In Rehearsal today, we went over ‘Treasure’ by Bruno Mars in rehearsal today by request of me, finally, the song was composed in common time and in the key of E♭ major with a tempo of 112 beats per minute. The chord progression of A♭m7–(Gm7)–Fm7–Gm7–Cm–(B♭) repeats throughout the song, changing only to end phrases on B♭9sus (A♭/B♭), a deceptive Cadence. I enjoy the song because of how upbeat it is and the style in which the bass-line is played, I haven’t been able to play anything slapped and popped but now I have the perfect opportunity as Disco is where it’s at!
In Composition, Chris had told us to start a new 30 second piece based on ‘How you see yourself” which was interesting, because I am pretty the overall outcome was doom and gloom. I’m finally the hang of Logic X at the start of term was fairly difficult to get into, but I will be sure to improve all my compositions before I have to submit it to Chris. This composition consisted of a Finger style bass because playing with a pick isn’t the way to go, studio cellos, a ‘slow jam’ drum kit and a soundscape sound called ‘Metal World’ which helped create the edge that I see myself in me.
After Composition, we had Pop Music in Practice with Jason which I always enjoy now that I know what I’m doing and have confidence to ask Jason for help. In today’s session I finished going through the background and arrangement to ‘Mercy’ by Duffy, I think it is to the best of my standards but that’s always open to change. I started to go through ‘Treasure’ by Bruno Mars also, I started to go into the background of Disco as a genre which is the most interesting one yet along side soul, to me at least; but I will definitely work on it a lot more tomorrow and over the weekend, because tomorrow the lectures have safeguard training which is interesting to me as I’d like to be a teacher one day.
After lunch we had Rehearsal again, so we proceeded to go over the structure of ‘Treasure’ which is always fun to do at the end of the day. We went through the song a handful of times because our singer was trying to figure out what key she was going to be comfortable with, after a few times me and drummer locked down the groove so it’s now up to our guitarist to learn his part up to scratch then that should be another song in the bag!
Ellie Thornton Music 