Musical ensemble

Glad to have you back on my blog, I hope your week has been great 💗

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I am in a musical band at church. 🤭 So, I would like to tell you a little bit about what we do in our rehearsals to prepare the songs to be played.

We meet at the rehearsal room every Thursday, even though we only play 2 Sundays a month. There are 8 members, a pianist, an electric guitarist, an acoustic guitar player, a drummer, a bass player, two backing singers, and the lead vocalist. Before getting together, we rehearsed each by ourselves, which included listening to the song repeatedly to identify musical figures and define the "tempo" of each one of them. After having listened to the song in detail, it is time to practice. 

For voices, we are in charge of making melodies, that is, making different voices to create a melody.

Melodies are created when a series of notes (chords) are joined together. To make it clearer, I will show you an example.

The "do" chord is made up of the notes: do, mi, and sol.

So, when taking the voices out of a song with the "do" chord, the lead vocal sings on the "do" note, the other vocalist (who usually does the second voice) does the "mi" note and I (who usually do the third voice or the highest voice) do the "sol" note. By doing this, we manage to create a melody while singing and we complement each other very well.

We practiced all week and on Thursday we got to assemble what we practiced by ourselves.

We fine-tune details and play the songs 1 or 2 times, sometimes we don't have enough time, but that's why we rehearse every Thursday.

That's all, I hope you enjoyed this little music class haha.  🤭 

And remember:

Life without music would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche