Last night was eventful, I have decided to take the day off due to my tension headache which caused me to feel incredibly nauseous and it kept me awake for a while.
Considering I start at 9 I didn’t think this was enough time for me to rest and I’d only be going into college to be sent home again.
I have asked a friend to take notes for me and tell me what has gone on throughout the day so I don’t miss out on anything important, I’ll be in tomorrow at 9 hopefully feeling better than I am today!
This Wednesday was mostly uneventful for most, but for me I was stuck within the studio waiting to be taught by four different guitar teachers and then to give my feedback at the end of the day.
I can’t recall as to where I left the hand outs I recieved from some of them but I recall the first and second potentially being the most competent out of the bunch. Not to mention the last one reading off his I Pad on what to say and do which I thought was a bit cheeky…
I had to stay till two o’clock waiting to give my feedback to Chris the other student went off and left me so it ruined my overall mood for the rest of the day, not to mention how my phone is on its way out so contacting my partner to tell him that I was finished was a challenge but I got there in the end!
We spent most of our time today rehearsing our new sets for this year, we kept going over ‘Here Comes The Sun’, we are going to start learning songs in the masses in preparation for all of the upcoming gigs we will be participating within.
All of us now have our parts and the structure nailed, it is now nailing the dynamics and tempo for the song to then be perfected.
In theory we went over triplets yet again, if you don’t know what a triplet is. It is when three notes are played in the time it takes for two.
We were asked to put a song with a triplet feel onto our next blog post so here is my choice, I’ve been listening to a lot of Tame Impala lately and this song in particular has a swung triplet feel to it which I enjoy deeply.
Today is the day where I’ll be officially starting my second year at Fareham College studying music under UAL.
I picked up my results over summer and I had a achieved a distinction as predicted and I’m very proud of myself!
We have stayed within the same bands as we were at the end of the first year, we are still called The Preachers. The first theme to kick off the term is to do with Space, the title is called ‘Space is the Place’.
It is to commemorate 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing, each of our band members has to choose a song which ties into the theme of space, my choice being ‘Here Comes The Sun’ by The Beatles.
Not only is this track steering away from rock massively, it is definitely a push in the right direction if we want to challenge ourselves this term!
Our day soon came to a close after lunch and a couple of rehearsals, we have gotten the structure and chord progression down and it is now all left down to our bassist to learn his part as he is struggling…
Ellie Thornton Music 