Stage plan

In our stage plan we have decided to place the acoustic guitar next to the lead vocalist because it means that they can both hear each other , because our guitarist is also singing bvs, we've decided to place the keyboard at the back because he will be able to see us and follow us along with his solo bit on piano. As well as this we added the monitor at the front so it doesn't distract us and so we can hear ourselves instead of it being at the back. and there is a laptop placed at the back because in our live performance we have samples that are being added to have different effect to the original.

Metropolis studios

On Friday 3rd February, me and a few friend's were given the chance to go to metropolis via ACM, which we were really exited for and pleased that we actually had the opportunity to see where some ACM students record,and some major artists like Rhianna, Ed sheeran ,Adele and where Freddy mercury's piano is held.

It was very unfortunate, that i had to miss lectures on Friday as they were really late, although i couldn't believe that i was being given the chance to look around the studio and talk to a Grammy winning producer about how he's developed and about the gear in the studios. We arrived at metropolis and was taken upstairs the building was huge and hard to find at first, because we arrived early and there was no ACM sign until later, but when we entered inside we were shocking at how appealing it was and we understood where all that money had gone to. We were taken to the bar where we were greeted by some ACM staff , some in which i had never met. We were greeted by ACM's creator Kaine Clements, who spoke about creating ACM how it was founded and how Metropolis studios came about, he spoke about how started in a garage with a few equipment and developed from there. I also had a conversation with Kaya, which i had never met before but had heard of her, she told me about her experiences and what i can do to 'get myself out there' she also spoke to me about attending her vocal workshop, which i now intend going to.


We started of looking in studio A the big studio in the photo, where the likes of Adele, Ed sheeran , Rhianna and more had been to record and went to the massive vocal booth opposite it, we were shown the different aspects of recording in the Metropolis including the magic touch of mastering, it was one of the most amazing experiences I've had before . In the massive vocal booth opposite Studio A which you can see through there was Frank turners piano and its where we were greeted by an acm students music performance. we spent 4 hours being presented around the studio, from tours around the studio to meeting new people , if i had the chance i would not hesitate to go again and to be able to record there would be something im intrested in.      

Live lounge update



On thursday 2nd of feburary, was the band's first rehearsal in which i had managed to organise,although unfortantally not all band members were able to come but 3/4 were which got us of to a good start louis the pianist in our band had a mindset for the song 'fake love' which we as singers were pleased to hear about because we could slow it down and change it up completely to make it more meanful, so we managed to pick the song 'fake love' by drake . After the formative assessment turning out to be a major disaster we discussed putting in place a rehurshal structure which we then done for everyday wednsdays and thursdays , although the following wednsday 8th feburary our main pianist who had organised the lead guitar over the chords and had the structure set out was unable to attend which had a real let down to the team and meant we had to restart from scratch, although lauren our guitarist managed to pull something together , and me and demi then decided it would be a good idea to mix the song ' controlla' also in top 40 together with fake love, not only did it fit perfect with the melody but it also worked well with the structure we had in mind and challenged us because it meant we were able to switch from one song to another so smoothly and you wouldn't be able to tell it was a sudden change, which worked really well for us as a group. Although the guitarist (lauren) was really doubting herself and wanted to experiment with the guitar because she thought the main melody for the song was really dull and boring and she wanted to add some fancy twidly bits to the guitar to make it more intrestresing not only for her but for us as vocalists to, so we could make it vocally driven and twiddle round with our vocals to

Although the start of was a success , after wednsdays lesson we as a group are struggling to come to terms with what is currently happening with out pianionist and he made an excellent structure with real potential so we were very disappointed but making an approach to something new was also very difficult especially with such little time, we have agreed for us to meet in half term although yet again not all the band will be attending because some of the band is on holiday , which is another bridge we have to tackle. We want our performance to be as much of a success as previous performances and make sure its efficient , and to progress not regress from our last summative band skills assessment. throughout rehurshals we aspire to blog every rehurshal and talk about the struggles we are currently facing and how we are going to fix those struggles, and participate as a band together to get what we want out of it.