Between last rehearsal and this one we discussed as a group which song to pick for our second performance, we decided to use "Every Rose Has its Thorn" by the band poison. David suggested that perhaps we could use a backing track that he could create using garage band. We all saw this as a good idea as it would create a greater contrast between our first song. Also pop songs are well known for having cheesy, upbeat backing tracks. David set to work on the backing track and the rest of us began thinking about the arrangement of the song.
In todays rehearsal we carried on rehearsing our first song. We seemed to have hit a brick wall with it so we took some time to look over the song again and to maybe try something new with it. Amy came up with the suggestion to not actually sing "doo wah diddy, diddy dum diddy do" and replace it with something different that didn't have so many words so that we could slow the tempo down even more. We decided we would sing "doo wah" instead and elongate the "wah" to the length of what the original line would have been to fill the gap. By doing this we dramatically changed the song and made it sound even more like a melody. We are still including harmonies for the "doo wah's" to give the song variety.
As the rehearsal progressed we realised that the song was sounding very similar throughout so we needed to mix it up. To do this i decided to play some of the verses on a higher octave of the piano to create a more delicate pretty song. The next verse would then be played the octave below to create a dramatic and powerful sounding verse. We end the song by repeating the first verse but with double the volume and power, we included new harmonies and added vocal echoes. This gave the song a clear ending. We have planned to move onto the second song in the next rehearsal.
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