Task One - Planning
My candidate number: My centre number:17343
My name is Danny Palacio . The instrument I will be playing for this performance is acoustic guitar . The brief requires me to perform 15 minutes of music.
I have been booked in to play for the local label A&R, i need to perform for 10-15 minutes, It must be ok for the audience.
I must perform all of the tasks to get a pass, if i am unsure of anything i should talk to my teachers about it i can work in a group or alone, then i must sign a sheet of paper saying that it is my work, i can use the internet to assist me in this work but must put it into my own words.
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The final recording MUST be 10-15 minutes. I must spend 30 hours on this assignment, 10 hours for preparation time and 20 hours being supervised by teachers
I have been booked in to play for the local label A&R, i need to perform for 10-15 minutes, It must be ok for the audience.
I must perform all of the tasks to get a pass, if i am unsure of anything i should talk to my teachers about it i can work in a group or alone, then i must sign a sheet of paper saying that it is my work, i can use the internet to assist me in this work but must put it into my own words.
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The final recording MUST be 10-15 minutes. I must spend 30 hours on this assignment, 10 hours for preparation time and 20 hours being supervised by teachers
1.1a) Through my performance, I want to achieve the following personal goals:
- Personal Goal 1: Make my transactions smooth
- Personal Goal 2: Be able to pick .
- Personal Goal 3: To build my confidence.
- Personal Goal 4: to complete my 10-15 minutes of work
- Personal Goal 5: To be able to complete all my songs without making many mess ups
1.1b) To help achieve the above goals, I think I have the following skills that I can use:
- Skill 1: My first good skill is Picking .
- Skill 2: My second good skill is accuracy .
- Skill 3: My third good skill is Alternate picking.
I will know if I have achieved my goals at the end of the assessment because
the recordings that i have done would show the improvement over time of transactions, if The picking that i will be doing in my final performance sounds nice, If i can perform in front of people without panicking and messing up because of the pressure, To have my performance lead up to 10-15 mins and if i can complete my performance without it sounded bad because i had messed up and it was noticeable
The audience I am performing to is label A&R .
Their expectations will be will be for me to be able to perform well, not to make many mistakes and to be able to complete the 10-15 minutes I will meet their expectations by practicing at home and making sure all my songs add up to at least 10 minutes, they will also be looking for talent, artistry, uniqueness, credibility, charisma.
I will perform music in the following style/styles hip hop,pop, Funk . This is because I like the sound of this sort of music and some are easy to play .
My personal image for the event will be I will wear my school uniform as it looks smart, it also gives the watcher an idea that i know what i am doing, some of it also links to the style as most hip hop artists wear a jacket and then a shirt trousers.my school uniform. This is appropriate to the audience as it gets them to understand that i understand the style of the song as i am mostly wearing what they would be.
My ideas for the performance are to make sure all my backing tracks get to the people that are doing audio all I need is an acoustic guitar that I will be able to get from the school, however these guitars aren’t the best . I intend to make my performance meet all the requirements . I will do it by performing for at least 30 minutes a night and get the transactions nice and smooth .
The set list I will perform as my given repertoire will contain the following songs:
- Song 1: Artist/Band:Twenty one pilots Song title:Heathens Estimated length of song: 3 minutes . I have chosen this song because It is an easy song to play and i want to work on picking .
- .Song 2: Artist/Band: Mos Eisley Song title: Cantina song Estimated length of song: 2 minutes . I have chosen this song because It is repeated a lot which makes it easy to play.
- Song 3: Artist/Band: Martin Song title:in the name of love Estimated length of song: 3 minutes . I have chosen this song because
- Song 4: Artist/Band: Mos Eisley Song title: Cantina song Estimated length of song: 30-40 seconds . I have chosen this song because I needed a short song but instead of strumming I wanted to pick.
The total estimated length of my set list will therefore be 10.3 minutes.
I have chosen to play these songs in this order because this is the way i am learning the songs .
I will need to involve the following people in my performance No one (Backing track) . This is because It is a solo performance .
I will need the following resources and equipment: An acoustic guitar, A pick and somewhere to sit .
When performing live, I will need to consider the following health and safety issues:
Health & Safety Issue 1: Wires . How I will make sure I am safe by making sure all of the wires are out of the way.
Health & Safety Issue 2: Weak support . How I will make sure I am safe Make sure the stage can support the equipment being used .
Health & Safety Issue 3: Sound. How I will make sure I am safe by making sure the sound will not be really loud to the point where it is damaging people's ears .
Health & Safety Issue 4: fire exits . How I will make sure I am safe by making sure that nothing is obstructing the fire exit so people can get out in case of emergencies .
