Christmas List.

So, here are but a few suggestions, categorised helpfully into price groups.

<£5

A two way headphone splitter. Specifically this one although this would be just as good.

A canon wireless shutter remote. These are fairly standard and nice and cheap.

Hugs always go down well if you're really struggling.

£5-£20

Clothes. I can always do with casual and smart casual trousers. And shirts are great too.

Casual footwear. I'm size ten/eleven and not fussy.

Gloves.

An iTunes voucher.

>£20

Smart casual shoes. Something like the leather ones Sam got me for my birthday which are now a little worn because I wear them a lot wherever I go.

Waterproof clothes that I can wear on my bike when it's raining and arrive at college nice and dry.

An xbox360.

A domain name (domain names are actually rented for a set term. Most are in the region of about £20). Trouble is, I'm not sure what domain I want yet.

An iTunes voucher.

Hope that's helped in some way.

Please don't get me a DVD or a CD. They're basically ancient relics nowadays and would be unnecessary uses of space in a room that's already very small. If you want to give me the gift of music or film, then please do so in the form of a voucher (see above).

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Just chilling out in Wetherspoons with James at the mo... I'm seriously close to getting Twitter. Basically the only reason why I'm not is because I'm hesitant to join the snowballing bandwagon. And I may have told Katy that it's pointless but I'm slowly warming to it.

Very much looking forward to the Phillip Bates Prize on Friday and seeing Adrian. Gonna be good times.

Anyway, bye.

I can't believe

I haven't posted since February. Disgraceful. To the few of you out there who have been reading this, I apologise.

Woah

It's a new blog post.

I've decided I want to be like Mark Zuckerberg and post little blog snippets all the time. It might just be easier to get twitter. However, I'm still trying to resist the urge to leap onto the tempting bandwagon.

Finally a new post!

Evening all!

So, a new post seems rather overdue! Term two is going well, with a few new exciting things starting.
We now have lessons in orchestration with Richard, which is interesting, but quite mathematical. Pa and Grandad would love it. Literally.
I'm also starting up a male voice choir with one of the pianists in our year, so that's really exciting.

Now, one of the issues that I have been asked to address in this blog is as follows: 'How does one teach composition?'
Now, many composers probably can write a nice Mozart-esque tune (maybe not as well as Mozart, but most people can write a tune anyway). A large part of our education here is simply encouragement and nurturing from our teachers, as well as lots of suggestions about our pieces. Richard also gives me lots of exercises about development of themes, and relevant listening for each of my pieces.
And of course, there's classes on orchestration, polyphonic studies, media music, and music technology.

So I hope that answers that question.
Lots of love to you all! x