Proposal 2020

In this post includes my bands proposal for what we will be pushing forth to achieve throughout the rest of the second year.

Band: The Preachers

Members: Lucy Uttley, Ellie Thornton and Millie Grace

As a band, we have decided to mold ourselves towards the pop genre, with modern artists such as ‘Dua Lipa’ and ‘Lizzo’. We will also draw from icons like ‘Lenny Kravitz’ and ‘Prince’, the latter of which we have played before. This genre is drawing us away from the comfort zone of rock, and we will also be pushing ourselves by bringing in different elements of modern music.  

This movement towards more popular music also introduces the use of synth and samples. Our drummer will bring in their Roland SPD-SX sample pad and our guitarist will use a phaser pedal, a wah pedal and chorus pedal in order to achieve the ‘pop’ sound. This is very different in comparison to what we usually would play and will challenge us further than before.  

The choice of pop music such as ‘Lizzo’ and ‘Dua Lipa’ will easily get the audience involved as it is mainstream music that they will recognise. This is the same for ‘Prince’, and when we have played this before we have seen a big response from the crowd. The vast arrangements of his songs were hard to recreate with our limited instruments, but we used our skill to cover it. The introduction of the sample pad will also help fill out the songs, especially now that we have lost one of our band members.  

Our bassist recently left, however our guitarist has volunteered to switch between bass and guitar, and we are hoping to get a keys player which we could then use to fill out the bass parts. We could also load bass parts onto the SPD-SX. Our bassist leaving has let us push ourselves and that is why we want to challenge ourselves with modern pop and introduce the sampling element.  

This term we will progress as a band by challenging ourselves with songs we perhaps wouldn’t have thought of playing before and finding ways to cover the arrangement. The FMP provides the opportunity to push our playing and ability without letting anything hold us back.