In the first lesson on "wannabe" we did planning and deciding what song we were going to and in what style. This was a good lesson because we were efficient and we split into two groups and one group discussed and wrote down things about the specific song and the other group discussed the ideas of what is important in the genres we are doing. We then decided who was going to be playing what instrument and put it into a graph so we easily could tell what was going on.
Practice:
In the setting up for wannabe we were kind of slow and this took a lot of time out of our practice. To be more efficient at this we could do a bit less messing around and also all help set up the drums rather than just make Ed do it on his own. I this we did work well together once we were set though and I think this was because Henry told us what the order of the song was and what chord we should be playing. I think we could have had more time because we only had one day to learn it and we had about an hour to practice
Performance:
The first half of the song sounded good but it wasn't really in the style because we didn't have the skills, time or practice to pull it off well. I think that the performance went quite well and I especially liked the part where the song switched to reggae. This worked really well because we had rehearsed it quit a lot and we all knew I was coming. The first section of the piece was not so successful because it didn't really have a distinct style and you couldn't really tell what style we were trying to produce. On the other hand the reggae section was very successful. We changed the instrumentation when we changed genre. the bass guitar was turned up because this is a feature of reggae. Also we only had one guitar playing on the off beat and Andy was doing a muted strumming pattern which sounded really good and like a reggae song. Also the drum pattern completely changed from heavy use of the snare to using the bass drum and the hi hat. As well as this the shaker was cut out. This was because we really got the off-beat feel with the drum beat Ed was throwing out and the off beat up strokes I was playing on the guitar. I think it could have been improved by James having a Jamaican accent because this would have made it much more authentic but he doesn't so there's not much we can do about that. The End of the performance when we stopped was also good due to us being quite in sync with each other. this was helped by us all having a bit of eye contact.
Practice:
In the setting up for wannabe we were kind of slow and this took a lot of time out of our practice. To be more efficient at this we could do a bit less messing around and also all help set up the drums rather than just make Ed do it on his own. I this we did work well together once we were set though and I think this was because Henry told us what the order of the song was and what chord we should be playing. I think we could have had more time because we only had one day to learn it and we had about an hour to practice
Performance:
The first half of the song sounded good but it wasn't really in the style because we didn't have the skills, time or practice to pull it off well. I think that the performance went quite well and I especially liked the part where the song switched to reggae. This worked really well because we had rehearsed it quit a lot and we all knew I was coming. The first section of the piece was not so successful because it didn't really have a distinct style and you couldn't really tell what style we were trying to produce. On the other hand the reggae section was very successful. We changed the instrumentation when we changed genre. the bass guitar was turned up because this is a feature of reggae. Also we only had one guitar playing on the off beat and Andy was doing a muted strumming pattern which sounded really good and like a reggae song. Also the drum pattern completely changed from heavy use of the snare to using the bass drum and the hi hat. As well as this the shaker was cut out. This was because we really got the off-beat feel with the drum beat Ed was throwing out and the off beat up strokes I was playing on the guitar. I think it could have been improved by James having a Jamaican accent because this would have made it much more authentic but he doesn't so there's not much we can do about that. The End of the performance when we stopped was also good due to us being quite in sync with each other. this was helped by us all having a bit of eye contact.
