A little peek into my life.

After returning from Jakarta, I got a message from Claudia saying that we’re playing Innocence by Avril Lavine for performance class and the gig was on tuesday! So it was really last minute but we manage to have rehearsal on monday. It took us a few rounds to get through the entire song before we worked on parts and minor arrangements here and there. We manage to slot in another run through on tuesday afternoon before the show. Jia Hui played classical guitar which wasn’t the best suited instrument for the song but I guess we had to make use of it. Fion has a pretty interesting voice which I don’t think many people know or acknowledge and I hope she will continue to develop this talent she has.

As our band was the second last band, I had the opportunity to be stage hand to help the various bands set-up and also watch them play. Some of the performances were really impressive and others were not, but it was a good experience just watching my fellow course mates and their interesting combinations play together.

Our turn! When it was PopCornPizza’s turn, Darren had problem sound checking and therefore he needed a little more time to set up which inevitably was a bad impression to the lecturers. Thats one pointer to learn from. The next was trying to help Claudia get her tempo right, but after feedback from Varian which I agreed with, it was not the most appropriate thing to do when on stage. Also, the drummer should be keeping steady timing and the band should be following him instead of the drummer following the bands timing and this is one point to take note of as well. All-in-all I may not have played the cleanest or the tightest but I’m working towards feeling the song that I’m playing instead of focusing on technicalities. Therefore as of now I have to get my techniques right so that I can ‘focus’ on feeling the song and enjoying it.

I shall post again once I’ve watched the recording!!

Peace!
Spanks.