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The stimulus for this weeks performance was that of blues music and tying to incorporate the key techniques of blues music into our stimulus. The stimulus for this week wasn't exactly themed around anything in particular, just the idea of writing a song that sounded bluesy. the key things we wanted to add to this piece in particular were the use of blue notes on guitars and bass as well as using mostly pentatonic scale progressions in a 12 bar time signature of blues music and incorporate as many of these ideas as possible into the stimulus

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The creation of the song started out with just simple jamming, we were originally thinking of playing a cover song but instead decided to do our own piece of music as it would be easier to incorporate all the instruments in the group to the piece of music as well as having the privilege of having our own creative freedom and the fact we all know our part of the song. The idea for the blues genre came from me playing a basic chord progression between D and C power chords with the addition of blue notes on the 5th and 7th of each chord (which is commonly used within blues music), I showed George the chord progression and he played a riff over the chord progression that was entirely improvised throughout the whole performance. Heather added the bass line into the mix as well as Joe on the drums following the chord progression. We then had a discussion on what to do with what we had and whether we should add lyrics to the "song" or not. but we decided to keep it as an instrumental and have me perform an improved guitar solo over the mid section of the instrumental within the key of C and D minor pentatonic scales which fit the stimulus criteria nicely. We then discussed structure within the instrumental and decided to cut it into three sections, being the intro, the guitar solo, and the outro.

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The guitar chord progression was honestly for the most part improvised within the song the chord progression being from D, and C power chords repeated over the course of the instrumental. The chords I were playing incorporated blues notes on mostly 5th and 7th and pentatonic based licks which fit with the blues genre we went with for the stimulus, the solo was improvised using a pentatonic scale in the key of D and C. George was playing an improvised riff within the key of D and C minor throughout the instrumental whilst heather played a bass line which was almost identical to the chord progression yet again keeping the song fairly straight to the point in terms of structure.

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-I don't feel as though we treated the overall performance as a performance during this session, there was lack of eye contact with the audience especially from me as I kept looking at the guitar throughout the performance
- I thought that it was very similar throughout the performance with no changes in the chord progression at all and perhaps got a little repetitive, I think the addition of lyrics could have helped solve this problem as well as a key change at some point in the structure of the performance
- I think we should have spent more time working on the song so that we got a definite idea of what were doing as most of it was just improvisation throughout the whole performance
-I'm not sure the sound levels were perfect during the performance. I think George's guitar could have been turned down slightly.

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The overall performance I felt went really well and met the stimulus criteria. The instruments really complimented each other throughout the performance with the chord harmonies played by George over the top of the D and C chord progression which was repeated by me and Heather throughout on the guitar and bass.  I think that the drums and bas really complimented the style of music with the standard 4/4 time signature and 12 bar pattern adding to the blues aspects existing in the instrumental.

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QS17 2  JOE  HEATHER  CARL  GEORGE   FUSION

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Uploaded by lawrence stewart on 2017-09-27.