Term 2 - Lesson 10 - 8th February

Track 1

1. Are the stands having any impact on the music/sound? If so, what?

The stands do affect the sound because the music is being played then it is bouncing of the stands which is allowing the audience to hear it clearer.
If there were no stands, there wouldn't be anything to rebound off.

Why do marching bands have so many instruments, and loud ones!

Marching bands have so many loud instruments because they are playing outside so there will not be any walls for the sound to bounce off to travel to the audience so a louder sound is needed for the audience to hear what is being played.



Track 2

1. Can you hear any reverberation. Do you think that comes from the room or might there be some digital reverb? Give reasons for your answer.

There is reverb, and I think it comes from both the room size and and maybe a  reverb effect made digitally on the computer.

Do you think the guitars are recorded through a mic or down a line?

The guitars are being recorded through a microphone


Describe the texture of the music. Does the acoustic environment suit the music?
The texture of this song is homophonic.
The acoustic environment suits the music because the small of reverb gives it a small echo feel to the music.

Track 3

1. Describe the texture of the music (it is not the same throughout so mention where it changes.
The texture of the music is mainly polyphonic, but there are some areas
 where it goes homophonic
 
Is the music suitable for the space / is the space suitable for the music?

The music isn't really suited for the space because since the choir are singing in a large hall, there will be a lot of reverb that may be sustained for quite a while which could mess up the music.

Style Band Workshop

Style Band Rehearsal

Monday 7th January 2013:Reggae

In today's band workshop, we chose the song One Love by Bob Marley to cover, the members in my group were Matty, Sheva, Harry, Emmanuel, Dani, Dar and Garnett. By the end of today's band rehearsal, we want to learn and perfect the whole song and be able to play it without any faults which we did achieve.

There were no real issues that came up apart from the fact that it took quite a while for everyone to learn their parts and perfect them, but luckily we all managed to learn our parts and when we did actually play the song as a group it sounded pretty good.
Our target for the next rehearsal was to be able to play the song without any faults or accidents and also to make sure we remember how to play the song perfectly even after we rehearse the rest of the songs to come.

 Monday 14th January 2013: Funk

In today's band workshop, we covered the song Super Freak by Rick James to cover, The people in my group were Matty, Caitlyn, Demver, Donavon, Sheva, Shardonnae, Dani and Dar.
By the end of today's band rehearsal, we hope to be able to play the song through fully and hopefully without any faults.
There were two main issues in this band rehearsal, and that was the vocalist's harmonies, and the rhythm section's timing, but by the end of the rehearsal session, we managed to learn the song without any faults.
The targets for the next rehearsal were to make sure the vocalists learn the harmonies and that we're able to play the song perfectly.
A personal target would be to be able to play this song or any song from memory.

Monday 21th January 2013:Latin

In today's band workshop, we covered the song Tropicalia by Beck. This was the first song that we had covered where the whole class played together as one group.

The main target for this rehearsal was just learn the song fully and hopefully perfect it, it was the hardest song to learn because everyone had a small but very important role to play, but some percussion instruments were harder to play than others, but in the end everyone managed to learn their parts and it sounded pretty good.

The main target for the next rehearsal would be to be able to play the song fully without any faults, which will be difficult since there are so many of us playing in this song.

Monday 28th January 2013: Blues

In today's band workshop, we covered the song A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. This song had more of a 'soul' and 'jazzy' feel to it but we covered it instead of covering a blues song.
The people in my group were Darlene, Jacob, Emmanuel, Shardonnae, Harry, Dar, Sheva, Kline and Bianca.
This was probably the easiest song to learn since we all managed to learn the song quite quickly and even managed to perfect it.
The only issue was that Emmanuel didn't know when to come in after the middle 8 of the song, but he managed to do it.
The targets for the next rehearsal would be to be able to play the song without faults, which would be an easy target because everyone learnt the song very quickly so they'll know what they're are doing. 

Monday 4th February 2013:Electro

In today's band workshop, since this week's musical genre was Electro, we covered Heartbeats by The Knife.
I was in group 1 with Matty, La-Shaun, Shannun, Demver, Bianca, Danielle, Donavon, Harry, Garnett and Jordan. Out of all the songs from the musical genres that we've covered, this was probably the most difficult song to learn and master.
The main target for today's band workshop is to be able to perform the song fully without any faults, this will be a difficult target because it took quite a while for everyone to learn their part properly.
The only issue was that the singers couldn't work out the harmonies for the song, but they managed to find them by the end of the session.
Also, this is the one song that we've made a lot of changes to, La-Shaun made his own intro for the song and Matty and I changed the chords in the middle 8 which gave the song a kind of 'gospel' feel to it.
    
The targets for the next rehearsal would be to be able to play the song fully and hopefully add some more to the song.