Dancing

The thing that I mostly do with music is dancing.
I dance 5.5 hours a week. 1 hour on wednesday, 3 hours on saterday and 1.5 hours on sunday.
When I dance I dance with music on. All different kinds of music.

On Wednesday I dance on house music because I learn house dancing style. This is complete different music than that I dance on on saterday and sunday.
On Saterday I have one hour ballet, thus I dance on classical music. On Saterday I also have two hour hip hop lesson thus I dance on completly different music.

Janet Jackson - So Much Betta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENRjGUTA2H4

On Sunday I also have hip hop/street dance. I then dance on for example:

Beyonce - Hello - I am...Sasha Fierce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3F99Mj6X84

and

Keri Hilson Ft. Keyshia Cole & Trina - Get Your Money Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B7-rVqT9Gs

During dancing you also really need to listen to the music.
I have a dance on all the songs I mentioned, but for example listen to the song hello - beyonce. You hear all different beat and stuff in the music. Sometimes I dance according to the text, but a lot of times I have some moves on the accents.
Through dancing I really learn how to listen to music.

On Saterdays I dance at the dance acedemie Lucia Marthas.
This is the 3rd year that I'm dancing there. Every year I have an "eind presentatie".

In my first year I danced there is looked like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thv9hw_yDA&feature=PlayList&p=84FAD3F374D66FA2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30









This was my first year, I wasn't really happy with our end product. Last year I was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZdJy576B5g&feature=player_embedded
this wasn't my end product, but the "finale" so that all groups could be shown again. The real video isn't on youtube.

I dance at Lucia Marthas in Amsterdam, but also in Huizen in a "wedstrijd groep".

through dancing I'm in touch with music every every week.

Music class

Today during music class we got back our grades from the testweek last week.
I had an 6/8! I was really happy with that because I thought I didn't do a good job.
After we got our grades we went making our rubrics for a playing test that we have within 2 weeks. There were three groups and every group had to think of their own rubric. When everybody was ready, every group presented their rubric to the class and after that we could vote for a rubric. my group won!
Thus we got lollypops! haha :)
I just needed to tell you that! haha I was really proud of my 6/8 and the fact that the rubric from my group won!

haha xx Mila

Learned Something?

When I was looking at all those different blogs. I thought it was really fun to do.
I only looked up songs I didn't know, because of that I came to know a lot of new songs and artist that I like. I still like my music the most, haha, but I also think that I came to know some great artists. For example: the Script. I did know the band, but I never really listened to its music, or looked up his music. Now I went looking for other songs from the Script that I liked and I found a lot. Therefore I widened my music knowledge and i came to know a lot of different songs!

The blog of Matthias.

On the blog of Matthias I found this song.

Dark Providers - Nasicilia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSAPkwLtUCw

I think it is really cool, haha. It is something compeletly different than the other songs I mentioned on by blog sofar. This is more house. When I listened to this song I remembered that I forgot to tell you, on my blog, that I also like house a lot. I think listening to beats. Is very relaxed. Also for partys I like house a lot. This song remembered me of house again. I really liked it!

One of Stella's songs.

Jeff Buckley - Grace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siNsgbIWhAQ

When I was on the blog of Stella, I chose to listen to this particular song. I really like it! I didn't know this song, I did know the singer, but I never listend to this singer. When I listened to this song I immediately downloaded it on Limewire, haha. I really like the fact that it is build op. It starts really peacefull, but it ends "screaming" and with hard guitar and drums on the background.

One of Christine's songs.

When I was looking on the blog from Christine, I noticed this song.
I did know the band, but I didn't know this song.

The Script - I'm yours

Thus, I looked it up on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zl7KaGzYxs

I really liked this song. Like Christine said this song is very sensible. As Christine also explained in her blog it is about a boy who thinks he isn't good enough for the girl he likes, but I does want to be hers. I really like this song alot.

Menno's favorite song.

I went looking to other blogs. Wn I was looking on the blog from Menno, I noticed that his favorite song was:

Hieroglyphics - Soweto

I never had heard of this song, nor the singer before. That is why I searched for the song on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mB59n0zBA

I don't really know how I think about this song. I like it, it has a strange beat and there is a lot of difference between a woman singing and two different rappers. But on the other hand this is very irritating. The whole time all these different things.

