This week our groups were decided for our final assessment so today was our first rehearsal but first we needed to chat about what we wanted to do. We felt it was important to find one song we really wanted to do and then find something that links with this as it would be easier and more efficient then finding a link and struggling too find songs that fitted with this. Immediately we wanted to do a mashup but decided against this because we wanted to find something more musically and technically challenging so tried to head away from this direction. The discussion took place and after a while we realized that we needed to work to the strengths of individual members of the group. As we had Summer who played viola and Constantine who plays guitar we decided for one of our pieces we wanted to form a mini band and that due to Yahya picking up the drum pretty quickly he could do something simple on this. Also, as we all enjoyed working on acapella Music when we had previously done it, we kind wanted to look at this area as well so these are the two ideas we settled on.
It was a slow start to the rehearsal but necessary as we just sang through different songs to exploring what to do and which worked with our voice's and what we made an immediate connection too or worked well as this would give us a good basis to start the piece upon instead of starting from complete scratch. I think I soon as we sung 'Man in the Mirror' we were drawn to it, naturally adding harmonies and different textures such as 'ooo's' and 'ahh's'. I think the main thing that made us decide on a song was because it was the first song where we actually smiled when trying it out. We do Music because we enjoy and this showed it as well as the song suiting us individually and as a group. Upon deciding on the song, we needed to think of a theme and quickly came up with the idea of reflection, and our other piece 'Reflection' from Mulan was decided on, however we knew that we wanted to do this in a different style and transform it. Because we felt it key to play to everyone's strengths, the genre we immediately thought to transfer it into was country/folk as this would mean that Summer could make her viola poignant .We started work first on 'Man in the Mirror' and we sung through it a couple of times to see whose voice suited what and arranged it that way. We then began to work through it, breaking down the chords to find notes for the 'ooo's' and 'ahh's' that we had fitted into natural points in the song.
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