7th March

7th March – Today in our music lesson we started putting together the reggae track together as a group. We had all been away for a week practising all of our parts individually  so we all knew the structure of the song and what we was all meant to be playing. We played over the song about 3 times to get the song down, this was without any improvised sections yet. We decided that the best way to get used to soloing over the song would be to solo over the verse chords as it has a simple two chord pattern that seemed like the best part to solo over so we jammed solos over verses. We started by using the B minor pentatonic scale as it fitted well over the b minor and e minor chords of the verse. We took it in turns practise over the chords. We each set ourselves the task of going home and practising improvising over the chords by playing along with the original recording. We will have a week to do this and in our next lesson we will recap by playing over the song and adding in the improvised sections.