long time no post :)

Happy Holidays all.... its been a while since i last posted a blog, I've been very busy not to mention that i dont have internet connection at home!!! (dont ask why, or how i'm surviving) enjoy your holiday season people! Happy Eid and Happy NEW YEAR!!
I better go and practice!!! no work no ma3had my teacher wants me to practice six hours a day!! lol i better start soon hehe!! take care yall.

ME!! BLITZEN...

You Are Blitzen

Always in good spirits, you're the reindeer who loves to party down with Santa. Why You're Naughty: You're always blitzed on Christmas Eve, while flying! Why You're Nice: You mix up a mean eggnog martini.

click here to check Which of Santa's Reindeer Are You?

And another CONCERT...

be there people its going to be very nice hopefully!! and Karim Said is a nice person and performer,so we better support him! (minna w feena) not to mention young and talented as well....







Break a Leg man!!

AUDITIONS YUCK!!

so today is the day!! at last auditions for the Amman Symphony Orchestra! I have to say the truth! i'm not prepared, i dont feel like going to the auditions, and i'm to sleepy!!! it doesnt feel like an audition! i dont feel like having my before the audition vodka shot (why) ?? becayse its waaay too early to do that and i'm dont drink usually so i dont want an upset stomach on stage!! i better leave to the audition now! dont wish me luck!!!!!! wish the Amman Symphony Orchestra that!!

AMMAN COMMUNITY BAND

Come and enjoy a nice christmas concert (free entrance) we're playing nice christmas music :) Happy Holidays Y'all :)

HE TOOK SAMEERA

My brother Nick, has been working in Qatar for a while!! hell ya i missed him loads! but SAMEERA was (is) MINE until he came back for good last week!!! (drum roll)... he found a job here in Amman, and he took Sameera away from me! "its only for a while" he said, (define while please)....
I need Sameera more than any other thing lately! why should i be the one who takes Taxi's and Buses! hes 6 years older than me he can do Taxi's and buses too! why now?? WHY ME?? I hate to take buses when i have my bag, my Trumpet, and my Tableh... it really sucks! (osloub il qame3 ili ma be5las)


P.S incase you're wondering who's Sameera, its MY car! I have no Clue why I called it that why! its better than Honda Sabanekh!! lol

Happy India (Hind ilsa3eed)

I'm so excited you might find it very silly but i'm getting a harmon mute (Wah-wah mute) for my trumpet and a silent brass:) i told mom can i order one this will be my christmas present and my birthday and the next christmas present and my birthday and so on :D lol she agreed haha!! when i get my harmon mute Jazz will be so much fun! and when i get my silent brass ahhhhh where shall i begin... i'm gonna practice day and night, night and day then day and night, and maybe night and day, after that day and night....etc!! no one can tell me to shut that brassy thing up (not that anyone is allowed too)!!! as much as it sounds silly as much as i'm happy, even more!! hope y'all get what you want for christmas and birthdays and everything :D
Peace

Question please :P

so i was just wondering??!!
If a fine is a tax for doing well, will that tax be a fine for doing wrong!!???

g2go got orchestra practice in an hour better go warmup !!!!

Due to the fact that.....

I can see that music business is "flourishing" here in our beloved country so due to the fact that it is or might be or will be it doesn't matter its all the same, I as your friend in music will try to give you some pieces of advise to all of you newbies that want to play in gigs or restaurants or even start a "band" its not easy as you think!!



Top Facts of Life for Playing in Clubs and Restaurants:

• Unless you are in a concert situation, most of the people are not there to hear you. Your music is incidental. People go to restaurants and bars to eat, to drink, to socialize, do business, or maybe to be alone in a crowd. So if you reach some of them and entertain them, you've done a hell of a job.
• In most restaurants, your main objective is to try to entertain without bothering anybody.
• Any volume is too loud for someone.
• The crowd would rather hear a terrible rendition of "Sweet Caroline" than the tastiest arrangement of one of your originals that they've never heard before.
• The customer who asked for "Sweet Caroline", his favorite song, won't realize you're playing it until you actually reach the word "Sweet".
• Someone in the crowd will have halfway heard you play "Sweet Caroline" and it will remind him of the song so he'll request it right after you've just played it.
• Your slowest night, with the most obnoxious crowd and the worst response, is immeasurably better than the best day you ever had at a day job!!!

