On May 26th, we had an after school rehearsal for 2 hours as we all felt as a team that we needed the extra time. We had intended to record the song on Olly’s iPad and has scheduled that to take about 10-15 minutes. We were then going to rehearse the drama for the remaining 1 and a half hours (we started 15 minutes late to allow Jack time to arrive).
We went into the music block and requested that we could use the space and the equipment to record our song. Thankfully, we were allowed so started setting up. Olly, being the music expert among us said that the acoustics were better in the larger room so we had to move the drum set into that room. He then set up the microphones for us, one for me and one for Jack.
We then started to record.
It took quite a few takes to get it right as we were all quite nervous and made a couple of mistakes. We then finally got a track but to my dismay, because we had recorded it with the metronome on, we couldnt take the metronome sound out!
Frankie had to leave slightly early so Olly and I sat in the drama studio and recorded a couple of ‘ooh’’s and ‘aah’’s onto the track.
Olly also added a baseline to it using GarageBand, a program he had on his iPad which gave the track an extra element and a bit more depth. Olly is going to edit/correct any timing issues and just ‘tweak’ the track to make it sound even better.
Although we didnt get to do our drama, at least we got the song done and out of the way which means we have more time to rehearse in anymore after school rehearsals we plan so all in all, a productive day.
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