Today we had to get our original song done no matter what otherwise that would have been an aspect of the brief we would have all failed on which isn’t the greatest of news. We sat down for about an hour helping Millie write vocals which turned out great for an hours work, I would have preferred massively to get the work done earlier in term but our vocalist was mostly absent so we needed to ideally work on our set and getting it up to the standard we played with in the evening.
I’ve officially reached boiling point with our guitarist he kept digging into our singer for not being able to achieve her GCSE’s which is difficult for people, I would know; I only just about passed all of mine. So I tried spacing my self away from him for the rest of the day as I felt like just sitting him down and yelling, as it isn’t nice to be constantly heckled at as I had to deal with him throughout secondary.
Besides that, the recording well it took us about four/five takes to get it up to a reasonable standard. It could have been a bit better if we gave it a couple more takes but everyone else was fed up so we left it at that. As soon as it has been uploaded I will add it to my Soundcloud!
Then I went back into the Mac suite to sit about helping Millie a bit with her work until lunch which was fun, she had gotten a bit fed up and upset of Jack at this point so she came with me to put my bass away whilst she let some of her frustration out.
After lunch we had a meeting about “UAL coming in”, but in reality it was a meeting about our new bands next term which was honestly hell, I am definite that trying to comprehend what was going on gave me head trauma.
I am not going to go into too much detail, but Chris did arrange some bands for us to all be in next term which didn’t work as everyone is very fussy on my course which is frustrating for not just me but Chris and Jason also.
So instead of what was arranged by Chris it was agreed that we stay in our original bands but instead of having our guitarist he be swapped to play bass like an absolute chump in another band and we have their bass player instead which will be ten times better, plus I get to make a return to my main instrument which my family and myself are now looking forward to.
I have chosen to spend the rest of the day in the mac suite finishing my Grade 1 Theory book which is now full, I believe I am coming in on Thursday not only to DESTROY Chris at Fifa but for a HNC student to go through and check with me or have the man himself look through it whilst the other students play FIFA, etc; so that will be fun.
Before they both left I was speaking to Chris and Jason about my grades and they think with the amount of effort I have put in since day one that I should be able to reach a distinction. Hopefully I have achieved this, we shall have to wait and see, it is one of my targets for this year which was very demanding from myself from day one…
Ellie Thornton Music 