The House Band
Regular readers of this blog may have been wondering about how the House Band arrangements work for SWF. Here's a brief explanation;
Each songwriter creates a song, usually based on one of the tasks. They then, working with a tutor, turn the song into a chord sheet (with tempo markings, style guide and structure marked) and bring it to the house band in the afternoon, who rehearse it quickly (we got through 15 songs in 90 minutes today, for example). Normally the songwriter performs their own song, sometimes with guitar or keyboard, and the band fills in electric guitar, bass and drums.
Today (Friday) we're working with our session drummer James, who's flown in this morning from a session in LA - it's actually 9pm as I type this, but his body thinks he's been awake all night and that it's 8 o'clock tomorrow morning! He's rotating a diet of Stella, Coca Cola, Jammie dodgers and espresso at the moment. Sends some of the tempos a bit out, but he's bearing up...
Back to it - we have another 18 songs to play before 11pm.
Each songwriter creates a song, usually based on one of the tasks. They then, working with a tutor, turn the song into a chord sheet (with tempo markings, style guide and structure marked) and bring it to the house band in the afternoon, who rehearse it quickly (we got through 15 songs in 90 minutes today, for example). Normally the songwriter performs their own song, sometimes with guitar or keyboard, and the band fills in electric guitar, bass and drums.
Today (Friday) we're working with our session drummer James, who's flown in this morning from a session in LA - it's actually 9pm as I type this, but his body thinks he's been awake all night and that it's 8 o'clock tomorrow morning! He's rotating a diet of Stella, Coca Cola, Jammie dodgers and espresso at the moment. Sends some of the tempos a bit out, but he's bearing up...
Back to it - we have another 18 songs to play before 11pm.
