International day performance planning!

Me, Yarubbi and Ho Geun have planned to perform a cover of Emeli Sande´s ´Breaking The Law´ on Friday in the International day´s ´talent show´. We have started to practice the song and the practice sessions have so far went better than expected! Ho Geun is playing the guitar (whether he´ll play the acoustic or electric one we still haven´t decided); Yarubbi will be singing; and I will do beatbox. 

Originally the song we are planning to perform doesn´t have a precaussion in the background but has only singing and guitar, so we have made a slight change to the song´s structure and sound. The cover will sound more vigorous than the original version. 

We have also planned to use microphones while performing which could be a risk to the outcome of the sound quality. We will very likely try out our performance in the music room with microphones and see what will happen. Though we´ll need to consider the fact that the music system used in the actual concert will be more controllable and from much better quality. In the music room we will be only using regular amps. If Ho Geun will be using an acoustic guitar in the show we will need to make sure that the sound can be recorded well by the microphone. The sound of the acoustic guitar would make a more harmonious contribution to the performance however an electric guitar played on a clean distortion would work as well as the acoustic one.

This week we have planned to use our this week´s lunch times wisely and start our practice everyday from 13:40 on wards as long as we are content of the day´s session. Hopefully this week will be enough for us to be able to make an enjoyable and entertaining performance for us and the audience. If performing with microphones doesn´t sound tolerable we will most likely need to perform without them which will require us to perform much more loudly than we would with microphones. However, it is much better to perform without microphones than with them if the outcome will be better :)

Riffing!

Today I decided to make a video of me playing one of my most recent riffs which could be made into a song if refined a bit and if other instruments are involved. Recently i have been putting time into figuring out riffs and also some short melodies which most likely will someday end up on a video as well. I still need to practice this riff so that it will sound 100 % clean. Recently I have also been very much into improvising ´solos´ and Í´ll be trying to figure out a solo part for this so called start of a song.

Me and Francesco have been planning to start seriously attending the school´s music room starting after the autumn break. We have a plan that we will be figuring out new riffs and also lyrics for them so that they could become songs eventually. As we are so far only two members in our small ´band´ we will be playing only the drums and guitar. We will be taking turns on who plays which instrument. As I have a tiny background of also playing the drums, Francesco wished me to show him how to play the basic beats on drums. I know maximum 4 different drumming combinations so I will be showing Francesco some tips and tricks meanwhile we practice and later on Francesco will most likely start figuring out own drum fills. Would be great if we manage to get other members to join us so that we could make music filled with harmony ;) .

To improve from now on; as mentioned before I will need to slightly refine the riff, figure out a solo and write some lyrics. Perhaps Francesco will be helping me out with that. Also I´m looking forward to play together with Francesco. It will be challenging as playing in a simultaneous manner can sometimes be hard, especially if we play newly invented riffs and beats.

I will definitely continue making new riffs and melodies as much as possible as playing the guitar has become one of favorite hobbies!