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Project Info / About

As part of my project, I have conducted a number of different examples of session work from which I have collated valuable experience, skills, and evidence. In Riverside College as part of my Live Performance PMT unit I have undertaken rehearsals with two separate internal college bands called Dismay Bouquet and Dad’s Best Friend, respectively. As part of both bands, I was required to undertake months of rehearsals followed by two live shows which took place in December and March at The Classic Grand. I performed with Dismay Bouquet on the first occasion in December and Dad’s Best Friend on the second occasion in March. Both shows were filmed by the college, and I brought my own phone camera with tripod set up so I could film the March gig with Dad’s Best Friend from a unique perspective for further evidential purposes. I also regularly filmed rehearsals with both bands to gather evidence of my proficiency as a session drummer. As part of my project my first point of call was to find songwriters in Riverside Music college undertaking self-release projects. After some time spent networking and communicating with my classmates, I was able to organise session drumming work with two internal clients. They were Jessica Hunter, and Kyle Andrew Walker. As part of my commitments to both clients I rehearsed with them on multiple occasions and produced my own drum parts for their tracks. I filmed these occasions so I could be aware of what I played and what I had to work on ahead of the recording sessions. Both songwriters wanted to release one track each so I practised for each songwriters respective track in my own time so that I could be extremely tight and well prepared for the recording sessions in which I would partake. Both recording sessions were a successful endeavour, and I got the drum parts recorded very quickly playing along to a metronome. I also filmed these recording sessions as I felt they would be incredibly useful as evidence.

Example of Recording Contract

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