Friday, 21 November 2014

Developing Untuned Percussion

Our original performance of 'Monday Blues' was solely focused on rhythms. After studying melodies in class our challenge was to add accompanying vocals to our piece and develop it further.

We looked at the dynamics of the piece and decided our message could be made clearer through varying tempos and bringing people in and out of the piece at different times. We also further experimented with what sounds we could make from hitting different parts of the drum and incorporated this into our piece as the higher and lower pitch sounded nice when it contrasted.

We then devised the lyrics;
"Monday morning and I feel sick,
the weekends gone and it went too quick,
whiskey ,vodka , gin and rum,
why did I drink? I feel so dumb,
I do my makeup and brush my hair,
The hangovers bad but I've got to care,
I force a smile and act ok,
I'm stuck at uni for the whole day." 
This worked as a chant which we sang over the percussion piece.

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