Introduction

The 'Blue Jam' small scale tour blog has been set up as a tool for performance students of South Devon College. The idea for the Blog is so that Students can document and evaluate their rehearsal and performance progress for the Performance 1 and 2 modules.

Please find details of forthcoming performances aswell as regular Blog updates on rehearsals as they appear.

Enjoy

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Well here it is, our first Blue Jam Blog Post

JOHN

"Feel really positive about our rehearsal sessions today, finding my song 'Malted Milk' very hard but me and Dale have now tried to simplify the chords first so we can get an idea of the song. was really worried when we had so many songs to learn but you guys (1st Years) were great and we even managed to play some of the tracks already which was cool. Oh and thought it was really good session to learn about singing amazing grace and me being a tenor! also love the Bass singers, hope you all liked our Blue Jam Proposals?"

SOPHIE

' I really enjoyed our rehearsal session today, it was great to work with the first years, and everyone was really positive. I particularly enjoyed the group work on 'Amazing Grace' and even though it seemed daunting at first for some we all pulled together and it sounded great. It was good to hear everyone on their instruments for example - Abi on drums and Helen on keys for 'I Just Wanna Make Love To You' it was wicked to work with different people and experiment. '

HELLEN

I thought the rehearsal with the 1st years was excellent and we achieved much more than I would have thought for a first rehearsal. Scott was really helpful in organizing others and helping with their techniques. I also thought 'Amazing Grace" was truly amazing - those students who thought they couldn't sing and might have been intimidated by the situation - really shone through and just participated enthusiastically. I'm really grateful for the level of commitment of our students.



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'Blue Jam Reading List'

  • 'Pop Music: The Textbook' by Peter Nickol, Julia Winterson and Tony Bracheno
  • 'Set Your Voice Free' by Roger Love
  • 'You Can Sing' by Carrie and David Grant