The thing what I noticed was that the first time that you hear the song you're listening and your thinking: ok stop, don't like it

But when you hear it more often or when you listen the song to the end I do think this song is good and nice to listen to.

Song number 4+5

The last two songs that I chose are the songs:

Door dik en dun - Kempi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xAiYyy1SIk

&
Geen woorden - Professor Ghost Ft Debby & Kinga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQa0dfQFtBQ

I chose these songs together because they both have the same meaning behind them. First I wanted to choose one, but I couldn't choose so I chose them both.

Both of these songs make me think of a person that really means a lot to me. He went to difficult times, he still is now, but these songs remind me of him, and how he really means a lot to me, how I really want to help him, and that I will always be there for him. I know that he will also be there for me when I need him.

We have shared special moments, and hard times, especially for him, so through these songs I do remember those times again, it does make me feel sad, but it also makes me feel, yeah I don't know how to say that, pleased I guess that we pulled ourselves through it? and that I really tried my best to help him, and be there for him. I still try nowadays by the way.

He send me those songs and I really think that they are nice and special.

Song number 3

The third song that I have chosen is called

I know you want me - Pitbull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk

I chose this song because along with this song again come some great memories. This song makes me think of my 4 best friends. For my birthday we went to the beach in Noordwijk and we slept there. The whole two days that we were there we listened and danced on this song. We had a super good time. So whenever I listen to this song, I think of these memories again.
This isn't really one of my favorite songs, but when I would be stuck in the dessert nog knowing if I would survive I would want to listen to this song, just through the memories that I have with it.

Song number 2

Love confusion - Kat DeLuna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZIHrP9t7Ms

When you're all alone in the dessert, you kinda freek out? Won't you? That is why I chose this song. Love Confusion from Kat DeLuna really "relaxes me". And again I really like to sing along with this song, haha.

I don't really have any memories with this song. I don't know, but when I listen to it on my Ipod, and I turn the music really hard. I just like it haha.

Song Number 1

When I'm stuck in the dessert I would deffently want to have the song

Untouched - The Veronicas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqb5B4rPGkQ

First of all I chose this song because it gives me an energy boost and makes me happy! When I listen to this song I immediately get a very big smile on my face.

I also chose this song because it brings a lot of different memories along.
It makes me think of the summer camp I went to, together with Christine. We went to a sailing camp for a week. Every nigth we would dance with the whole group on this song! We would sing/scream along, haha. We had a great time that week.
It also brings memories along with Maroko. I went with school to Marokko. Two days we had to sit in the bus and we listened to this song, and also that week was fantastic.

Favorite Songs?

people have favorite songs right?

well I don't really have favorite songs. My favorite songs change all the time. Then I listen to memories - david guetta all the time, but then a couple of weeks later I listen to untouched - the veronicas.
Our job was to everyday write about one of our favorite songs. We had to choose 5 songs we thought were the best, that were the ones that we would listen to if we were in the dessert stuck allone with only our Ipod with 5 songs on it.

I think I am going to pick a songs that makes me feel happy, some songs that bring good memorries allong and maybe one song that brings some more sad memory allong. And I would also bring a song allong which I know by heart so that when I'm allone on the dessert I can sing allong as loud as possible.

The songs that I will upload aren't my favorite songs, but I do want to take them to the dessert, haha.

coming days, I will upload some notes about my 5 "favorite" songs.

Why do we need music?

I think we need music, because without music we would miss something, something big in our lives.
Through music people can express their emotions and share them with others. In the lyrics of music, people can talk about their own problems and people who would listen to that might reconize themselves in the lyrics of the song.

Music is a beautifull way of expressing your emotions

With every part of making music you are expressing emotions. During writing the lyrics, singing the song, playing an instument. Everything is about emotions. Also the listeners of music will choose their music through their emotions. When your sad you will mostly listen to sad music and when your happy or feeling good you will probably listen to music that you like and makes you happy.

Music also is a huge entertainment in our lives, at least in mine. You can go to concerts, when you need to go somewhere by bike, you just get your Ipod with some fun music on it, and you are ready to go! Without music we wouldn't have disco's and party's! Well we would have party's, but come on, one of the funnest things about party's is that you can dance! Without muic we probably wouldn't even dance. Going to Hilversum at Saterday night wouldn't be fun without music, wouldn't it? A movie without some music on the background at some parts, would also be boring, right?

