Performance notes:
Week on:
on the first week we spent our time choosing songs that we all like and then deciding based off of personal choice and deciding weather or not the songs were stylistically appropriate for the genre we decided on, we decided to use rock as our genre. last week when we performed living on a prayer we all felt accustomed to the genre and performed well. so we decided on a list of songs that we will play.
the second day of practice we decided to practice the song Johnny be good, we thought this was a good song to start with because it is a fun song with a catchy tune to it, it gave me and Sam to experiment with our lead and Rhythm parts swell as give Jonathan a chance of his vocal range to be unleashed, overall practice went well with no major slip-ups, john wrote a chart for the song and printed us all off some sheet music. We did not perform this week.
Week Two: 3.11.14
Week Two was Jess's turn to be the band leader and so we made work on the song By the Way by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. practice was a shambles. none of the amplification in the mirror room works so we resorted to plugging all of our instruments into P.A. Lewis would for whatever reason wouldn't play his guitar in the right tuning so we spent time convincing him to change it, then he had to re-learn his part in the right tuning, wasting more time i went looking for a suitable amp to use, and ad no luck. we decided because practice was a disaster, we ran through Johnny be good a few times before performing it later that day,
Week Three:
On our Third week we learned and played the song Bad Love by Eric Clapton, rehearsal went well with no major slip-ups, this was down to the fact that we were not in that cursed Mirror room. In comparison this room had all of the equipment we needed right before we started. Rehearsal also went well because we had time to spare when we finished the song and got it to a tight standard. however we were a little shoddy on the actual performance as we hadn't been on stage for a while. in our spare time Sam and i looked over the song One by Metallica…11 whole pages of things to learn, I broke it down and we made a start on it. we will be doing the song in a few weeks so we ought to get practicing. In our Second practice lesson we took a second stab at By the way from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The song needed to be polished as we felt it wasn't at a performance level last week.
Week Four:
This week was my week. i was band leader and i didn't intend on letting anyone down. and so as a result i made sure things went smoothly as i could. the ride did get a little rough as there were things that were out of my control. For one the Printer was not functioning properly and so i wasn't able to handout tabs/Chords/ and lyrics this frustrated me as i had planned to print off the sheets at home as i knew the printer had a bad track record, I was right to not trust in it. and for two i was unable to locate a felt tip pen so i couldn't write down structure, luckily "Do i wanna know" keeps the same riff throughout. So keeping people in time was only a minor issue, the Riff was picked up easily by me and sam with only Jonathan having to adjust to the songs surprising difficult vocals which play completely off beat.
Week Five:
Week Five saw Sams' turn at band leadership. as he is the fifth and final member of our band we will be rotating back to Johnathan in the next week. Sam had made plans to start "all along the watchtower" however as a group we decided that adding a song to journalist is not such as a good idea. We only have 15 minutes of stage time. Jessica calculated that altogether the songs we have learned make up 14:43 minutes of playing. so instead we worked more on "do i wanna know" a song which some of us still need to wrap our heads round. performing-wise we decided to choose "by the way" as we had not performed this song yet, in under 3 minutes when we were approaching the end of rehearsals we had to put our heads together and come up with an ending for the song.
Week Six:
Rotating back to Jonathan saw Jonathan take leadership once more. This week saw our third week on "do i wanna know" as we still deem it worth of performance, until today. song rehearsal was varied, as this week we would have only have one slot to rehearse instead of the usual two. this meant we would have to really focus on what we were doing and make the most out of the time we were given, on top of that our guitar lesson was during our only rehearsal period. we had to arrange that at a later date or risk having no time at all to practice. on top of this we had No drum kit, and Jess had to be called in and out of the lesson, so we would have had no guitarists, no singer, and no drummer. so we had to work around this swell, Performance went well as i knew my part off by heart months before practice even started, everyone else performed well considering the lack of rehearsal time
Week seven: (final week)
this was our final week before the Performance on Wednesday, nothing needed to be learned & nothing needed to be planned we were just going to run a set, preferably under fifteen minutes, we would run through Johnny Be Goode, Bad Love, By the way & Do i Wanna know. we were not going to just play the songs, we were going to perform them as if we were on stage. Jess made some opening lines and we practiced out band communication. The room we were praticed in was rather cold & i had problems playing fluently because my fingers were loosing warmth. luckily Alex had taught me a method on how to "warm up" a players hands by pushing blood through the fingers to try and heat them up.
