PROJECT 4 - BLOG POST 4


Currently, because ive had a lot of confusion, with accompaniment and arrangements and what im doing, i havent had much to write about in terms of blog posts although im carrying on other the next few weeks , and ive had many rehurshals with keith branic and lauren together which is fortunately working, amazingly we are planning to try and add a cojan to add empashis to my original now that everything is working its way out we have arranged a time planned on rehurshals and planned to rehearse at least one hour every day apart from Wednesday

This is another form of collaboration outside the music collabration, and inside, so working on lauren we decided on something that would both describe us in one word, and we came up with many variations but what both suited us and in which we made our band name was the word 'cliché'
the purpose of choosing the word was descibing our personalities as we are both quirky and diffrent and the word cliche means predictable which is something we give our with our status and our clothing , me personally also collabrated with an artist who is one of my old school freinds who then designed a logo with the word in a guitar form to describe the whole ' acoustic scene' 

Project 4- Blog post 3

Coming back from a bad experience with the guitarist in band skills,
Oscar had come back and presented what was learnt so far and what he took away from the rehearsal time, although he had achieved what i asked, , the dynamics in the guitar playing were not quite how we expected it , especially for my original , as that was the song i wanted to show myself as an artist, i didn't really like the way he gave himself to it, he didn't give much dynamics and kept it as simple as possible , for example when i wanted ' finger picked' technique specifically on the verses to give it more emphasis and emotion and support the vocals in the build up i wasn't quite getting that from him, so i left that for the time being and moved onto Laurens song, in that time we wasn't focusing on complicated BVS or any BVS at all because we wanted to have our own vocal pin pointed and perfect before getting confused and the practises getting confusing by the other singer.

We then after Fridays session tried to organise more sessions with oscar, and realised how much of a unstable situation with him, as he was always occupied doing more important things for himself so we were worrying by this point, then i was relying on myself and practicing my lyrics fundamentally to make sure they were absolutely secure, and then to my luckily Keith came in helping me with not only my situation with accompaniment but also with my vocal technique , my presentation, and easier ways of resolving my vocal instability for example mixed voice which is required for the cover song im doing at the end, i then laid out the structure, the rhythm of the song and how i arranged to pick it , not only did he meet my requirements in doing so he also helped developed both my cover song and my original to give myself a bit more taste.

my personal targets by the end of my first session with new guitarist keith branic were

- working on mixed voice
- working ony my presentation
- working on my pronounciation of words
- working on dynamics and the use of my voice within the structure

This is also a form of
collobatration and a show of it and how i collabroated with many guitarists and tried out diffrent things to get to the finalised plan of keith being my accompaniment

PROJECT 4- BLOG POST 2

As there was a half term  from 27th may until 5th June, and our guitarist who was helping me and Lauren was on holiday for that whole week, we had barely any rehearsal and i was unprepared fully with my second choice of song, i felt i was really behind, and unorganised and i was stressing out a lot as many of my peers were ahead of me,  so i decided to put the pressure on myself and be realistic about how much time i had so i choose ' thinking about you' and had a back up just in case it wouldn't work as so i didn't have to stress as much if the other one didn't work. 

Then unfortunately, the Wednesday i arrived i had to prepare myself for the worst as neither Lauren or Izak were in for the first half hour, but i needed to still rehearse i managed to book out a guitar and roughly go through the chords of my song and my original, so that i at least had a back up in case all went to worse on the day, and at home, i carry on practising with guitar because not only did we get let down by our guitarist but we got let down by our pianist, which meant my original  song couldn't go the way i had planned it to be , but i still needed to do all i can in my power to make sure i at least had a rough idea of what i wanted and worked on progressing in myself, so i done my songs independently and performed my song at events management to get some feedback to help myself.

Although because our original guitarist was incapable of of battling with his assessment and ours , 

we were given another guitarist Oscar.  We then arranged a rehearsal with him Thursday and Friday , so he was able to understand our set, we described the sound we wanted and how we both wanted our songs played and the different arrangement we had in mind, and helped him work around it, although personally i felt he was of no use, as he wasn't able to put his mindset towards what we want it and how to play it , so i gave him the arrangement to go home and practise and we left it as that for the time being. 

Project 4 - Blog post 1

First of all when we came back from easter holidays the week commencing 8th may,
my initial plan was to be a solo performer and achieve my targets of trying out new styles , although this wasn't working very well, as i wanted to do to much more and give more than i needed to , and i also wanted to show my dance skills, and stage confidence, so i decided to leave the ' stylistic aspect' which was initially in my proposal and still to showing my original and focussing on key points within that, and my dance routine which i have been wanting to do for a while.
izak the guitarist that was firstly helping us to begin with , had volunteered to play guitar on wednesday so that i could purely focus on my negatives and positives in my vocals and be able to i,prove them instead of being distracted by playing guitar, as i am being assed on my vocals.

So on wednsdays 10th may , i showed izak my original song on guitar and gave him a clear structure to begin with so he would be able to work it out and make it his own if he liked, and we started working on my original and focussing on making that as good as it could be because it is going to be a step forward for me to show my own side at The Star and to my peers.  And then , i showed him a song by 1975 which i love listening to , and we tried working out the chords for the song and singing it for the first time, so we took little baby steps towards the song, trying different versions and arrangements, and trying to make it our own, although when i asked for other peoples opinions and collaborating with Keith and my Vocal teacher at home, they suggested it wasn't the right style for me and i could show of more and get higher marks with the song ' figures' by jessie reyez so me and Izak arranged another rehurshal to work on that song. Unfortantally, i didn't get to do what i want with being solo as i needed to be a helping hand for another sing Lauren Kirby , so i suggested she came into our group, which fuelled a lot of arguments to begin with , as my original plan was to try a variety, although it did initially also help me to perform my song with different variations of vocal loops and give my full potential with BVS on my original so i warmed up to the idea even though i still was being adement, i didn't want any other vocalists. We then arranged another meeting in band skills the following week to help lauren sort out her song as we wanted to get that out the way and focus on hers as much as mine, we tried a few songs for lauren , but she choose ' issues - julia micheals' in the end which really worked well with her vocals.