On Wednesday 8th March, it was our live lounge assessment after weeks of practise over and over again, it came to a deadline and all was real, we had tried our best to make sure we were well prepared for our assessment
Research
when our group was going through the process of choosing our song, we were also assigned a task to research 3 originals and covers of songs , one song that really stood out to me that influenced my overall decision for when changing up the cover our group choose 'fake love' drake , was the song that was covered by pentatonix ' hallelujah' i didn't quiet enjoy the original but when i heard pentatonix version i was really impressed by the layers of harmonies , and i thought it would be a very cool idea to incorporate those decisions into our original to make it more atmospheric and uplifting. I also spoke to my peers about there research and what i found amazing is the party tune crazy in love by beyonce was not meanful, it was just dancy and lacked lyrical meaning, but the Eden project made a cover of ' crazy in love' beyonce and slowed down the tempo and there was less instruments used which i enjoyed and that's what inspired us to make our cover more slower, so we could also add some ' showing off' bits by piano, guitar and vocals because the original of fake love is RnB and generally really fast.
Rehearsal
In our rehearsal we started of with so many weaknesses which was stressing us out, for example one of our group members was going through a tough time at home which made his full focus not be the most important, although as a group we worked through this and helped him out a lot to overcome his stress and relax him , so to begin with becaue we didnt have him as our main lead instrumentalist we had to work on some basic chords when prehand we had already made a rough copy of the verse with complex chords and jazz style. Another Obstacle that i as a vocalist had was fitting the melody to the new style and the words around it, and doing something new and out my comfort zone, because i wasnt excepetionally great at jazz and hadnt studied much of it , although in the end i did manage to get my timing right with the help of my peers going over and over again until i finally managed to succeed at it. On the other hand there were some very imaginative thoughts, to start of with we put it in 4/4 but when we wanted the lyrics to fit with our swung feel louis though of us putting it in 6/8 which would work out better, and also we thought the piano entering in on its own for 2 bars would be good while there was muted guitar because it would set the scene, and the stabs with the 'whole time they want to take my place' was a very good idea because it meant that those phrases had more emphasis on them.
Performance
Had we had more time on the other hand i think we would of made sure
we were more prepared on stage prensence and moving around the stage
effectively instead of letting nerves get to us, and we would of put in
more time to make sure it was more perfect , although i think that we
done an exceptional job and im proud of us. I think that eventhough we did have a lot of practice it was not to the standard we wanted it to be , we could of made the vocals more foccused or reimplying that jazz technique although i am very proud of myself for giving it a go cosnidering i barely knew much about jazz, and having a go at improvising through the verse and chrous , i thought that was a good turn out,
i think that louis piano technique was really good and he didnt overplay his parts as well as laurens guitar and i think that Laurens harmonies were really on point making the layers we were looking for . One regret i have looking back, is not mixing two songs together because we were capable of doing so but just didnt believe we could do it with the time we had it.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Friday, 3 March 2017
To make sure everyone was happy with the rehearsal times that were able to fit all three of our timetables it was apparent that each and every one person had to send a timetable of there lessons to me so i could figure out a specify time for all of us to rehearse which worked out in the end for Wednesdays and Thursdays at 12;45 and Thursday at 1;30 although since then we had a member of our band leave and we decided to have a rehearsal every day because it would benefit us more even if it was late and only for an hour .
Live lounge update 3-
As a group this Wednesday was our first proper rehearsal since my gig in which we realised we were lacking, behind what we had originally planned but in our 2 hour lecture for band skills we went through timings, because i was having trouble coming in on the correct time as the backing track i was rehashing to with a metronome was completely different , so to resolve this we recorded a backing track with timing and without metronome to help me figure it our and practice at home.
Although we had rearranged our set up and how we played it compared to the original , for example in the original the chorus and verse are not identified by particular chords so we changed the chords round so that we could make sure that the verse and chorus were identified we also added a piano instrumental before the first verse. Our second task was to make sure there was places to breathe in ' whole time the want to take my place' so we made it short and snappy and we added stabs with the instruments so that those words were expressed as well as a small pause in between each one, the instruments had to make sure they were getting there stabs in tack because they were the mot important throughout the song.
we also released that there were barely any breathe points in our whole piece so that is why we added an instrumentation part and slowed it down, although when we tried to slow it down it lost effect and the instruments whaled away from the slow version and moved back to what we had originally, so we decided to keep it that way but change the style instead of keeping it to rapping and singing the lyrics fast we done it slow and steady lyrics.
we also had feedback from Rodger from this practice as well , he told us the instruments were not in time they were doing their own thing and wasn't supporting each other or me , so we resolved this by going through each step by step and blending the two instruments together instead of over playing .
