This morning we started off with aural perception which is always fun, but we only went through one song so here it is.
- Time Signature – 4/4
- Tempo – 150bpm (Allegro)
- Timbre
- Style – Rock
- Instrumentation – Audience, Drums, Bass, Synth Effects, Delayed Guitar, Distorted Guitar, Chimes, Delayed Male Vocals, Female Backing Vocals, Grand Piano.
- Structure
- Pitch
- Dynamics
The lesson then went on to us discussing the copyright and licensing which is so much fun, we have to write an essay on the many terms, which is due in next week. so I’ll be working on that over the course of this week and going into detail on different posts…
Rehearsal happened, what I am going to do is blame it on Monday’s, we went through “Purple Rain” with ease now, we started to tread through “Let’s Go Crazy” but my wrist has a great track history of trapping up and causing me incredible short and sharp pain which I tanked through which was not the smartest move but we have reached up to the solo, which I am secretly perfecting…
“When Doves Cry” is a song that I haven’t even contemplated looking at throughly yet, the beginning guitar lick is fun, but I can’t make it sound like the original which is annoying. Never the less, I am still listening to the album weekly so I have the structure nailed in the back of my head along with the vocal lines even though I am not singing it helps to know all of the Ques ahead of time.
“Take Me With U” is the only song we are having slight issues with as a band because it is heavily dependant on the vocalists to a stupid level which doesn’t help us out at all so in my head whilst we go through the song is Prince screaming “I don’t care where we go, I don’t care what we do”, its cool but yet again like be quiet voice in my head.
Our bassist wasn’t feeling too good today also so I insisted he left early to goto the doctors after we quickly went through our set, this has given me some time to organise my work and get back on task after the bullet in the head that was the beginning of the term!
Ellie Thornton Music 