Thursday, August 17, 2006
ok guys heres the latest update regarding our band
cuz of recent requests to start auditioning for gigs and everything, why dont we just get serious now and start practising like crazy first? instead of working to the top like some other bands that keep going for gigs and still sucking in them, why dont we get ourselves to THAT particular standard that we think is ripe for perfoming first. Instead of after gigging and then everyone saying oh this band is not bad not bad at all good but not excellent dont you guys think its better for them to say omg this band fucking rocks?
so before we start gigging, some things have to be done first (: IMHO, the band is alrdy quite good, performing standards good but not fucking good
1) if possible, block booking fourtones every fri at a particular timeslot would be good as not only we get our jamming session routinized, the ppl at fourtones will also recognise us and we may get recognition from the guys there ppl might even come every fri just to see us (: its like a house band haha only its a hmmm studio band?
2) widening our genre scope would be a great way to see what we can cover and what we cant, personally punk is outta of the qn, haha, so is techno lol *note failed attempt at anything for you shudders* so as dan suggested, we can open our scopes and try funk or even jazz soon. oh if anyone has a really good song in mind but is not emo, just add the song into the wish playlist first, then we can try it out also instead of just having someone fix up the playlist everytime. we are a band we do the playlist together (:
3) make sure everyone does their hw beforehand, practise until perfect at home first, the playlist will be posted up at least 7 days before jamming sessions so there should be no excuses that not enough time to learn each playlist. most playlists range from 6-8 songs which is only 1/2 hr, so 2 hrs should be enough to learn up new songs. we are all doing great here alrdy but its just a friendly reminder
4) another thing is the addition of audience. audiences can be such distractions so what i propose is that when we are trying out new songs, we have no audiences. in that particular session with no audiences, we get our songs done, perfect them, any qns or improvements regarding the songs just keep shooting, there is no perfection if there is no correction. that session would be more of a fun session or practise session. then the next session when everything is done up, we ask a couple of ppl along so that they can criticise our playing and everything, that is more of a bombardment session to see where else did we miss out on improvisation and tightness of performance. that would be more of a performance for the audience to gauge where we stand
5) improvisations in songs are greatly welcomed, such as change in bass riffs or change in drum beats even the way the song is sung, now instead of covering blindly, we can try to make the songs ours by improving on the ways which we want to. HOWEVER, pls dont change it until it sounds like i dont know what lol i have came across some bands that loveeeeeeee improvisations and they improvise until it is tooo improvised alrdy ha lol
6) finally when we reach that standard of fully unleashing our potentials, we should be able to perform, by right if we continue what we are doing now, and if we start jamming really frequently after the main exams, which is beginning oct. we should be really good by the end of the year, so next year would be a really good year to start performing and gaining recognition alrdy. so lets set a deadline so that everything will be nicer and funner hee. by year end, we should be really tight together as a band (:
-ben
