On Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd March, a few students had a music writing course that we had signed up to. The person who did the course was called Conall. We were split into three groups of around seven and were asked to write our favourite signs. After that we had the chance to use the two types of microphones. We made different sounds into the microphone and they were made into a music sequence. We were then given the chance to try and write our own song. My group struggled to write a song, so we did our own cover of the song, “Heroes and Ghosts” in Irish by the Coroners. It was really fun to do as we practiced the song several times with Mary Flora playing the guitar. We also saw what everyone else was doing as one of the groups formed the band G-Zone and sang their own version of Backstreet Boys, “Everybody”. One of the other groups had also created their own song using electric guitars. On the second day, we recorded our songs. It took quite a while to do as we did a sample first to see what we sounded like and then did a couple of other versions. Conall showed us the different effects then that we could add to the song to change the tone or to make it sound more professional.
Music Writing Workshop
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On 3rd February, we had a morning class of American jives and dances which was great fun. We did a single person dance first, where we all danced as a group to the Dirty Dancing song, “Do You Love Me”. It was really energetic and fast and great craic. We were then split up into pairs to do the “cha cha” and a jive to the song, “Mambo No.5”. The cha cha was really difficult to remember because I kept forgetting where I was meant to put my feet! It was really good fun though, and it was a great workout!
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