Today we went over one of the new songs for our set list for the December venue we are playing. Chris told us to choose at least 4 songs off of any of the 100 Now albums to form a 20 minute set, so far its been hard to figure out what we want to play as band with a male and female vocalist.
Within the music industry there are many aspects and roles that contribute to it behind the scenes to the public eye. One of the aspects of the industry is the live production of music, there are many people involved in the organisation and also the delivery of live music happening each and everyday roles like the following.
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- Security
- Box Office
- Hospitality
- Stage Manager / Stage crew
- Camera crew
- Support act / slot
- Lighting Engineers
- Musicians – backing singers and session musicians
- Hair and Makeup
- Medical crew
- Sound Engineers
I’ll be sure to go into much more detail later, and I thought I could possibly relate it to a Primus concert to keep me more engaged then I usually am!
However, within Rehearsal today, our guitarist has chosen the song he wants to do which is called ‘Sex On Fire’, the song is fairly complex for an indie rock piece. Personally the bass line isn’t as hard as ‘I Want You Back’, but its always nice to take a break and have something light to play because I don’t want to strain my wrists and fingers whilst playing but i would of personally liked something a bit more challenging.
At the end of the day, during Rehearsal I was beginning to lose my patience with the band as we couldn’t come up and agree with a new song, so in the end I decided to summon Chris to help us choose something new and challenging, we all agreed upon playing Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin On a Prayer’ and because it was late we also said to go home and learn it in the evening, which I knew I was more than capable of doing as I’m a fast learner, especially when it comes to bass!
Ellie Thornton Music 