So I guess I found myself yet again posting in this blog site. Come to think of it, thirty days make a month--meaning it gets busier from here on. After all, we only have a month's left of practice left before the live.
As time passes, I become able to discern who among my bandmates are in love with what they're doing, and who among my bandmates need a little pushing.
To be more specific, everything seems to be going well in the bass and drums department. It seems Ed and Neil have taken the initiative to make their tracks better. In particular, I only gave Ed a score sheet and he comes back to tell me,
Truth be told, NEWTONE's weakness is at the moment its vocals as well as both rhythm guitars. Jica needs to work on sustaining her notes and making sure they don't end up flat. I can't really blame Carmen--she's new to this so it might actually be tad too early for her to play those riffs. Mangs is in Recup mode so she can't practice.
In Master's case, the way he played wasn't bad but it wasn't that good either. How do I put it, let's just say there's still a lot of room for improvement. He only managed to rehearse with us once, so I bet his still has stuff full of surprises left in his pocket.
Contrary to my belief, I actually get better on my 16th notes riff by learning styles from other songs. Yup, my 16th notes got cleaner thanks to the weird rhythm in Cagayake Girls!'s Guitar 2, Eric Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues, Hit in the USA's lead track, and the intro riff for My Love is a Stapler.
Sig called us again to tell us that they're requesting for a copy of the recording for the song to be performed in the live. Proves once again that my intuition is correct since I've already anticipated it and it was part of my plan to record the song. I probably have my Art Studies I professor to thank for teaching me to do more than what is expected from me.
I was actually planning NOT TO ATTEND this weekend's practice ON PURPOSE to see how my bandmates would act on their own initiatives.. but I guess that just wouldn't work with just a month's worth of practice left. NEWTONE should prepare itself for a more frank, and probably mean Aru-sempai. After all, we need to play the song in such a way that the performance is worthy of a recording in two weeks time (i.e. more time for me and Master to arrange the tracks.)
P.S.
I'm actually planning to switch roles with Carmen in Tomorrow. I'll have her play the lead cause one, she still doesn't have the endurance to play the entire song. Two, she gets less riffs to play with the Lead. And three, I can be Jica's back-up vocals if I play rhythm.
As time passes, I become able to discern who among my bandmates are in love with what they're doing, and who among my bandmates need a little pushing.
To be more specific, everything seems to be going well in the bass and drums department. It seems Ed and Neil have taken the initiative to make their tracks better. In particular, I only gave Ed a score sheet and he comes back to tell me,
The guitarpro file sounds plain from measure 18 to 26.. We can make it sound better by removing this slap..leaving me with a yeah, I guess you're right and poof! We now have a 100% accurate drums track! I can tell that Neil's been practicing real hard as well, judging from the way he plays the bass now as compared to how he used to play it. I've come to think that he really is getting serious about getting his own bass guitar.
Truth be told, NEWTONE's weakness is at the moment its vocals as well as both rhythm guitars. Jica needs to work on sustaining her notes and making sure they don't end up flat. I can't really blame Carmen--she's new to this so it might actually be tad too early for her to play those riffs. Mangs is in Recup mode so she can't practice.
In Master's case, the way he played wasn't bad but it wasn't that good either. How do I put it, let's just say there's still a lot of room for improvement. He only managed to rehearse with us once, so I bet his still has stuff full of surprises left in his pocket.
Contrary to my belief, I actually get better on my 16th notes riff by learning styles from other songs. Yup, my 16th notes got cleaner thanks to the weird rhythm in Cagayake Girls!'s Guitar 2, Eric Clapton's Bell Bottom Blues, Hit in the USA's lead track, and the intro riff for My Love is a Stapler.
I was actually planning NOT TO ATTEND this weekend's practice ON PURPOSE to see how my bandmates would act on their own initiatives.. but I guess that just wouldn't work with just a month's worth of practice left. NEWTONE should prepare itself for a more frank, and probably mean Aru-sempai. After all, we need to play the song in such a way that the performance is worthy of a recording in two weeks time (i.e. more time for me and Master to arrange the tracks.)
P.S.
I'm actually planning to switch roles with Carmen in Tomorrow. I'll have her play the lead cause one, she still doesn't have the endurance to play the entire song. Two, she gets less riffs to play with the Lead. And three, I can be Jica's back-up vocals if I play rhythm.
waa opo magjjog na po hehe
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