For this semester, I have picked Creating Music as one of my options. Our goal was to learn a music piece and then to share it with the class. We got 5 lessons to learn the piece, and then performed in front of the class. My group was Kareariki (guitar), Braeden (drums), Bella (bass) and I (vocals). We chose the song ‘Come as you are’ by Nirvana to play.
The best part of this was: learning to play and trying out the role of singing, as I don’t normally sing in performances but play the keyboard instead. It was a bit scary to get out of my comfort zone, but it was great to try out something new. Kareariki also taught me the riff part of the song on guitar, which was very fun to learn and play.
The most challenging part of this was: I think the hardest part of this was to coordinate together and for me to sing loud enough. Kurt’s voice was a strong voice, which was difficult to sing with the song as I am not used to doing vocals.
When doing a task like this again I would: I would try out a different role because I’d like to play different instruments, and I will try to play more of the song.
This was a fun activity, and it helped me to understand my classmate’s abilities on music and the type of music they liked/preferred.
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