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session 11

GIG DAY

mate…. I had a wicked time… thoroughly enjoy the performance… we all gig outside of uni so this was quite natural for us… ill shimmy until dead.

pros – kept in time, hit all the breaks, nailed all our individual parts, used the stage well, and frickin’ performed brah!

cons – there were a few bits of didn’t harmonies to because I just new it would’ve been a bit shoddy so left trinity to it. The would be the thing that’s id change for sure.

session 10

Finalising

Id say at this point we really were getting everything super tight. The stops, solos, harmonies, going in-between the half time and the original tempo. yer, things were looking super. There was a little bit more shuffling round on the lyrics front… at one point I got a bit frustrated on not hitting harmonies in the middle 8 section… just had fingers cross that it would be alright on the night.

session 8

LYRICS

In this session we spoke a lyrics which is soooo needed for me. gazer recommended some good books. id say a lot of my lyrics are about nature and often start as poetry. something that just sprung to mind with regards to beautiful lyrics… its a tom waits tune….

‘you haven’t look at me that way in years….but I’m still here. ‘

Simple but something people can relate to, its about relationships, long ones at that, marriage….. so much to look forward to… not!!!

words matter!

session 4

Stable and unstable….what the funk!!!

This session fried my brain a little. We spoke of stable and unstable tones which, looking back, I defiantly understand it more now then I did then. lets see if can explain… so, the stable tones is usually the 1,3,5,and octave of a scale, as they are the major triad of the scale, and what we always lean towards for vocal harmonies. The unstable stones 4th,6,7th are the unstable tones.

Interest note, the maoris of New Zealand, total bad arse singers, huge stereotype but it is common as its a huge part of their culture. they are pretty sick at singing these harmonies.

Bad arse singers….singer is a huge part of their culture!

C major scale CDEFGABC example

Stable tones C E G Unstable tones D F A B

1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+ CDFCABCC

session 3

Explicit Beat layer, Functional Bass Layer, Melodic layer and the Harmonic Filler layer.

I really benefited from this session. We dove into the nitty gritty of the structures of songs. what gives them there style and places them distinctively into there genre.

as a class we went through a few songs and noted the musicality of the song this was one of the songs on the playlist which hasn’t to be a tune. I like that we analysed songs that I would listen to as well as songs that were new to my ear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38v3-SSGcM

session 2

A/B section innit!!!

In this session I opted to work with people I hadn’t worked with before. This included James, Hayden and Emrys. I played a basic bass line in this little number, which was nice as I’ve just started getting into bass.

Hayden is a sick vocalist this is him….

  • HAYDEN IN BEAST MODE!!