My Musical Biography

     I had a very upsetting experience two weeks ago at an orchestra audition when I got nervous and messed up. I was really angry at myself afterwards because of that. I ended up crying for 2 hours even though I knew this was high school senior level music, and I was a lot less experienced than that. I think God knew what he was doing when he had me get nervous and mess up like that, though. Like when I moved to Texas.

     When I was eight, my mom's job had us need to move to Dallas. I didn't want to go at the time, because I didn't want to not have any friends in a new school. The education is better here, though, and there's more opportunities. I think God knew what he was doing when he introduced me to music since I moved to Texas. I went to the orchestra right after I moved, and I heard the flutes, and I thought they sounded really really cool. When I was at the band drive in fifth grade, which is where we try out all of the instruments, I was determined to do well on the flute test. I ended up being one of the about 4/60ish that passed that test. In the summer I started taking lessons, and played in the band in sixth grade, seventh grade, and I'm now in eighth grade, playing flute for every opportunity I can get.

     Two Septembers ago, I got into rock music. Not just regular rock music– Coldplay rock music. A friend and I made a video and he put their 2008 hit 'Viva la Vida,' to the video. I instantly downloaded the song. My brother decided to download the rest of the album, then I downloaded 'X&Y,' 'Mylo Xyloto,' 'Parachutes,' and 'A Rush of Blood to the Head.' I pretty much fell in love with Coldplay's music, since I can relate to a lot of it. I bought the 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends,' song book and saw that most of the songs had guitar and piano chords written on them. I asked my dad if he could teach me how to play the guitar so I could play some of the songs in there on the guitar I got when I was six (since my dad already had 4 guitars and he got it for free, he gave it to me). He taught me how to read the chord charts and how to put my fingers on the neck. I picked it up within ten minutes and began playing guitar solos like 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall,' and 'Shiver,' by ear.

     A few months after that (last September), I got bored one day when my mom finished playing the piano, so I sat down and started playing a few random chords that I messed around with. About two weeks afterwards I listened to 'Clocks,' and 'Amsterdam,' and started playing those by ear, and discovered that I have perfect pitch.

     Two months ago, in February, a friend came up to me during lunch in school, and asked me if I could play the drums for the middle school's praise band. I agreed. Not have played the drums before, I was a bit anxious, especially the awkwardness of my flute teacher being the coordinator for the praise band. My brother plays the drums for band, though, and I've seen him practice. I played the standard rock drum beat, and it actually went pretty well. I told my brother that I 'Will Championed.' Will Champion is Coldplay's drummer who just happened to be there when his roommate became absent, and they didn't have a drummer. I thought he was a bit jealous, since Will Champion is his 'idol.'

     Another friend and I were talking about writing songs together before, and he showed me some of the lyrics that he wrote a few years back. We're currently working on writing a (few) song(s) with lyrics that he wrote and the instrumental sounds that I'm still trying to figure out. Next step is just to get a bass player, drummer, and another guitarist (I'm not even sure what I'd be playing, probably rhythm guitar).

     That is pretty much my musical biography. Music has been one of the most important things in my life, and I'm hoping to make it big in a band sometime in the future.

20% Time #2

I have accomplished a lot with turning Mother 3 into a novel. I've gotten all the way up to chapter four. Now that I think about it, it's probably going to be five or six chapters instead of eight chapters, since the main characters isn't in three. The chapter I'm working on now is the longest one in the whole thing, so it's going to take awhile for me to complete that one. So I'm 90% sure I'll be done with it by the end of the school year.

20% Time

In english class we decided to do this thing called '20% Time.' We're basically taking every Friday to work on some other productive thing that we want to accomplish. I decided that I wanted to turn one of my favorite video games, 'Mother 3,' into a read form. I'm probably going to make 5 chapters unlike the actual game is divided into 8, and I'm going to try to do one chapter/2-3 weeks. I'll do some of it at home, though. I've completely written everything in the first chapter off of what the game actually provided for me, since I'm going from the first person point of view of the main character, who is barely involved in the first two. I'll probably post each chapter on here after it's edited to what I want it to be like. When I put the first one up here, it is completely improvised, by the way. I am only following material that the game has provided, and is absolutely nessecary to understand the story. So Chapter #1, I needed to get a bit creative with the story.

Here's the link to a fanmade, very accurate wiki site. http://earthbound.wikia.com/wiki/Mother_3

If I Could Change Anything

     Well, in english class we had a very interesting question brought to us today. The question was "If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?" It took me a few moments to think about this. I thought about personal desires, then I decided to go to friend's desires, but in the end, I would've changed what God would've enjoyed. My answer is, "If I could change anything the world, I would have everyone believe that it was Jesus who died to pay for our sins, and everyone would do what God commands."

     I think that it would be a very positive thing, first of all, if everyone followed God's commands. There would be kindness showing everywhere. God commands us to love one another, in the second half of the Ten Commandments. If everyone were to love one another, then no one would envy anyone, hate anyone, or do anything to harm anyone. The Tenth Commandment, first of all, says that we shouldn't covet anything that our neighbor has. This doesn't mean just our neighbor, like across the street. It means everyone. Everyone is our neighbor, and I believe it says this somewhere in the bible. If no one wanted anything from their neighbor, then no one would get upset for not having it. People would be kind to each other without being asked or forced to, as well.

     Another thing that would happen is that everyone would put God first. In the first half of the Ten Commandments, God says to put him first. If everyone put God first, then following his Commandments would be a top priority to everyone, and people would in turn, as stated above, be kind to one another. There would be pretty much no other religions, though. I couldn't imagine how many more Christian songs there would be, though. I really would enjoy the songs that there would be. I would honestly like to see that my favorite band, Coldplay, wrote a Christian song. It would probably end up being my favorite song. The world would be practically sinless, if everyone followed God's commands, since the only way to sin is by breaking one of those commands. Like it is classified as breaking 'Thou shalt not murder,' if you think bad things about someone. If you get jealous of someone, it would be breaking the command that talks about coveting your neighbors ox, donkey, wife, manservant, maidservant etc..

     I now wonder how someone would actually get everyone on earth to follow God's Commandments. I'm not exactly sure how other people of other religions would react to leaving their religion. I'm sure, though that at one point everyone will follow God. Maybe not soon, or in anyone who is currently alive's life. At one point, though, I am confident that everyone will follow God's commandments. Yeah, I just wanted to make that clear by saying it twice, but not consecutively.

     There's a picture of the Ten Commandments at the bottom in case you need to reference to one of them or you just want to read them. Thank you for reading and I will probably make another post soon.

Picture found at www.keepthetencommandments.com