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Post by thecrystalmaiden on Aug 25, 2005 11:55:33 GMT -5
Lol, well I managed to read it, can't be that bad. =)
That's really cool that you perform/express yourself through music too! I think that's so cool, good luck with your singing/music career because my dad works in The Industry and it's dog eat dog. I think you'll go as far as you want to, though. ^_^
Hm... have you considered Juliard? I think it's either in New York or California here in the states. That's a very respected school for musicians and the best of the best go there. Then again, I don't think I'd ever choose to go there because being that serious about music would kill it for me. I love to write and I love to play, but I don't want to be better than everyone else, I just want to play for me you know? I always feel like those musicians who only concentrate on competition are kinda missing the point of music.
Anyhoo, good luck with your studies! Tell us how they go. =) What area of music are you planning on focusing on?
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Aug 25, 2005 12:00:58 GMT -5
Juliard is in New York. There is also Berkely College of Music in Boston.
Kiva
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Post by luz18 on Aug 26, 2005 20:03:37 GMT -5
Id really like to go into performance.... yeah, I totally agree with you on the whole competition aspect. I would end up burning myself out and not enjoying myself... I do wanna sing, but I wouldn't be disappointed if I didn't make it big, cuz I know how things get. But just being a performer would make me happy... as long as I make enough money to support myself. I also know a bit about the producing side of music, cuz we have a small recording studio in my school. I'm taking a 2 year course in High School called Music Technology, and the first year we learned how to do an 8 track recording. This year, when I go back in Sept, we're going to do a 16 track! We have to choose the songs to do the recordings on, we have to do the arrangements, choose the instruments we need (and the teachers to play them), and we have to be the ones in charge.. the producing, the editing, etc. etc. It's a slow process, and we lay it on track by track starting form scratch. Crystal, your dad works in the music industry?? That's pretty cool, considering that you play amazingly and you have someone to guide you if you want to develop your music career :-) And kiva, Berklee is the school in Boston that I wanna apply to. Juilliard is for the best, but they don't have all the styles in Vocals that I want... they just have Jazz and Opera (or so I saw on the website). Many great musicians have graduated or been to Berklee.... and it's not as strict as Juilliard, so I won't feel smothered or lose my passion, which is good :-) But thanks, Crystalmaiden***
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Aug 26, 2005 21:11:52 GMT -5
Luz,
Yes, I know of many great musicians who graduated from Berklee, most of whom are in the a cappella music bussiness. They teach Vocal Percussion at Berrklee. I know this because one of my favorite Vocal Percussionists graduated from Berklee, Jeff Thacher. In fact that's how he got into Vocal Percussion.
Kiva
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Aug 26, 2005 21:22:11 GMT -5
At this site there is an awesome demonstration of live A cappella by the group The House Jacks. While the text is going, the recorded version of their song "What's For Real", then they will do a live on the spot non-rehearsed without mics. homepage.mac.com/livingfiction/iMovieTheater31.htmlKiva
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Post by luz18 on Aug 26, 2005 22:27:18 GMT -5
Thank you for the help, Arya :-) Kiva, I'll check that link out, thank you too! Did you know the lead singer of Maroon Five graduated from Berklee? Also, one of my favorite Latin American singers Juan Luis Guerra went there.... If it's meant to be, then I'll hopefully go ;-)
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Post by thecrystalmaiden on Sept 9, 2005 13:39:38 GMT -5
Does anyone here have talents not related to art or music?
I think that would be very interesting to hear about - "talented" does not only involve the artistic side of things after all. =)
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Post by djgirlcherise on Sept 9, 2005 17:03:13 GMT -5
Yes, being "talented" is very subjective to our perceptions. I'd like to offer that I'm talented with organization.
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Sept 9, 2005 17:09:08 GMT -5
I seem to be able to come up with novelities whether they be ideas or what nor
Kiva
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Post by thecrystalmaiden on Sept 9, 2005 18:24:54 GMT -5
I know I have a talent for debating, I've been told many times that I should become a lawyer, lol, if only I could live with myself defending a person I know is guilty.
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Post by Uriah on Sept 9, 2005 18:29:36 GMT -5
I have a very good memory. If I am told something I can usually remember it easily. I have to put attention to it I can't just read it or hear it.
