Today we started project 2 and I’m in a band with Liam (Guitar) Ellie (bass) Jemma (vocals) Oliver (guitar) Dess (vocals).
Our first practice went alright we have a good idea on the song now. We can play a simple version of the song all the way through , but when I go home I’m gonna practice the fills and where the crashes and stops are. I struggled on the fill at first because it was in triplets but I think ill be able to get it down for next practice.
Liam learnt the chords and the song pretty much instantly so now he’s changing it a bit and adding his own twist on it.
I think the song works for Jemma’s range , she just needs to learn the lyrics , it’ll be easier for her to know the timings once I know where all the extra drum stuff is such as fills so it’ll give her a cue on when to come in.
This rehearsal was good we now have the full structure of the song and I’ve learnt where all the fills are now. I need to make sure the triplets in the fills are in time and im now also trying to make the dynamics of it better too.
During this practice I realised how empty the end of the verse sounds without tambourine so I added it to my hi hats allowing me to play it on beats 2 and 4.
We didn’t have Jemma for this practice so Des had to go from doing backing vocals to singing it all this practice.
At the end of the practice we decided to choose our next songs which are miss murder and a Deftones song.
This practice everyone was in and we ran through this song a few times and recorded it too. I think we have this song down enough to start focusing on the next , which is what we decided to do after half the practice.
I still have to focus on making the timing and dynamics of the triplets and our vocalist need to learn the words.
We spent half the practice starting to learn miss murder I have the beat down and a rough idea on the structure but I’ll need to learn it better knowing where the fills and stops are.
The bass for this song is quite hard so we spent most of the time trying to help her with learning the bass part which she almost got down so I think next practice we will have some decent attempts of the song.
The practice went alright we started to get the song down but I really need to tighten up the triplet fill as well as the crashes during the bridge. During the recording I messed up completely twice and going out of time sometimes mainly in the fills and bridge.
I think this is the best recording we got this project of this song however I still really need to get the triplet fill tight. I did get told by my drum teacher to play shuffle on it but I wasn’t confident with doing that live so I stuck to playing it as a quarter note beat.
I wasn’t here during this practice sadly I was ill quite a bit of this project.
once again ill. (Ty Evan for filling in for me)
I think that’s Eric on drums.
This is us practicing blitzkrieg bop isn’t the best recording as this song killed all of our arms we definitely played it better before hitting record. I can hear quite a few slip ups from me sometimes missing some kicks. The timing is alright not perfect ,I think we need more energy while playing this song to match the Romones energetic fast punk energy.
We didn’t take many recordings since it wasn’t the main part of this project and when I came back from being ill we had all the songs down as I practiced the songs at home. The one part I struggled with the most for the songs were the Christmas song baby please come home on the triplet fill , however I had a drum lesson on it and during the lesson I had it down instantly so I hope it was alright for the gig too.
Simon my drum teacher when I had a lesson with him helped me get my triplet fill tighter as well as telling me to play it on the toms 2 triplets on rag and 2 on the floor tom. He also said if I wanted to I could play it in a shuffle which would’ve sounded better but I wasn’t confident enough to do so for thee gig as when I first started practicing shuffle it was really awkward for me and coming back into shuffle from a beat makes me lose it so ive been practicing doing a shuffle then fill back to shuffle.