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An assessment of your current knowledge and skills
How would you assess your skills and knowledge currently?
After studying level 2 music performance I have learnt basic music theory and performance skills. We studied basic intervals to ready us for this year, but level 3 has been a big jump from last year, because we are now studying more complicated intervals on top of intervals we already know, and have to remember them. Level 2 gave me performance skills in the 4 gigs we performed. We as a calss also had to choreograph our setlists and set our stages with layout diagrams. Performing infront of an audience has helped me with my confidence and improved my technique playing, such as my strumming technique, playing whilst standing and a small amount of back stage knowledge. I am still very unexperienced in performing because I haven’t played outside of college infront of an audience, so although I’ve studied live performance for a year, I still have a lot to learn, such as how to handle earning and safely set up a stage in a pub and produce a professional performance that is worthy of pay, and satisfying to the audience. I am also yet to practise the skills of performing a gig for a hostile audience, assessing where we are playing eg. A pub would need perhaps a soft setlist for background music whilst people eat and drink, and depending on what type of pub it is, I’d also have to take age of the audience into account, and have a family friendly setlist with songs that don’t have foul language. If the gig was at somewhere like the 02 academy it would be different to a pub because it’s a large loud venue, usually hosting heavier genres of music, with older audiences coming purely for music as opposed to eat and drink with a quiet band for background entertainment.
Level 3 has also taught me to practise a wider range of genres. I enjoy playing indie and punk, but it is also important to practise blues, jazz, rock metal, funk etc. to improve my skills on a whole as a guitarist. This is important so that I am a flexible musician for future gigs, if someone is looking for a jazz guitarist and ive only played rock, im going to miss out on a gig that I could have performed if id widened my knowledge. Expanding my knowledge of genres also means that my future has far more options, and I could even realise I prefer jazz to metal, or funk as opposed to punk, and from there could focus on my goals. Currently I only have knowledge of performing indie and punk music, with frequent power chords and basic repeated riffs. I have very limited knowledge currently due to my inefficient rehearsals of focusing on music I am comfortable and familiar with.
We also have websites that our tutors have created to help us reflect on our work and punctuality, which dramatically affects how quickly we improve. Our assignment briefs have all been uploaded to this website, and we also have a page on facebook that we can contact our tutors and other pupils on for work related enquiries and for notes from other students.
How would others assess your skills and knowledge?
Currently, my peers and tutors don’t really have anything to properly assess me on due to my absence and lack of motivation, apart from last year’s grades and tutors. I think currently others assess me as being a poor unfocused musician, although I am trying to change this. My skills and knowledge are judged through assignments and performances that meet certain criteria, although I have not taken part in our most recent gigs. Our first gig this year was a setlist of our choice, the songs we chose to play on our first day put into a setlist which included a range of genres from metal to pop. Our written and oral assignments cover our theory, and we also have to write about our gigs and performances, reviewing our rehearsals and how productive we’ve been.
What have people told you before about your skills and knowledge?
My tutors have told me that I need to work on my technique when playing, the way I strum and the way I use the fretboard. Because my hands are quite small, I struggle to quickly move over the fret board when playing, which could be improved by changing the position of my wrist and my rehearsal technique so I can play smoother and more professionally. I have also been told by my guitar teacher that, especially when I am standing my strumming technique is wrong, making it quickly painful to play and meaning I once again can’t play as fast as I want to. Punctuality is the main problem that both my tutors and pupils have brought up for me to improve both in level 2 and level 3, and also meeting deadlines, for both theory work and practical work.
My tutors have said I’m good at theory work when it is an oral assessment. I work easier and more in depth when speaking, as I received distinction* for my theory work last year for reviewing gigs and rehearsal process and music history. I was also told that being able to choose my own genres of music to study meant I worked better and more in depth, which is understandable why but also important feedback. Also, my tutors for both college and highschool have told me that I produce higher standard work when working from a checklist, and with one to one feedback each week. I achieved all A’s with my composition and performance in GCSE, unfortunately I didn’t get such a high grade in my theory exam and pulled my overall grade down to a B.
What are your current goals and aspirations?
1. Performing at download festival would be an amazing achievement for me, but i need to make sure i have achieved smaller ambitions before i get there, like gaining confidence when performing in front of an audience and improving my playing when standing up. I struggle to perform when standing because for the first few years of playing guitar i never had to stand up because my teacher taught me sitting, nd i had never done ggis before college. I have had chances to improve this whilst performing at college since I joined last yea, performing infront of audiences whilst standing, and I am still improving now to reach a good enough standard to perform at paid gigs in bars and venues such as O2 academy.
An important step to take before even thinking about where i want to perform, I need to create social media for my band. As many accounts as possible is important, Instagra, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Vine.This means that fans can easily access our music and get in touch and recommend us to their friends with links. Also, promoters and record labels can easily find our music and get in contact with us, which is pushing up higher and closer to becoming a famous band.
To make sure i push myself as much as possible and don’t waste time whilst rehearsing and practising, I go through all the scales i know to warm my hands up before playing so I’m not wasting time playing straight away and not being at my best because i haven’t warmed up.I also ensure to frequently play my acoustic guitar to keep my fingers strong, because electric guitar strings are thinner and easier to hold, if I don’t play acoustic guitar ontop of that, my fingers will become weaker.
