This year we, the whole year 13 music class, have to perform 2 songs as a group. We had a couple of ideas but in the end, we chose two songs that everyone agreed on doing. Those songs are Kia Mau Ki Tō Ūkaipō / Don't Forget Your Roots by Six60 and Reach Out by Savage, and for the past few days, we had been able to decide who's going to do what.
For the song Don't Forget Your Roots, I'm in charge to play and learn the drum part. Which personally is easy to do by myself. Since I'm one of the instrumentalists, I am focused on working on my own parts. Right now I'm struggling with getting the kick/bass part of the song but with more practice, I'm sure I'll be done with it soon.
However, the main challenge for this assessment is the fact that we have to work as a group. Even though everyone is focused on their instruments while we are playing, we have to be mindful of our surroundings with our timings, etc when playing in a group. What's special with this assessment is we will perform this song at an event happening at school, which showcases Māori songs and performances. Along with singers and instrumentalists from Year 13, we also thought about including the Kapa Haka group and do like a "flash mob" entrance for them to join us and sing. This is event is going to take place soon, but I'm sure our group will have this song sussed-out before the event! So exciting!! I wish I could perform the Haka with the performers but that's quite impossible while playing the drums😂
Don't Forget Your Roots - Here's a live performance of Six60!
For my second group performance, I have a choice whether I'll sing in Reach Out by Savage or do a performance with Voices With Soul as a drummer performing a medley of Hamilton songs. I'm also still undecided what I should do but I'm sure both choices would be awesome!
