English IV, Video 2 - My future job

 

Postgraduate studies

 

 

I am currently in the last year of my career, and although it is very long (10 years), I would like to continue studying. In fact, this year I tried to gather the requested documents to apply for the pedagogy plan taught by the University, but unfortunately they still do not send me all the documents, so I couldn't apply, but I hope to be able to apply for the next year. I am very interested in studying pedagogy since it is something I have been dedicating myself to in recent years, and doing that has made me very happy, for the same reason I would like to acquire better tools to teach better. I think that no matter how much you know about an area, if you don't know how to teach it, it is very difficult for learning to emerge in another person.

Besides, and complementing my career as a musician, I would like to specialize in Latin American music, but I have not yet looked for if there is a graduate or master's degree dedicated to that music, but if it is necessary to travel to study, I would do it without thinking. The same happens with chamber music. From 2016 to this year I was part of a guitar quartet “Cuarteto Movimientos”, in which we played classical and Latin American music, and arrangements of orchestral music. In this quartet I used to play guitar, but also to make arrangements and some compositions. I learned a lot from them. It's something that has helped me lose my fear of being original and creating new music. Due to the good experience I had with them, in addition to other projects I have had, I think that perfecting myself in chamber music can be a great window for many opportunities, in addition to having the academic degree to teach it within the University.

 

English IV video 1 - Chamber music class.

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/FZoB5CsRySM

 

My future job

My future job definitely has to do with music, I'm sure of that. For example, compose music, arrange music, record videos, and prepare concerts. But, complementary to this, I would like to work teaching music and guitar. I am sure of this because I have recently dedicated myself to these tasks, and I have enjoyed them very much. I have also traveled to some parts of the country to do concerts, and it is very entertaining. I would like to tour to the north, center and south of Chile, giving priority to communes and rural localities where it is not usual to see concerts. At the same time, I would like to offer open classes and workshops in the places that I will travel. Travel around Latin America or Asia, offering Latin American music concerts is a dream for me. Travel and meet music from different places of Latin America. So I think, in that sense, this would be an outdoor job.

On the other hand, I really like doing classes, it reinforces my idea that music can be a good thing for people, and helping from my study area is something very rewarding. For that reason I plan to do the major in pedagogy, which our university teaches for related careers. Having a music pedagogy degree, I will be able to teach high school students. This, in addition to being interested in teaching, means a way to get a fixed salary, something that in the life of an independent musician, that is, only with concerts or with private lessons, is very difficult to achieve. In relation to money, I do not have great ambitions. Living with what is necessary is enough for me, but I hope that by being creative and dedicated I can live the best possible.

My quarantine hobby.

 

Since the quarantine began, in my case since March, I have been watching many series and movies, something that perhaps has helped many to cope the confinement. However, what I have enjoyed the most during these months is making music videos. This is something that if it weren't for the quarantine, I couldn't be doing it, nor without the help of my girlfriend, obviously, who is a photographer and has been living this quarantine with me.

Between us two we in charge of doing everything, I take care of interpreting and equalizing the music, and she is in charge of recording, framing and later coloring and lighting the video. We do the montage of the video together, I help to choose the take changes according to the musical moment of the piece that I'm playing, and she corrects me if it visually agrees with the music. Once everything is ready and reviewed, we export the video and upload it to my YouTube and Instagram channel.  

 

We have recorded all the videos at my house, except for some that we recorded in the countryside, near Talca. A couple of days before national holidays we left Santiago, it was quite an adventure. The picture on the top is a capture of one of the videos we recorded there. 

 

Make these videos together has been a great way to stay active as it is related to what we know and like. To date we have made 16 videos, most of them are of Latin American music, such as Violeta Parra and Atahualpa Yupanqui. We have many ideas yet to do, so many more videos will come!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The most embarrassing thing i'm willing to admit.

 

 

 

It is difficult to remember embarrassing situations, they are things that one forgets as time goes by, but remembering, I remember two moments in which I think I have made a fool of myself without wanting to hahaha. Both situations happened at school, in 7th and 8th grade. And in both, my classmates were making fun of me for a long time, although I always took that with humor. The first was in 7th grade, there they had to dance “La Piragua”, a traditional Colombian cumbia. The PE teachers didn't guide us so well on how to dance it, just a general one. I always liked dancing, and I remember practicing it with my mother since she did know how to dance it. The result was hilarious for my classmates, since I had to dance I moved my hips too much, it was too loose to dance, and for that reason they started saying “Shakiro” hahaha. I see that very funny nickname. The second embarrassing situation was for an eighth grade, in a music class presentation. There with my group we played “Californication” by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Maybe, the group did not sound bad, but I am aware that I did not reach the tones "properly" hahaha. Apparently at that time my voice was changing, and it was hard for me to reach high tones. As a result of that presentation, everyone in the school began to tell me “El Californication”. I think this time the nickname did bother me, since it was somewhat exposed (and the teacher did not guide well how to sing it either). So at the end of the year I decided to attend a 4th high school degree, there I played classical guitar music, which is what I was studying at that time. My classmates and teachers congratulated me very much on that presentation, and after that they forgot the nicknames hahaha.

My favourite concert: Radiohead 2018

 

  

I have gone to many concerts, of different styles, and each one has marked something important in my musical development, it has moved me and inspired me. But if I have to choose a specific concert, for the impact and emotion it produced in me, I choose the 2018 Radiohead concert at the Estadio Nacional. When they first came to Chile, in 2009, I was just 14 years old and I didn't know much about rock. I remember that on the day of the concert they were broadcasting many of his songs on the radio, ¡and at that moment I was very sorry not discovered them sooner! I became a fan of them. Since then I have been waiting for their return every year. When they released the King of Limbs I had high hopes, but finally with the A Moon Shaped Pool tour I was able to hear them live, and it really is unforgettable. They played many of my favorite songs; Pyramid Song, Street Spirts, and Nude for example. It was an incredible concert. They played 9 encores even !. Once the concert was over, the crowd in the streets made it very difficult to take the subway or bus, so I decided to go to Nataniel Cox, and from there take a bus home. I was so euphoric to have listened to Radiohead that I ran and jogged about 50 blocks! I was very happy at the time, and both the concert and the return home are one of the most beautiful memories I have until now.