Rehearsal One: Starting the Composition
Now
that the usual sessions have finished it is time for us to focus
completely on our assessments. The rehearsal period is as important
as lesson time as it is essential that we are able to compose our
pieces in plenty of time before the performance whether in lesson
time or outside. Today was our first main rehearsal and it was very
productive for our group. The members of my group are; me, Kayleigh
Johnson, Jenni Cunningham and Gil Parker. The reason why we work
together so well as a group is because we all have similar interests
and ideas within music and work really well as a team, challenging
and pushing ourselves. We had ideas from the start as we are really
creative people, we took a lot of inspiration from the sessions and
especially the arrangement session.
So
once discussion had started we thought of firstly creating two
separate pieces both being around 3 minutes long, however once we had
started creating our first piece we then decided to make this around
the full time limit as we were enjoying it so much.
The
piece we have decided to do is an arrangement of songs using the four
chord progression being: CGAF which is included in most pop songs so
we had a lot to play around with. We took inspiration and done
research into this before making any hasty decisions, we had
researched the four chords and used groups like Pentatonix which had
previously been used as an inspiration when creating our last piece
which is where the original idea stemmed from.
Groups
like Pentatonix used their voices to create the music and voices which
is what we wanted to infuse into our performance, their videos such
as their 'Evolution of Music' which takes you through the
years of music is really interesting and creative and definitely
would be the path we are wanting to take however we would be using
typically pop songs of old and new therefore we thought that the
'Evolution of Beyoncé' video was more appropriate for us:
For
us this video really helped me especially when thinking about the
idea and how we could use sounds and voices to create the music
behind our to create a filling performance. However, it is not
unknown that the four chord progression has been done before as
groups are famously known for it. Some of these in which we also
learned from, The Axis of Awesome are YouTube sensations for their
performance of this in which they also took pop songs. However, for
us to take on something like this but infuse our own songs into it
filling it with harmony and other sounds just like Pentatonix do is a
really big challenge.
When starting the piece ourselves we just kept naming songs from the top of our head when we were listening to the chords as it became easier to find songs that fit once we had started to sing another song. What we have done is tried to overlap and introduce the songs while other songs are being sung to show off the four chords and add layer and dynamic to the song. Once this has been perfected then the ideas of harmony and sounds will be introduced to build the song up and fill in any empty spaces. We have came up with around 19 songs to include as the song is going to be 5 minutes long. The songs included are a mixture of old and new songs so that we could show how long these chords have been used for which also give the audience versatility and therefore a wider audience will be engaged.
Personally
for me the song became easier towards the end as we all started to
engage with the music and be totally into the performance. We have a
lot of ideas and paths we want to go down with the song and there is
still a lot of work that needs doing but this is the result of our
first rehearsal and it can only get better!:
PTXofficial (2013). Evolution of Beyoncé - Pentatonix. [online]. Available from: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkR4asPMip4>. [Accessed 23/11/2014].
The Axis of Awesome (2011). The Axis of Awesome: 4 Chords Official Music Video. [online]. Available from: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ>. [Accessed 23/11/2014].
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