GC1: understand the elements of musical ensembles
GC2:be able to plan as musical ensemble
GC3:be able to develop as a musical ensemble
GC4:be able to perform as a musical ensemble
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Rehearsal diary:
week 1-18 september- Im doing my ensemble with Natalie and Harry,playing Landslide by Fleetwood Mac the instruments that they decided to play are guitar played by harry and vocal's by Natalie.I will learn my parts using some of the chords from youtube tutorials and the rest by ear.
week 2-25 september-we've been sorting out what kind of chords should sound good with the guitar.most of the chords that i tried to play by ear does not sound sufficient enough, so i set myself a target to go too youtube tutorials and find chords for landslide.
week 3- 2 october- Harry decided to play the chords in E major but the normal chords are in C major so i had to learn E major chords that would go well with the guitar by ear.
The Targets that im setting for myself are to learn the chorus for the next session in E minor chords and learn how to play it without mistakes.
week 4-9 october-I have learned all the chords for Landslide but the problem is the guitar some times is not tuned to exact standard as the piano so it sounds wrong most of the time.Harry kept bugging me about how the piano never sounds right with the guitar so he always thought that i was playing the wrong chords (Harry was getting on my nevers) so Natalie thought that we should give up on Landslide as its pointless when the guitar is not correctly tuned for the song.
GC2:be able to plan as musical ensemble
GC3:be able to develop as a musical ensemble
GC4:be able to perform as a musical ensemble
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Rehearsal diary:
week 1-18 september- Im doing my ensemble with Natalie and Harry,playing Landslide by Fleetwood Mac the instruments that they decided to play are guitar played by harry and vocal's by Natalie.I will learn my parts using some of the chords from youtube tutorials and the rest by ear.
week 2-25 september-we've been sorting out what kind of chords should sound good with the guitar.most of the chords that i tried to play by ear does not sound sufficient enough, so i set myself a target to go too youtube tutorials and find chords for landslide.
week 3- 2 october- Harry decided to play the chords in E major but the normal chords are in C major so i had to learn E major chords that would go well with the guitar by ear.
The Targets that im setting for myself are to learn the chorus for the next session in E minor chords and learn how to play it without mistakes.
week 4-9 october-I have learned all the chords for Landslide but the problem is the guitar some times is not tuned to exact standard as the piano so it sounds wrong most of the time.Harry kept bugging me about how the piano never sounds right with the guitar so he always thought that i was playing the wrong chords (Harry was getting on my nevers) so Natalie thought that we should give up on Landslide as its pointless when the guitar is not correctly tuned for the song.
This video was the rehearsals that Harry and Natalie did for Landslide
This video was when we asked help to Allison so she could find what chords i would need to make the piano sound reasonable with the guitar and Natalie's voice.
The Chords for landslide are: C G/B Am7 G G/B* Am7/G C/G-http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/f/fleetwood_mac/landslide_tab.htm. and This link is the tutorial in youtube for the piano in C major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZid6RasJ8.
The chords that im learning are Eb Bb/d Cm7 Bb/d they go in that order until the chorus.This are the chords in E minor for Landslide:
The chords that im learning are Eb Bb/d Cm7 Bb/d they go in that order until the chorus.This are the chords in E minor for Landslide:
week 5-9 october-I am doing another ensamble with harry,dan,jasper,andy the song called chasing cars by snow patrol.This was our first rehearsel for chasing cars,Harry and dan are singing while playing acoustic guitar,jasper is playing the acoustic bass and andy is playing the drums while im adding a melody on the piano.We only reheased twice for this song lets hope of not making mistakes on the gig.
week 6-16 october-This was the last week before our gig the only song for my ensamble that im playing is chasing cars we on practise this song in two weeks and it sounds pretty good the chords mght be easy to play but it adds a soft melody sound for the song.
week 6-16 october-This was the last week before our gig the only song for my ensamble that im playing is chasing cars we on practise this song in two weeks and it sounds pretty good the chords mght be easy to play but it adds a soft melody sound for the song.
