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Rehearsal 1.

This is a review of my first rehearsal. I am rehearsing on my own to start with so that I learn the drum parts and then I will rehearse with my guitarist. It went quite well with both songs and I feel positive about them.

The three positives are:

1. I know the drum parts for both songs

2. I know the structures for both songs

3. I can perform them all the way through

The three areas to improve are:

1. I need better double bass drum endurance

2. My drum sticking needs to improve and get cleaner

3. Keeping time and not rushing ahead

These are my goals for the next rehearsal.

See rehearsal samples 1

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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I am going to create an EP, featuring two songs, one from the 1st wave of black metal and the other from the second wave, i am doing this to show the progression and to honor the scene's originators and its current practitioners.

Set list :

Bathory - Necromansy

Gorgoroth - Profetens Åpenbaring

The musicians playing on this EP are :

Rauði Ulfhrafn - Drums

Mikołaj Leszczynowicz - Guitar

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The reason that I have chosen to do Black Metal for my project, is that it is not just my favourite genre but the essence of my being and is a spiritual expression. I will succeed at this because it is the one thing I focus all of my energy into and what i love the most in this world, if I choose to practise and develop my playing, there is no thing that can stand in front of me, as I channel everything I feel into this. It becomes charged with my energy and will.

My strengths are finger control,  which I am currently working on I saw a drum cam of a drummer named "Dominator" and I was really impressed and inspired by his speed and control, this is the reason that I decided to work on it.  I have improved from practising single strokes on my practise pad. I need to improve on my double pedal speed because my stamina isn't so good.

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For my research, I will carry out in depth history and contextual understanding Black Metal. I will go over the scenes who inspired the first and second wave scenes and what the result that came out of them was, this will include ; A history of the scenes ; Important bands ; myths that gave a notorious reputation to many of them and summing the evolution up with today's Black Metal Scene. I will also create a primary research questionnaire.

A notable secondary source that I used is Dayal Patterson's "Black metal : Evolution Of The Cult" book, it is a great secondary source because he has done a ton of  interviews with many notable bands within the first and second waves of black metal and compiled and huge wealth of information regarding their origins and stories.

Some primary sources that have shed light on a lot for me were interviews with artists on youtube and also live performances.

Gorgoroth - Profetens Åpenbaring live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OeikcMvVZM

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For this project i will need to work on my organisation as I have never been the person to organise things like rehearsals and other things relating to this. This is the biggest thing for me, because in the past I have been very disorganised and messy, so it's a fitting time to change that.

Another skill that i have had to develop is my ensemble skills, playing with another musician, timing has not been my problem, perhaps it has been my communicating skills, i have improved a lot, but there is more to get better at in this area.

I have also chosen to transcribe the two songs that i am doing for my project, i have never transcribed before so i it has certainly provided some challenges, but i have learned a lot so far. I will post them into my research portfolio.

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I think that what is likely to be a challenge for me is doing the weekly journals, last time I needed to do this, it didn't go so well, so i need to manage myself a lot better for this project.

I will be able to improve on this by completing them one at a time, in contrast to an earlier project where I had to fill in for a few weeks because i didn't get them done.

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https://padlet.com/jg7198/cgxs60k7mdg3

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Rehearsal 2.

This is a review of my second rehearsal. Both songs are improving and I have achieved my goals from the last session.

The three positives are:

1. My double bass drum stamina is good on both songs

2. My hand speed and sticking is better with more accuracy now

3. Because of this I am keeping time well on both songs

The three areas to improve are:

1. The togetherness of my sticking and bass drumming

2. Improving the dynamics of the songs

3. Giving the songs character in the drumming

I am now ready to rehearse with my guitarist and so my goals for next session are to start rehearsing with Mikolaj and get the foundations of the songs in place with him.

See rehearsal samples 2

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 3.

This is a review of my third rehearsal which is the first rehearsal with my guitarist Mikolaj and it has gone well.

The three positives are:

1. Our individual performances are good

2. We have worked out how the drum and guitar parts work together

3. Our technical performances are good

The three areas to improve are:

1. Really knowing the songs together

2. Improving our playing together

3. Keeping our timing together

I am pleased with how it has gone and my goals for the next session are to spend more time with Mikolaj so that we sound more together with the songs.

For my Project 4, i have chosen to centre my coursework around the evolution of Black Metal.

My research will include information about the early bands, their sound, ideologies, what they did impacted the genre in the following two decades.

I will talk about the bands' approach to recording and live shows in as much detail as i can.

I have started to rehearse the two songs i have chosen for my EP with my a friend of mine, i think the first rehearsal went okay, we are still learning the songs and figuring out how fast we want to play them. Next rehearsal i want to have the songs learned better on both sides, and channel our emotions into our playing.

See rehearsal samples 3

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 4.

This is my fourth rehearsal in total. It is the second rehearsal with my guitarist Mikolaj and it is getting better.

