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We chose our first song by all sitting down and talking about what kind of stuff we all wanted to play, there was a mixture of genres and this helped us dertermine what type of music we should be playing to suit everyone in the band. We eventually decided and that we should mostly play and mixture of pop and rock. This decision led us to looking on our iPods from songs were fitted into this genre. The suggestion of this first song came from Sam and it was the only song we looked at, we all liked it and ecided to do it. This song was "A Day to Remember - If it Means a lot to You"

Our secong song took more time, we all went onto YouTube and looked at songs which we could do. We all found artists that fit the genre we wanted to do and then looked at songs from certain bands which weren't so popular. This eventually led us to "Frank Turner - The Way I Tend to Be".

Our third and final song came from a similar method as the second, but we agreed to look for songs in our spare time to save practicing time in lessons. We wanted a slightly more rocky song for our final song to end the show on, we looked and bands like Green Day, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Avril Lavigne. In the end we decided to "Nickleback - Someday", this song choice came from Drew and we all liked it and decided it will be a good song for our performance.

So in the end this was our fianl set list....

• A Day to Remember - If it Means a lot to You
• Frank Turner - The Way I Tend to Be
• Nickleback - Someday

I had to lead a rehearsal on our second song, this was near the beginning of us learning the second song. I decided to start iff by all of us playing along with the song, this got us warmed up and helped us rememeber the song from the day before. After that we did the song again with out the song and it went really well, we reapetaidy played the song until we started to have trouble with the change from the verse the the chorus. So we concentrated on this for a while until it was perfect. Then we played the song again all the way through again and it was a lot better than before. By this time it was the end of the lesson, I think that it went really well and we made a lot of progress.