04.10.12

THURSDAY - 04.10.12

I had Voices today and i met Shynn first before meeting Kellie. Kellie sort of introduced to me a new song, which.. I forgot what the title was. LOL. She gave me the chords and i played it and she sang it and it sounded really really nice. Like i kinda like the song. Damn it! I gotta get the title from Kels again. Laila came in and we discussed the lighting plans with her for Price Tag and If I Ain't Got You. She said she'd come up with her own style along with ours which i thought was quite cool. 

We were near full force today again! Haha! The whole of Melovox was here except for Phoebe who couldn't come down today. Oh wow. Jesmine, Amanda, Nicole, Shynn, Kellie and i all came down today and i was pretty happy with that :) But Jesmine and Amanda had to leave in the night again for their own stuffs. So that left Kels, Shynn, Nicole and i to do both of the songs. I think we should really change our group name to something related to the word 'Versatile' because the girls keep changing their roles from backing 1 to 2 and then sometimes 3 for Kels and Phoebs when some of us do not turn up for practices. Sounds cool eh? Versatilex. Lol, just sayin'. 

Joe had us in for a few minutes and when i told him our alternate solo arrangements he said it was BOORING. Well, maybe it's just me, but we definitely had to change it. For If I Ain't Got You, Joe had us do the normal swing rhythms for the pre-chorus. We went out again to settle all that WITH, KC doing the bass. His bass is just sick! Like good sick not bad sick. Heh. We rehearsed for a while then when we started to loose concentration, which, we really did, we watched some live versions of If I Ain't Got You and some really stood out, like the way Alicia interpreted it in many different ways.. Amazing. I really liked her Grammy's performance of that song. So much emotions and we also picked up the different styles she uses in all of her performances. Like how she slows down the tempos and do those runs to add in a more dynamic effect and all that. 

I came home all shagged again and i sent out a super duper long Facebook message to all my girls about what happened today and what we need to work on. I really hope we can do what Alicia did for her live performances for If I Ain't Got You which really showed a lot of emotions and skill. Well, i hope Joe approves and i hope he can find something for the bass to do while we try to imitate what Alicia does with her backings during the live performances. LOL. I just realized that i kept repeating those two words 'live performances'. Ah well :)


XOXO
Shaun