Piano?

  Mom said she found a piano teacher for me. Can't wait to start! My music skills need work. I haven't been practicing either guitar or piano for a loooong time now. I'm attending voice class regularly, though, the schedule needs work... I'm always late. It's right after Ashley's Violin lesson that's why. We only have enough time to drive all the way to the other side of town, and we love to eat, so... yeah.

  Anyway, for voice, we're cleaning up 'Ave Maria' and 'The Prayer'. Also learning 'Bring Him Home' from Les Miserables. It's a guy song so I don't know why teacher chose it for me, but it sounds nice. We always practice it last so my voice gets weak by the time I sing it. Teacher said I have to work on the stamina of my voice.

  According to my current voice teacher the thing about cold water  damaging vocal chords isn't true! She said that as long as I am using the correct vocal organs, I don't have to avoid cold drinks. She said that not drinking cold water only applies to those who are into the Pop genre since they tend to belt out...

  The internet doesn't say anything about the genre part :( Maybe it's best if I just avoid cold water before and after singing, not for my whole life.

  I'm avoiding chocolate, though. Based on experience I think this is logical. I ate chocolate with nuts once before singing practice in church and I literally couldn't sing! It was a little painful, even... I also herd form a friend that Lea Salonga doesn't eat chocs...

  We don't get to blog too often. Missing out on a lot of things... 

Voice Lessons

  First voice lesson in Scherzo Music School today. I heard about the school when one of their teachers, Rogerbert Goleng Jr., performed Nessun Dorma in a concert by the Agdao Violin Institute, with Ashley's teacher conducting. 

  I came up with a list of songs I would like to learn but for our first meeting we did 'Think of Me' from The Phantom of the Opera. 

  Am practicing piano more regularly now. Also avoiding cold water successfully.

  Going to Manila for the Hip Hop Shakespeare workshop really opened up my mind about what I really wanna do. Theater, acting, singing, dancing... performing all in all.

  You can read about my trip and the workshop in my blog from Pointe to Pointe:

Shakespeare Workshop :)

Hip Hop Shakespeare Workshop

Last Day of Workshop

Brunch at UP Diliman

  Ashley has improved so much with her violin... She practices a lot these days :)

New Project

  Hi :) It's Amber. We didn't get to finish doing Amazing Grace, but were  doing something new again; Blowing in the Wind by Peter, Paul, and Mary. It's an old song but Mom was in love with it...

  I'm using my guitar for this one, I've only figured out as far as the intro, though, and am using this video as reference: YouTube: Peter Paul & Mary - Blowin in the wind. Ashley is also doing a violin version of the same song... curious of the outcome ^_^


  Went to the music shop today. Ashley needs a new violin. According to her teacher her fingers are getting longer. Since we were already there, I brought my good old guitar tuner {who seems to be feeling down lately -_-}. According to the guy in the store, my tuner needs new batteries. So that's what I did next; I bought batteries in the camera shop right across. The batteries were only fifty pesos for two, and I now have an accurate and happy tuner :D

  Videos soon... hopefully :)

ADELE 'Daydreamer' Cover

  Hi!!! Amber again :) So this is my first ever cover video. I'm doing ADELE's 'Daydreamer' Thanks so much to my friend Alex for teaching me the first part of the song and to @Angelguitaricha for her tutorial :D

  I'm not so happy about how my voice sounds like... I now know what people mean by nasal... I'm really going to fix that now :(