Day: Oct 17, 2018

Aural Perception, Wednesday the 17th of October 2018

The first song of the lesson today is called ‘She’ by Harry Connick Jr.

  • Time Signature – 4/4
  • Tempo – 104bpm (Andante)
  • Timbre
  • Style – Funk/Soul/Jazz
  • Instrumentation – Upright Fingered Double Bass, Grand Piano, Electric Guitar with Wah-wah effect, Male Vocals (with a potential harmony), Drums, Bongos/Congos, Electric Bass (fingered with wah-wah effect) and a Hammond Organ (could potentially be electric keys).
  • Structure 
  • Pitch 
  • Dynamics –  Forte which Crescendos to Mezzoforte. 

Next up is ‘Caroline in my mind’ by Dixie Chicks.

  • Time Signature – 4/4
  • Tempo – 75bpm (Andante)
  • Timbre
  • Style – Country/Rock
  • Instrumentation – [Audience], Acoustic Guitar, Male Vocalist and Three Female Backing Vocals.
  • Structure 
  • Pitch 
  • Dynamics – Forte which Decrescendos to Piano. 

The final song today is called ‘Daughter’ and it is by Pearl Jam.

  • Time Signature – 4/4
  • Tempo – 97bpm (Andante
  • Timbre
  • Style – Alternative/Indie/Rock/Grunge
  • Instrumentation – 
  • Structure 
  • Pitch 
  • Dynamics – Piano gradually crescendos to Mezzoforte, Pause to Forte which Decresendos to Mezzopiano/Piano gradual Crescendo to mezzoforte to forte again.

Wednesday the 17th of October 2018

Today was pretty lacklustre being a Wednesday in all, within D.I.S we chose to rehearse as three and go through our songs again without our singer because she wanted to catch up with her blog. In the other band I am in we have agreed to do ‘Year 3000’ by Busted which will be fun and an easy song to chug out in general.

After we had gone over our songs as a band, I then had a guitar lesson which is always interesting we went over everything that was given to us previously and a grade 6 booklet to look over during half  term which will definitely occupied.

At lunch, Jason kindly came over to the library to check my stylistic analysis work and to have a chat which I always enjoy. I now know what I need to work on to complete this work and to take it further than the state it is in at the moment.

Afterwards we had Aural Perception with Chris, which I’ve grown to enjoy and I am obviously getting better each time we have the lesson and when I listen to music whilst writing up my many works which often makes me side tracked but that’s more than fine to work through amongst the chaos.

Chris then kindly finished up the day with restringing my bass which I have been looking forward to subtly all week, during that time Jason came in and looked through my blog which he enjoyed whilst having an entertaining chat with Chris non the least. When Chris was done and Jason had to go I double checked I had everything and went home for the half term ahead of me!

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