Exit - Band reahearsal - Fully Alive

This is a rehearsal of a cover of a song by Flyleaf. This song is called Fully Alive and it's the last song that we are planning on performing on the night. This recording (along with the others) are recorded towards the beginning/middle of the allotted time given to us to practice, prepare, rehearse and perform. Yet again, as with the other two videos that I have uploaded of our rehearsals, we need to work more on the timing but this could be due to the lack of a drummer at the time but it still shows that we're not exactly ready to perform this song in front of a live audience yet. There was a buzzing noise emitted from the E string on my guitar (left guitar) so that explains the buzzing noise you may be able to hear from time to time over the duration of the song. We weren't exactly sure what the rhythm guitarist should play during the guitar solo as there isn't actually any tablature for this part in the song so this was really the testing stage for this part in the song for the rhythm guitarist. I think the bassist also needs to work a little more on the song itself as a whole but that's nothing really that is much of an issue at the moment as we have time to fix this.

Exit - Band rehearsal - New Divide

This is our cover of Linkin Park's song New Divide. I think that the acoustic guitar on the right-hand side was out of tune so that could be why it didn't exactly sound right when it was being played. We decided to use acoustic instruments for these rehearsal videos so that we'd be able to hear everything being played and anything that is being said by any other member of the band. The vocalist forgot the words partway through this song so that is something that we need to work on before the gig definitely. We also need to rehearse several more times to make sure that everybody is playing what they're actually meant to be playing (decision of the band). We also attempted harmonies in this cover but we weren't actually sure whether or not it would be a good choice to put these into the song at the gig. Timing is another aspect that we need to work on. We just have to make sure that we are all in time but this is possibly due to the lacking of a drummer during these rehearsals for personal reasons. Most of our other rehearsals have went much better than this one.

Exit - Band rehearsal - Decode

This is one of our early rehearsals for the first song in our Setlist. This is our cover of Decode by Paramore. This wasn't one of our best rehearsals that we've done but it is still evidence that we are indeed rehearsing. I think we need to work on the rhythm guitar strumming pattern and possibly the chords as it sounds like it slightly clashes with what the bassist plays. We also need to work on our timing but I think that this could possibly be due to us using acoustic instruments.

Setlist

Once we decided upon the repertoire, we had to make the decision of what songs go in what order. We found out that we were to be the last band of the night so we wanted to start loud and hard. We decided that we’d want to have a little break in the middle to mellow it down a little and then that we’d want to build it up from then on to get the best reaction we could hope for. We chose Dream Catch Me, the most calming song from our choices, to go second and we wanted a big build up at the beginning so we decided that it’d be best to play Decode because it’s probably the most popular song from out setlist and it’s loud and starts hard so we knew that it’d get the audience up and moving. Fully Alive is our most energetic song so it was decided that it will be last because we wanted to end it on a song that we can move around a lot to and actually enjoy playing it. We thought that if we overplayed the song on the night, the audience would love it. We only had New Divide left and it was a good incident that it was because it’s the second most popular song in our list and there was a song gap between that song and our most popular song so it was more of a little break with something different (Dream Catch Me) and then another well-known song and then our last song which is the heaviest song which was great to end on.

Linkin Park - "New Divide"

New Divide - Written and Performed by Linkin Park

New Divide is another popular song that we thought
the audience should enjoy judging on the audience from the last gig. We came
across a major issue in this song where there is a section played by a
synthesiser and after about 3 weeks of attempting to play this repetitive
section that only lasted several seconds on the guitar, but because it isn’t
actually played on a guitar, we finally decided to scrap the section and
replace it with another section of the song which actually turned out to be a
better idea than keeping the difficult part in because we could play it with
easy and without any worry of making any mistakes on stage so it boosted our
confidence with the thought that the audience might enjoy our performance more
because we’re less likely to make mistakes.

Flyleaf - Fully Alive

Fully Alive - Written an Performed by Flyleaf

Fully Alive was the singer’s choice and we chose to
play it because it was really fun and enjoyable to play. We thought that if we
had fun performing the song, then the audience should have fun too and they’d
enjoy the performance more if we looked like we were enjoying it. Although it
was very difficult to start off with due to the complicated and speedy Lead
guitar section but after we got over this issue by reducing the speed of the
tempo of what I was playing so that I was capable of it and then slowly
increase the speed of what was played until I managed to comfortably play it
faster than the original version to make sure that I am more than happy playing
the song at that speed. We also had to come up with a Rhythm guitar part for
this song as the band Flyleaf only have one guitarist but we used innovative
techniques to come up with a Rhythm guitar section for the entire song that fit
in with the bass, drums and vocals.

Paramore: Decode [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Decode - Written and Performed by Paramore

Decode is a really popular song and we needed a
song the audience know, a song that the audience can sing along to, a song that
they can dance to, a song that would get them going, a song that would be great
to start off the set.