This was the first time when they played the song
This was when the guys asked me to join them
The tabs are in this website http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/s/snow_patrol/chasing_cars_tab.htm the key is in A major and the chords are: A G sharp D.This are the chords for chasing cars:
After the Oxjam gig we started learning new songs in an ensemble for our next perfomance in Kenton Theatre called A Marvellous Night - Music Concert featuring the big band and other ensemble groups but unlike the oxjam gig we have to audition first infront of alison.I chose Mark to play with me so we could do a duet the songs that were trying to improve is an original song that invented along time ago on the piano now we just have to see how well it will sound with the guitar i am hopefully wishing that mark dosent disappoint me on the playing and atteding lessons.
week1-Been trying to help natalie and loui with their duet someone like you.Loui as been having some problems trying to learn the song so ive been teaching him how to play it even though some times he gets on my and natalies nerves by gving up easily but at least i have something to do as mark did not attend the lesson today i havent been practasing my original piece.
heres a video of trying to teach loui how to play somone like you
week1-Been trying to help natalie and loui with their duet someone like you.Loui as been having some problems trying to learn the song so ive been teaching him how to play it even though some times he gets on my and natalies nerves by gving up easily but at least i have something to do as mark did not attend the lesson today i havent been practasing my original piece.
heres a video of trying to teach loui how to play somone like you
week 2-Mark has finally showed up to the lesson so weve been trying to practise my original song and i dint go quite as espected well to be honest it was a failure the piano was alright as i knew all the chords but what mark did and that really irritated me was he jam to the song even though i gaved him the chords to play and because of that ive been talking to jordon as it seems his been also having problems with his group so he suggested to making a new group including me and natalie (shes been also having problems with loui because he cant be bothered to learn the whole song even when im trying to teach him it takes a long time for him to learn)
this is one of the videos of my original song that mark jam to
this is one of the videos of my original song that mark jam to
week 3-Natalie and jordon been practicing the song hotel California for the first time.They tried to play through the versus Steve also joined with his guitar jamming along.
week 4-Been practicing my intro for hotel California.It was quite difficult at the beginning if you watch the video you can see that i made a lot of mistakes for my first try of the intro but i go there in the end.
week 5- shows the progress that ive been making for the intro i just need to work with jordon on where to come in for the first verse and the chord that ends the song.
week 6-This was the first week that me jordon and natalie been playing our ensemble piece hotel california jordon chose this piece it seems that his addicted to it and mark was suppose to be in this group as well but he hasnt been showing up to lessons.our first week went quite well the piano had to play the intro by myself and jordon comes with natalie straight into the verse natalie had to sing with the lyrics showing on her phone because she hasent learn them yet and me and jordon are still trying to learn how to finish the song because if you listen to original verison the song fades out at the end but we cant do that as its a live perfomance so weve been trying to find the right chord to finish it.
heres our first video playing where me and jordon discuss about when we come in and when natalie messes up her lyrics because she hasnt learnt them
heres our first video playing where me and jordon discuss about when we come in and when natalie messes up her lyrics because she hasnt learnt them
week7-Been the same routine as last week weve been practising hotel california and natalie has also been practising with loui someone like you and it seems that loui still hasnt learn the whole song even though ive been trying to teach him the bridge.Mark also still hasnt turn up and we gave up hope on him so me and jordon have been focusing on the begining of the first verse and the end of the song ive been trying to creat a more melody sound on the chords that i play so i wont repeat what jordon is doing even though its been quite hard moving my fingers with the chords and if you listen carefuly to the video you can hear that i get behind jordon or i messe up the chords
Week 8- we've been practicing hotel California again but this time we tried to do it for real so we set up the microphone for natalie and i used both of the pedals to make it sound softer.If you watched the video you can see that i make a lot of mistakes on the verses so after i watched the video i have been doing a lot of exercise such as scales and wrists exercises also been trying to make my hands a lot warmer before i play any of my songs.
week 9-ive been having feedback from other people saying that my piano part for this song dosent sound as great and it brings the guitar and voice down for this song so ive been trying to use some dynamics but it still dosent sound as great so i think this was probably the worst rehearsal that we had but natalie and jordon did great in this rehearsal
week 10- did our last rehearsal of the song with natalie and jordon to be ready for our performance i wouldn't say that this was the best rehearsal that we did because
i messed up some of the chords and also Steve distracted us nearly at the end of the song and because of that i just started laughing in the video.It was the
worst place to do our last rehearsal because you can hear people making noises on the background so for this last rehearsing week i set myself targets to try
and do some dynamics for the song so it would suit natalies voice better and it would make the guitar sound better than the last videos that we did
i messed up some of the chords and also Steve distracted us nearly at the end of the song and because of that i just started laughing in the video.It was the
worst place to do our last rehearsal because you can hear people making noises on the background so for this last rehearsing week i set myself targets to try
and do some dynamics for the song so it would suit natalies voice better and it would make the guitar sound better than the last videos that we did
final performance-