Resolved Question: What do you think that she was doing?

I attend a music school. The girl in question and I have perfect pitch. Ever since I attended the school, people have always compared us. However, everyone always talked about how I'm such "a great pianist". I never did anything to fuel these conversations, I simply practice and perform at concerts. Once, I had to perform at a concert before she played her instrument, and she rolled her eyes before taking the stage. The girl, usually and quite often, treated me cold the whole time. One semester, we were both taking a composition course and the girl asked me to play the piano part to one of her pieces. I was surprised, but I thought that she had simply decided to be friendly. I agreed to play. She gave me the score and it contained lots of sixteenth notes and grace notes that do not lie under the fingers well (she was not a pianist). I asked her about the tempo of the piece and she said that it was very slow and that I didn't have to worry. Because we were using many of the same instrumentalists, she also requested that we hold our practice at the same time and take turns working on each of our pieces. I agreed to this also. During the rehearsal, she started out conducting at a breakneck speed. I noticed that all of the other instrumentalists had whole notes and I was the only one with faster notes. I could barely keep up, and I'm usually a competent pianist. Every time that I would make a mistake, she would look at me with an evil look and then look at her friends with a smirk. She then began to conduct even faster, almost to the point where it fell apart. She would call out every note that I missed (as if she had perfect pitch and I didn't - we BOTH do.) Her presence and her attitude made me so nervous that I missed even more notes because she stood extremely close to me and look over my shoulder as I practiced and announced my mistakes before taking her score away. In addition, she used up all of the rehearsal time, which she said that we would share, so that none of the instrumentalists had time to practice my piece. Afterward, she sneaked and told the teacher of the class that I did not do well in rehearsal and that she couldn't use me as a pianist. On top of that, she boldly stood in the practice room and called out every note that I missed and then asked for her piece back. As a competent musician, I have never been through such an ordeal. What do you think that she was trying to prove by purposefully making me appear to be incompetent?

Open Question: What do you think that she was doing?

I attend a music school. The girl in question and I have perfect pitch. Ever since I attended the school, people have always compared us. However, everyone always talked about how I'm such "a great pianist". I never did anything to fuel these conversations, I simply practice and perform at concerts. Once, I had to perform at a concert before she played her instrument, and she rolled her eyes before taking the stage. The girl, usually and quite often, treated me cold the whole time. One semester, we were both taking a composition course and the girl asked me to play the piano part to one of her pieces. I was surprised, but I thought that she had simply decided to be friendly. I agreed to play. She gave me the score and it contained lots of sixteenth notes and grace notes that do not lie under the fingers well (she was not a pianist). I asked her about the tempo of the piece and she said that it was very slow and that I didn't have to worry. Because we were using many of the same instrumentalists, she also requested that we hold our practice at the same time and take turns working on each of our pieces. I agreed to this also. During the rehearsal, she started out conducting at a breakneck speed. I noticed that all of the other instrumentalists had whole notes and I was the only one with faster notes. I could barely keep up, and I'm usually a competent pianist. Every time that I would make a mistake, she would look at me with an evil look and then look at her friends with a smirk. She then began to conduct even faster, almost to the point where it fell apart. She would call out every note that I missed (as if she had perfect pitch and I didn't - we BOTH do.) Her presence and her attitude made me so nervous that I missed even more notes because she stood extremely close to me and look over my shoulder as I practiced and announced my mistakes before taking her score away. In addition, she used up all of the rehearsal time, which she said that we would share, so that none of the instrumentalists had time to practice my piece. Afterward, she sneaked and told the teacher of the class that I did not do well in rehearsal and that she couldn't use me as a pianist. On top of that, she boldly stood in the practice room and called out every note that I missed and then asked for her piece back. As a competent musician, I have never been through such an ordeal. What do you think that she was trying to prove by purposefully making me appear to be incompetent?

Open Question: aspiring singer, advice anyone?