NEW RULES FOR BANDS IN THE 21st CENTURY:

• Never name a song after your band.
  Never name your band after a song.
• Never start a trio with a married couple.
• Before you sign a record deal, look up the word "recoupable" in the dictionary.
• A string section does not make your songs sound any more "important".
• If you sound like another band, don't act like you're unfamiliar with their music ("Oh does Rage Against The Machine also do rap-rock with political lyrics?")
• Never enter a "battle of the bands" contest. If you know you're already a loser.
• If you use a smoke machine your music sucks.

with all do respect to all the bands that are starting in Amman- Jordan... Good luck to all of you! Get some music theory lessons! And maybe read a book about being in Tune or in Harmony!

Remember... then PRAY

You were walking in the dark, lost, cold, tired, i bet you want to go to bet dring a hot cup of milk and sleep.... so at last you find a tunnel mybe you think this might be a way out of this dark place!! so you go to towards that tunnel, and you enter it fearing nothing!! having nothing on your mind but the image of a hot bath and clean bed sheets. you're half way through the tunnel, maybe less maybe more who knows! and you see a LIGHT you feel Happy, you start running towards it! now remember there is light at the end of Every tunnel just pray that its not a train!!

P.S (i'm so bored! this came out of my boredom)

1 DECEMBER WORLD AIDS DAY

You, Me & US ... CAN STOP THE SPREAD OF HIV....

check the website


God help those who have HIV.....

this just popped into my mind!!!!

when writing on a lined piece of paper we always skip the first line, why dont they make lined paper without the first line??

I HATE ISLAMIC ART HISTORY!! (no kidding)

so i asked the proff to let me go to the bathroom while i sit here to blog this:

*I'm so sleepy

*the dude doesnt know what hese talking about

*and due to the fact that i'm sleepy i cant understand what he's talking about!!!

*I need coffee!!

ok i have to go back to class he's an ass he wouldnt believe that i was in the bathroom all that time!!

MY EXAM

so at last today i DID my Trumpet technical exam!! i feel so good oh my good what a feeling! i'm willing to do any thing right now!
i got 27/30 for the first time in my university life i got over 25!! thank y ou osatazz Rani... you ROCK man i love you!! you're the best teacher a trumpet player can ever have!
my program was 2 scales 2 octaves G major and Minor and two etudes by Vorm!! I DID GOOODD YAAAAAYYYY
now i have to get ready for my final at the end of the semester :)
I FEEEELL GOOOD NANANANA

Deep thoughts

For all of you folks who kiss ass to get to the top a thing I'd never do!! Here's a little thing from me to you I'm not going to use names so don't worry!! And I wont do it no way!!

the other day a turkey was chatting with a bull: "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."
"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients."
The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree.
the Turkey then was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree.
so you see Bull sh#* might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there. Keep it in mind!!

RJ must start improving some way or another

Ok, as much as I love flying the world as much as I hate Royal Jordanian!! I tried it in short distance trips and long distance trips! Where to??? The U.S & A it was so awful i felt as if I'm ridding the shitty transportation busses we have in here in Amman!!! Its was ok on our way to the states but back!!! WTF it was so bad I cant even describe it!! Seeds (bizer) on the floor! Dirty bathrooms, not to mention the smell!! ahhhh thinking of it drives me crazy! But I really think it can be better if they do something about the flight attendants! They're always grumpy, too slow and don't want to work! (I really made them go wild though hehehe what can I do it took them an hour to get me water after a while I went and got it my self) Any ways I got an Idea for the slogan part I have a joke for you RJ here it goes:


A guy sitting at a terminal noticed a really beautiful woman sitting next to him.
He thought to himself: "Wow, she's so gorgeous she must be a flight attendant. But which airline does she work for?"
Hoping to pick her up, he leaned towards her and said the Delta Airline slogan: "Love to fly and it shows?"
She gave him a confused look and he immediately thought to himself:"Damn, she doesn't work for Delta Airlines."
A moment later, another slogan popped into his headway leaned towards her again, "Something special in the air?"
She gave him the same confused look. He then removed Singapore Airlines off the list.
Next he tried the Thai Airways slogan: "Smooth as Silk."
This time the woman turned to him "WTF do you want?"
The man smiled, then lay back in his chair, and said "Ahhhhh, Royal Jordanian!"

