During the journey, James asked, 'What if there's snow-storm out there?', and soon enough, the snowflakes rate increased. Thanks, James. =.=" During the journey, I felt a bit shocked. Yea, I've seen in movies about cars lost control and turned rounds and rounds, banged the signboard at the roadside, air-bag released and in the end the car upside-down. Well, we saw a car upside-down, with air-bag released, and one of the supporting legs of the signboard few meters before was banged off. From how the surrounding looked like, it's like a fresh accident. Hmm. It was kinda scary to think back. Well, we did see another accident. It was indeed a worried journey, but praise the Lord, that we arrived safety.
And so we were at Netzschkau and joined people from all around Germany, Switzerland, and Czech Republic. At first I felt a little uneasy, because all these people are really good in music. And since I have no musical background, it was kinda hard for me to imagine myself working with them. But God just changed that worrisome into admiration in a swift of time, mainly because they are all people of God. They're talented, and I mean really talented, and also friendly.
The Nashville theory wasn't a new thing for me, as I've learned those from a music theory e-book that I've downloaded, and also from Jian Nong. But to count real fast, I still find it difficult. Of course, dealing with C-Major progression and you tell me to name randomly all the chords for 1-7, I have no problem, but transposing using that.... I still needa work out, as in faster. But nevertheless, I really thank Lord for James and his fast-and-'lazy'-but-correct way to remember all the 1-7 progressions of different family.
We had 4 workshops all together. Saturday morning we had music theory, then as newcomer, we went for teaching of biblical foundation of praise and worship. And then the 2rd session I didn't go for any workshop, but went to the jamming room and tested out my baby white. Yea and soon enough, as quoted from Jia Jin, 'she was 'abused' by a lot of professionals'. Haha. Then that's how I realized how wonderful she is. =)
And we had chance to practice transposing using Nashville system. Hahaha, that was hard. But I like Chrissi, she's very patient with me, despite my slowness in transposing. =) And then the next workshop I went for instrument try-out, also in the jamming room. For the first time in my life, or maybe the second, I tried to play drum. Haha, that was seriously harder than I thought. But after a while, I picked up a little. But then they decided to try-out 'One Way' instead of 'How Great Is Our God', so I felt very sorry as the tempo went all wrong. *sweat*
For the last workshop, I went for guitar-session with Kajin, another wonderful person. I think I mentioned him before in my blog. Anyway, learned open chords from him, and and the reasons why it's called 'open' and all those sus2, sus4, -2, -7... etc etc. And we practiced with metronome. It was seriously hard to follow the tempo, when the tempo is reduced. I don't know, but I think for me, I'm used to the song 'This Is Our God' by Hillsong so when he purposely wanted it to play in slower tempo, it's hard for me. Haha. 60 bpm. Gosh. But it's something to learn also - how to keep the tempo =)
On Sunday we did feedback and evaluation for the camp. It was surprised, although I should have already used to it, that they could give constructive criticisms and comments of the whole thing. I was a little sad, but happy at the same time, because these wasn't happening in Malaysia. After being in foreign land for some time, I really see that Malaysia has a lot of room to grow. That's the happy part. The sad part is that the respond isn't that positive; the intention of all changes were good, but the responds were bad. And all these were accumulated from the past, it's just that people keep it quiet. And I'll leave this now because it's a hot topic and maybe I wanna blog about my personal thoughts about it in the future, after exams of course. We'll see.
Overally, I met a lot of new people with various talents. I felt I'm the noobest there : ( But then I learned a lot, and I'm on-fire to learn more about guitar. Yes, I wanna master it. But too bad not now, and a week has passed, and I touched my first love only once.
I hope she won't be angry with me. LoL
That's a quicksum of everything. Soundfabrik was fun! I still remembered my aunt told me last time, that after guitar, I should consider to go for drums. Haha. ::roll eyes:: Maybe that's what gonna happen in the far future.
That's a pretty nice bridge, no? =)
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