Ensemble 8

This week we played Superstition together for the first time.

There was only one problem and it was the beginning of the song. The first problem we had was the timing of when George came in in the keys .Tom starts the song on the drums and George has to enter 4 bars in but on the 3rd beat of bar 3. At first he found this complicated because he was so used to entering at the beginning of a bar but with practise this was completed within 10-15 minutes. He found that a ‘clav’ voicing on the piano through logic got the right sound for the song.

George and Jaina had our same problem with the two pianos clashing parts but they managed to find a way to overcome this by writing different parts.  It was my turn to play bass for this song. I had learnt my parts at home so I knew what I was playing so I didn't really have to mess around with my part when we started playing it together. Sam played the original guitar part and when dom played this as well it made the guitars to dominate in the song. To over come this Dom played some jazz guitar chords underneath the main guitar riff.