Why We Made This
Being part of the Tri-M Music Honor Society during High School was an awesome experience. I got to perform a lot on stage with my friends and amazing musicians. At the end of the academic year, every senior gets a 10-minute spot to perform a song of their choosing with the help of the other members. My Senior year ended with the event of the decade—the Covid Pandemic, and we had to come up with an alternative to a live-performance. This video is what we created.
The Music and Video
With a few of my fellow Seniors, Camilo and Chang-Yu, we decided to each perform our songs together, and recorded our parts individually, edited them, and came up with this video. We created a medley of three relatively unconventionally mixed songs, The Pot by Tool, Rosanna by Toto, and our rendition of Autumn Leaves.
In this performance I played the piano and guitar, Camilo the drums, and Chang-Yu the Saxophone. I also did the video editing. This project was very difficult to pull off, taking a month or so to complete during the pandemic, but it came out awesome.
Mentions
Special thanks to Josefina (who’s channel the video is posted to) for singing and playing the bass in every song, Olivia and Kristian for singing in Rosanna, and Seba for playing the guitar in Rosanna.
Make sure to check more out from Jose’s channel.