I'm a 16 year old girl and also an aspiring singer and I'm having a little trouble taking off, first off my parents don't believe in me, i would love to be working 100% on my music but i am a junior in high school and that's unrealistic, especially because my parents aren't behind me. Anyways, so i really don't want to go to college especially because most colleges don't offer that major i want to pursue which is contemporary voice, and also my mom wants me to minor in video production (again doesn't believe in me). I'd much rather go to a performing arts school, which there are some that extend to 19 years of age so i could get two years instead of just going my senior year of high school, and then try and make music and work in jobs that give me enough money to survive and also spend time in studios and create some demos. I feel that school will always be there and if needed I can always back and better my education. Also because of all these set backs like my parents and school i can't do anything and i feel restricted in my artistic presentation because as soon as i say i want to do a certain song my parents will tell me i can't because they don't like it or i have to focus on jazz songs for my college auditions (i study jazz, contemporary, classical and piano) I just started performing at this open mic night at a lounge and i do singing competitions with my singing school but non of that gets me anywhere, please help!!! i just want to make a living on my music it really is my passion i just feel stuck! :-( thanks in advanced ok i do take lessons and warm up like i should and i can't go to school for what i want cause very very few colleges have a contemporary voice major and if they do it's out of my families price rang, and i don't want to go to college... i want to go to a performing arts school for like another two years

Resolved Question: harry potter syndrome...help?

i've a feeling that my new story is horridly similar to harry potter ...here are the synopsis read and tell me what do u think? i'm writing a series called ravens'head.It's about 12 yrs old victor greene,a carefree young chap who spends half of his day working as a butcher boy to pay for the rent of the house,since his father is mysteriously away all the time.But one day he finds his mother poisoned (a suicidal note was beside her).And when he mentioned his father the authorities told him that elliot greene had officialy died in a car acciedent 2 years ago.Now,after being thrown on the streets of london,unable to pay the rent of the hovel.victor is summoned by a mysterious man driving a carriage to ravens'head orphanage....in a secret street in cornwell the huge orphange stands,inside the ophanage vicotr finds out that everything is done through magical equations that are written on magnifying lenses.Victor learns magic math along with the other orphans,and at night he sleeps on the classical music played by an orchestra of centaurs and bugled out through huge speaker all over the place.But one day victor finds out from noah(a werebear working in the orphanage's cafe)the deadly secrets that brought victor into the orphanage ,also he tells him of godnofer the owner of the orphanage who's entranced by a magical equation in one of the secret rooms in the orphanage for 30 years.But noah tells victor of godnofer's biggest plan,that will make of all ravens'head orphans his followers.But first of all he has to wake up from his trance and the only one that would be able to do so is victor himself,he'll have to wake up his enemy....but victor won't go alone ,sylvia victor's new love interest an friend follows him everywhere to make sure that he's ok....along the 4 books series victor uncovers secrets of his father,mother,and origin...And above all he finds that his father is alive and he's on the dark side along with godnofer.....the secret of his mother's poisoning ,and the deadly magical equations all will be unraveled .....

Open Question: Do you know any good music...?

... that I don't know already? It can be from any time period, any genre. Links to Youtube or some other site would be most appreciated. BA will definitely go to the person with the best music and most links. I'm mostly into progressive rock, jazz, and classical but anything you think is good is fine. But please, no obvious shit that everyone has heard, don't give me the whole fucking alternative rock list you answer every question with, I want some stuff that has some depth. No obscure emo bands either, they suck even more than the mainstream ones. lubethe... I know all those except The Flock and Dreams, links for those would be cool, if not I'll check them out at some point. Anything else you would want to recommend is cool too. Hey Shred, yeah I think I remember hearing Jesse Cook from an earlier post of yours. He's a great guitarist but not really my type of music. Closer to Madness is pretty sweet though. Lily I don't think all music that people term "alternative rock" has no depth, it's just that people have that stock list they always regurgitate... which has pretty good stuff but also includes stuff like MCR and Fall Out Boy and shit, as though they are on the same level as the best of grunge and whatnot. I like Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, Tool etc. but I don't really think of these bands as alternative rock anyway. Hey Darth, I like some metal, I'm not really into power metal though, and the power metal I do like is more prog metal anyway (Symphony X, Kamelot) but any bands you want to throw down would be cool. My favorite metal bands are Dream Theater, Tool, Metallica, Death, Cynic, Opeth, Isis, Black Sabbath, if that gives you any idea. Hey Libby I have various Henry Cow songs but no full albums, I really should get them in their entirety because they are really good. I've heard a little bit of Ange but none of those other French symphonic bands, I'll have to scrounge through them sometime. I hope that's not the end of the prog section though! :P But it probably is. We'll just have to wait for the explosion of great new prog bands that will inevitably come in 2012 I guess. :P Hans, that piece was pretty good. It had some pretty intense moments and I like the spacey ending with that xylophone looking instrument. Thanks everyone else for your answers too btw.