If i start gigging and earning money from performing then not only will I earn much needed live skills and experience, but I will be one step closer to achieving my foal of performing at download festival. Also, once I start to make contacts in the music buisness, perhaps my band will begin to become well known locally and i will slowly start to make contacts in he music buisness, perhaps people who are looking for bands to perform somewhere bigger than pubs and the O2, such as the up and coming stages at festivals Reading and Leeds. If this happened, my band would be noticed and be asked to perform at bigger concerts/festivals and even be asked to support much bigger bands than ourselves, or have our own set at Slamdunk, and eventually, Download.
I want to have at least formed my own small time successful band by the end of my last year at college in 2018. Performing at download is something I want to achieve, but I don’t have a date for it.
A smaller goal of mine is to study in London at university, either West London or Guilford. I may have already pushed myself back 2 years by not working hard enough with year which may have ruined my chances of passing
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Performing at download festival would be an amazing achievement for me, but i need to make sure i have achieved smaller ambitions before i get there, like gaining confidence when performing in front of an audience and improving my playing when standing up. I struggle to perform when standing because for the first few years of playing guitar i never had to stand up because my teacher taught me sitting, nd i had never done ggis before college. I have had chances to improve this whilst performing at college since I joined last yea, performing infront of audiences whilst standing, and I am still improving now to reach a good enough standard to perform at paid gigs in bars and venues such as O2 academy.
An important step to take before even thinking about where i want to perform, I need to create social media for my band. As many accounts as possible is important, Instagra, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Vine.This means that fans can easily access our music and get in touch and recommend us to their friends with links. Also, promoters and record labels can easily find our music and get in contact with us, which is pushing up higher and closer to becoming a famous band.
To make sure i push myself as much as possible and don’t waste time whilst rehearsing and practising, I go through all the scales i know to warm my hands up before playing so I’m not wasting time playing straight away and not being at my best because i haven’t warmed up.I also ensure to frequently play my acoustic guitar to keep my fingers strong, because electric guitar strings are thinner and easier to hold, if I don’t play acoustic guitar ontop of that, my fingers will become weaker.
If i start gigging and earning money from performing then not only will I earn much needed live skills and experience, but I will be one step closer to achieving my foal of performing at download festival. Also, once I start to make contacts in the music buisness, perhaps my band will begin to become well known locally and i will slowly start to make contacts in he music buisness, perhaps people who are looking for bands to perform somewhere bigger than pubs and the O2, such as the up and coming stages at festivals Reading and Leeds. If this happened, my band would be noticed and be asked to perform at bigger concerts/festivals and even be asked to support much bigger bands than ourselves, or have our own set at Slamdunk, and eventually, Download.
I want to have at least formed my own small time successful band by the end of my last year at college in 2018. Performing at download is something I want to achieve, but I don’t have a date for it.
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G minor pentatonic scale 🎸
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X’s and O’s
Runaway
All these times
Snuff
9 Crimes
Let’s get it on
Everything’s changed
Don’t know why
Twisted world
A&D
American pie
Little monster
Respect
Performance review
I think it was good that we all got to sit down and decide what the order of the setlist was going to be so everyone had a say in it. The setlist was well ordered so that it started with a bang but went softer and then picked up towards the end and finished with a song that everybody knew. Although perhaps not everyone will have known the first song, and the second song was an original, they were catchy and turned a hostile audience into a friendlier audience.
The changeovers were very smooth, because we’d practised them before in rehearsals, and all cables were taped down so there were no trip hazards to slow down the changeovers and all the equipment was set before we went on, and everyone was tuned up ready to go on so there were no awkward pauses whilst someone tuned up on stage for the song. I think everyone was so prepared because we were properly rehearsed and communicated well back stage. Although this was our first proper gig, I think it went very well.
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When I achieve the performance skills and confidence I want, the first thing I want to do is perform at download festival as a main act with my band, purely for the rush of performing infront of a huge audience, and at one of my favourite festivals with bands like Pierce the veil, Bring me the Horizon, Red hot Chilli Peppers, and Korn. Unfortunately I have a lot of things to work on before i come any where near close to performing anywhere other than my bedroom. Last year i was set on purely playing and practising metal songs and techniques, and when i got round to playing a song by one of my favourite bands, bring me the horizon, i realised playing metal music really isn’t as great as i thought it was, and that there are far more genres of music I want to listen to, such as bassline, jump up, D&B, indie, funk, prog, death core, psychedelic trance, acid trance etc, and also, genres I want to perform, like the Cribs, Infected Mushroom, Five Alarm Funk (thanks to Andy) and Jeff Buckley.
I stopped practising guitar over the summer unfortunately because I got a bit lost in the excitement of having 3 months of no responsibilities, but now I’m back at college, I’ve been working hard on my minor pentatonic scales on both acoustic and electric guitar with the help of phi, and now my improvisation has improved. I’ve also been learning short riffs from various different songs to learn new timings, techniques and to widen my range of skills and open my mind to even more types of music and new ways to play guitar, such as slither by velvet revolver, no quarter by Led zeppelin, money for nothing by dire straits and substitute by the who. I now need to definitely work on my chord changes and speed them up, and also widen my knowledge of more chords other than just simple barre chords and open chords. I want to learn the notes on the fret board and learn how to add ninths and move chords around the fret board to make them more interesting. I will eventually achieve this when my instrumental lessons have advanced and phi goes through chords with us more, and i look through chord charts and I teach myself new chords and incorporate them into chord sequences. I recently started to learn blues pentatonic scales ready for our up and coming blues gig in November, where I'm performing a solo at the end of lindseigh’s song.
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