jordans blog week 3

Week 3 – Monday 15th July – Young creative’s recording sessions Week 3 the group that came for the first time came again, but this time they wanted to have a go at playing instruments (piano and drums). This really impressed me because you never know what who can do or want to be able to. One of the young people said they could play the piano and began playing it, so I asked them to show me how to play a little bit and they did. This was good because … I can’t play the piano and just to have a sense of what’s what was very useful especially if a young person has taken their time out of their time to show a fellow leader what they can do. After this the young person that came last week and claimed he wasn’t ready to perform on the mic asked if he could have a word with me, so we went outside. He asked if he could present some lyrics to me and give him some help for progression due to the fact that it was going to be his first time doing it in front of anyone else, I took this as a compliment because he could have gone and asked anyone else. He performed his lyrics to me and I was impressed because it was another step that he had taken and adding to that he is actually a good writer obviously areas to improve that I had mentioned to his but that’s the thing with these things there is always space to improve in, he took everything I said on board. We sat down and found an instrumental for him to write to and then booked him in for a recording slot next week. What I would like to do next week is see how far my young person has gotten with his writing and performance. Thursday 18th July – Artist management My first artist management was with a local known artist. In this session myself and kiddus wanted to see what was this artist intension within these sessions so that we could see how we could work with him to get them to achieve this goal. The artist stated that he wanted to have a completed L.P with 10 – 12 tracks on and hopefully push the tracks out and get radio plays. The artist started and completed this first track of his L.P called “Hustle”. what I think me and kiddus should do for next session is get him to search up radio stations and begin getting in contact with them and get some tracks on radio.