Sunday, May 19, 2013

You always learn a lot in music camps




I took part in a music summer camp in Finland. I have been there before and I love it. It's a pop/rock course where for one week one practices songs in different bands and at the end perform them like real rock stars. The teachers that teach at this course are themselves professional musicians that have played for a number of famous singers/bands such as Kirka. In total this year there were five bands, I was in four of them. In three I played the keyboards and in one I played the drums. 




On the drums I played Supermassive black hole by Muse and Show must go on by Queen. That band was called: Sensuroitu (Finnish word that means cencored). Both songs were fun to play even though they weren't very difficult. It's not always about how difficult a piece is but also how the whole band makes it sound. In that band there were all the ones that had most experience in music. In one of the bands (Riikosen Juusonaksut that mean the cheese balls of Riikonen, might soung wierd as a band name but it was kind of a joke during the music camp) I was the only keyboard player and we played Over you by Honor Society, This Love by Maroon 5 and It's my life by Bon Jovi. In the third band (Fengot) I was a second keyboard and we played White Shadows by Coldplay, Home by Micheal Bublé and Resistance by Muse. I joined the last band last minute because it seemed that the keyboard player wasn't playing enough so I helped her out. This band called Banaanit which mean Bananas, played 21 Guns by Greenday and Pahalta Piilossa by Suvi Teräsniska.

I had a week to learn all those songs well so that they could be performed in a funny place. It was a wooden building kind of in the middle of nowhere. I managed to learn all of them very well as one played hours and hours a day.

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