This was our first time playing Drake’s hold on, we’re going home. Nic showed us our parts and we were playing them while Nic messed about with our tone to make it sound better. Originally, this song does not include guitar so we had to create a guitar part for it, it was just elevated chords based off of the bass notes. We need to work on our timing and perfecting our parts. we need to also work on structure while switching between verses and choruses.
In this rehearsal we all played our instruments standing up to get used to it when we go on stage. we all know our parts a bit better now and it sounds more put together. The structure of the song is slowly coming together too so we are making a lot of progress. there are still things we need to work on, for example, still need to work more on the structure and changes of chords and overall stage presence too.
This is our third rehearsal of hold on we’re going home and we’ve got our parts down really well for it. but in this video at the end of it we are supposed to go into the breakdown but I thought we are supposed to have a second chorus so I need to work on knowing the structure more because I messed the whole song up and blamed everyone else for it. Due to this it makes me think that I, as well as the band itself, need to work on our communication skills so we can play along better together.
We are sounding better now but we need to make it sound more tight and get the pauses and breaks on time and we also need to get more confident with playing it because we all seem tight and not relaxed so we tend to make more mistakes so we need to work on this a little bit to make this performance fun and lively.
We are getting really confident with the first two verses and its sounding really good from the back of the live space. We have got this song down really tight now. All we need to work on now is our stage presence during this song, for example where are we standing and any movement if needs be.
This is the last rehearsal of this song that we did before the dress rehearsal. we have this song down really well and we are also getting relaxed while performing this song. We did mess up the tiniest bit my mistaking the breakdown part as another chorus but as long as we don’t do that in the showcase we will be fine.