This morning the exam board (UAL) were in so the day was a bit chaotic from the get go. We were piled into the mac suite to finish up any work and then to put it up on our blogs, which I had already done over my time off so I was left sat chilling.
After the fun that was sitting about for an hour we finally got in the rehearsal rooms, which wasn’t very productive you can tell this by the tone I am going to be writing in..
For this term we have to choose a style that fits our band, like Rock, Soul, Funk and or Jazz, then take songs that aren’t in that genre and make them into it which in my eyes if fairly challenging for the line up in my band.
I don’t want to smack talk as I need to become comfortable playing guitar again which should come back by next week, well I’m hoping and counting upon it…
We have played around with the idea of being a jazz band, which I am going to put right in the clear will not work as no one has studied jazz theory or jazz in general, apart from me. The songs we tried just seemed incredibly empty and when I played ‘Arctic Monkeys’ in a jazz style/form everyone turned their noses up, so.
Rehearsal soon came to an end and then it was lunch which was pitiful, I had macaroni cheese so I was for-filled in that sense. But then it was sitting around hours again, I was loving it really because nothing is more satisfying than doing nothing. During this time others were talking to UAL which was cool, I am just going to sit back and wait for some solid recognition for the mass amount of work I do which sets me in to a manic depression if it isn’t to my standards.
Tomorrow we are going to start fresh and I am going to have to slave tirelessly figuring out new structures for the songs we have chosen and how it would potentially sound. I am going back training tonight so I am going to be in a great mood tomorrow morning and hurting all over as we are shark tanking the new guy because we are nice like that and he’s doing it for charity, his funeral really.
Ellie Thornton Music 