The three positives are:

1. We are even more comfortable with our individual parts which makes how we are playing together even better

2. Our togetherness is much better now in both songs and they are sounding together

3. I am surprised at how quickly this is coming together

The three areas to improve are:

1. Becoming more comfortable with the songs individually and together

2. Giving the songs more character on their dynamics

3. Becoming even more cohesive and sounding even more together

My goal for the next rehearsal is to play with the metronome to make sure our timing is consistently accurate.

I have had a very productive drum lesson, my tutor has been teaching me how to use Sibelius, we have been practising ear training for two lessons now, which will help massively for the idea i have of transcribing the two songs.

I have been practising this at home, firstly i play a random beat to a metronome on my practise pad, then i record it and listen to it back, lastly i transcribe it on Sibelius.

Then i repeat for an hour. I am practising this three times a week.

See rehearsal samples 4

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 5.

This is my fifth rehearsal in total. It is the third rehearsal with my guitarist Mikolaj and we are getting close to being ready for the final performance.

The three positives are:

1. We have better knowledge and understanding of the songs

2. We are playing tightly and together

3. We kept very good timing

The three areas to improve are:

1. Keep working on the songs dynamics
2. Getting even tighter playing together
3. Develop conveying the songs expressions

My goal for the next session is to keep developing the dynamics of the two songs so that they do the originals justice.

Following our rehearsal, I have progressed learning the two songs by listening to them frequently in my free time, I have also written the length of the sections of the two tracks. They are on pages on my Macbook right now, but I think that I will write them down on paper so that we can both put the sheets on music stands.

I am having difficulty in the Gorgoroth track with the double pedal parts. I can work to improve this by using this exercise at home or wherever I am, as it does not require any hardware to practise it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlfZSiBxTMg

See rehearsal samples 5

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 6.

This is my sixth rehearsal in total. It is the fourth rehearsal with my guitarist Mikolaj and I am very happy with the progress of our two songs.

The three positives are:

1. Good individual and collective song dynamics
2. The songs now have good character
3. The songs are played with attitude

The three areas to improve are:
1. Improve my sticking triplets

2. Improve both of us staying in perfect time with the metronome
3. Check accuracy of the playing to the originals

My goal for the next session is to be very close to recording the final performance.

See rehearsal samples 6

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 7.

This is my seventh rehearsal in total. It is the fifth rehearsal with Mikolaj and we are building strong foundations for both songs.

The three positives are:

1. We have good timing of each song

2. Our playing together is good

3. We are creating a good atmosphere for the songs

The three areas to improve are:

1. Our song structure knowledge has declined since we last rehearsed. This will get better when we play more

2. I need to improve my song introductions for the final performance

3. We need to improve our song speed and dynamics

My goal for the next session is to do a final performance rehearsal so that we are ready to go.

See rehearsal sample 7

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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Rehearsal 8.

This is my eighth rehearsal and my sixth with Mikolaj. We are ironing out what is not so good and building on our strengths.

The three positives are:

1. We are creating a good atmosphere including using face paints and hoods. This gets us in character and in the mood.

2. We have good dynamics with our playing … especially now that I am always using the inner ear metronome. Speaking with guitarists and other drummers, I now understand that it is the drummer that keeps the time of the playing together and that the guitarists and the vocalist work off the drums. If the drums are off time then the whole song will go wrong. The inner ear metronome makes sure that the drums stay on time.

3. We are playing our parts well individually

The three areas to improve are:

1. We tried too hard in this session

2. We did not play very well together

3. Our timing was off

This session was disappointing but better we do it now than in our final performance. We will keep doing dress rehearsals.

See rehearsal sample 8

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kSHm1RMaG0JNRKRcTQ8f_jDGWugux4G2

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When I decided which songs to do, I looked for the drum scores for both songs but there were none so I decided to write them. It was very difficult because I have never done this before. I started doing it manually which was difficult and time consumming and someone said that Sibelius was easier. I got Sibelius and found this very difficult also but I taught myself and it got easier. The main mistake I was making was that I was trying to work out each bar at a time with all of the bass drums, the pauses, the breaks, the drums and the cymbals before doing the next bar. I realised after doing Gorgoroth that if I did one layer at a time that it would be easier and it was. The Bathory song was complicated but when I did the bars and the bass drum layer first and then inputed the breaks and pauses and then added the other layers, it was much easier and faster. I was very relieved to get it done but I learned a lot that will help me in the future. I know that when I get better and more confident with Sibelius and writing scores, I will be able to do all the layers for each bar at the same time and move on to the next bar.

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Performance Interviews

I made a list of questions to get a lot of information but when I did it for myself, it took way too long and it was a bit exhausting to be honest ... even I got bored and I wrote the questions!!! There was no way I could do this to another performer, they would just fall asleep!! Instead, I had to go back and start again. I came up with a single page of questions that  I was happy to ask Eamon. (see Eamon's question sheet and interview in Task 3&4 at the bottom of the research page.)

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Cover of Profetens Åpenbaring by Gorgoroth by DiabolicalOverlordZrug

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Cover of Necromansy by Bathory by DiabolicalOverlordZrug

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