A one take recording by one of my London students, Sarah Laarous singing the Duffy hit, Warrick Avenue. Sarah is doing two shows with our R'n'B group the Glastonbury Festival, 2009.
A one take recording by one of my London students, Sarah Laarous singing the Duffy hit, Warrick Avenue. Sarah is doing two shows with our R'n'B group at the Glastonbury Festival, 2009.
Sarah, Marzuq and Chili composed a song to help combat London knife crime. It is in an R'n'B style with female vocals contrasted with two different rapper segment of 16 bars each. It was written and recorded all on the same day with bass, drums and guitar. Though the chordal sequence consists of just two chords, the syncopated rhythm and major 7th to minor 7th sequence is very affective.
This song won them a Nobel Peace of Art Award and a performance at Glasonbury 2009 with the band "Future Heads"
Sarah (15) is a gifted female vocalist and song writer (photo above right with X Factor finalist Laura White). Her composition is titled "Waking Up" and the lyrics tell of a teen's insecurity from parental rejection. Happy to say it has a positive ending! Sarah chose a southern blues style with slide guitar. Based around an altered minor blues progression, Sarah firstly recorded her vocal melody live with just our drummer. Next she recorded the guitars that had to follow her melody line. We would have loved to have re-recorded this with the band first just to improve the over-all feel.
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