On the last exam i had to prepare 3 tracks because i failed the grade 8 piece last time , i was practising that song a lot . Another songs which i choose was again Maximum the hormone - Rolling1000toon and Master Blaster by Corneille and Gage . i knew the maximum the hormone song before so learning it was easy , and master blaster i heard it before but no in this version , it is a little bit faster and more groove for me , learning this song was not very hard and to be honest ( i know i cant be ) i learn that song in one evening . The biggest problem in whole exam was backing tracks . i was looking for it everywhere but i had to use normal one , but i took off the bass on the equaliser on both of them which makes sound distorted , like from the old radio . And i've been told to dont make a ''faces'' while doing mistakes , its quite hard because i know i done something wrong and i just cant stop it , im a perfectionist and if i know im doing something wrong im showing it . So the songs , the first song gone much much better , still had some slips but . Second song , maximum the hormone , had problems with start because i took off the bass from the whole track so i didn't heard proper drums which i found something difficult for me playing without them . But i felt more confident with this song and like Accessors said. Master Blaster , i was surprised about how it goes , i was worry about that song bcs i didn't practice it a lot . But went good .
Main problem was bass sound , i smashed my one after last failed exam on the ground so i had to use my other one - Traben , which is more for a rock and metal music than jazz or blues . so the sound for the songs was the same for all of them .
PASS ...
For this exam we had to prepare song from Grade 8 book . I didn't knew what to play to be honest , but my Tutor from bass choose for me song called ''667''. Genre - metal , lots of changes in the song , quite fast , solo , and change of tempo on the end of the song , the biggest problem for me was playing ''stairs'' or felling between the choruses and verses , had lots of problems with time tempo on the end and with the solo . We didn't had classes before the exam which makes me a little bit nervous because i knew im not prepared even i was practising a lot . And yes i failed , i knew i shouldn't make any excuses but i was trying to be honest and say what i'm feeling , but from that day i know what to do next time. I told myself im gonna practice much more and show everyone i can do it .
Been practicing much more on the next weeks . I was trying to play between track with bass and without . on The beginning had problems to play with without bass track , but after time I manage to do it .
PapaNegro is a chilean Band which fusions influences from the funk, 70's soul to the finest sounds from acid jazz and modern electronic music. They have released two main works with record labels: SuperActivo (Superactive) in the year 2000 and Compacto (Compact) in 2005. In 2007 they have launched a project/album called "7" which is licensed under a Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-Licenciar Igual 2.0 Chile License.
I've been learn from the tabs and from the video covers on Youtube .
I was trying to listen few cover videos and check with one it is the best and i tried to compare it with the original tune .
TABS - http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/p/papanegro/papanegro_btab.htm
Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3Qu0qzk8s
For my solo assessment I choose song ''Papanegro'' by Papanegro. So its quite tricky , jumping from slap n popping play to fingers and upright hold on the neck.
How i found that song ? I get it from my friend who asked me to play it because he was thinking i cant do it . The grade of the song i rating for 8 , So was not very easy to play it .
Practicing
I knew how to play a wee bit i Had small problems with the timing , but how to play it properly showed me Colin (bass tutor) - Thank you for it ! - so yeah , few hours per week was enough to learn it .:)
Mark
2 x High merits :)
*happy face*
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE - (マキシマムザホルモン
Makishimamu Za Horumon?) is a Japanese
nu metal band from
Hachiōji, Tokyo. Maximum the Hormone performs
nu metal and
hardcore punk but incorporates many elements of
pop,
funk,
ska and
extreme metal into their music as well which helps to distinguish them from many typical nu metal and hardcore punk bands.
Allmusic's Alexey Eremenko writes that Maximum the Hormone is distinguished by "a general lack of the teenage angst and self-importance characteristic of true nu-metalers". Their funky sound, heard in many songs such as Maximum 21st Century, is mostly produced by bass player Ue-Chan using the slapping technique.
We been asked to play a song which we already know and we can play for a rest of class. I decided to play a song by Maximum The Hormone called "Rock'n'Roll Chainsaw''. I choose that song because i think bass line its quite hard to play, and u need more skills to play whole song .
The biggest problem for my was the sound of my bass. I don't have bass amp yet in my flat so was hard for my to choose sound on the bass amp in college before playing. We had to play in sitting position and standing position. I had problems on the first take because I didn't heard the background song, only my bass on the amp which was next to me. But when I stand up was much better. I was not very happy from this solo, but I know that was only for warm up and no for a mark.
Next time gonna be much better !
After exam :
Today we had to perform song which we were practicing and learning from last weeks , my song was maximum the hormone - rock n roll chainsaw , like said in post before i had few problems with the song but on the day of performing i was feel more confident .
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