing up on my Beatles performances, my Rocky impression and my Cubase skills. It's not the most exciting plans but in the long run I will have more to celebrate if I dedicate some time to these projects now.
I will sign off now but tune in next week to find out how the gig went and how I fared in my audition.
Ciao tutti.