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Taxi Logbook - 24/01/2012

We have all been put into 3 smaller groups because before when we were in just 2 groups a lot of the musicians couldn't do much or play their instrument because there wasn't enough equipment for everyone to play. Or for example in my original group we had 2 bassists which left one of them not really being able to join in with the group. So we all get to help with coming up with ideas now we are in these smaller groups. 

I find for me doing this show is challenging because it is completely out of my comfort zone, i am no strrong with composing and getting things to fit togther for film. I think at the moment i have taken a back seat for this show because im too shy to give any ideas that i might have (not that i have had many) I think this is something i am going to have to work on over the course of the show, especially when they start adding vocals. 

Today we watched the scenes we are going to be doing, we have been given one of the biggest car chase scenes in the film and Dave and Tom suggested we do a sort of drum and bass thing to go with it. We were shown a song by Bjork which as a really good drum and bassy ending that was used as our starting point to think of wha we could do. Dave said we should have a jam and see what comes from it. I think what the group came up with was really good, i didn't really take part until near the end when Dave put me on this synthesizer thing to try stuff out. I found this hard and i got shy to try anything in case it sounded wrong, i think this is what is holding me back. I is something that i need to work on otherwise i will not get the skills i want from this show. 

Also today because everyone was switching what instruments, so they put me on the electric kit and i had to play off what Justin was playing. I haven't played drums for about 2 years so i think i was a bit sloow to start. Im not sure if what i was doing really fit with what we were doing but i tried my best to think of things to fit into the music. I think as a group we worked well playing off each other and we came up with some really good ideas for the chase scene. We now have to sort out all the different sections. 

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