ESTUDIO ESCUELA
LA VERDAD DEL CORAZÓN SONARÁ POR SIEMPRE
ALEJANDRO URBINA DÍAZ
GROOVE FLUX
BASS GUITAR FILO
(Born July 5th 1995, Mexico City)
Bass guitarist, Guitarist, Composer, Capture and edition audio engineer.
Certified by the ABRSM in Grade 4 of Music Theory, with knowledge of Grade 5 Music Theory, achieved level 6 of La Guitarra al Filo -method for fusion guitar- and studied Paco de Lucía’s Flamenco guitar techniques with Alejandro Aznavwrian. I had the amazing opportunity to record three solo bass guitar albums with the guidance of my teacher: Groove Flux, Stellar Machine and Filo Bass Guitar.
My history with music begins with my family. Throughout throughout generations we have had the custom of learning to play an instrument , this was inherited from my great grandmother, who became a piano concertist in the Conservatoire of Bellas Artes in Mexico. Music came to my life when I was 5 years old and my grandmother started to teach me the basics: at that point on time I also engaged myself in private piano classes and after, when I was 6, I decided to learn electric bass guitar, starting with acoustic guitar lessons. After these classes I continued playing and practicing electric bass guitar on my own until I turned 18 and entered the professional course program in Ararat Music School.
The program I took was an intensive 4 year curriculum where I was taught how to use the conceptual framework of art, science, philosophy and misticism around musical motifs.
I have performed over 30 concerts in public venues and museums such as: Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones, National Interventions Museum, Del Carmen Museum, UAM- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Campus Xochimilco, Deads Day Festival , Museums Fair;and also have been interviewed at Radio13 radio station’s broadcasted programs.
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OTHER SUBJECTS BASED IN HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
Other subjects based in Humanistic Psychology:
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Interpreter´s psychology
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Transactional Analysis
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Organizational Development
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Semiotics: Mysticism and Symbolism
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Music Business
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Business Prospecting and Profiling
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Characterology
Extracurricular/optional music courses:
• Blues
• Latin tumbaos for piano
• The Art of Hendrix
• The Art of Paco de Lucía
• Music theory in Metal
• Flamenco cadences, progressions, techniques, philosophy and history
• Jazz Modes
• La Técnica al Filo - Method for fusion guitar
• Flamenco
• Country
The professional course covers all of the academic necessities and projects, supporting students beyond the academics:
MUSIC BACKGROUND
Music Background
-Classical and Contemporary Harmony
-Complementary piano
-Classical guitar and electric guitar
-Electric and acoustic bass guitar
-Complementary singing
-Solfège musical
-Flamenco Guitar (Paco de Lucia’s Technique)
-La Técnica Al Filo, Method for fusion guitar Level 6
-MIDI
-Electronic Music
-Composition
-counterpoint
-Arrangement
-Popular Music Ensembles: Blues, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Flamenco, Jazz-Flamenco, Electronic Music and Metal.
-Production
-Music Theory (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) Grades 1, 2, 3 and 4.
-History of Music
-History of Art
-Production
-Audio Engineering
-Film Scoring
-Octave Intonation Adjustment
-Organology
With rutinary conferences and courses given every Thursday, students participate and engage in topics such as:
• Creativity
• Music Business
• Leadership
• Business prospecting and profiling:
-Sales and body language
-Hermann Brain Dominance System in business
• Depression
• Adolescence
• Self-esteem and Personal image
• Character Analysis (for Film Scoring and Human development)
• Transactional Analysis
• The Hermann Brain Dominance System
• Enneagram and Mystic Philosophy
• The encounter with one-self
• Reencarnation
• The Mystical teachings of Jesus
• The Mystic experience
• Kabbalah
• Tarot
• Enneagram
Other topics give the student general knowledge of work as a professional, such as:
-Legal Advice
-Booking for radio and television
-Professional CD recording
-Copyright in the Music Industry
-Professional curriculum performing in music labels like Prodisc.
