This morning we set out to perfect the structure of ‘Black Velvet’ considering how we messed up the second half of the song during the warm-up gig yesterday.
Me and Tom drive the song considering we are the rhythm section, so no matter what if the other two mess up they have us to fall upon we gave it ago but our singer wasn’t in so we had that to work around again. Their attendance is getting frustrating for me at least, so I have to guide our band every time they’re not in and lets just say our guitarist gets a bit agitated when I boss everyone round.
I think by tomorrow we should have the song structure nailed, all that is left to work upon is getting our set down tight and treating it how we would when we performed. The other two were considering changing the song because they didn’t think we could fill out the arrangement which Jason partly came in and agreed with also, we began to look at other songs but Chris came in and told us too stick with it and perfect it.
Afterwards we watched the level 2’s perform which was great, they have worked very hard to achieve where they are at currently and they can only get better. I enjoyed each and every one of their performances, especially Reece’s band which was very entertaining for everybody.
We spent the rest of the session, which was mean’t to be composition, sitting in the mac suite organising our blogs because the UAL is coming in to check our work which is exciting to hear. So I have been spending countless hours working on mine as you can see, it is a lot of fun as I can easily look back upon everything I have done so far!
Then we had Theory with Jason which is always entertaining, this session me and Jason tried to help Tom catch up on his blog posts which both me and him struggle to do when we fall behind which is great. So Jason was joking around with what to put which was epic.
After lunch we had rehearsal in which we went through our set again, there’s nothing much to it all at the moment apart from bringing our songs up to the standard when we play ‘I Want You Back’. The day then ended with Tutorial which is always a laugh, it ended earlier this week because the college had an open evening, so I went home and went to bed early within preparation for tomorrow.
Ellie Thornton Music 