I have done some composing before during level 2 but I didn’t really do too much , I learnt basic chords and how to make majors and minors using 4-3 or 3-4.
composition of film
At the start when we had to choose a video I spent a bit of time struggling to choose which one to do I eventually chose matrix but I think time management is one main thing that I could’ve improved a lot as I also wasted a lot of time struggling on the guitar for the song. Another thing I needed to improve on is learning keys or guitar a bit more as I couldn’t really write good guitar parts for the song since I only play drums. I can improve this by just starting to learn keys or guitar more.
I think the structure of the song also could’ve been better I need to do more research on writing over videos but I just did whatever I thought fit that section instead of a structure and I couldn’t think of another good enough guitar part for another section next time I think id spend longer on the guitar instead of giving up on it after not being able to think of anything.
The mix could’ve been better and make it more even , I was rushing at the end of the project and I just finished it and tried to mix it a little bit but I need to learn more about mixing I understand the basics but that’s something I would like to get good at I can do this by practicing mixing songs at home then see the original and by mixing my own songs.
Christmas gig
I think the Christmas went good it wasn’t perfect but it wasn’t awful , I do think we sounded better during practice though. I think the main 2 things I had to improve at that gig was timing and dynamics. I messed up at a part of blitzkrieg bop but we fixed it quite quick. The main thing I struggled with was the triplet fills but since then ive gotten them a lot better , and the kick drum was very far away so i need to adjust the drums when i need to before starting.
Practices
i missed a lot of practices when i got ill but before i got ill i think we learnt the songs quite fast but could’ve practiced more and focus on how to make it better. sometimes the practices people took too long messing about before we did it again. I think if we practiced it more we would’ve sounded a lot better at the gig because during practices sometimes we would have it sounding really good then sometimes it’ll lack energy and be a bit sloppy.