The Quiet Girl

It has been months since I have written. A lot of things have happened. I am at school and I am working on getting my Commercial Music degree. I have written a lot more music, which is yet to be posted and will be soon. I have been very busy this year, taking Music Theory, Aural Skills, General Ed, and Songwriting classes. I especially love the songwriting classes. I was looking for a bigger opportunity in that area and I have found more than one opportunity, taking them. I have found that I have improved my lyric writing as well as arranging my songs in a more understanding way. I have also had to deal with a guy who did not treat me very well. I will not mention his name, but he tried to show off to me and make me feel bad about myself and my accomplishments, including my songs. He had opportunities that I did not get before I was in college, things I had only dreamed of doing. When I told him to stop bragging, he then started lying to me. It came to the point where I told him...

   I haven't been on here in a long time. I have been quite busy.    I finished my art portfolio and all of my dragons about the time I published my last entry here. However, as I said a few months ago, for logical reasons, I would show the pictures in the order I did them, in an orderly fashion. Here they are.    #8: Girl with Wild Dragon        This is a colored pencil drawing. The original picture that I drew this from pictured the dragon with a broken wing, or a piece of it missing, with a thorn in it. I decided I would draw the dragon healthy instead. :)     The girl is gently holding the dragon's hand..... #9: The Woman and the Dragon    In the Bible, the book of Revelation has many symbols representing things that God says will happen in the end times. Chapter 12 of Revelation has a woman and a ferocious dragon as symbols.     Revelation 12: 1-4    "An...

                           The Quiet Girl- Alone River    This song is another instrumental composition for the hammered dulcimer.                              And Don't Forget (Solo Clarinet Version)         This is a song my friend and I wrote together. It is a duet for the piano and the clarinet. He made and posted a solo piano version, so I decided to make and post the solo clarinet version.           The Quiet Girl- The Rhythm of the Hammering on the Carpet           This is the song that I wrote based on the "rhythms" I heard when I heard the carpet people working. I described this in an earlier ent...

    I am currently working on the last dragon for my art concentration, #12. I also have 3 songs that I recorded, and I have made a homemade pop filter.    This is the 7th dragon of my concentration. It is a colored pencil drawing of a white dragon sitting on a rugged bank next to water.           This was very detailed and took quite awhile. Here is a close up of the dragon and its head and face.         Homemade Recording Studio Pop Filter    Recently I got two books from the library about studio recording. I want to learn as much as I can about it. The books are Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies by Jeff Strong and Home Recording Power by Ben Milstead. The first day I read Home Recording for Musicians for Dummies , I already learned something and put it into practice. I learned that you can make a pop filter from a simple coat hanger and pantyhose. ...

                                                           The Quiet Girl- The Distant Song Stuck in my Head                                                             Artist: The Quiet Girl                                                          Song: The Distant Song Stuck in My Head                                 ...

The Quiet Girl- Thoughtfulness   Artist: The Quiet Girl Song: Thoughtfulness Album: Sample Studio Recording "Reflections"          I have 2 studio recordings I have made now, as I wrote earlier. This is one of them. This is an original song I wrote called "Thoughtfulness", written for the hammered dulcimer and played by me. I am learning to use the studio well and it took forever for me to learn how to edit and export music, but I know these things well now. I am getting better and better at it, and I am better at it even now than I was when I made this recording, which was only about a month ago.    Recording in a studio is different from performing. Of course, you always have to practice to sound as good as possible, like if you were to perform in front of an audience. But when you are recording, if you make a mistake and it takes you 10 tries to get a part right, after you are done recording, you can keep the 10th ...

   This is a version I did of another picture. The painting I did was done in acrylic.      © 2013, The Quiet Girl. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying is punishable under Federal Law.