Multi Award Winning Female Saxophonist, Birmingham, UK, Jazz, Gospel, Reggae, Blues, Soul and Originals. 'Music for the soul'
Education, training and other actions for self-improving
To improve my songwriting skills, I enrolled in a course led by Keppie Coutts and Benny Romalis. They are fantastic teachers! We went beyond the basics of how to write lyrics and delved into how to make them memorable and impactful. The course allowed me to bring out a lot of ideas that were spinning in my mind for a while. I hope I can share some of the results with you soon.
Some of you may remember that I took part of a Music Production For Women course. You can read about it in previous posts from my blog. Now that I am an alumna, I want to share some more of my impressions, and thank the people behind this wonderful experience.
One of my dreams in music has always been to produce my own tracks. Whilst I am very thankful to the people who has supported me in that regard, for projects like my album Reflective Notes or my single Take Me To The King, I always wanted to do it myself. Last year, I finally took the critical step. For the last 15 months, I have been on a music production course for women ran by Xylo Aria. It has been brilliant!
I notice that I did not have any Christmas music on my YouTube channel, so this week I recorded Nat King Cole’s ‘The Christmas Song’, also ‘Mary’s Boy Child’, made famous by Boney M. What a great opportunity to put both my video and audio production skills to the test.
Sleep was one of the areas of my life most affected by the changes of menopause. While I did a lot on my own, working with Pamela led me to make a real Smarter Change.
I’ve wanted to improve my music production skills for a while. I have two main reasons: as a gigging musician, I want to make my own backing tracks; and as a songwriter, I want more tools and versatility in my process. Xylo Aria’s Intro to Music Production online course was perfect to achieve this.
I used to have porridge and fruits for breakfast. While such a menu is generally recognised as healthy or good, I discovered with Pamela’s help that it wasn’t working for my body in particular. This is what I did to my diet in order to reverse my pre-diabetic diagnosis.
Last Saturday, I travelled to Cambridge to have a wonderful six hours sax repair workshop with Daniel Bangham and Paul Windridge, tutors and instrument repairers, makers and restorers from Cambridge Woodwind Makers.
I took a five sessions funding course with Vernon Hogg and Davies Okeowo from Oxford Innovation Advice. They taught me about the different ways I could try to get funding, what is expected from funding applications, grants and sponsorships, how to do a pitch, and what to have in mind while doing business, among other things.