I really think we need music, and I'm glad that we have music.

First Music Lesson

07-09-09
Today was our second music class.
The first hour we talked about the History of music. I don't really like music history, I don't like history at all, haha. The one thing that I did like was the talk about the monks and how they first made music (by slapping themselves with sticks).
The second hour today we went singing! I think that was really fun.
We started with singing: Baby Just. We sang it as a kanon, but I think that together we sounded really bad, haha. Because one group you really heard singing, one group you just didn't hear. It was weird.
After that we started a new song, we are going to focus on this song for the coming couple of weeks. The other song was really fun aswell, we sang that also as a kanon, but I thought it sounded better than the other song.
So overall I thought this lesson was fun!

What have I done with music so far?

When I lived in England and was about 6 years old, I started playing the flute. I played the flute for two years. After those two years I moved, so I stoped playing.
5 years later I started to play an instument again, this was the piano. I played the piano for one year, I also had to perform for people. I liked doing this, but I didn't like my teacher. I can remember that I was always pissed of her not telling I did a good job at rehearsing my songs, haha. Because she never did that, I actually stopped practising piano outside my lessons, until one day my piano teacher called my parents and told them that she didn't want to teach me anymore because I didn't practise hard enough. Well ok, I didn't like her eather, haha. Sinds then I haven't played a instument anymore. However I would really really want to learn how to play drums or the guitar.

Nowadays I almost listen to music every day. I listen to a lot of different artists. I listen to Kempi, but then again also to Ne-yo, Jamie Foxx, also to Beyonce, Rihanna. On another blog I will tell more about to which artists I listen.

I maybe do not play a music instrument, but I do dance on music. I ofcourse dance on music at party's, but I also take dance lessons. I dance 5.5 hours a week. I don't just dance one style. During 3 of those 5.5 hours I have to go to Amsterdam. There I go to the school "Lucia Marthas" and I take ballet (on classical music) and Pop show musical. During pop show musical I dance on all kinds of music, music from Missy Eliot, but I also have danced on Enigma.
Through dancing I learn to really listen to music. During dancing you have a lot of steps on accents during the song. For example you need to make movements during a breath from the singer, or you need to do something from the moment when you hear a piano start playing.
I also have a minimum of one big dance performance a year. In total I think I danced in about 6 or 7 dance shows. For a lot of people. If I'm lucky I can also enter a dance battle group. But I don't know if I can stay in the group, I really hope so.

Farther I also joined the 80 db once. That was really cool and fun to do! I joined together with Renee, Christine and Julia. We sang the song accidentaly in love - the Counting Crows. Joining the 80 db I really liked! We joined when I was 13 years old. We also all sang a solo piece. I sang the first part of the song allone. That was really scared because I had to start singing, three nights, for a lot of people, all by myself! But I did it and really liked it :D!
One thing I also joined, when I was 12 years old, was a show with at the Singer, in Laren with the "Papegaai". The Papegaai make a lot of shows, with singing and acting. I then only participated with the singing part. It was three nights long, and we sang with grown-ups and children together all different songs about Laren.
Another performence I did was also on my school. For a project we needed to sing in frence, german of spanish. Together with Christine, Renee and Sophie I chose to sing in frence. We sang the song Elle from Melissa M. It was really scared haha. We needed to sing in front of all the 3rd years. (we were also 3rd graders). It was really scared, but we did manish to get a 7/8 for Frence.

Farther I haven't really done anything more with music, and if I forgot to tell something you will read it somewhere else.

I hoped you enjoyed reading so far!

Mila

Introduction

Hi,

I'm Mila and I'm 15 years old.
on this blog I am going to tell everything about me & music.
About what I do with music, how music influences my life, how I think about music, I will just tell you everything that I think of, and can tell you about me & music.

I started to make this blog for music class, but I also think it is a lot of fun, and I hope I can really do a good job on keeping this blog fun, creative and up to date. Because this blog is for music class, I will also tell things about my music classes during school every week.

I hope you will have fun reading my blog, and learning more about Me & Music.

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"music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul."

"music's the medicine of the mind."

by John A. Logan

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