Starting a band Lesson 4 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat, the bass plays the low notes, a guitar or keyboard plays chords, and someone sings; the bass and drums together are the rhythm section, the floor the whole song stands on. 1 Picture three friends arguing for an hour about calling themselves "Skibidi Wolves" or "The Toast" without playing a note: the name is the least important part, and lots of famous bands changed theirs early on. 2 Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with cheap gear or even pots and buckets, and with a short plan for each practice; skills come from playing, not from shopping. 3 Bands break up over bossiness, no-shows and volume wars, so good bands turn up, share decisions and play at a level where everyone can be heard, and protect their ears from loud drums. 4 Bands talk in their own slang: in Liverpool "our kid" is your brother or sister, "la" is mate and "boss" is great; in Australia a "galah" is a fool (from a noisy pink parrot) and "yeah nah" means no; in the southern US "fixin' to" means about to. 5 Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to check nobody else already uses a name. 6 The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes. 8 A cover is a song written by someone else; an original is one the band wrote itself. 9 The Beatles played many cover songs in clubs in Hamburg before they became famous for their own songs. 10 A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up. 11 Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best. 12 Stage fright, or performance nerves, is fear of performing; many famous performers say they still get it, and it often fades once they start playing. 14 Pointing the microphone away from the speakers or turning it down stops feedback. 15 Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides things; good bands talk, vote or take turns. 16 A setlist is the list of songs a band plans to play. ← previous Practising when you would rather notnext → The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms↑ back to Arts This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/