Music

Hello there fellow friends of the interweb! I've been spending a decent amount of my time recently, on my phone or on YouTube listening to music and it made  me realize how much I appreciate the work artists do and how music plays quite a fundamental part of my life. (Would I like some crackers with that cheese I hear you ask? Yes please!)

I chose drama as a GCSE, so I think that gives me the right to call myself a performer (and I've performed so that's good enough right?) So, as you may (or may not) expect, music choice tends to be quite important on certain occasions.

Let me give you an example (that's defiantly not based on real life experiences) that demonstrates how getting the music right is key:

An Example Of How Getting The Music Right Is Key

Let me set the scene, two 14 year olds are sat in a small music practice room. One is a tall, floppy haired blonde boy with a guitar and the other is a short, muddy red headed girl with a bottle of water and song lyrics.

They are a duo without a name (at the time, all hail Lolli/Olliby, we can't decide! Suggestions?) and their performance was drawing near. With only 2 weeks left, they knew now was the time to seriously put work into practicing (well, Libby knew this, Olli was just sort of going with it as usual.)

The boy sat down and sorted out his strap (HAHAHAHA) whilst the girl sat opposite him, laughing to herself and preparing for the impending embarrassment that was no doubt soon to follow (as it did most practice sessions.)

Boy: Am I playing it from-

Girl: Yep, just do it from there it'll be fine!

Boy: Right...Okay...*Starts to play the song*

Girl: *Starts singing* No...No this isn't right...Can you move the thingy up a notch?

Boy: What like this? *Moves the thingy up a notch and does some fancy guitarist thing*

Girl: Yeah, that's cool. Back from that bit then.

Boy: Uh huh *Plays*

Girl: *Midway through singing* Mngahhjaja *Looks at lyrics* shsmfjiwmmsm *Laughs*

Boy: *Stops playing abruptly* What?

Girl: You made me laugh! It's fine, it's fine. Go back from the start of that bit.

Boy: Okaaaay *Plays*

Girl: *Midway through singing* Uggghhh! This is not going to work and we've only got 2 weeks left until the performance! Do we do another song? What songs do you know? What songs can you PLAY I mean?

Boy: *Thinks* Well, I can-

Girl: Great, do that.

Long story short the boy plays the other song and first time round it goes perfectly and they perform it and everyone loves it and they ride off into the musical sunset and live musically happily together forever (until Libby gets tonsillitis and Olli breaks a guitar string.)

Moral of that story is, although the girl could sing the song and the boy could play the song, it wasn't the right one, and as soon as they changed the song; they felt more confident in what they were doing and gave a kick ass performance.

My love for music is the main reason for doing a 'song of the post'. I decided that instead of making one post where I list all of my favourite songs (which realistically for me would be a stupid thing to do because I'd be here for hours.) I would instead pick a song that I adore or maybe a song that's relevant to the post and link it to you guys so you can get a taste of the sort of music I like to sing or listen to!

That's all for today my fellow friends of the interweb! I shall leave you with the aforementioned song of the post: Make You Feel My Love by Adele (her version of it anyways)

Happy Half Term to all and anyone who's got a week off!

-L

P.s This is the song we performed.