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Was the process a success? Why?

I don’t feel that the process was a success because none of us used our time 100% effectively, which then slowed us down on the quality and quantity of songs we performed, we didn’t manage to sell out the second night despite our efforts in promoting the event to those on other miskin courses.

Was the performance a success? Why?

I feel that the performance was successful for the most part, the atmosphere and crowd reaction to each song was great, and it was a good energy performance onstage and off.

However it could have been better by doing things such as:

More energy on stage – some people looked a little bit awkward and weird on stage.

More crowd interaction and quicker changovers – although there was a bit of crowd interaction I feel that there were still some spaces of silence between the slower changeovers.

What was your input as an individual ? What else could you have done?

It was my idea to learn the song ‘going down’ by the pretty reckless, and that and the ‘yeah yeah yeahs’ were the only songs I did, however I was asked to be on other songs, but I was too fussy with what I wanted to do.

I also helped to advertise the event by  putting up posters around the college, and handing out flyers, also I had the idea to put the promotional ‘zombie video’ on the big tvs in the canteen.

I could of done a lot more considering there were long periods of time where I wasn’t doing anything, for instance I could have helped out with production meetings etc.

What would you do differently if you were to do the process over again?

I would offer to be on more songs, and maybe even another instrument to get out of my comfort zone.

What did you find hard during the process? What were/are your weaknesses? How have you improved that?

The thing I found hardest with the process was that there was a lot of spare time for me, which I couldof used looking at other songs etc however,so many other people were working on stuff when I had free time and I found it difficult to get into a band where everyone had something to do.

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monday - today we looked at the pretty reckless - going down and tidied it up a bit more, there are still some bits where i get a bit muddled and those are the parts of the verses toward the end where she sings at a higher note, and my breath control isnt great and i feel like i dont have enough breath to make it through the words.

also after having listened to the song a few more times i realised that the pattern of the words in some of the verses are slightly different to others, so i had to re-try doing that again.

 

wednesday -

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wednesday - me sam katie and dave ran through the yeah yeah yeahs - date with the night, which is pretty much finished. i think the only thing that needs work is me knowing the lyrics by heart, i tried to run through the song without the lyrics and i got up to the final verse, so i still need to learn the words. but musically that is sounding good.

 

thursday - tom showed us the promo video for freshers and i suggested that it sshould be played on the tvs in the canteen, so that more people have the oppertunity to veiw it.

we also started learning a new song (jamie, morgan, katie and me) by the pretty reckless called going down.

we listened to the song a few times while i wrote out the lyrics, and the oothers listened to drum/bass/guitar covers to learn their parts.

the first time we tried it we werent sure on when the drums kicked in so we had to listen again, and then i wasnt sure on when i came in, another problem we had was the guitar part on the bridge was going on for too long so we had to shorten that down so that the guitar finished with my lyrics, when we had the basic structure and were able to run it a few times, one problem we all noticed was that it always seemed to slow down after the pre chorus/ chorus. so we tried playing it as fast as we could to see if that helped and after that it seemed to flow a little better.

 

one thing i found difficult is that during the pre chorus i kept using my head voice because the notes are a little higher, not out of my vocal range but it kept throwing me off, but that has got better with practice.

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The pretender, foo fighters - 

on this song i have learnt a harmony that is the octave higher than chris' and nico has learnt one that is an octave higher than mine.

the only big improvement that the whole song could have is that at the moment it seems to build up to the chorus and then nothing really happens...

we are currently looking into how we can solve this problem.

 

date with the night - yeah yeah yeahs

 

with this song all i did was listen to it a few times with the lyrics and then me dave katie and sam played it a couple of times through.

it is a very high energy song and i thin k the main thing i worry about is that i will be out of my comfort zone singing this on stage. 

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The pretender, foo fighters - 

on this song i have learnt a harmony that is the octave higher than chris' and nico has learnt one that is an octave higher than mine.

the only big improvement that the whole song could have is that at the moment it seems to build up to the chorus and then nothing really happens...

we are currently looking into how we can solve this problem.

 

date with the night - yeah yeah yeahs

 

with this song all i did was listen to it a few times with the lyrics and then me dave katie and sam played it a couple of times through.

it is a very high energy song and i thin k the main thing i worry about is that i will be out of my comfort zone singing this on stage. 

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