For the second practise, an alteration was made as we changed the the song from Breeze-blocks to Hey Ah! by Outkast in the hopes that the modification would make a more suitable ensemble due to the simplicity of the arrangement yet leaving space for more stylistic interpretation between parts. For this practise we simply repeated the the song from start to finish and went back to places in which errors were made in order to correct them. Rehearsing the song from start to finish proved effective because we were able to drop out when mistakes were made on individual parts and come back in when appropriate which helped to maintain the continuity of the practise.
By myself I decided to make my own bass line to Hey Ah! in order to try to gain extra marks through interpretation. I did this by using a metronome at 4/4 tempo and slowing the chord sequence down so that I could develop a more technical, unique and appealing bass line. For every chord I played the root note first and then played notes from the scale of the chord, experimenting with different techniques and note choices. Through this I was successful in being able to make my own bass line which added both texture and interpretation to this performance.
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