WC 16.11.2015 - Reflective Diary & Team Work

There are lots of skills you have to use in able to work effectively in a team. The skills I aim to use when working with others is to be understanding. You need to be understanding when you're working with others because different people have different lives and things to deal with.  To go along with this you need to be understanding when working with other musicians because writing songs can get personal and emotional for different people, so being understanding and caring is a must as it takes someone who can be sensitive towards other people's lives and issues. Also it is important to work with each other and put your ideas together to make a strong song.

In last weeks session, it was basically the same as week because we as still preparing for the Christmas gig. So my individual contribution has still been going into rehearsals and giving 100% effort into them to get an accurate feel of how it's going to  sound when we actually perform the songs at the Christmas gig.  Also I am still listening out for mistakes so we can fix them straight away instead of making them a habit.

We haven't composed anymore songs due to just rehearsing for the Christmas gig as we want to make the two songs we will be performing as crisp as possible so we can give the best performance we can.  Also we because of this we haven't had to make any decisions regarding the songs as they've already been written and composed to how we want them.

I think the bands strength this week has definitely been the ability to adapt as Bailey hasn't been here to rehearse with us so we have had to adapt around it and change some parts, however there hasn't been much to change as Bailey joined the band after these two songs were written before Bailey joined.  I think we still need to work on polishing the songs and we need to come up with a plan for if Bailey can not make the gig.

So a target I am setting for next week is to come up with an action plan of what we are going to do if Bailey can not make the gig because if we make a plan we are going to be more prepared for the gig in the long run, and we are going to sound more rehearsed as we have thought about what we will do if a band member has to miss the gig.