Hello everyone! I'm back from France, so it's time for another diary entry.
Btw France was great, especially Paris and I found new shoes and coat. The only bad thing during the week was that my boyfriend got a bad virus and he had to be in hospital two days. Luckily he got better quick.
So, this time I'm going to tell you about my artistic hobbies. I'm not sure what counts (, you know, if reading or going to movies is an artistic hobby), but I'm dividing my artistic hobbies in two categories, art and music.
MUSIC
Singing
I've sung as long as I can recall, not solo though. I belonged to a school choir for three years, starting at age of nine. Then I kept a little pause.
I started singing again after a year. We had this band in the academy of music (or conservatoire or whatever it is) and I sang the backing vocals. That lasted two years; then the others went to high school and quit the band. The new members were more the same age as I was, so we got along better and that way I also had more fun with them. I had all along been the bass player, but now I had to take the place of vocalist, cause no-one else would. I had a lot of fun doing White Queen and Easy Livin' for instance... till I started to dislike my voice after two years.
Now I don't sing anymore. I haven't sung after last spring, except in my room and shower. (Who could stay quiet listening to Queen?)
Instruments
2001-2003 Recorder
2003-2008 Clarinet (I got pretty good)
2008-nowadays Bass Guitar <3 I've learned at least blues, walking bass, bossanova, reggae and some particular bass lines (I'm not going to list everything)
2006-> I started learning piano by myself. Mostly I've made progress by playing Queen. My favourite song to play on piano is Love Of My Life. I think it would be Bohemian Rhapsody, but I just can't play it from
fandango
to
for meeeee
, you know
Orchestras
With clarinet I was in different orchestras as long as I played it. The biggest orchestra, with which I've played in a concert, was 90 clarinets event. I played the second clarinet with about ten others and that's pretty good, cause there was something like six parts for clarinet. I've played bass in a small orchestra for three years now.
Band
The idea of band has been around for a year and half or so, but the consistence hasn't settled. It was pretty good in the beginning of this fall, but now I don't know if our singer is leaving us. We also have a name crisis. The first idea that could be taken seriously was Dark Moor, but then we found out that a band with that name exists and now we have a facebook profile with a name Darkmoor, so it wouldn't be that same, but I just don't know... It doesn't feel quite right.
Anyways, here's two demos of ours:
soundcloud.com/darkmoor (I know I already posted them to one of my previous entries) If you listen to Sleep, please remember I'm not so bad playing bass really.
ART
I think the thing is that I always thought I was very good, so I kept on doing it, drawing I mean.
I attended a school of arts when I was little. I was there a year or so, but I quitted because the others wanted to speak swedish and I felt like an outsider. I started again at the age of 12 and as those of you who are watching me know, I completed the diploma work last spring. For those who don't know, here it is:
fav.me/d3exudpEverything else is quite at it's best in there, but I think this still represents my mouse technique at it's best:
fav.me/d1vxgucSorry but now I'm too tired to go on with this, but feel free to ask if you are interested.