Rehearsal Plan

Risk Assessment

What are the hazards?

Within an music environment, there can be many hazards and it is up to the band and the people within the space to make sure that themselves are safe.

One hazard would be trip hazards. Guitar leads can be hazardous, espeically if they are long and in other musicians way, this can cause people not seeing the lead and tripping over them. Additoally leaving leads and belongings on the floor. If musicians are practicing in a small space , personal belongings can b left on the floor and become trip hazards.
A second hazard would be ear damage. In a loud atmosphere in a studio or a live perfromance, your ears are hugely sensitive and if your do not protect them can cause permamanent damage. Loud noises could occur from high picth loud sounds, that chatters your ear drum. This hazard doesnt get much attention but it is life changing and can impact your life.
WATER/DRINK SPILLAGE; be careful about bringing water into a sapce with electronic equipment. A drink spillage can cause the equipment to break and therefore they can not be used. Making sure that all drink and food is out of the way, far from the equipment.
Electric Shocks, are a major hazard when being in the same space as amps and electronic instruments such as electric guitars, microphones and keyboards can overheat and can therefore give off an electric shock. Feeling a slight shock on a microphone is a warning sign of a potentially very dangerous problem. When this happens, you'll also be touching something else, like an electric guitar. The guitar and mics/mixer should all be plugged into the same electrical circuit, for safety, to avoid this problem.

Who is at risk at being harmed by the hazards? How?

Risks that occur in a music environment that put others into serious accidents and can have permanent damage. Injuries can happen to anyone that step into a room and its important to spot them before anyone gets critically hurt.

Trip Hazards can be dangerous for evryone, but partically the guitarists who have plugged them in should be the most aware as that is their equipment. Therefore other musicians such as the singer may not be spactailly aware of that lead and therefore trip over and further injure themselves. But it goes as everyone in that room rehearsing should be aware of the surroundings and being organised with their own belongings and packing up anything that is not being used and pushed far out away from everyone else.
Ear damage can aswell be impactful for all individuals, but if the memebr of the band are equipmeted with the right ear buds to wear in a loud setting, remembering think about audience members and the effect of their ears and the damage the loud may cause if it is not controlled properly. Therefore in a live performance, having a professional sound engineer who confidnetly knows there way around the deck to prevent high picthing sounds from microphones and guitars that could cause ear damage.

Drink spilledge, a particular hazard can be very severe depending on the situation, a scenario that could result in electric shocks whre the microphone is not of high quality and a vocalist drinks water and a shock is recieved, that makes the vocalist pass out and ending up in hospital. This scenario is highly extreme and someone could end up in a life or death situation. Its so important to check to quality of your instruments as well as keeping all drinks away from equipment, in order to keep everyone safe.
Electricity is obvious a key ingredient to make everything function and allow people to record music and operate the studio in general. Problems could arise if connections are faulty or wattage is donated to certain objects in too big of a quantity. Dodgy wires can fray and cause electrocution when touched. This can cause serious injury and even death depending on the wattage and how severe the electrocution is. It’s highly important that electrics are maintained properly in the studio seeing as electric is the main ingredient to make it all work.

Protecting your ears while you playing in loud surroundings is very important. Buying a set of earbuds will help prevent further damage. listening to loud noise for a long time can overwork hair cells in the ear, which can cause these cells to die.
Make sure that all liquids and food are out of sight and well away from any electrical equipment, you can do this by keeping it in a bag.

What you are already doing about the risk?

When you walk into a small compact studio, it's important to spot hazards straight away, such as guitar bags and cases. Make sure that your belongings are fully out of the way from anyone tripping over and badly hurting themselves. Helping others out as well, If you see an early prevention, alert that person to be cautious of the hazard.
Similar to electricity as a very serious hazard, as it could lead to someone being seriously hospitalized. To help prevent this from happening would be to keep liquids away and spray an anti-static spray into the air. Use anti-static lotion if you have dry skin. Wear clothes that are made with natural fibers, like cotton. Experiencing electric shocks when playing an electric guitar with an amp is not normal and could indicate a problem with the equipment. It's important to prioritize your safety and have a professional inspect the guitar and amp to identify and resolve the issue.

Having each others backs

Making sure that everyone is looking out for each other and taking serious actions when someone gets hurt is important. Keeping the space that you are practicing in tidy and organised so you do not loose any of your belonging and minor the chances of trip hazards etc.

The Rehearsal Plan

Within my rehearsal plan, I want to begin right as everyone walks into the practice room, starting with 5 minutes to tune their instruments and for everyone to get organized. I think it's important that everyone has the chance to get comfortable and prepared for rehearsal. Also having in mind the risk of hazards, keeping all of the guitar bags out of the way and all belongings, especially if we are in a small room, someone may trip and seriously injure themselves. My main objectives for my leader session would be to go over our third song, secondarily, work on a clear structure by adding a bridge, work on our lyrics, and finally make a start on our fourth stimulus.

I did some research on some of the requirements for stimulus four, searching up what modal changes are and hemiola, as I haven't come across those terms before and wanted to gain extra knowledge before the next session. In the Thursday session last week we were trying to find cut-up lyrics from the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland, so this was a problem I wanted to address and make a move on. Beginning to start a bridge for our third song is another priority that I would like to achieve during my leadership lesson, we have already started to create a little progression after one of the choruses, but we found that it wouldn't go along with the lyric melody.

Naturally, I am not a leader, so this was a bit of a challenge but I think I had a good go. Targeting areas that need to be worked on, would be our 3rd song. At the start of the lesson, I wanted to go through the structure and melody of the song as I was still a bit confused when the key changed and it needed to be clarified. After I instructed going over the song, we needed to come up with a bridge, from which I suggested going from A to G and then back into the verse, but Kyran had come up with a better chord progression, going from E, A, E, B. Therefore we went with it for the bridge and I checked if everyone was happy with it. Meanwhile, Izzy had lyrics to create so while we were chord playing she was off focusing on the lyrics, as we were almost there with finishing our 3rd song which was one of my aims in my leader session. Izzy cracked on with the lyrics which was an individual need to be closely looked at, as well for myself I knew I wanted to discuss everyone's plans for the session and what we want to make out of it.

Next, I wanted to move on to the fourth song which was a major challenge, I ended up finishing my session earlier than expected as we all hit a major hurdle. One of my main objectives for the fourth song was to get a basic structure and then we will sort out the lyrics afterward, as normally this structure works well for us. I found that we all needed help from our teacher to begin this new song including modal changes and hemiola which we had not used before. Therefore I found that I could not further take on this lesson as we all came together to discuss what to do and Kyran and Fin came up with a chord progress I said that me and Josh should work together on the rhythm and tempo section.

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