Hey! How are you?
oh look! It's someone good! How is your day going
haha yeah it's been hard to catch people on here haha it's been pretty good. how about you? any tests?
I keep running into the guy at first place.... which means I can never catch up!!! tests on tests on tests spot on with that one are you pretty swamped too??
oh haha yeah I feel the same way. There is no such thing as "being done with homework"
I'm way busy, which is precisely why I find myself here. I trick myself into thinking that this is something productive to do instead
haha yeah well it's more productive than scrolling through facebook I guess
what classes are you taking CS major?
Just generals. Spanish. World Civ, Christ & Ev Gospel, Music 101 & University Chorale. I'm not a CS major haha. Are you?
yeah I am ahh wow lots of reading in those classes first year at BYU?
haha yeah it's a lot but it's fun. Oh and I forgot about Marketing Management. That's how I heard about this. So did you find out about this challenge because of your major?
yeah, it's something that a team in the CS department is doing. I'm always big about deals and competitions so I've been doing this for a few weeks now. it was a chore at first, but I've met some of the most interesting people here. It's been amazing actually so it really is productive procrastination Marketing management was a fun class. All about those atmosphericssss
Oh okay that's cool. Yeah I've just done this here and there when I remember, but it has been pretty cool. This is my second year at BYU. What about you?
this is my second year too I'm studying CS at the moment but I think I've taken enough business classes to get a minor? I've gone through Marketing, IS 110, Econ 110, Finance 201, and Accounting 200
hey that's cool! I'm not sure what I'm majoring in yet, but I know I'm going to do a business minor. But you're way ahead of me haha. that's a lot of classes, you should defin etely go for it
I just came in with most of my GEs off so it's been great to have some flexibility to take some courses that I've been curious about but it leaves me with a lot of core classes that bring my workload to insanity what are you interested in?
Ah gotcha. I'm currently listed as a "Media Arts Premajor", so I'm interested in film and the fine arts. But I'm really considering applying to the Commercial Music program.
that's awesome in a parralel universe, I'd be doing that I'm a huge music guy
oh yeah? do you play any instruments? or listen?
yeah! I sang in choir and acapella in High school, and I've played around with producing and mixing before. I play instrumental guitar
That's awesome! I'm not very fluent in mixing or producing software at the moment, but I really want to learn. Thank goodness for youtube videos haha
yeah it's all youtube and udemy nowadays so you're obviously in choir. Do you do anything else?
I work, study, and if I can find a spare minute between any of that I like to write music. What about you?
music wise. I really like coming up with instrumental arrangements, and transcribing music what kind of music do you write?
I've been experimenting with all kinds of things lately. Everything from soul to rap to religious music. I'm kind of trying to find where I fit best haha. But instrumental music is really difficult! That's impressive.
wow soul and rap aye that's excellent what do you mean by soul? Are we talking RnB or really old soul like James Brown I like instrumental music because singing is tiring sometimes...
More R&B. It's hard to compete with the classics.  Haha that's funny, I don't think I'd ever get tired of singing. But I see what you mean. Do you write to anything specific? Like for a movie? Or just whatever comes to mind?
yeah I do so I'm a huge fan of anything really harmonic so jazz, or Rnb or even really nice hymns I try to arrange using as many fancy chords I can remember hearing and eventually I'll figure something out. I'm terribly deficient in music theory and only manage to fake my way through with an okay ear I'm actually a huge fan or composing on the ukulele. It's a really underrated instrument and excellent practice for chords and progressions since there's only 4 strings I have some videos but none of them are online...I could put it on the drive and send you a link maybe
Haha that's literally the same way I am. My music theory knowledge consists of sight-singing in choir. and that's about it. But I'm working on it haha. Ukeleles are awesome! They have such a unique sound. You totally should!
ok I will haha It's really basic though but you'll get what I mean with the chords https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HnlOK4n0YA9y1qUtsoavECav9KoBvH80 woops the end got cut off there it's a short recording I made for my friend. He owns a wood carving business
Wood carving? That's cool. hmmm the links not working though
what kind of error do you get
404 URL not found on this server
ok try this drive.google.com/open?id=1HnlOK4n0YA9y1qUtsoavECav9KoBvH8O i double checked it it doesn't help that chit chat doesn't allow copy and paste...I guess it's to safeguard against spammers who would cheat
Hey it worked. That was really good! So did your friend use that in the background for a video or something?
yeah! I think he put it on his facebook or instagram page or it might have been part of an instagram story
Sweet. How long have you played ukelele?
maybe 3 years? minus the mission... that was a tough 2 years to be away from instruments
Oh I believe it. I'm working on my mission papers right now and preparing to serve, and that's one of the things I'm nervous about haha. I guess I probably have bigger concern s though. Where did you serve?
Australia, brisbane. It was epic actually, now that I think about it. There was a ton of music on my mission
wow I bet yeah? Like what?
the people down there are so musical it was a lot of jamming with random strangers there's been a few occasions we were invited to sing or play at local clubs like I did a set for a uke club that was on this island it was amazing the most effective less active work with polynesians and new zealanders was singing! it was hilarious. We'd sing RnB mashups of hymns and the less active father would be really into it all the while smoking and holding his beer it was great
haha that's the best thing I've heard all day so did you have musical companions?
I did was very blessed. I had a german companion that was the most phenomenal piano player I had ever met he's studying to be a film composer. So he knew all the theory and how to make movie music. We'd occasionally bring our investigators to the chapel and I'd speak over the pulpit while my companion improvised something inspirational as background music
no way that does sound pretty epic
for the christmas conference, our zone was asked to participate in an acapella Mary Did You Know with another zone and we took it way serious. We had members print out the PTX version and we actually managed to do the entire song in the PTX arrangement. goosebumps thinking about it! thanks for bringing back the memories my mission was really ideal that way. We worked so hard, but I never felt like I was really sacrificing you know?? It was just doing what I loved everyday hey it was so nice talking to you. I actually have to go to...Acapella practice, of all things! I hope everything is well and keep chasing that dream. I'd do music, but I love CS too much to quit hahah