Resolved Question: is this badly similar to harry potter?

i've a feeling that my new story is horridly similar to harry potter ...here are the synopsis read and tell me what do u think? i'm writing a series called ravens'head.It's about 12 yrs old victor greene,a carefree young chap who spends half of his day working as a butcher boy to pay for the rent of the house,since his father is mysteriously away all the time.But one day he finds his mother poisoned (a suicidal note was beside her).And when he mentioned his father the authorities told him that elliot greene had officialy died in a car acciedent 2 years ago.Now,after being thrown on the streets of london,unable to pay the rent of the hovel.victor is summoned by a mysterious man driving a carriage to ravens'head orphanage....in a secret street in cornwell the huge orphange stands,inside the ophanage vicotr finds out that everything is done through magical equations that are written on magnifying lenses.Victor learns magic math along with the other orphans,and at night he sleeps on the classical music played by an orchestra of centaurs and bugled out through huge speaker all over the place.But one day victor finds out from noah(a werebear working in the orphanage's cafe)the deadly secrets that brought victor into the orphanage ,also he tells him of godnofer the owner of the orphanage who's entranced by a magical equation in one of the secret rooms in the orphanage for 30 years.But noah tells victor of godnofer's biggest plan,that will make of all ravens'head orphans his followers.But first of all he has to wake up from his trance and the only one that would be able to do so is victor himself,he'll have to wake up his enemy....but victor won't go alone ,sylvia victor's new love interest an friend follows him everywhere to make sure that he's ok....along the 4 books series victor uncovers secrets of his father,mother,and origin...And above all he finds that his father is alive and he's on the dark side along with godnofer.....the secret of his mother's poisoning ,and the deadly magical equations all will be unraveled .....

Resolved Question: adagios....they pull at your heart....u think?

ahhhhhh!!! its very clear... what do u feel when u listen to adagios....overwhelming emotion?? Try not to romanticize music...u must be kidding.... listen naturally...for me its completely natural to feel music...dont u?? wow... haha..u are right about it being a tempo indication....but it also conveys a mood....tell me if u know of any adagios that sound happy and peppy.....like vivance conveys not only tempo but also a mood...Vivace is Italian for "quick and lively"... In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for time, movement) is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is an extremely crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.(wikipedia)....unlike BPM.... Generally, composers (or music publishers) will name movements of compositions after their tempo (and/or mood) marking. For instance the second movement of Samuel Barber's first String Quartet is an "Adagio". (wiki) Beethovens nineth, third movement...has more of a feeling of grace than happiness or ecstacy....anyway...it is pointless to argue about interpretations and emotions as they are extremely subjective...one may cry while one may smile....so lets just drop it...its like splitting hair... and u telling people how to listen to music is just absurd.... minor key--sad....nonsense...hahah.... 3000 cds...good for u.... infact...no one piece of music continues to remain with the same mood...every section of the piece changes the mood...every chord and chord progression conveys a different mood...and i bet that the mood u experience while u listen to the piece is not the same as the composer intended and felt at the time...in fact...each time u listen to a piece...the way u listen to it changes....you never experience it the same way.... dont pretend like u know me and the way i listen to music... hahaha...source....doesnt matter...go answer another question...anyway..thanks for your time...enjoy your cds...i'm gonna go watch titanic....hahah ok...come on...lets stop being childish...lets agree to disagree...and end this on a good NOTE....a 'G'... allright?? none of this really matters right.... hahah....lets go our own ways...ok....good luck.... bye... i apologize for being a di - k ....