Development Blog

Review: 14th December 2018

After the performance at The Jolly farmer on the 12th December, we then decided to take a look at our 8 week development plan and see if for the gig any of these plans were achieved.

The things i have achieved of this plan is learning the lyrics and harmonies for our songs that we performed at the gig which were somewhere only we know, your song and stay. We also last minute learnt another song a week before the performance called whisper. i feel like i have definitely succeeded in gaining more confidence as i performed 4 songs at the gig in front of a pub full of people, and before i started this course i couldn’t even sing in front of one person so the gig at the jolly farmer has really helped me with my confidence.

However i have not yet learnt to play the drums, this is because in all of the songs that i performed i was a vocalist so next time we put on a performance i think i’m going to try and carry on learning the drums and more things on the piano/keys because after these past 8 weeks it still has not been accomplished.

We also fixed the situation making ‘your song’ less easy and boring by adding harmonies into it, this helped when it came to the gig because it made the song more interesting to watch otherwise it would of been a very boring song to perform as it was for all the other weeks that we were rehearsing it.

I have also learned to improve my vocal skills by doing vocal warm ups before practising a song, this really helped when coming to the gig because our voices were warm and compared to the rehearsals, the gig was the best my voice personally sounded. I also plan on still improving my vocal skills by not smoking, this is because on the day of the gig i did not smoke and my voice sounded a lot better and it was easier to hit hard notes.

During these 8 weeks i have not yet performed a solo and i did not do a solo at the gig, however there were parts in all of the songs where i would be singing on my own, so maybe for the next gig i will try and put myself out there a little more and do a solo as after the gig i have become a little more confident.

i still do not know how to properly set up a p.a system but i am still looking to learn and improve on that throughout the year. Overall i think that i have achieved quite a few things in my 8 week plan and things that i have not achieved i will continue to work on until i do succeed.