FINAL WEEK
Happy with the gig, happy with the band, stoked about Christmas stoked about New Years and stoked about the second semester.
session 12
session 11
GIG DAY
mate…. I had a wicked time… thoroughly enjoy the performance… we all gig outside of uni so this was quite natural for us… ill shimmy until dead.
pros – kept in time, hit all the breaks, nailed all our individual parts, used the stage well, and frickin’ performed brah!
cons – there were a few bits of didn’t harmonies to because I just new it would’ve been a bit shoddy so left trinity to it. The would be the thing that’s id change for sure.
session 10
Finalising
Id say at this point we really were getting everything super tight. The stops, solos, harmonies, going in-between the half time and the original tempo. yer, things were looking super. There was a little bit more shuffling round on the lyrics front… at one point I got a bit frustrated on not hitting harmonies in the middle 8 section… just had fingers cross that it would be alright on the night.
session 9
FAMILIARITY
trinity and I were really honing in on our lyrics at this point…. deciding what we’d sing solo, what we’d harmonies on…at one point I was tempted to play piano… but opted out.
session 8
LYRICS
In this session we spoke a lyrics which is soooo needed for me. gazer recommended some good books. id say a lot of my lyrics are about nature and often start as poetry. something that just sprung to mind with regards to beautiful lyrics… its a tom waits tune….
‘you haven’t look at me that way in years….but I’m still here. ‘
Simple but something people can relate to, its about relationships, long ones at that, marriage….. so much to look forward to… not!!!
words matter!
session 7
IDEA GALORE!!!
Duncan being a total bad man on guitar didn’t hang around when it came to laying down chords. Daisy being a natural born jammer followed his lead, Theo following shortly after. Yer, I recon the backbone of the song was formed in this session… after that we just tried to have more of a structure, fun bits, and general tightness as a unit
session 6
And so it begins….
This was the session we chose our band mates. pretty lush really. I rate the people I naturally gravitated towards to as musicians and now friends. their all super talented, we share really similar tastes in music and yer…. just lovely working with them really. hoping to work more with them in the future.
The Gary project
session 5
Total bummer, I didn’t get a chance to take part in the sound map as I wasn’t in for this session. Dope idea though. I love our teaches wicked ideas. The out the box thinking when it comes to sound is a refreshing take to music.
session 4
Stable and unstable….what the funk!!!
This session fried my brain a little. We spoke of stable and unstable tones which, looking back, I defiantly understand it more now then I did then. lets see if can explain… so, the stable tones is usually the 1,3,5,and octave of a scale, as they are the major triad of the scale, and what we always lean towards for vocal harmonies. The unstable stones 4th,6,7th are the unstable tones.
Interest note, the maoris of New Zealand, total bad arse singers, huge stereotype but it is common as its a huge part of their culture. they are pretty sick at singing these harmonies.
C major scale CDEFGABC example
Stable tones C E G Unstable tones D F A B
1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4+ CDFCABCC
session 3
Explicit Beat layer, Functional Bass Layer, Melodic layer and the Harmonic Filler layer.
I really benefited from this session. We dove into the nitty gritty of the structures of songs. what gives them there style and places them distinctively into there genre.
as a class we went through a few songs and noted the musicality of the song this was one of the songs on the playlist which hasn’t to be a tune. I like that we analysed songs that I would listen to as well as songs that were new to my ear.
Poppie Gleeson 