First time rehearsing with the band. We are learning our first cover song Mardy bum by Arctic Monkeys. We had about an hour of listening and learning the song before playing in the live room. We gave it our best since it was our first time. I looked up bass tabs for this song but just ended up following what rhythm guitar plays.
I play bass for this song, Clark is on lead guitar, Lacey is on rhythm guitar, Aimee is on vocals, Cameron on drums and Nathan on keys.
Here we played though the full song. Not too bad considering it is our second time playing. We practiced the song for a bit before recording but I think we need more practice because I kept on playing the wrong note during the chorus you can see Nic coming up to me and showing me to play the correct note.
Also Clark got mixed up at the beginning of the song.
Third time rehearsing Mardy Bum, I think were all getting better at playing the song just need to tighten it up after the break down where it goes into the chorus because were all off time during that part of the song.
First time rehearsing Hey Joe, again I’m on bass for this song. I already knew how to play the bass line for this song since I listen to Jimi Hendrix. Also I learned how to play the song on rhythm guitar and just used the root notes to play on bass. All I have to learn is the chromatic part for the song which looks pretty easy to pull off.
Progress update to where we currently at with our songs and rehearsals.
I didn’t say much in this video but at that point I knew how to play both songs Mardy Bum and Hey Joe on bass I have been looking at tabs and learning how to play these songs at home.
In these 3 videos, we all performed in front in front of other bands just to get the feel for when we play to a live audience. I think we all did a good job at playing all 3 songs mainly the last one Go With the Flow because we only had a week of practice that’s why we didn’t play through the whole song, also we didn’t practice on the ending so we didn’t know when and how to stop it.
During the final week, we only practiced Go With the Flow, We mainly focused on rehearsing this song because we didn’t have much time left also I had to learn the song quickly and just had to go with the flow. We also practiced the ending of the song we did this with Mardy Bum and Hey Joe but we didn’t record them because of timing.
Also Ethan had to go somewhere last minute so we asked Isobel to play rhythm guitar for the last rehearsal video.