Week Commencing 16th February

This week we added "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper. This was Emily's idea although no one really warmed to the idea. Emily found this song hard to sing because it is too high for her vocal range. She was given advice to adapt the song to her singing range although she didn't. She became frustrated and said we should change the song, but me and Chris both said that just because we'd found it a little hard at first, we shouldn't change the song. We all agreed that we should start afresh next lesson. The rest of this lesson we went through all the other songs we'd learned.
Next lesson we started again, it had been obvious that Emily had practiced this song at home and we did a lot better this time. Emily still found it hard to sing so we originally were wondering whether we should transpose the song or for Emily to just sing a different part. For the rest of us this song came fairly easily, although there was a marimba solo in it and so Chris said he'd do it on Guitar. I found the bass quite easy for this song but being the first time I'd ever played bass at all at the start of this project, I found this song in particular hurt my fretting hand every time I played it. I soon realised there was nothing I could do about this other than to practice more. This lesson went better than last time and we concentrated mostly on Girls Just Want To Have Fun for the duration, however, I then suggested we should go over One Way Or Another for the last 10 minutes or so, because that was our first song and we hadn't done it in a while.