Well Said!!!

There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

GREAT Concert Disasters

All of us ( Orchestra members) know what a concert disaster is!! They're not nice at all the moment they happen but after a day or two you look back and cant stop laughing!! Oh well shit happens and we laugh again!! I found a site that has some nice stories check'em out GREAT CONCERT DISASTERS

WINNING ELEVEN COMPETITION

I really like playing Winning Eleven!! Its a nice game it kills time actually!! Oh well for all of you that are interested there's a competition Taking place at the INHOUSE cafe!! Go for it y'all!!



ENJOY

CONCERT........ CONCERT

if a black box appeared click on it to show the poster!

Why Once Upon a India??

Well I know this was supposed to be one of my first blogs but I have no clue why I didn't post it!! Its not a big deal but it all goes back when I was in School and I was a member of the Amman Baptist School Band, one of the band members called Yazan A. He used to call me India, he used to translate some words literally and use them in his sentences which is very funny because my name is Hind translated India, so it kind of stuck with me till now all the band members call me India I got used to it.... Its good that they didn't get to my grandfathers name (Nakhleh) which will be translated to PALM!!! Or my family name (SABANEKH) it'll end up to be SPINACH... (3elet sar5asyat) so I thought India in comparison with those two is fine!! India Palm Spinach..... Interesting thinking about it Popeye might be one of my ancestors.......

The 15th Festival and Conference of Arab Music

Jordan is participating in the conference (good luck) which is taking place in Cairo Opera House hopefully we'll do good in the performance and get a good rank in the percussion competition (Mohammed Taha is representing Jordan)!! i'm so excited about it, the thought of visiting the Cairo Opera House gives me a boost of excitement!! how about performing there!! I still havent tried it!! three more days left and i'll tell you about it when i come back :)

ATTITUDE

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company….a church….a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude … I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

By, Chuck Swindoll

"KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"

It's funny I never thought about it this way, every medicine bottle or box has this sentence on it! "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN" I always thought that children do cause a headache sometimes/always but i never thought that it'll get to this level!!

where will it lead...... and till when

We musicians are being humiliated. Yes humiliated and we're doing nothing about it. Or we're trying but nothing is working out. Oh and please let me clarify what I meant with musicians according to dictionaries:

I'm not going to bore you with all the details..Only headlines!!!!

Music is a form of entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. It is expressed in terms of pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which includes tempo and meter), and the quality of sound (which includes timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture).

A musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:

• A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument.
• An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.
• Both singer and instrumentalist can be improvisers, who create real time music.
• Composers and songwriters write music.
• A conductor coordinates a musical ensemble.

According to Alfred Alexander, "a singer is a person of adequate musicality, who is gifted with a voice of such power and beauty that competent judges can recommend singing as a career"
i.e. please don't compare "musicians/singers" you see on T.V to us, we read notes and know music theory, not to mention if we know how to sing, we sing in tune and know what were doing, at least we know what a demihemisemiquaver means,!! They're not even worthy of being called artists (fanan/fananeh) why do WE waste our time in studying music theory, harmony, counterpoint, analysis, and conducting, this is only a short list of what we go through in our music knowledge process and many of us might not even succeed in them what makes those people better than us?? I guess we know: they can sing out of tune easily, they have money, and female singers can dance and sing out of tune at the same time!!! Great that's excellent now i understand and actually now I can see the future or music!! I wonder how Beethoven and Mozart didn't see it!! what a waste of time and talent if i may say!!!!

