WC 19.10.2015 The Story So Far

My Contribution To The Band

As I'm the singer for the band, I'm quite good at writing songs.  So I have been writing some of the songs for the band and giving constructive criticism as to what might not sound quite right and how I imagined the song to go when I wrote the lyrics. I also work with Bailey and Elisha when I have writers block and ask them for some ideas as they are also good at writing lyrics.  I also helped to pick our band name which is 'Kodimoor' . 

I have contributed to the style of our music as I have been doing a lot of research on existing bands and artists that would suit the style of music we wanted to do, which is indie rock.  We have all contributing in different ways individually but some times out ideas clash, so we all have to negotiate and make a group decision, this could be by doing a majority vote or just by deciding as a group what's better for the band or a song. 

Once I've written a song I'll show it to the band and get a second opinion on the lyrics at which point we'll either rearrange the song, change some of the words. I always find that getting the bands opinion makes the song better and the band closer as a team which is important as our good team bond will reflect when we perform as we will interact with each other and look like we're having fun together and like we want to be there, which will create a better atmosphere and experience for the audience. 

We have just had a band member added to Kodimoor so I think we need to bond more as a band as I think if we don't it could become an area of weakness, as if we are just performing with each other and not making an effort to get along I think that will show when we perform as we won't interact with each other and it could make us look like we're bored and we don't really want to be performing. 

I think another area of weakness is sometimes the band gets distracted which slows our progress down so we need to stay focussed in order to make progress each week. I think our main strength as a band is working together to come up with new original songs, this is because George comes up with guitar riffs pretty quickly which enables me to come up with a melody to write the lyrics too and then Elisha follows George with a bass line and Jordan comes  up with some chords that will go with Georges riff. Then Bailey comes up with either a solo or follows George or Jordan and Jayden comes up with a drum beat and then we'll add the lyrics. I feel that we do work well as a band and we all have the same passion.


I think by ccommunicating and getting along as a ban has helpd our band bond overall and it lso helps in our writig progress. This is because we all know each others strengths and weaknesseswhen it come to playing as a ban, for example one of George's strengths is coming up with solos to break down the songs play. He is also good at makig up catchy riffs that we can then build a sog arou, which is how our second song 'Leave it all behind' came about. Knowing each others strengths and weaknesses helps us to build and play a strong song/ set. For example my band knows what styles I can sing in so we tend to build a song looking at those styles.