11MUS-Group Performance

11MUS-Group Performance 2/2/19

Welcome! this is my group performance blog which will be updated weekly, showing the progress that my group develops. I hope you enjoy this process.

In music class, we are planning to perform Shawn Mendes: Lost in Japan. We have 5 members in our group including Alyana (Drummer), Hillary (Singer), Tina (Singer), Braxton (Bassist), and I (Pianist). We are using our own rendition, so here is the link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWzXkV3hHo

This song was inspired by a dream about that the singer (Shawn Mendes) had. In his dream, he was lost in a foreign country and the next day, he woke up and literally went straight into developing a song.

11MUS-Group Performance 19/2/19

So far, our group performance is going great! We all have learned around a third or two of our sections and have actually started to practice as a group to get our dynamics and timing as close to perfect as humanly possible! As of the moment I find the intro timing challenging as it switches between different patterns (The beat is the same though!). My rehearsal goal for this week is to get all of the instruments to play at the same time, and for the singers to attempt to harmonize the song.