This morning we went through the assignment brief as no one made any sense of it, turns out it is easier than I thought and Chris simplified even more which is great, I will be posting my progress under my Unit 8 tab for the next month.
During rehearsal we went through ‘Kiss’ without our singer because she has fallen ill with tonsillitis and our drummer is stuck performing in a musical all week so it was just me and the bassist until our drummer came back in for half an hour.
We went through the song twice with the track playing behind us and we have figured out the structure and what style we are going to play within. Our drummer laid down a funky shuffle which fits in perfectly, I played my part but added some scratch noises and heavy picking which pushes that funk feel.
Collectively we tried to help our bassist to figure out his part but he has to go home and listen to the song as I couldn’t get through to him as he was in a funny mood. I wanted to try the other tracks on our set but no one else had learnt their parts yet so we are going to leave it until next week.
After lunch I went and sat within the mac room and started to write up all eight of my lead sheets for each and every Prince song we are planning on doing, so far I have done the following;
- Take Me With U,
- Let’s Go Crazy,
- Purple Rain,
- Kiss.
Chris then took my works to put in my evidence folder so I don’t have to worry about losing which installs some peace of mind, hopefully I’ll have more done by Thursday.
Tomorrow we shall be up to considerably more and I’ll be sure to write everything I’ve been up too!
Ellie Thornton Music 