4 Group Performances - Originals

This is Saxona, Dan and my original performance of a typical 1950's song called Boogie and Jive.

The drumming part was very good as it replicated similar drumming grooves with the 1950s with very simple and repetitive grooves throughout the song. Also I played a "honky tonk" rhythm which was notorious in the 1950's. I also mainly used snare only fills as that was also very prominent in the 1950's.

The lead guitar, Dan, was playing the famous 12 bar blues scale throughout the song. This also links with the 1950's as in Elvis Presley's song 'Hound Dog' also has a 12 bar blues guitar part.

The lyrics were also taken from the 1950's with lyrics such as 'Smokestack' which was a famous song in the 1950's played by Howlin' Wolf, the full song called 'Smokestack Lightnin'

This is Saxona, Dan and my original performance of a typical 1960's song called The Local Gym.

The guitar was played in 'Drop D' which the Kinks used a lot, who were a huge rock group during this decade, and the bass copied the riff of the guitar, similar to the Kinks as well, this is how we came up with our guitar and bass parts. 

The lyrics were also relevant as it mostly was about irrelevant things which don't really matter, and the 1960's artists were known for rambling on about things that don't really matter or don't make sense, so that's where we got our inspiration from, we too found our lyrics quite comical. 

The drum part was very simple but effective, also the bridge/middle 8 was something the Kinks did a lot, so we decided to take this idea.