I used the following website(s) to help me with my researchttps://www.astralsound.com/safety.htm .
I will rehearse on the following dates and I will work on the following at each rehearsal:
Week 19 Thursday 18th January 2018 (2 hours):
Plan: In a classroom for the full 2h and responding to feedback and advancing my progress further .
What went well: I filled in some of what was needed to do.
What needs work: I did not fully complete the task that was set .
Week 20 Thursday 25th January 2018 (2 hours):
Plan: My plan for this lesson is to practice half of the lesson for heathens and the other half on the canteen song, I want to see if i can remember how to play heathens and see if i can remember the majority of the canteen song.
What went well: I managed to remember the majority of the canteen song and i remembered how to play heathens but now i need to adjust to the speed of the song.
What needs work: What I need to work on the most is to memorise the canteen song completely and i'm nearly there and to adapt to the speed of heathens.
Week 21 Thursday 1st February 2018 (2 hours):
Plan: To work on the following songs -heathens, in the name of love, Royals and the conteena song.
What went well: I managed to play heathens and in the name of love all the way through, without a backing track.
What needs work: I need to work on royals and cantina song to be able to play all the way through and my 10-15 minute performance
Week 22 Thursday 8th February 2018 (2 hours):
Plan: I need to work on royals and cantina song so i can feel confident in performing in front of people and to go over in the name of love and heathens once or twice
What went well: I completed royals and most of the canteena song but i should be able to complete it in my music lesson on tuesday
What needs work: I need to find some backing tracks to make it sound less repetetive.
Week 24 Thursday 22nd February 2018 (2 hours):
Plan: Look for backing tracks and continue practicing my songs with that bakground .
What went well: I found and practiced one of my songs with the background.
What needs work: I couldn't find a good backing track for the other songs.
Week 25 Thursday 1st March (2 hours):
Plan: To look for the rest of my backing tracks as they are very repetitive and get very boring as its repeated .
What went well: I found most of my backing tracks other then Royals .
What needs work: I need to find a backing track for Royals.
Week 25 Thursday 08/03/18 Dress Rehearsal Performance (2 hours):
Plan:To play my full 10-15 minutes performance without making many mistakes .
What went well: I did not make many mistakes when playing my songs .
What needs work: I need to have an extra song, as i did not play Royals as it is too repetitive without a backing track.
Week 26 Wednesday 14/03/18 Final Live Performance (2 hours):
Plan: to be able to perform infront of the audience and to not let the pressure cause me to fail .
What went well: I managed to not let the pressure mess me up and the backing track with me playing guitar was a nice mix .
What needs work: I feel like if I rehearsed royals a bit more it would of sounded a bit better.
Task 3: Evaluation
Strengths Reflection:
I think the performance went well as i had something to keep in time to and i didnt feel like all of the pressure was on me as i had a backing track which made me feel like I could make little mistakes whereas if i felt like i couldn't make any i think i would have made a few
I made sure that my accuracy was well and that i was in time with the backing track, I don't think that i muted many strings causing the performance to sound nice and smooth and i knew the songs very well and were to play
Improvement Reflection:
Improvement #1: To build my confidence to be able to perform without any mess ups
Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:by performing in front of people i don't normally perform in front of
Improvement #2: To make my transactions smoother
Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:Practice hanging chords and don't worry about strumming as much
Improvement #3:could have played the last song longer
Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:By repeating the song once
Feedback from others:
1st Piece - you know it very well and it's very accurate, well done. Just work on your technique so that you can try and ensure there is no muting of strings, and no hesitancies. It also repeats too many times, it needs to be cut a bit shorter.
2nd Piece - Your second piece needs more fluency as it is too hesitant and doesn't demonstrate the rhythm all the time. Again it repeats too many times. The tempo fluctuates quite frequently and speeds up on the easy bits!
3rd Piece - Your chords are generally accurate but the timing isn't. You need to be in time with the track itself without any hesitancies.
This feed backed helped to know what to work on most for the final external unit, with my first song I made sure that I had my fingers on the correct string and not over the other causing a mute sound.
The second song I focused on playing it over again but at a slower speed then making it faster when I felt confidence until it sounded good at a fast speed
The third song I played it with the backing track many more times and tried to pinpoint the places where I needed to change courses, most of the time there was an indicator that I used to know when to change
Conclusion:
Overall my performance was good, the feedback that I got was very helpfull as it helped me focus on the parts that I needed more practice on, my first song was one of the best out of the 3 as I had been practicing that for a long time whereas the others I keep es changing but they still came out ok. I needed to play my last song for a little bit longer as the time is 10 minutes and 5 seconds
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