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.
In this video the vocalists have one big problem and that is all three of them are all singing together trying to all sing the original which i’m sure you have all heard the vocals it really doesn’t blend well a way to fix this is to give each of the vocalists their own part to sing and for some parts get them to sing together to add more power to that section of the song.On a better note the instruments sound pretty tight in this recording for the first half with only a few slip ups nothing too major apart from the solo which is my own fault but the more I practice the more I will improve. When it comes to the pre chorus I increase my volume on the guitar as it doesn’t stand out as much when I keep it the same for the verses but I need to make sure i’m changing it to the right volume or i spent too much time messing around trying to fix it after its too loud or too quiet. We can
Straight away because me and Rhys was playing different riffs before Mikey counted us in to the song it caused us to mess up the timings of the the intro and made Mikey mess up his part too. The next time we try I mess up the first verse after the intro shows I could always practice the song more and can make the guitar parts as tight as I can get them. The singers still don’t sound as good as they could sound because they are choosing to sing together instead of splitting up the parts to put emphasis on certain pats of the song which really would make it sound better.
Another thing that would help the singers in this video is if they put a little bit more of effort into what they are singing, at the start of this song the singers sound very drowsy and tired and not much projection coming from their voices. The drum fill for the chorus sounds kind of off like it a very stiff beat in a loose flowy song I dont know but that could be better and the crash symbols on the chorus sounds slightly delayed that needs to be tightened. The singers keep forgetting the words in the pre-chorus even when they have the lyrics in their hands. So far majority of the time in the solo the bassist messes up and stays silent for a little while making the solo sound very empty and sort off takes away the feel of the solo. For me the solo went better than before only missing 2 notes other than that not too bad but still loads of room for better flow and feel for the solo
For Chelsea Dagger the guitar in this video is atrocious the tone is all off in my defence the amp in that practice room does not cooperate when it comes to gain and distortion and it will definitely not help that I don’t really know the amp a lot yet still got to learn. The strumming and timing of the guitar is also absolutely terrible and sounds really bad this song needs a lot of work but it we be practiced.