Bass Player

We found a bass player
This is the exact same thing we did last year
We haven't met the guy yet
He's a friend of my  mum's
Funny thing is, he learned one of our prescribed songs three days before mum asked him
Weird
We'll get him in for a practice in a couple of weeks, I'm busy for the next couple of days, and Pat's leaving for a trip next Wednesday for two weeks
Oh god

- Sami Lee

Real Talk Though

Firstly: here are the first few journal entries I did in my book (before I decided to use this monstrosity again)

11/2

So we've come up with a rough list. Here it is so far:

Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Pat's Prescribed)
Hysteria - Muse (My Prescribed)
Tomorrow - Silverchair
Love Shack - B-52's
Rock Lobster - B-52's
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straights
Covered in Chrome - Violent Soho

Here are some ideas, we need eight. I'm nervous.

1/3

In the last three weeks, we have practiced twice with our bass player. And now he tells us that he can't practice because he has work till 5:30.
Fair enough, he has stuff on. But he could of told us earlier! I'm freaking out man, what song do we play at the end of the term and I  have no idea what I'm doing at the moment.


Now that that's over, here's what we have!! We know the songs, I am listening to them religiously. We know what songs we're playing. We just need to learn them. It's hard, me not having a drum kit, the band not having a bass player, and Pat having too much other stuff to practice on this sort of stuff, but we'll get there I guess.
I think the songs we'd probably do at the end of the year, looking at the list now, are probably:

Aeroplane
Hysteria
Love Shack
Foxey Lady into Purple Haze
Sultans of Swing

That gives us a wide variety of different styles, as well as many different things we're each playing. I wanna do Sultans of Swing because Pat wanted to do it last year, but we couldn't, because it didn't fit in with my style. But this year, we have to do it.
Love Shack is completely and utterly different from everything else, like, totally
And we wanted to do both those Jimi Hendrix songs, and because they sound similar, we think we'll totally blow the judges minds if we go from one into the other without any hiccups.
The two prescribed songs are also completely different, we have heavily synth rock with reggae. I  think we'll be alright :)

A Song for You

Verse:
So this thingy is a thingy
I am very confused
I do not know what I am doing
Ha ha...
We are still looking for a bass player
This is hard
Very, very hard
But still
Uhhhhhhhh

Chorus:
I don't know what I am doing
Uhhmm
Yeah, thingys
We need a bass player
I am very confused

Verse:
Oh my god I'm freaking out
Holy crap, what the hell
Uhhhh, practices are slow
Ha ha...
We don't know what we're doing sometimes
This is weird
Very, very weird
Like oh my god
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Chorus:
Three terms this year
I am dead inside
I can't do this man
Ahhhhhhh
This is weird weird weird

Bridge:
I actually lied
We're going alright
We know the songs we're meant to be playing
We have the sheet music
We just have to learn them is all
I think we'll be okay
Just nerves and stuff
We're not going as bad as we think we're going

Chorus x 2

We really need to find a bass player though

END

Howdy!

Hey again, it's me, back for more year 12 music oh god what am I doing this is a terrible mistake what am I doi

Anyway! Don't mind that, just a bit of nerves that will last the entire year. Here are our songs for the year so far:

- Areoplane, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Hysteria, Muse
- Tomorrow, Silverchair
- Love Shack, B52's
- Rock Lobster, B52's
- Foxey Lady, Jimi Hendrix
- Purple Haze, Jimi Hendrix
- Sultans of Swing, Dire Straights
- Covered in Chrome, Violent Soho

We have to choose a variety of different genera music, completely different from what we were doing last year. This shall be fun though, I'm looking forward to it, I just hope it  doesn't catch up on me. I feel like I was stressed about this last year, but I knew what I was doing because there was always the work from the year before and it was 'just year 11!' so I was relaxed a bit more.
But now I am dead. Like, duuuuude, I have no idea man! Theory! Exercises! Assignments! All that jazz, literally...
I will hopefully post more of these..
I have to, its an assessment

On a side note, we haven't practiced much and we're getting rid of our bass player. It's a tough time to start with, but at least I  have a drum teacher this year!

- Sami Lee