On Monday our main focus for the morning was to start researching for ideas for our single. We looked at this in a theoretical and practical sense. For the first half of the morning we were give the task to talk about and write down as much as we know about a given genre from a certain era- my group was given the 1960’s. At the beginning I wasn’t really able to contribute that much information as I hadn’t learned about this era in much detail before so I was unsure as to what it was about, however by the end of the lesson I learned about fuzz distortion and bands that had developed in that era such as The Kinks. We were then given the task to perform a cover of “Schools Out For Summer” by Alice Cooper in a different genre. By Monday afternoon we were in the computer room working on and developing our quantising skills on logic. This was to ensure that we were comfortable with how to use it correctly.

Tuesday morning we spent as much time as we could trying to get together a set for our first gig in the Danish at the college. For this my band managed to come up with a melody and some lyrics for our “funk jam” original song. We also made some progress on developing our cover of You Know I’m No Good by Amy Winehouse- We thought that what we were playing as a group was too busy in a way so we made it more simplistic by just playing the chords with less of a melodic pattern, this helped us to also lock in as a group better. We also practised in the afternoon on Dakota by Stereophonics as well as the other two songs.

On Wednesday we spent the morning learning how chords are constructed on a guitar. this led us to being taught how modals worked. I found this lesson quite difficult as it was so much new information, it’s definitely going to take a couple of lessons to get it into my head properly. For the rest of the afternoon we had practical with John. This gave my band time to perfect our three songs as much as we could. By the end of the first half of the lesson we managed to finally get all of them to a good enough quality to be played at an acoustic setting. After performing to the teacher, we spent the rest of the afternoon jamming along with each other to give us some ideas of the different genres we could play and how well we were able to pick up some easy riffs to fall back on if we needed them at a gig.