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Sept 9, 2005 18:34:39 GMT -5
Uriah,
I also have a very good memory, that is if I see the point in remembering it.
Kiva
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Post by Uriah on Sept 9, 2005 18:41:06 GMT -5
I've noticed also that someone can be having a conversation around me with someone else, not involving me at all and days or weeks later someone may try to remember what was said and my mouth pops open with the answer. I guess I don't have to focus on it. Everything comes in and I am able to access more of it than most.
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Post by Shaelyn on Sept 11, 2005 0:23:34 GMT -5
I apparently have a knack for math...a curse in disguise... who would've thought a college algebra class would be so tedious and BORING.
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Post by thecrystalmaiden on Sept 11, 2005 20:22:12 GMT -5
Lol! Wow I failed my first college Algebra class, damn you! =P
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Post by Kivawolfspeaker on Sept 11, 2005 21:45:54 GMT -5
Don't have to take algebra as an undergraduate. Tested out of the math requirement for the general degree requirement and since I'm getting a BA, I don't have to take anymore "math" classes. I didn't however have to take Psychology 300 or Statistics for Psychologists for my major. The funny thing is, the professor I had for Psych 300 can't add! But then again, stats isn't about adding, it's about concepts.
Kiva
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Post by Shaelyn on Sept 12, 2005 12:44:03 GMT -5
Lol! Wow I failed my first college Algebra class, d**n you! =P LOL...I failed Algebra 2 in HS, actually... ...but that was because I was so damn bored with it that I quit doing my homework. ...as I said, a curse in disguise.
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Post by jeremy on Sept 13, 2005 4:36:41 GMT -5
When I was 13 I was in a class for gifted students. My parents moved to another town and the school I was sent to believed it was wrong to teach students more than their "peers" could cope with. I suddenly went from passing university level algebra to failing math at a level most 14 year olds could cope with. Yes, it is easy to fail maths if you have a reason to find it boring.
Performing arts are good. I can play mandolin and violin by ear or from sheet music: kind of incompatible with my love of swing dancing but oh well. My favourite talent though when I was an indigo was my special knack for avoiding attention. Now my favourite talent is distance healing.
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Post by seraph on Sept 22, 2005 22:59:48 GMT -5
I was in band too! French horn i hated it because it took too much concentration and we got all the lame parts of the song. I got a blueprint reading done reciently and it said i had the potential to be a famous singer. Which is cool i've always joked around with my friends that i was gonna be a rock star. Who knows what might happen in the future but it was very insightfull reading about everyones experiences. Thanks
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Post by indigirl on Sept 24, 2005 16:08:28 GMT -5
I really love to sing as well. It's been my first love since I was little. Nothing gives me the same kind of thrill as being onstage, and just belting out a song. It really puts in this Zen kind of place, where time just stops and it's just you and the music.
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Post by radaeron on Sept 24, 2005 16:31:51 GMT -5
I have a talent for listening you could say. I enjoy to hear about other people. I ask dozens of people if they're happy, if they are I say thats great and ask them what they're happy about. If they're not I try and cheer them up. I can't not o.O You could say its more of an obsessive compulsive thing to make sure everyone is happy. But calling it a talent sounds better ^^;
I love debating though. Absolutely love it. Talking and discussing with other people their beliefs about the universe and a god (or gods). It's usually about the abstract. Talking about everyday life is.. well. its everyday isn't it ^^ Nothing special.
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Post by djgirlcherise on Sept 26, 2005 13:36:22 GMT -5
Hey Rad,
That's actually a great lesson to contemplate. The fact that every day life, and it's seemingly irellevant details, are all really special! The people of developed countries mostly think that if their "everyday" lives don't mimic the ones they see on t.v., or the movies, they think they don't have a life. But, once you get caught up with the "WOW OF NOW", it's impossible to ignore the fantastic "holy smokes" of every single moment. Do you catch what I mean?