Periodically, the school invites artists and professionals to convey with us:
-Mario Aguirre - Visual and performance artist
-Rubén Maya (Famous Doctor in Arts)
-Sergio Plascencia (Director of Prodisc Label)
-Paola Lupi - Show business (Playboy model)
-Leonor Urbina -(Warner Consultant)
-Maria Salido (Painter)
-Vanessa Castillo (General Director of Mercedez Benz Fashion Week, Twenty one minds, PSP and Colors.
-Oswaldo Valderrama - Professional Photographer
Education in Ararat Music School has integrated psychological as well as art and philosophy subjects, so the curriculum includes interpreters’ psychology, which in turn uses formative education based upon the modern humanistic approach.
Psychological education authors:
-Carl Rogers
-Carl Gustav Jung
-Wilhelm Reich
-Abraham Maslow
-Eric Berne
-Daniel Goleman
With these subjects, the students learn how to confront cultural and social problems which can affect basic phases in their lifes: Family, Work, Couple relationships and Friends, with an assertive profile. The topics seen in these classes are useful for the student because he can later apply this knowledge in human development classes and the analysis seen in film scoring.
Reading Material:
-Carl Rogers - On Becoming a Person
-Stephen R. Covey -First Things First
-Daniel Goleman- Emotional Inteligence
The Film scoring curriculum includes analysis of semiotics and characters of different film genres, following a cycle that includes focusing in analyzing characters and plots, with Transactional analysis and Character analysis, allowing the student to compose and synchronize music for key scenes in movies.
List of films seen on the professional course:
1. Amelié
- Jean Pierre Jeunet -Comedy, Romance
2. Akira
- Anime, Action, Drama - Katsuhiro Otomo
3. Constantine
- Francis Lawrence - Drama, Fantasy, Horror
4. Rosemary’s Baby
- Roman Polanski- Drama, Horror
5. The One who flew over the Cuckoo’s nest
- Milos Forman -Drama
6. The Shining
- Stanley Kubrik, Stephen King - Drama, Horror
7. Shine
- Scott Hicks - Biography, Drama, Music
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
-Stanley Kubrik - Adventure, Sci-Fi
9. A Clockwork Orange
-Stanley Kubrik - Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
10. Cape Fear
-Martin Scorsese - Crime, Thriller
11. Bird
-Clint Eastwood - Biography, Drama, Music
12. Hannibal
-Ridley Scott - Crime, Drama, Thriller
13. The Exorcist 1
-William Friedkin - Horror
14. The Exorcist 2
-John Boorman - Horror
15. The Exorcist 3
-William Peter Blatty - Drama, Horror, Mystery
16. Exorcist: The Beginning
-Renny Harlin - Horror, Mystery, Thriller
17. Serial Experiments Lain
-Ryutaro Nakamura, Lia Sargent, Johei Matsuura, Akihiko Nishiyama, Chiaki Konaka- Anime, Horror, Mystery
18. Claymore- Kureimoa
-Dong Joon Kim, Hak Bin Lee, Kin Min Sun, Yong Joo Cho, Sang Yong Eom, Kil-yong Jang, Jong Hak Kim, Ki-du Kim, Yong Ho Kim, Ho-Se Lee, Oyunamu, Jin-kyeong Park, Yoshifumi Sueda, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kanji Wakabayashi, Seung-wook Woo.
