What is the best all girls' school in Brisbane?
I know you want an all girls school...but may I suggest Brisbane State High. Whilst it does have boys they have some of the best teachers, the facilities are pretty modern and has the biggest cultural diversity. I went there not to long ago and everyone was nice to each other because of the school's culture. They offer a great range of academic, sporting and cultural study paths. The senior course guide is on the school website (www.statehigh.com.au) and should answer any questions you have about curriculum.
Where can I find a list of boarding schools for Europe and Australia?
I'm going to be a High school student, and I'd like to find a boarding school willing to accept me. The countries are Italy preferably Milan, France, England and Australia. I want the school to be fun at the same time and not so uptight, because that's the whole reason I want to go to boarding school. To have fun, learn about a culture, make friends and at the same time have a learning experience. And also if possible a list of programs where I can participate in High school classes and learn in the same countries listed above during the months of April to May.
At this moment, a huge riot is dominating the news in Charlottesville, VA at issue the removal of all Civil War statues. Should the statues stay or go?
Thank you for the A2A Denise.Statues of traitors have no place in the country they betrayed.I'm tired of this nonsense argument of it's “erasing history”.You're telling me a few statues are going to erase the multitude of films, pictures, biographies, novels, primary sources, textbooks and history classes that are taught to us in American class rooms about these people?If you really believe that, then be honest, it's not “removing history” you're afraid of, it's your hateful past being brought into light and being dealt with.Since when do the losers get statues honoring them? Why don't we have statues of King George? Why don't we have Statues of Benedict Arnold, he was a traitor just like Lee.The thing is you really have no legitimate basis to keep the statue up. It is on public land. Meaning taxpayer money goes to maintaining it.Why should black residents of Cville have to work hard and pay taxes to keep up a statue of a man who fought to keep them enslaved? Robert E. Lee is not saint many like to depict him as.For any white people who believe the stature should stay up, put yourself in this situation. Your ancestors suffered 200 years of oppression and were literal slaves. Okay then a massive war is fought to maintain or abolish your enslavement and this one general is very successful in trying to maintain it.Would you really want to pay your hard earned tax payer dollars to maintain a statue honoring a guy who quite frankly would've seen you as an inferior sub- human?Statues of Jeb Stuart, Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Stonewall Jackson should be removed as they were traitorous Americans who fought to keep their fellow Americans enslaved.I want to see more of this.
How do you teach music theory to instrumental classes who've had no musical training?
“You can’t just teach the theory; it has to be connected to making real musically valid sounds.” (Ken Madell, in a comment to an other answer)I taught guitar, lute and recorder both to individual students and to entire classes, and I can state that Ken’s statement is valid the other way too. In order to make real music, making noise on an instrument is not enough: you also have to understand and learn the vocabulary and the grammar of the music.Well, this sounds a bit scary at first, but I had the best possible help:“The Adventures of Peter The Musician”, illustrated music theory lessons for kids and adults, first edition: 1961. That was the book that through Peter’s adventures taught me the basics of music theory, harmony and the musical forms, and that was the book I copied for every student I had. While reading Peter’s diary , we looked for the notes, intervals and accidentals mentioned in the stories on the instruments, or the other way: we searched in the book for what we learned on the instruments.The book was a sequel to an other one, where Peter visited the Land of the Instruments (1940, a story about Peter’s quest to find the Lost Melody in the Land of the Instruments) that was apparently even more successful. This is the cover of the 1957 edition, reprinted about five years ago:In elementary classes I used this before the other one; bigger students also received a copy, but they had to read it alone, since it contained things they already learned in school — they just had to refresh what they already had to know.These two books contained more theory than the manuals of 1st-8th grades in regular (non music) schools, and almost as much as 1st-6th grade music school manuals, but in a playful, easily understandable, and still concentrated form I never saw in other books before or since. I attended some “regular” theory classes lately, and I think that I will stick with “my” method. Unfortunately these books were translated only to German (Peter im Lande der Musikinstrumente and Musikpeters neue Abenteuer); but if you know about similar books in English or any other language, don’t be ashamed: advertise them, they deserve it — and our kids (and not only) deserve to know about them.
What is a good website to learn bass guitar?
There are many and each offer their own degrees of insights and options in different formats:StudyBass - Free Online Bass Lessons : one of the early pioneers of online bass guitar. The founder, Andrew Pouska, really knows his stuff and offers a fantastic array of suggestions, tips and in-site resources like fretboard diagrams and tunersOnline Bass Lessons - Scott's Bass Lessons : Scott. Of course.Teach Me Bass Guitar : Bassist Roy Vogt's online school. Also very good and insightful stuff from a seasoned industry manBassLessons.tv : Joseph Patrick Moore's online bass school. Again, very good. Highly recommended. He also used to be the bassist for John Popper from Blues Traveler, Derek Trucks from the Allman Brothers and many othersJohn Marley - About Me A great teacher out of the UK. He's very knowledgeable when it comes to jazz and jazz bass playing and he contributes on my site, Smart Bass GuitarSmart Bass Guitar - Opinion and Analysis in Bass Guitar : My own site, Smart Bass, includes guest pieces from John Marley as I mentioned above, interviews both full form and shorter pieces with industry experts and players and lots of written lessons and tipsBassit • /r/Bass : Reddit's bass guitar forum. A good place for bassists to chat that's not quite as hectic as TalkBassI'm sure there are many others. But these are the ones I'm a fan of.
Is 17 too late for music?
I like that you are being a realist about this. So I’ll just give you my life experience instead of the ‘live your dreams’ rhetoric.I have always played music in some form, so in terms of starting at 17 (which is still so so young) I can’t relate exactly. But I have friends that have picked up the guitar or bass or even drums and taken roughly two years to be almost equal with lifelong players - how? Because they practised more than anyone else.When you have been playing your whole life it is easy to get complacent, to think you’ve already learned it all. So starting now, as you are, means that you will have the motivation and determination of a new passion and likely overtake other ‘lifers’.In terms of getting in a band and making an album, dude… just do it. I can not recommend this enough. I’ve made several albums with several bands and it is the funnest, but also extremely challenging, and proudest things I have ever done.My only advice on that would be, before you embark on an album, do an EP (so just record 3–4 songs). This will put your band through the experience and you will find out whether these are people you can actually work with, whether your sound and songwriting are ready for an album - because an album is a lot of time, money and effort and you want people to listen to it.Or just do it for yourself, that’s cool too.