Our music, Our Jordan

The other day I was asked by a bunch of extremely important people about my field of study in university, I answered with all the pride in the world glittering in my eyes and voice “ I’m a 3rd year Music student Trumpet major at the National Music Conservatory.’’ And they all had the same reply music in Jordan and a Conservatory in AMMAN???
What are you talking about Hind this is nonsense don’t waste your time and your money go study something descent in a university!!!! People here don’t deserve art, they’ll never learn and never will understand and develop (3omorhom ma bet3alamo wala beseeru)
Oh hell yeah that’s correct and so true. If our beloved country is filled with people like you we’ll never be and never learn!! I calmly replied to defend everything I stand for and believe in my MUSIC: “What do you want me to study in university? English, marketing, business…etc our country is filled with those majors and graduates can’t find work; they don’t need me to add to their unemployed citizens list!!! If you only knew your country and culture well enough you’ll know what I’m doing in studying music.” Deep inside I thought why am I wasting time on such ignorant people with money in their pockets and nothing in their brains! But then it came back to me… those are exactly the people that need to understand that music isn’t what’s seen on T.V in video clips, music is in a sense a summation activity for the expression of values, and the psychology of a culture is exposed in its music. A great philosopher once said that “if you want to learn about the culture of a certain civilization listen to its music.”
Our Jordanian/Palestinian traditional music reveals a lot about our culture and life during the time this music has developed and evolved, but its our duty to keep it alive, unfortunately if we don’t two or three generations from now all of this music will be buried under the ground! Or God forbids history will repeat it self and what once happened with our knowledge and science will happen to our music, another civilization will come and steal it from us, and we‘ll actually do nothing about it and they say that its theirs and add it to their list of achievements and repertoire. People from all over the world come to learn Arabic music here in Jordan; they find it very difficult to understand and perform yet so nice and touching.

I’m not asking you to start buying Jordanian music and listen to it day and night, its only about knowing your Jordan, your culture, for its all in our music, teach it to your children and one day hopefully your children will teach it to theirs. This way we’ll keep it alive, clean, and maybe spread it every where, but most important of all keep it ours let it not loose its identity and be affected with what you’re calling now a days “music” for it’s a shame.
This is our music, our Jordan: yesterday, today, and Tomorrow……

HAPPY EID Y'ALL

Happy Eid to everybody all the best wishes to you and your families!!!

VACATION AT LAST!!!!! WOOOOOWWWW

MY CAR

STICK AROUND
I May need someone to BLAME

Thats a GOOD one

-A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory
-Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
-A pat on the back is just inches away from a kick in the butt.
-Light travels faster than sound.This is why...some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
-Nurses have a lot of patients.
-If you'll regret it in the morning.... sleep late !!
-If your nose runs and your feet smell...you're probably built upside down.

RAMADAN!!!

Honestly I thank God it only happens once a year!! People drive me crazy during this month and worst of all they drive around town like I don't know what!! I don't deny that this holy month adds a unique sense of warmth that bonds family and friends together, but it shouldn't affect your mood and life!
people are angry all the time screaming, yelling and then they tell you excuse me I'm fasting!!! People you don't fast for me or people around you leave it between you and God, that's the way it was and that's the way it'll stay!

I bet some of you (if you live in Amman- Jordan) saw a Silver Honda Civic that is hit on the right back corner with a sticker on top " Stick around I may need someone to blame" well if you did yeah that is MY CAR and the dude who hit me at 5.00PM said sorry I'm fasting and I could smell alcohol in his breath!! It was 5:20 when the police man came to do the legal traffic paper work when he told me "I have to go and break my fasting sorry I cant do that thing now wait for me at the station"..... The (excuse my French) ASS-HOLE made me stay till 10:30 in the station! WHY coz he wants to break his fasting for 4 hours!!!! What the hell was he eating for four hours!!! I hate peoples attitude in RAMADAN its no longer humane its something else! be careful people what you do to other people when you "fast"

Head lines

Well I guess everybody have a room in side their brain that they can lock their selves in and think for ever, or maybe even look at the past, remember your life, or even remember everything that has had a profound impression on you no matter how small it was!! For me when I got to this room I see sentences and words!!! All had or will have a part in forming my future and it makes me realize and remember actually that I do think and I do exist!! Interesting is what I've found the last time I entered..... Large sentences huge meanings, great words and massive affects:

**Do everything for the glory of God.
**Attitudes are caught not taught.
**lead, follow, or get out of the way.
**Music isn't a universal language its a universal form of expression.
**I'd rather be optimistic and a fool rather than pessimistic and right.
**life's a journey not a destination.

and many many more these might only be sentences to many people but for me I learnt at least one thing from every point..... Its funny how I cant remember any more but I'll always remember who taught me every thing about me, my life, what will I be, and what I am!!
Our Band Director Miss B. Johnson

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