- Anime, Action Adventure
19. Cadillac Records
-Darnell Martin - Biography, Drama, Music
20. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide BBC
-Matt Lipsey, Douglas Mackinnon - Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
21. Hero
- Yimou Zhang, Quentin Tarantino- Action, Adventure, History
22. Hannibal
-Ridley Scott, Thomas Harris - Crime, Drama, Thriller
23. La pianiste
-Michael Haneke - Drama, Music, Romance
24. The Yellow Sea-Hwanghae
-Hong-jing Na -Action, Drama, Thriller
25. Ghost in the Shell 1
-Mamoru Oshii - Animation, Action, Crime
26. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
-Mamoru Oshii - Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
27. The last temptation of Christ
-Martin Scorsese, Nikos Kazantzakis - Drama
28. Raging Bull
-Martin Scorsese - Biography, Drama, Sport
29. The Truman Show
-Peter Weir - Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
30. Delicatessen
-Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Comedy, Crime
31. I Saw The Devil
-Jee-woon Kim - Action, Drama, Horror
32. Pulp Fiction
-Quentin Tarantino - Crime, Drama
33. American Psycho
-Mary Harron - Crime, Drama
34. Barfly
- Barbet Schroeder, Charles Bukowski - Comedy, Drama, Romance
35. Acid House
-Paul McGuigan, Irvine Welsh - Comedy, Drama
36. Trainspotting
-Danny Boyle, Irvine Welsh - Drama
37. Pink Floyd The Wall
-Alan Parker - Animation, Drama, Fantasy
38. American Buffalo
-Michael Corrente, David Mamet - Drama
39. The Machinist
-Brad Anderson, Scott Kosar - Drama, Thriller
40. I am not a serial killer
-Billy O’Brien - Drama, Horror, Thriller
41. Irreversible
-Gaspar Noé - Crime, Drama, Mystery
42. Stigmata
-Rupert Wainwright, Tom Lazarus - Horror
43. Guardianes de la noche
-Timur Bekmambetov - Action, Fantasy, Thriller
44. Lars and the real girl
-Craig Gillespie, Nancy Oliver - Comedy, Drama, Romance
45. The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
-Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass - Comedy
46. Stephen King’s It- 1990
-Tommy Lee Wallace - Drama, Fantasy, Horror
47. Dead Silence
-James Wan - Horror, Thriller
48. Let Me In
-Matt Reeves - Drama, Horror, Mystery
49. La Strada
-Federico Fellini, Tullio Fellini - Drama
50. Blade Runner
-Ridley Scott - Sci-Fi, Thriller
51. Miles ahead
-Don Cheadle, Steven Baigelman - Biography, Drama, Music
52. The sessions
-Ben Lewin - Biography, Comedy, Drama
53. The Hours
-Stephen Daldry, Michael Cunningham - Drama, Romance
54. The Problem with the curve
-Robert Lorenz, Randy Brown - Drama, Sport
55. Reservoir Dogs
-Quentin Tarantino - Crime, Drama, Thriller
56. Deadman
-Jim Jarmusch - Drama, Fantasy, Western
57. Koyaanisqatsi
-Godfrey Reggio, Phillip Glass - Documentary, Music
58. Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress
-Greg Carson, Phillip Glass - Documentary, Short
59. Nakoyakatsi
-Godfrey Reggio, Phillip Glass - Documentary, Short
60. Baraka
-Ron Fricke - Documentary
61. Richard III
-Richard Loncraine - Drama, Sci-Fi, War
62. Crazy Heart
-Scott Cooper, Thomas Cobb - Drama, Music, Romance
63. Supersize Me
-Morgan Spurlok - Documentary, Comedy, Drama
64. Dog day afternoon
-Sidney Lumet - Biography, Crime, Drama
65. Apocalypse now
-Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius -Drama, War
66. Falling Down
-Joes Schumacher, Ebbe Roe Smith -Crime, Drama, Thriller
67. The Ninth Gate
-Roman Polanski, Arturo Pérez-Reverte -Mystery, Thriller
68. Hellsing series- Herushingu
-Kohta Hirano -Action, Animation, Fantasy
69. Rampage
-Uwe Boll -Action, Crime, Thriller
70. Rampage, Capital Punishment
-Uwe Boll -Action, Crime, Thriller
71. R.O.D. The TV-anime series
-Hideyuki Kurata -Action, Adventure, Animation
72. Eraserhead
-David Lynch -Horror
73. The Road
-John Hillcoat, Cormac McCarthy -Adventure, Drama
74. Bruce lee: -Action, Adventure, Crime
-Enter the Dragon
