What’s good: To say it was our 1st rehearsal together and that there was no major mess ups i think we all played really well. Wouldn’t say we had a good amount of rhythm but timing was good for all the songs and we remembered the structures for all the songs.
what’s not so good: The placement of the camera made it difficult to hear Amy singing. And Amy’s mic kept feed backing. We definitely sped up at times and my string broke making the ‘American idiot solo’ sound terrible.
What to improve on next time: Need to make sure the camera is in a position where you can hear everyone properly. Also were having issues with Amy not being able to hear herself and us not being able to hear her so we need to adjust the pa properly. I thought we all played well but we need to work on keeping timing for ‘Helena’ and ‘Time is running out’.
What’s good: We all sounded a lot closer on time or tighter in this rehearsal. Still not great but you can hear Amy singing now and you can hear the whole band more evenly now. We’re getting better at being more dynamic and lowering or raising volume where needed. And now Oliver is doing backing vocals so it just sounds more whole and more interesting.
what’s not so good: I hadn’t setup my overdrive properly so you can hear it feed backing a lot. Me and Adam still keep speeding up noticeably in the ‘Helena’ breakdown section due to my rhythm being completely off and then it making Adam speed up. Also me and Lukas playing the ‘Be quiet and drive’ riff sounds not tight at all and needs work.
What to improve on next time: Need to sort the amount of overdrive on my setup at college as at home it doesn’t feedback at all but when i’m playing loud at college it’s almost un usable. Me and Adam really need to work on ‘Helena’ and it would benefit a lot if just me and Lukas practiced together so we are more in sync.
What’s good: My amp isn’t feed backing anymore which isn’t throwing people off. Amy’s singing has gotten a lot better too, more strong and better control vibrato. Personally i’m getting better at playing with out looking and not having to think about it as much.
What’s not so good: Can’t really hear my guitar that well, making it hard to evaluate if i’ve gotten any better but i’m still messing up the ‘Little sister’ solo and the end part too. A couple of Olivers harmonies sounded weak or a bit flat pitch and i think he might not be drop d tuning his bass to the correct pitch for ‘Be quiet and drive’.
What to improve on next time: Need to ensure that the camera can pick up everyones playing evenly so its easier to evaluate recordings. I need to work on playing without looking with my solos more and make sure everyones drop d tuning is on pitch so it doesn’t sound wrong.
What’s good: As best as its going to get in terms of how well you can hear everyone playing equally. I thought Oliver improved a lot with his harmonies and especially with the screaming vocals for ‘Be quiet and drive’. Me and Adam finally got down the ‘Helena’ breakdown part too! And me and Lukas are more in synch now although we have’t practiced together yet.
What’s not so good: A lot has gotten better so it’s hard to say much accept that i need to work on my solo’s more as sometimes i’m getting the rhythm down tight enough or playing the wrong notes.
What to improve on next: I need to work on specific areas of songs and my stage presence too as i look like a standing duck currently.
What’s good: Me and Adam are finally getting it together with the ‘Helena’ breakdown section which took us a while so thats good. And getting onto the next song seems to be improving too and not much messing about.
What’s not so good: Messed up the take me away solo quite badly. You really got me solo and little sister didn’t go so well either. Also my string broke on my last song which seems to be a re occurring problem but im going to get my guitar setup so hopefully that helps it.
What to improve on next: Not sure what happened but just didn’t sound as good in this rehearsal in terms of how lock in together we all are. But i was also messing up a lot and messing up solos so these are all things we need to look into. My amp and guitar keeps having problems that would massively effect our gig so i’m going to get them both sorted. As a whole though i think we have all lost focus as we have been rehearsing for a while with no gigs as our gig got postponed so we have nothing to rehearse for at the moment but we are contacting venues.