This week Tom and I decided to perform the song ‘Bellyache’ by Billie Eilish. The original has elements of percussion and electronic sounds, but we stripped it back to just vocals, bass, and piano.

Sam and Toby introduced me to the idea of inverting the chords to make the song sound less boring and to fill it out a bit. However, once we rehearsed with the inversions Tom and I preferred it the way it first was.

I think I definitely could have had more vocal control towards the ending of the performance but it was the first time I had performed solo accompanied by the piano, so i was very nervous. Tom has come really far with the bass, now he can pick it up and learn quickly.

In the MIDI lessons we’re composing our own tracks in a specific genre, I’ve chosen to do alternative because there are no strict rules as to what you can/cannot do with a song in that genre.