-Game of Death
-The Way of the Dragon
75. The Babadook
-Jennifer Kent -Drama, Horror
76. Hellraiser
-Clive Barker -Horror, Thriller
77. Drive
-Nicolas Winding Refn, James Sallis, Hossein Amini -Crime, Drama
78. Taxi Driver
-Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader -Crime, Drama
79. Calígula
-Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione -Drama, History
80. Before The Music Dies
-Andrew Shapter -Documentary, Music
81. The Silence before Bach-Die Stille vor Bach
-Pere Portabella, Xavier Albertí -Musical
82. Tous les matins du monde
-Alain Corneau, Pascal Quignard -Biography, Drama, Music
83. Inmortal Beloved
-Bernard Rose -Biography, Drama, Music
84. Amadeus
-Milos Forman -Biography, Drama, History
85. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
-Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky -Documentary, Music
86. Experience Jimi Hendrix
-Janie Hendrix -Documentary
87. Francisco Sánchez: Paco de Lucía
-Jesús de Diego, Daniel Hernández -Documentary
88. Paco de Lucía: Light and Shade: A portrait
-Michael Meert -Documentary
89. 1984
-Michael Radford, George Orwell -Drama, Sci-Fi
90. Metropolis
-Fritz Lang -Drama, Sci-Fi
91. Brazil
-Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard -Drama, Sci-Fi
92. Robocop
-Paul Verhoeven -Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
93. Naked Lunch
-David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs -Drama
94. Batman
95. The Matrix
-The Wachowski Brothers -Action, Sci-Fi
96. The Animatrix
Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Lili Wachowski, Lana Wachowski - Animation, Action, Adventure
97. Mad Max: Fury Road
-George Miller, Brendan McCarthy -Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
98. Midnight Express
-Alan Parker -Biography, Crime, Drama
99. Bronson
-Nicolas Winding Refn, Brock NormaN -Action, Biography, Crime
History of Art Films:
• Simon Schamas’ “The Power of Art”
1. Caravaggio – David with the Head of Goliath (c. 1610)
2. Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1657)
3. Rembrandt – The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (1662)
4. David – The Death of Marat (1793)
5. William M. Turner – The Slave Ship (1840)
6. Vincent Van Gogh – Wheatfield with Crows (1890)
8. Mark Rothko – Black on Maroon (1958).
• Paco de Lucía - Light and Shade
• Leonardo Da Vinci and Music
Reading material- History of Art:
• The Origins of Music
• Jacques Louis David
• Life of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Blood Wedding
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
• Sibelius
• Jay Greenberg
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• 20th Century’s Art Aesthethics and Philosophy
• Caspar David Friedrich
• Ray Bradbury - To the Chicago Abyss
• Postmodernism
• Dadaism and Punk
• Picasso and the Origins of Modernism
• Opera- Claudio Monteverdi
• The Roman School of the Cinquecento
• Instrumental Music until 1600
• Joseph Mallord William Turner
• The Venecian School of the Cinquecento
• The Violin Masters
• Instrumental Music between 16th and 17th Centuries
• Opera in France - Jean-Baptiste Lully
• The Oratorio in Italy’s Seicento
• Arcangelo Corelli
• The Italian Clavichordists
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Music for Violin
• Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV Instrumental Music
• Francois Couperin and the French Clavecin School
• Germany before Bach and Haendel
• Johann Sebastian Bach- Instrumental and Vocal Music
• George Friedrich Haendel
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Passions and Oratorios
• The Serious Opera in Italy between 17th and 18th Centuries
• Pergolessi and the Comic Opera
• The Opera in France during the 18th Century
• The life of Gluck
• The birth of the symphony
• Music in Ancient Greece
• Music in the Middle Ages
• Renaissance