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Guitar Tone
Over the Easter Weekend I have been experimenting with guitar tone, inspired by learning The Monkees (Neil Diamond) song ‘I’m a Believer’. I was looking for early British clean sounds for use in practice and future recording. I tried three…
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Music on the Go!
When we visit our static caravan I sometimes make use of the poorer days to squeeze in some practice, either learning piano or practicing songs. We have a small portable Roland Go Piano in the spare bedroom for our practice…
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Swollen Ranks, big Sound!
This weeks session attracted members over from the Slaithwaite group, as Dan couldn’t run that scheduled session as he was swanning off to London, being a rock star in a recording studio.🤘😁 The full hall produced a glorious sound as…
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Practice recording
Today I turned my attention to getting comfortable with the change of key of my backing track for a performance of ‘I’m a Believer’. Having determined that, as a Bass, I didn’t want to sing higher than D4 I lowered…
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Backing Vocals with Actions
Singing and Movement?! Back to Halifax for another Sing Pop active learning lesson session on Backing Vocals. We chose two of our tracks to work on and first identified the nature of the backing vocals and where they fit. Then…
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Concert Rehearsals
The antidote to the madness in today’s world is getting together and singing some Soul classics with like minded folk. This week we turned attention to the set-list for our forthcoming concert at Marsden in April. First up though we…
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Backing Vocals
After our December Sing Pop student showcase performances, at The Blind Pig in Sowerby Bridge, we were set the challenge of picking two songs from a function band set-list. One to sing ourselves and suggestion(s) for our fellow singers. I…
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Song practice
When learning a song, even if I’m going to be singing it to a backing track as in this case, I like to explore the song on guitar and occasionally on keyboard. Besides adding interest, I find that approaching the…
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Deembe Music Website
This WordPress website is now live having replaced the Google Sites version. This will now be used to record all new musical adventures from March 2025 onwards. This version is enabling a chronological news blog to sit alongside the less…
