The Romanian/Hungarian folk music group "Vardos" performed for our music major class a couple of days ago, I was interested in the double bass player and I noticed she used walking bass and utilized the bow for the parts when she had to use longer notes that were smooth, in contrast, she used her fingers to produce short and sharp notes. I would like to use a double bass in the assessment, and I think a challenge would be using a bass without frets, having to learn to rely on my finger position rather than sight and perhaps using a bow, as I have never played an instrument which requires a bow.
The violinist moved around the room constantly and utilized her body to make the song seem more energetic, she changed the position of her violin to produce louder sounds (as no amps were used) I noticed that a lot of the hair on her bow was broken, and this was further reflected by the fact she was very rough and frantic with her bow movements, as opposed to a violinist in an orchestra who may play it more carefully. The accordion player also had stage presence and moved around a bit, she was more elegant than the violinist and played chords. Today we performed "All The Things You Are" to Ms. Dickson's class, I was playing guitar. I didn't have many parts so I asked Ms. Heggie to let me do a solo. Our performance sounded great, we were all using correct scales and our performance flowed well.Statement of Intent
I am working with Asher, Luca and Tony to make a reggae cover of Lorde's Tennis Court and we will use electric guitar, drums, bass and piano. We will change the instrumentation, tempo and genre. Reflection My group and I experimented with what we could do with the song first, we tried different genres until we decided to do reggae. I think we have a very good instrumentation that works in synergy. The drum and bass works as the back bone of the song, the guitar enforces the piano and the piano mimics the vocals. The next thing we have to do is record our song. |
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