Monday i took control in our band work session when we had to choose a song and teach the band so that we could play it for our Fat Sam's gig in march. It didn't go as well as i'd hoped for since we only got half the song done but hopefully next week we'll have finished it and started another one or two so we can work on the performance of the gig on our last practice (the monday before the gig on Wednesday).

The rest of the week i didn't do much in the way of graded unit except make more videos but i'm yet to upload them to YouTube so i can put them on my website in DAW.

 On friday Paul had the drum kit out again for all of us to partake in a session type activity where, next week; we will have to play a song with the guitarists and bassists. The song was "cold sweat" and we all practiced it with and without reading the music! Since Paul isn't much of a session reader and can't really read drum music to a 'sight-reading' level. I found it better to work with the other drummers rather than sitting in a room looking at a piece of music and i managed to get the beat a lot quicker and easier by watching and listening rather than reading the music. I think that shows that i might need to work harder on my sight-reading but word from the pro's is that it's not exactly as important as i've been told.

Last week was pretty good in my progress for my graded unit.
We started our website class instead of DAW and it's coming along nicely! I've still got to write the report that mike gave us though (which i think is due next monday). Because of the website starting up i have started filming myself a lot more when warming up, sight-reading, and recording in the studio. I'll hopefully manage to acquire some audio tracks once the engineers have master them. But who knows how long that's going to take when i still haven't heard anything from the first piece we recorded!!

Outside of college, i've managed to get the band into the practice rooms instead of having an acoustic session in my flat! which, i'm very happy about because now we actually know what we want to sound like and are starting to write more songs and have actual goals for each practice rather than just set up, jam and finish. Hopefully we'll be gigging in the near future.

nothing much 4/2/12

So this week.. I can't really think of anything relevant that i did to follow up why i'd be a good session musician so this week coming i will attempt to do a lot more so that i will actually have something to talk about in my next blog.