Wednesday, 24 January 2007
Flamenco in England?
Captains log......stargate, Friday 19th January, center of the gamma-falopius star system on a rock called.....England... Crew on board - me (guitar) Tom (also guitar) Sam (drums and occasional guitar) and Alex (another guitar) - last survivors (apart from everyone else not in the room.We began our mission of composing 'the unplugged' track by shredding some metal and then thinking of some ideas e.g chord progressions. I came up with the idea of some flamenco the day before and suggested it to Alex and Tom (two kings of shred) in our music in context lesson after listening to some that morning. They both agreed with me and so this morning we began with some progressions and what we would do. Then no spooner than you could say "alguien ha robado a mi burro de hermana y lo ha convertido en el queso" (someone has stolen my sister donkey and turned it into cheese) fluently, Sam (our king of the drums and 4th king of the guitar) came in with his stuff and after showing him what we had decided on, gave some ideas and progressions of his own where I started playing drums very badly and listening to him rock. We eventually had some chav beating riffs and now drums, when Joe came in and had a listen and suggested adding some stabs in places. Doing this lifted the track and made it more lively. then when he returned the second time suggested the drums come in on the first stab and continue from then on, this way there would be a massive explosion making the track sound much better and taking it that step further.We got quite far as we had almost finished the structure of the piece (intro, verse, chorus etc..) when we had to perform what we had to everyone else. It went in my opinion quite smoothly and sounded awesome. Then people started to add some vital ideas such as clapping some of the stabs and adding a flamenco dancer in (great plan by the way!). We went away at the end of our time in the room of rock and strange smells and continued the process and tried doing a African thing but we got bored after 5 minutes.I have recently been going over the track on my own and coming up with more ideas and am still rocking out, which is a good sign.end transmition.....(wtf???)
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