Ed Soal Year 13 BTEC Music

My ideal practice session would last for 1-1 1/2 hours. This is so that I have enough time to warm up my muscles and get sufficient work and progress done which I can come out with something new. The first 15-25 minutes would be all on my practise pad with a metronome. I will be practising my rudiments, usually I would do; singles, doubles, triplets, paradiddles, paraparadiddles, paraparaparadiddles and the 6 stroke roll. Depending on the rudiment I will start at a certain bpm and work up either by 5 or 10 bpm's after a couple minutes. I will do this with every rudiment until I feel comfortable with each rudiment at different speeds. This warm up really helps as it relaxes and loosens my arm muscles and also makes my wrists used to playing rudiments which means it'll be easier to play these when putting them into what I want to learn. Without a sufficient warm up you can become stiff and heavy with your playing, which makes it very uncomfortable as a drummer and you will mak...

The Hotdog Social Welcome to The Hotdog Social, the college gig which us was a class are planning from scratch. Although this is something many of us haven't got any or many practise in, it is something I have done a few times with my church. For example I headed the planning for the past two Christmas Balls and a Music Evening, taking into account rules and regulations, health and safety and making the event as fun and atmospheric as possible whilst keeping the cost of the setup as low as possible. As a musician it is important to be good at managing events and having the confidence to go round asking people/places for their services as it will benefit your band/session musician.  In our first meeting we had together we assigned everyone a position in preparation for and during the event itself. These were all strategically discussed and appointed based on the skills each of us had. The positions are as followed: President - Someone who overlooks the whole projec...