https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r en-us 2017-01-08 17:55:28 UTC 2017-03-17 10:42:08 UTC hello@padlet.com mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/145869939 this week in the lesson, I decided to work with myself doing solo songs. I looked at the song sheet that was given to us last term and the songs that I choice were, airplane by red hot chilli peppers and somewhere over the rainbow from Eva Cassidy. I didn't do much practical in the lesson I just did more planning and deciding what songs that I will do. what I could improve is to use the time at manget and focus it on using those lesson to perform and to get some practice in as well as practicing at home in my own time. 
this week I think I wasn't that productive so I think this week I would say a 3/10.

i organised the songs that I would be doing through the weeks. but I just didn't do any performing this week. ]]> 2017-01-08 18:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/145869939 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/147239058 in this weeks session I ran through one of the songs I decided to do. and its called brick by boring brick, and its from a band called paramore. because I now know the song really well and that ive gone through it the lesson I can now start looking at backing tracks on youtube and prepare for next lesson by finding a backing track then plugging my phone into a amp and then playing the backing track that way so I can start practicing to a backing track. also in the lesson me, rhys and kane might do everlong by foo fighters as a band and also practice this next lesson. as an improvement that could of been made for performing wise was to do warm-ups before starting to sing as this cause strain on my voice when reaching certain notes, especially with the song brick by boring brick as it changes its vocal range through the song.

this week I think this lesson was quite productive, I would say it was about a 7/10 because we actually started practicing and going through songs and had rough idea of what where doing next week.]]> 2017-01-15 15:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/147239058 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/150694967 this session in magent Paul started to accompany me in the song brick by boring brick by playing the guitar instead of using a backing track and made it into an acoustic style. we went through that song a few times as Paul needed to run though the chords and to learn them. And I needed to practice the timing with Pauls playing. Again I also need to practice the dramatic range change in the song. during the lesson I also went through the song everlong with rhys as an acoustic version and then we practiced the song when kane arrived and changed the song from an acoustic version to electric version. it was better with kane as he helped with keeping me in time with the rest on the song. the inprovements that can be made is while practicing the song we should record us playing the song so we can reflect and look back on the recording to see what we did well in the performance and what we need to improve.

again I thought this week was quite productive. I would say 8/10 because we got through a few songs and went through them a couple of times but there are still some improvements that need to made.]]> 2017-01-31 21:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/150694967 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/154287685 this week we didn't practice everlong because I was mainly focused on practicing brick by boring brick because we wanted to get it ready and recorded by next week. Paul still needed to learn all the chords for the song and the timing for it as well. my vocals were slighty better because I did my vocal warm-ups. we went through the song a couple of times so me and Paul could perfect the improvements that we needed to do. me and Evie started to look at somewhere over the rainbow and look into the lyrics and a backing track that we could sing to. Me and Evie set ourselfs a task to learn the whole song over the holidays and have a proper go at the song when we come back from the  holidays.

this week wasn't as productive as I of hoped it would of been. I was hoping to run through another song and to have a quick start at somewhere over the rainbow but we didn't know the song well enough. ]]> 2017-02-16 13:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/154287685 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/154803097 for this week me and Paul did our final last practices before we recorded brick by boring brick. After practice we got it recorded and finished the song. I think it went quite well, there maybe some slight slip up like things with timing with my vocals. but all and all it quite well, Paul played the song well and knew the timings and my vocals sounded alright. there was no strain on my voice. the aim of the lesson was to finally get a recording of brick by boring done and so I finally have a recording down on the system. in this session we wanted to try and record everlong with Kane and Rhys. the performance itself was quite good and all the components of the song worked well together such as drums, guitar and my vocals; so the song itselfs sounded pretty good, however me and Rhys needed to practice the timing from the bridge to the chorus, so we decided to practice the timing and get the song recorded for next lesson.

I would say this lesson was quite productive as we got brick by boring brick done and recorded and we are also close to getting another song recorded.   

here is the recording for mine and pauls performence  ]]> 2017-02-19 15:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/154803097 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160116921 this week me, Rhys and Kane worked and recorded everlong. we ran through it quite a few times just to get the times right between the guitars and drums as well as when I come back in from the drum roll from the bridge into the chorus. we recorded the song a few times because me and Kane used one recording for one of my solo performances and the other for Kanes solo performances. after we did them we tired again to get mine, Rhys and Kanes ensemble but we didn't manage to record it all the way through because I made an erro near the end of the song and Kane and Rhys were having difficulty playing that song for so long and for that many times. our aim for this lesson was to get everlong recorded which is what we did however we wanted to get our ensemble version recorded and done with. ]]> 2017-03-14 21:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160116921 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160377754 this week was quite productive, me, Rhys and Kane managed to finally record everlong  as a ensemble recording and get that song finally finished with. we also chose to do the song take me out by franz Ferdinand and we practiced it a few times before getting it recorded. it was a good performance from all of us, everything was on time there was no slip ups with lyrics and it had an over all good stage presents to it and to the performance. to have made some improvements was just practicing the song a bit more so we felt properly prepared  but besides that everything went well. as well as doing songs with Kane and Rhys I did another song on my own. I did somewhere over the rainbow as a acappella, I think the performance went well and is sounded very soft and gental, very different to what I am used to. I think to improve it would to just have performed it with a backing track to complete the song.]]> 2017-03-15 20:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160377754 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160660399 2017-03-16 20:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160660399 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160661098 2017-03-16 20:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160661098 mollymcintosh13 https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160661450 2017-03-16 20:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcintosh13/6i0b312h201r/wish/160661450