What went well: Managed to get the video done on time for the week, explained that there was not much to show for this weeks progress accept all my research work, presentation work and slideshow work which I will be screen recording and going over eventually at some point in a progress video and giving more details. I was direct with what I had to say and expressed my lack of progress that week clearly.
What went wrong: I had to do this video about 2x because my phone died mid way through recording my home rehearsal.. And i left editing the vid last Minuet and found out that my phone wasn’t letting me transfer the files to my Mac for no reason so I tried the day after and it worked.
What to improve on next week: Need to find a way to transfer files from my phone to my Mac easier as its always a gamer of re booting my phone and the Android file transfer software and relating it until it works. I also want to make it so I can use my phone camera and mic together if I can. I need to show my DS work too on a screen recording and go over it to be able to give more details.
Overall rehearsal evaluation: I think to say i’ve not been practicing as much due to our gig being postponed 2 months it still sounds Good, theres no structure mistakes and still playing most all the songs with good timing and using my pedals so they blend in well with the song so its not obvious i’ve not just turned an effect on and blends in nicely. But i want my rhythm to be better for all the songs and my licks for ‘Take me away’ to be played cleaner and more confidently. Bit of an excuse but the les Paul in the video just felt awful to play, wasn’t intonated and had rusty strings so that didn’t help much but my ‘babe’ guitar has been sent to a luthier to get a new nut and a full setup so hopefully ill stop breaking strings every band rehearsal and also stay in tune for a whole song..
What went well: Camera quality is a lot better angle and quality this time, I also set my phone in a slightly different location this time so you can hear the song I’m playing to a bit more clearly and just allows everything to sit in the mix better. I do want to try record my amp through a mic a some point though. I also figured out that I needed to activate ‘usb for file transfer’ which was hidden in developer options in my phone which allows it to transfer videos to my Mac easier, sometimes..
What went wrong: Pretty obvious but my audio is the main thing that went wrong here, basically I was trying to record though my mic but the file saved as a random file so my editor didn’t recognise it and I had to use the audio from my phone which was picking up my voice coming through my monitors as I have it so when I use my mic it comes out my monitors so yeh.
What to improve on next week: Need to ensure my audio is going to work with my editor and also catch up on my eruption and music theory side of the project.
Overall rehearsal evaluation: It was a lot easier to play these songs as I’ve got my main guitar back after a setup as my last guitar had old and heavier gauge strings on it and was a completely different style of guitar in general. Im still messing up in areas but my timing and sense of rhythm appears to be better in this video, especially my picking attack which helps with the dynamic of my playing and how soft or powerful something can sound. Still a bit shaky with the scratchy parts in ‘Time is running out’ and I’m not consistent with the ‘Little sister’ solo, as in sometimes play it really well and then sometimes I mess up so I need to practice that. Im also starting to use a metronome so hopefully that should help with my timing and rhythm.