Jompa's arrangements ~ 29.04.2015 ~ Inne i den flyvende spekkhoggeren

[Jompa]

Oh you're too nice!
Since you liked that one, I figured I could post this as well:
Ever since watching (re-watching rather) Sakamichi no Apollon, this song - the jazz standard "My Favorite Things" - has been on my mind, pretty much constantly.
Yesterday I figured "I kinda wanna play that song in my band", so I made this thing:
(It's all for unnamed piano staffs and drums atm, because It's easier to do major changes to it before I start part-writing, which I kinda wanna wait with 'till after I've presented it to the other band members):
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[DonValentino]

Well done! I'd really like to see that completed!

[Jompa]

Thank's lot, I guess I'll post it when I finish it then:)

[Kimmel]

Wow! Your theoretical knowledge is very good. Gotta check your arrangements out.

[Jompa]

Oh yes please do! And thanks for the compliment!

[Jompa]

I finished My Favorite Things:
This turned out so much better than I thought it would!
(So now that my hopes are up, I'll probably be disappointed when it doesn't work out playing it..)
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Enjoy!

[DonValentino]

Great job, as always!

[Kimmel]

Your arrangement from City/Town is good
I like it, that you put the chords in some of your sheets

[Jompa]

Thanks a lot!

[Kimmel]

Where did you learn music theory? Experience?

[Jompa]

I've been attending Foss High School for a year now, which is a high school specializing in musical education - the requirements for this school is ridiculous, it's the hardest school to get into in all of Oslo.
So you probably understand that they're teaching some pretty heavy music theory stuff here. I've just started my second year, so finally it will start getting harder (the first year was pretty much just the basics (y'know, to include all the "singer-songwriter"s at the school.), but in the second year you kinda get to choose how hard the classes will be - this year I'm taking the hardest there is:3)

But before I started at Foss High, I came from a crappy slum of a school called Årvoll. There were no fundament for musical education back there, so in the three years after I began with music and up untill I got into Foss High, I more or less educated myself through studying others' arrangements, doing interval training, learning theory, practicing scales and automatics, jamming around, and of course arranging - I mean, that is the way to do it, right?
I believe my "improvement-curve" was pointing upwards pretty steeply, but that just skyrocketted after I came to Foss, started playing in their big band, started writing for different ensembles to actually be performed(!), started my own band(s), spending countless hours jamming around with others - I play everyday, and everyday I learn more and improve more! - both on the instrument AND with the theory.
The program at my school does make me take 15 hours a week MORE than normal students at other schools, but I am (and everyone else at Foss are) totally fine with it, because I can't imagine a more fun (and giving) high school life.
And my time at Foss is only 1/3 over^•^

So you could say I've made a head start for myself by educating myself(I did already know more than your avarage school band member), but it's gonna be thanks to my time at Foss if I turn out a great musician.
I'm a Tenor Saxophonist btw, just so you know:)

[Sir Dino]

Jompa: The Autobiography.

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[FSM-Reapr]

Foss High :O

I know a couple of people who graduated from there.

also omg My Favorite Things pure awsmness

[Jompa]

I should've mentioned that Foss has both the music program thing AND normal school like any other high school. So it's likely that the people you know FSM only went to the normal school thing (as there are five of those classes, and only two music classes, per year). The normal studies are nothing special really (I don't see why people would want to take that at Foss of all places).

Glad you liked My Favorite Things! Thanks:)

[FSM-Reapr]

That explains why they didn't say anything their musical background, because there wasn't any. Thanks for clarification!

I really need to travel to Oslo someday. Voss is the best water ever.