The first rehearsals for the performance in front of the mayor went surprisingly well, We only just was told the song we are performing which is Californiacation by Red Hot Chilli Peppers which wasn’t a terrible pick for a song its not too bad. It took me the guitarist and the bassist only a few minutes to get our instrument parts for the verses and the chorus down and ready to play and the drummer only thing he has to work on is the timing of the drum fills for get us into chorus and pre chorus. The singers are learning the lyrics as I type this and should have it down by next band rehearsals.
I picked up the first few bars of the guitar solo by ear but will have to look up the rest when I get the time. I plan on rehearsing pretty much all night until I have all parts of the sound down and ready for the gig as it is in only two weeks.
Its been two days since I have updated this section of this project and its safe to say I am very confident for how this one song gig is going to go I leant all the guitar parts for the song in a day and half the song doesn’t seem so hard I feel I would have found this a lot harder last year and probably would have put a lot of stress on my self but nope all seems good for this song, we will see how practising with the band goes tomorrow.
This is in place of my band evidence as there was problems with the video and audio but any way…
I didn’t find learning this song was hard I was actually quite impressed with how fast and how well I could play the song and the solo all together. The song uses simple nice open chords and like one barre chord so its not super hard its just knowing the chords really. For the solo its not too fast its at a comfortable pace for me and its nothing too crazy I am more than happy with this song choice by Pav. For the second song I saw what the the other bands were given and saw Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis I just thought it would be really good song to perform for many reasons one being that every person in England knows this song another being the songs catchy as hell.