As a group this Wednesday was our first proper rehearsal since my gig in which we realised we were lacking, behind what we had originally planned but in our 2 hour lecture for band skills we went through timings, because i was having trouble coming in on the correct time as the backing track i was rehashing to with a metronome was completely different , so to resolve this we recorded a backing track with timing and without metronome to help me figure it our and practice at home.
Although we had rearranged our set up and how we played it compared to the original , for example in the original the chorus and verse are not identified by particular chords so we changed the chords round so that we could make sure that the verse and chorus were identified we also added a piano instrumental before the first verse. Our second task was to make sure there was places to breathe in ' whole time the want to take my place' so we made it short and snappy and we added stabs with the instruments so that those words were expressed as well as a small pause in between each one, the instruments had to make sure they were getting there stabs in tack because they were the mot important throughout the song.
we also released that there were barely any breathe points in our whole piece so that is why we added an instrumentation part and slowed it down, although when we tried to slow it down it lost effect and the instruments whaled away from the slow version and moved back to what we had originally, so we decided to keep it that way but change the style instead of keeping it to rapping and singing the lyrics fast we done it slow and steady lyrics.
we also had feedback from Rodger from this practice as well , he told us the instruments were not in time they were doing their own thing and wasn't supporting each other or me , so we resolved this by going through each step by step and blending the two instruments together instead of over playing .
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Live lounge update 2-
Since week 1 after half term, our acoustic act has been able to fit in more preparation into our final performance for the live lounge, more rehearsals have been booked, and everybody has been progressing with turning up on time, as well as actually turning up to the rehearsal which is a massive beneficial contribute to our final performance.
Although 2nd week in from half term there wasn't much practise we could fit in around my time blog because i had a gig to complete at the start 28th February and me and Lauren who is in my band had to do a lot of preparation for that and the only time we got that week was in our band skills lecture and the following day Thursday for 2 hours, but following our lecture on Wednesday we had some really key points that were added , because the way i was singing was really shy , and nervous girl, so Rodger helped me be more confident in the way i sing and to add vibrato , but to also start the first verse strong so the rest of it fit in sync and can carry on like that , he also mentioned go Lauren and Louis that they needed to be more tighter and have the same chords as each other so they don't clash.
We as a band release that we need to get more rehearsal in so now that my gig is complete we have self prepared booking a diff rent room everyday for 2 hours to practise and coming in on weekends to make a better improvement in our performance, we are all determined to make sure this is the best performance that we have done and achieve the best grade we can, so therefore were dedicating our weekends as well as weekdays to the rest of the week.
In our band we also spoke about slowing down the tempo, because i was having problems singing ' whole time they want to take my place' because the original singer is rapping the song, so we spoke about slowing it down but had no clue where to start.
Our group all went away and learned our parts, which i was extremely happy about because my last performance wasn't so good, so in order to make sure this performance is better i made sure everyone knew their parts and went away and practised.
Since week 1 after half term, our acoustic act has been able to fit in more preparation into our final performance for the live lounge, more rehearsals have been booked, and everybody has been progressing with turning up on time, as well as actually turning up to the rehearsal which is a massive beneficial contribute to our final performance.
Although 2nd week in from half term there wasn't much practise we could fit in around my time blog because i had a gig to complete at the start 28th February and me and Lauren who is in my band had to do a lot of preparation for that and the only time we got that week was in our band skills lecture and the following day Thursday for 2 hours, but following our lecture on Wednesday we had some really key points that were added , because the way i was singing was really shy , and nervous girl, so Rodger helped me be more confident in the way i sing and to add vibrato , but to also start the first verse strong so the rest of it fit in sync and can carry on like that , he also mentioned go Lauren and Louis that they needed to be more tighter and have the same chords as each other so they don't clash.
We as a band release that we need to get more rehearsal in so now that my gig is complete we have self prepared booking a diff rent room everyday for 2 hours to practise and coming in on weekends to make a better improvement in our performance, we are all determined to make sure this is the best performance that we have done and achieve the best grade we can, so therefore were dedicating our weekends as well as weekdays to the rest of the week.
In our band we also spoke about slowing down the tempo, because i was having problems singing ' whole time they want to take my place' because the original singer is rapping the song, so we spoke about slowing it down but had no clue where to start.
Our group all went away and learned our parts, which i was extremely happy about because my last performance wasn't so good, so in order to make sure this performance is better i made sure everyone knew their parts and went away and practised.
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