Invisible By Tara Jamieson

Africa by Toto cover by Tara Jamieson

What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong cover by Tara Jamieson

Spring Clean Your life: Day 0 - The Night Before the Madness

Hey Guys!!

Tomorrow is May 1st, and I am starting to get excited for my spring cleaning month! I decided I would share with you what I’m doing so that if you guys wanted to you could do it too!! 

I will be posting to this page everyday to update you on my progress!! Its going to be tough, but in the end I think that I am going to make some good changes!!

May 1st - 31st: Spring Clean Your Life

Week 1: Spring Clean Your Diet/ Exercise

• Eat breakfast every morning
• Have a small snack between 1st and 2nd period (10:30 am)
• Eat lunch (11:45 am)
• Have a snack between 3rd and 4th (2:00 pm)
• Exercise for 1 hour everyday (biking or running/walking)
• Drink 2 water bottles (refillable of course) full with water during the school day

Week 2: Spring Clean Your Space

• Clean room for 20 min every day
• Clean room from top to bottom once
• Follow the “60 second rule” - if it doesn’t take longer than 60 seconds to put away there is no reason not to put it away
• Go through and separate clothing you don’t wear

Week 3: Spring Clean Your Mind

• Wake up and look in the mirror:
• Say 5 things you like about yourself
• Say 5 things you wish to improve on for that day
• Say 5 things you are thankful for
• Meditate/ stretch for 15 minutes every day

Week 4: Spring Clean Your Relationships

• Find 1 thing nice to say about everyone you talk to
• Help 3 people every day
• Talk to someone new everyday, someone you may not necessarily talk to often or a new person entirely 

So thats my plan! So if anyone has any questions, comments, or concerns please leave a comment on by blog!!

I have also linked my Tumblr page where I will also be posting updates everyday in the month of May plus pictures documenting my progress!!

Thanks Guys!!

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Someone Like You by Adele Cover by Tara Jamieson CCVI Idol Finals

Stuck in the middle

Poll: Should Canada ban the import of asbestos brake pads?

Poll: Should Canada ban the import of asbestos brake pads?

Canada should not be importing asbestos brake pads! Please go to the link and vote. Asbestos brake parts are a danger to your mechanic!

KONY 2012

Nothing by Tara Jamieson

The Road by Tara Jamieson

My Letter To You by Tara Jamieson

A Drop In The Ocean By Ron Pope Cover By Tara Jamieson

A Guide to Covers - Making Someone Else's Song Your Own

Before you start I caution you. Because of the SOPA/PIPA legislation making covers of music may become much more limited. So I caution you to always check before posting any covers online.

When I upload video’s to YouTube I do a mix of  video’s of other people’s music and my own. These are called covers. Some of the biggest musicians have made their claim to fame from covers. So here are four tips to making a great cover of a hit song:

#1 - Change it. By changing the key, tempo, and/or melody you truely make the song your own and add your own spin on it, staying out of the “cookie cutter” zone and moving into the “YOU” zone.

#2 - Have fun with it! If the people listening to you can hear that you enjoy what you are doing, chances are they will enjoy it too!!

#3 - Make an acoustic cover. Being able to enjoy a song that feels real and like you are singing it to someone in their living room makes it much easier to connect with the person.

#4 - Learn the meaning of the song. By learning the original meaning of the song or creating your own meaning, you can connect to the song and sing it as if the song were your own.

Happy Singing!!

A Song From The Heart...

Today I got some bad news from a friend that really effected me. I was feeling scared and sad and angry that something could grab hold of someone so easily under the right circumstances. I was distraught and found it hard to focus, so I wrote about it. I took all the anger and distress that i felt and put it on a page. Then I realized that two little excerpts that I had written at a different point of time fit exactly what I was trying to say. I asked my music teacher for 15 minutes with a piano, and the song was done. I then played it for my music class and everyone was moved in some way, shape, or form and I almost started crying part way through the performance because it was all still so fresh. These are the situations that I write about because they make me feel something real. 

Stay tuned for the video of “Nothing” by Tara Jamieson!

A Singer, A Songwriter, A Musician - My Story

What do you get when you put high school, music, boys, and me all together? You get a 16 year old girl with a love of singing and songwriting who is trying to make a name for herself. I have been singing for as long as I can remember, but I have been taking singing lessons from Camilla Cook for the past 8 years. With her I have been able to increase my range, improve my technique, and become the musician I am today. I have included a link to the website of C&C Vocal and Music Services if you wanted to check out her and her husband. I started songwriting the summer between grade 7 and grade 8. But in order to tell you that story I have to tell you this story. My mom had heard about auditions for The Sound of Music in Toronto. I of course wanted to audition, I love musicals and my dream was to be a stage performer. I went to the open call and my mom and I waited for a few hours in line until it was finally my turn. And I got a call back, and then another call back, and another, until there were only 6 girls left for the role I was auditioning for. But it was at that time that they told me that I didn’t get it, I was and inch and a quarter too tall and my hair wasn’t the right colour. I was devastated. I told myself that I was never going to audition again. It was at that time that I started writing music. We had a family friend, Heidi Huettner, who taught me 5 guitar chords and changed my life. She taught me about the basics of songwriting, about different rhyming patterns and the order songs go in. I co-wrote my very first song with her, it was about my favorite food. And then my songwriting took off, I was writing songs every few days and I had written a song a day. But then I ran out of ideas, Heidi was gone, and I was all alone with nothing to write about. Sure, I wrote a few songs after that but they were all flops. It wasn’t until I was in grade 9 that I got a new inspiration … boys! I wrote a song about the guy I liked who eventually became my first boyfriend. We broke up after 3 weeks, but I gave it a go. Then that became all I wrote about, crushes, broken hearts, pain, happiness, but all surrounding boys. These are things that make me feel something strong, something real, and something I feel that I need to express. I write music about things that really matter to me and things that make me have strong emotions, otherwise I can’t write anything that I particularly like to sing. When I sing for people a lot of them ask, “Why haven’t you been discovered yet?” or, “Do you have a youtube channel?” and at the time I had no answer for them, I didn’t understand why I had not been discovered and why my dreams had not come true and I didn’t have a youtube channel, I thought I was too young and that no one would ever see my video’s in a digital world where everyone was trying to do the same thing. But this time will be different! I am going to try my very best to make it because I believe I can and I believe that I am good enough and strong enough and brave enough to do this. I want the music industry to be my normal!

So join me as I follow my dreams! There may be success. There will be failure. But not a moment will be wasted!