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Post by radaeron on Sept 26, 2005 13:49:29 GMT -5
A very interesting thought I can see that point of view, and its a good one. Seems more of a high appreciation for life. That each thing you do leads to something reliable or entirely bizarre On a semi-related note, but entirely off-topic of the thread I think Appreciating life is also very easy Also it seems beneficial sometimes. You can just stop doing anything. Look out the window, up at the clouds, at some plants or anything natural. And I find every doubt, worry, deadline of work, and everything else man creates for itself (Going on the line man creates worries and doubts for itself in fear of fitting in with others, getting somewhere on time and the like) just dissapears (Also listening to gregorian chantings, which is basically monks singing hymns, tends to put me in very balanced and tranquil moods ^^ )
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Post by luz18 on Oct 1, 2005 5:17:04 GMT -5
Rad ~ I think that your talent is very valuable.... i wish i could actually sit *still* and have the patience you have with people. I think it's great that your a listener and that you care so much about everyone's happiness in general. Are you thinking of doing a sort of councelling career after high school?
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Post by radaeron on Oct 1, 2005 5:36:14 GMT -5
I hadn't thought about it actually. Probably something to consider ^^ I'm actually in college in england I'm not sure how it equates to america though. Whether our A level (final college qualific.) is equal to your high school diploma or what.. Ah well I'll figure it out one day. I think about loads of different things though. Doing Philosophy (for the second time around as an AS level) makes me wonder about writing up all my thoughts and philosophies of the world into a book. Doing Fine art makes me wonder in .well.. art. But I generally decide against it. I do it for fun, don't want it as a career ^^; Media studies, looking at how different shots and stuff are taken, and now having a shiny new camera ^^ Makes me ponder about doing freelance photography as well
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Post by luz18 on Oct 1, 2005 11:01:05 GMT -5
About A-Levels and America.... Well, I sorta got it figured out, cuz I'm American, but I go to school in Switzerland... a British school to be exact. lol. So I'm doing my A-levels right now..... and I've been told that 1 A-Level counts for lots of credit in the States, (/it weighs more) because the A2 is college work level in the States. This doesn't necessarily apply for every single college/uni in the States, but for most of them it does. And hey, I'm taking Philosophy A-Level too!! I'm so happy.. I thought I'd fail my AS, but I got a B, and now I'm going on to the A2, and we're studying Philosophy of Mind and Aristotle. Ain't that funny?
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Post by citrus on Dec 5, 2005 2:14:57 GMT -5
mine is definitely writing, though I have a connection to music too. (played symphony violin for years and years as a child, now sing constantly and am working on learning guitar.) however, music is something I struggle with and work on, and while I'm not going to say I don't struggle at all with my writing, it's something I can convey a message with better than anything else. when words come out of my mouth, they stagger and ramble and seem disconnected. when I'm writing it's almost like channelling. I say things with clarity that I'm not even aware I know. I'll use words I don't technically know the meanings of, but when I look them up, they're always used in appropriate context. LoL. I've written all my life, and I know I will continue to do so.
-citrus
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Post by rainydaygirl on Dec 8, 2005 17:58:23 GMT -5
I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein
My passions are reading, writing, philosophy and debate. Fine art is something I am not good at, I never have been. I've always been a debater and a philosopher though. I don't know how good of a writer I am, but I have dozens of journals and binders full of stuff I've written over the last few years. I'm not sure how much of a talent reading is, but I was reading at college level by age 12 and can absorb new information rather easily. As long as it's not math! Math is something I have always struggled with.
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Post by djgirlcherise on Dec 8, 2005 21:19:04 GMT -5
Hi RainyDay.
For sure, you are going to delve into the fine arts. You obviously like to keep your hands busy, and writing it down won't adequately display the colours of life.
You should start investing in some brushes and colours, pens, pencils and papers. I'm pretty sure you're good at drawing different letter fonts. Start making your own posters. Your own headlines, as if you were writing a time capsule, or for a newspaper, or as the cover of your new book.
I promise, it will be cathartic and it will be a reliable release when words don't suffice. It will lead to other forms and realities. You can't cut yourself off from this duty in life. Your creative arts are the whole reason you are you. Never say never is my wish to you.
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Post by silverindigoheart on Dec 11, 2005 16:45:49 GMT -5
Well I am very gifted in the sciences tho I don't think it counts as an indigo talent.
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