Present - Ava, Maya, Katie, Louis, Jason, Nico, Ivan, Antos, Oilhbear, Eva, (Me)

Absent - No one

Songs worked on - Ain't it fun - Paramore/Rooster Alice in Chains

We ran through Ain't it fun as a warmup and just to run through it and then we worked on the ending and figured out how to end the song and practiced that till we got it.

For Rooster, we picked it on the day so some people didn't know it very well so we tried to play it with the song playing in the background via connecting to the soundboard with Bluetooth.

I think the ending to Ain't it Fun is good as its different to what's on the record and we made the cover feel like our own by adding our twist onto it.

I think preparation into picking the second song could have been better as we would of have more time to learn our parts before the rehearsal and we could all come together and play rather than having to go away and learn the song in the time we could have rehearsed.

During Ain't it fun, there is loads of harmonies we added so throughout that song I'm making sure I'm singing the right notes and trying not to get distracted by the other singers.

For next week we all agreed on focusing on Rooster to get that learned and sounding good and to just learn all of our parts.

Present - Ava, Katie, Louis, Jason, Nico, Ivan, Antos, Oilibhear, (Me)

Absent - Maya

Songs worked on - Ain't it fun - Paramore/Rooster Alice in Chains

We started by running through Ain't it fun as a warmup again and got the ending right that we had worked on last week.

We decided to spend majority of our time on Rooster and really learning it and working on it as it was a new song.

I think it's sounding pretty decent for a new song, the instrumentation is sounding strong and tight but the vocals need to also be tighter and stronger to be in level with the instruments.

Personally, I had trouble finding a correct pitch to sing at as the original is sung by a male and we also have a male singer, Ivan who is singing low and then another singer with a higher register, Nico so it was difficult to find a balance in between that would work.

For next week I plan on figuring out my issues with pitch and making sure it works and then if there's extra time, finding harmonies to add in to sound good or just to support the other singers.

We started off by getting a drum loop on logic to get a sort of vibe and to give us ideas for the song. Once we listened over and over Ava starting playing some chords on the guitar and then Katie started following along on bass and coming up with stuff that complimented the guitar. After that we sat and listened for a while whilst me and Maya sat and tried to hum along a melody. Once we had a rough idea of a melody, we recorded a melody pass so we wouldn't forget it. Once that was done, we sat and tried to come up with lyrics, which came somewhat easy once we got the first line, it just started flowing afterwards and then we recorded it into logic so we had it all down. I think its sounding pretty good so far and has good potential to be something good.

I used very minimal background music but I definitely think it adds impact where needed. Overall I'm pretty pleased with how this turned out, in the future I think I would try to really go all out by recording my own sounds, really nitpicking at sounds to make it as realistic as possible by using things like EQ, reverb and compressor a lot more intentionally.

I was feeling confident about our general sound as a band as I think the way we've structured and arranged our covers and our voices to blend together has been a strong point for us particularly.

During the performance, again I think the way we sounded was very pleasing to hear back and to see our work pay off, and the way our original song went as well considering, it's a new song meaning it wasn't fully engraved into our heads the way the covers were so it would have been easy to mess up.

I think our stage presence could have definitely been much much better as there was little to no movement at all from us compared to other bands. Granted, if some of our songs weren't that upbeat to move too, there definitely still was opportunities to do so.

Next time I would definitely focus on putting in little bits of extra work whenever I can to make sure I'm feeling pleased with the way I sound with my given parts and that I have a solid foundation so that the day of my performance I'm feeling less anxious and stiff therefore, also allowing me to let loose and move on stage more.

- Deep breathes to calm nerves

- Full body shakes and stretches to ease anxiety and help loosen up

For my research, I listened to the song multiple times and also watched live performances and different ones to see what she did at which parts and how she sang it.

The technical challenges for me with this song was keeping my tone light and airy but also balanced and the song is quite jumpy in the way of how the notes move and it’s quite acrobat like. Also the range was a big thing for me and it’s quite low to get comfortable, especially performing infront of an audience.

Me and Oilibhear did about 3 rehearsals total, the first rehearsal we focused more on Oilibhear getting the guitar down and making sure he knew his bits and then once he got it we ran through it a few times to make sure it was set in stone. In the second rehearsal we noticed we were playing it a bit faster than the original so we made sure to fix that and just tried to get solid full run throughs down. I also noticed but pitch was off at certain parts so I made sure to work on that at home and In our third rehearsal, we made sure everything was clean and tight and we also practiced playing standing up as that’s how we were going to do it in the final performance.

We've kept "Aint it fun" as a very last resort back up as we've got a solid foundation on that song and incase one of our songs don't end up working out for whatever reason.