Leigh in Azerbaijan

Looking at the country and education.

Entries Tagged as 'music'

First day back at school.

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

So many great people to catch up with! There’s no students back yet, just plenty of meetings and classroom organisation.

Introductions and getting-to-know-you up at the Early Learning Centre. The design of the building is a little like the Aussie ABC sign with break-out rooms coming from each of the three spaces.  Very creative!  You can [...]

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Tags: music · school

Online Tab Player - Songsterr

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Nothing to do with Azerbaijan but lots of fun for guitarists.

Online Tab Player - Songsterr
This has to be one of the best sites for learning finger-picking.  Tunes are in Tablature form on bar lines with time signature. At this stage there are around 100 songs available.  Subscribe to the RSS feed to be informed of [...]

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Tags: music

Walking the back streets of Baku

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I got home at 12 last night after the restaurant gig. It was very noisy, mostly TISA people but there were about 6 other parties of diners during the night. Wayne and I separately sat on a chair close to our long line of tables and sang with various degrees of success.  [...]

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Tags: Baku · music

Azeribaijancı (The language of Azeraibaijan)

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Slowly, very slowly am I understanding and using the language here. I can make my basic needs known in the corner shop and even answered a question about where I was from the other day. (Avustraliadanam) I’ve started lessons by myself where I’m learning a little more but the challenge is to [...]

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Tags: music · school

Music concert

June 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Tonight, I attended a concert by the middle-elementary music students. It was a lot of fun. I am so proud of my students who have been learning piano, guitar and recorder or singing in the choir. Most of them I didn’t even know that they were learning. Some of my children [...]

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Tags: music