28th March

28th March – In todays lesson we jammed our reggae and blues improvisation pieces. We decided to use Green Onions next term, instead of our own 12 bar blues as we felt it was a more enjoyable piece and it made use of more types of key sounds such as organ which made it more interesting for the keyboard players in our class. Since we have the structure of the raggae piece down now it is just a matter of keep practising the oleic until our performance. In the second hour we jammed another brand new idea based on a riff Sam had came up with. Everybody tried to come up with their own parts that fitted over the riff I found that over this riff volume swells using thee minor pentatonic scale fitted well over this as well as adding major 2nd and 6th notes from the e scale into this. We recorded this so that we would not forget it and so that we could listen to it again when we came back after half term,.
Our group target for this week is to learn Green Onions over easter, so that when we come back after the holiday we can play the song straight away. Also we have the target of practising everything we have learnt so far for our improvised section so that we can stay fresh with it and keep improving on it.