Within rehearsal this morning, we yet again went over ‘I want you back’, its about nailing the new structure now and our on stage presents is going to play out. Rather than standing completely still we’ve all agreed to jump around and move within reason and look lively which other bands may have not even thought about.
We began to start use composition as an actual lesson today, Chris showed us how to use Logic X and he also explained to us what Midi is. Our aim for the lesson was to create a jingle or short 30 second piece to a certain key signature that we were assigned: I was given F Major, the key signature with one flat in which being B flat.
After composition, we had theory with Jason which I enjoyed, we began taking notes for our Pop Music In Practice. As a class we went over Soul as a genre and its key aspects which vary depending on what part of America you were from back in the day, doing work like this interests me a lot as I like learning about history and all that fun stuff. I’ll eventually go through our arrangement for I want you back but for now I will stick to learning the song and nailing my part and continue going through Soul’s highly engaging and historically deep background.
Then after lunch we had rehearsal again which is fun to end the day off with, we yet again went over ‘I want you back’ and have nailed looking all lively whilst we play it but our guitarist still needs to figure out what chords hes playing as he can play then play within the wrong tonality then end up tripping me up playing the bass line which is great as I already struggle to hear myself as he makes himself louder than me in rehearsals which is great for my hearing.
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