Ferjo's English Classes

Hi again! About my musical interests, I always said that I didn't like a genre in specific, but then I realized that the songs I liked and like until now are among Rock Music and Pop Music, I think because of the rhythms of the drums and the guitar arrangements, or the catchy tunes :). I use to listen music from the 70s to the present (in english or spanish), and generally the new music I discover is by listening the radio, YouTube, and more recently, Spotify. I like the chilean music a lot too: "Los Bunkers", "Los Tres", "Inti Illimani", "Gepe", among others. But there is one group that I have enjoyed a lot since I listened it for the first time a few years earlier, in 2016. They are "Ases Falsos". At the beginning, the group was known as "Fother Muckers", until 2011, when they changed it by the present band's name, which is also the name of one of their songs, realeased in the album "Justo y Necesario" ...

Hi everyone! I hope the last week had been nice for you :) In spite of the difficulties of studying by the online way, I think this semester I have learned many things. Some of the subjects have been more problematic, but there are others that have been very interesting to me. These are "Workshop: Music Reading and Ear Training" and "Basic Harmony I". In the first one, we learn about theoretical elements of music, practice our reading and hearing skills and also we analyze music, popular songs and classic music. The main contents we have seen in the workshop are harmonic functions, chords, musical intervals, musical scales, rhythm on music, among others. The second signature don't belong to my curriculum map (it belongs to the career Musical Composition), but I decided to add it because I want to go into detail about the area of musical composition. In the signature we learn about harmony, specially theoretical knowledge and examples, and we practice harmo...

Hi again! I hope you are fine :) There is a person who I admire, and certainly he is related with one of the fields inside the Sound Engineering. His name is Joe Hisaishi, a japanese composer who had created many of the soundtracks from Studio Ghibli, an important studio in Japan dedicated to produce animated films by the traditional way. He was born in Japan, on December 6, 1950. In 1969 he attended to the Kunitachi College of Music, where he studied Music Composition. His real name is Mamoru Fujisawa, but around the early 80s he started to use the pseudonym "Joe Hisashi", at the same time his work were becoming well know. About his work, he had made a lot of compositions, very varied and innovative, consisting of solo albums, film scores, among others. Some examples of that are, as I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, his film scores from Studio Ghibli. Since 1984, he had composed for all the films of Hayao Miyazaki, the most important director of the studio, an...

Hi again! I think that when the quarantine is over, and the coronavirus is more controlled, I'll feel so much relaxed and happy, because this time have been very stressful for me, and for the most of people I know. So, the first thing I'll do will be to visit the house of my grandfather, next to mine, and give him a great hug :), because I want to spend more time with him, fearless of infect him. Also I want to ask some friend to go out, because there is a long time from the last time I did it. I'd like to see the most of my friends, to talk and have fun face to face, without screens. I would like to visit the shore of Puerto Montt, and contemplate the sea for a long time. Also I'd like to walk through the city, see the people without masks and returning to normality, and go to the cinema with somebody. Nevertheless, I believe that the quarantine and all the restrictions we have to afront have something good: they will teach us to appreciate the really important...

Hi again! This is a picture a like very much. To contextualize, in 2019 I started to live in an university residence called RUCC (Residencia Universitaria Cardenal Caro). In this place I met a lot of friends that have made very fun and nice my stay in Santiago. So, this picture was taken by one of my friends, Carlos, at the beginning of April, in front of Las Rosas Foundation. For the Residence, is very important the social work, and make the residents aware about social concerns. Because of that, every saturdays a group of residents visit one of the foundation's homes, where we share with elderly people. That day, we prepared a musical act to them (that was pretty good), and then we shared with them for the rest of the visit. A like very much this picture because it remebers me my days at the Residence, the good moments that I lived, not just that day, but many others that I keep on my memories. I hope this quarantine time comes over soon, to see my friends again :). See...

Hi again! I think that my vice or guilty pleasure is watching series. When I was a kid, I use to watch cartoons like most of children. The oldest memory I has about it is watching Tom and Jerry with my brother Juan Francisco at the mornings. But it wasn't a real vice yet xD. Watching series became a vice when I was fourteen. I remember that a friend recommended me an anime serie called Poyopoyo (I recommend it too). I never had seen an anime before that. This serie had fifty two chapters about three minutes each one. So, I saw it on Internet... and I liked it. I think that became a vice because I had the "power" to see the next chapter without having to wait a week to see it, like on TV. After that, I started to see anime and different types of series very often, generally on my free time and weekends; and then, when I got Netflix, it helped me a lot. Sometimes, I don't see series for a few months, because nothing interest me or I haven't the time. This is...