230 Live Music Performance

1. Brief:

Your school is hosting an awards ceremony for local community organisations. You have been asked to provide a 10-15 minute performance appropriate to the event.

Your work: Must be suitable for the audience

If you work as a group each candidate in the group must be able to show their contribution. Each candidate will be assessed individually. 

Our event at Monk’s Walk School

You must design your programme around the audience – state which community organisations would be invited to your event and explain how your programme relates to the types of people that would be in these organisations.

TASK 1 Planning

1.      My statement of personal aims:

What I want to achieve through my contribution:

Through my contribution to the event I would like to achieve the following goals
i would like to be able to perform well in a group,i would like to be able to learn all the songs,i would also like to be able to achieve my,i would also want to be able to play the bass better.

The skills I have that I can use:

I think that I have the following skills which I will use to help me achieve these goals.The skills i have that will help our group is that i am a quick learner. I also contribute to the group and i help tao to become more focused in practical lessons    

How I will know if I have achieved it:

I will know if I’ve achieved it because asking my peers whether i have achieved and by asking my teacher. I will also watch my recording back and evaluate it.

2.      Plan of my contribution to the performance

The requirements of the brief and how I will meet them:
the requirements I will need is to attend music rehearsal sessions and to meet them I will make sure to go or to get my band mates or teacher to inform/remind me to attend. I will then practise a 10-15 minute set of music with my band that the audience will enjoy.

What I intend to do:

I intend to perform on bass guitar I will play route 94-my love , vancejoy-riptide and the fray-how to save a life.it will be a good opening song because most people will enjoy this song this will be a ensemble.

Who I will need to involve:

Jake true blood - Piano player.
Tao McDonald - singer.
Mr Flowers - Music teacher for help and support.

The resources I will need:

bass guitar
amp
backing tracks.

What time is needed for each song/ activity:
Each song will need to last around 3-4 minutes. This will allow 3 or 4 songs to last the required amount of time.

The health and safety issues for rehearsals and the performances:

It is important not to damage hearing through loud sound levels. The volume level noise on the amps should all be set low. I will also need to make sure we take regular breaks to rest our ears. I will need to tidy away any cables as other people may trip over them. When playing live we should still consider the above, as the audience may have some elderly people who may have bad ears.

My set list:

Route 94 - My Love

dave x hus-samantha

section boyz-the worst
vance joy-riptide

Style and Image:

I will wear my full school uniform as we are performing as a school concert.

Ideas for the performance:

The performance will run smoothly because we will plan to make sure we have practised a lot before the performance so that we give a professional performance.

Staging and equipment needs:

We will need:

an amp, bass guitar, piano, and a microphone. We need space that can fit a piano, two amps, electric guitar and a bass guitar. We will also need music stands to hold my music incase we need to refer to it.

Rehearsal Schedule

Rehearsal 1: 20th March CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

today i practised every song including the ones i am doing with tao,i feel like we are progressing in our group as tao is working hard

Rehearsal 2: 21st March AM CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

Today, I practised route 94 my love. I found a bass tab, and practiced with to the original track. Once I had finished, Tao had also finished practising the lyrics. We played this together but the timing was off. We need to work out how to play in time together.  

Rehearsal 3: 21th PM March CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

Today, I practised riptide-vance joy with tao and with jake i practised route 94 my love. With Jake our timing was a lot better. We needed a leader to help organise us.

Rehearsal 4: 27th March CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

Today we did a run through including all the songs we did. We found it difficult to stay in time, Mr Flowers suggested that we use a backing track. We used 20 minutes to find the backing tracks we needed for our performance songs.

Rehearsal 5: 28th March CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

We began to perform our songs to the backing tracks we found last lesson. These really help keep us in time. I have the bass tabs in front of me and this helped with my confidence. We practiced all four songs. The first song was with Jake on Piano. He was very good at leading the group helping us stay in time.

Rehearsal 6: 19th April CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT TIME

I practised on my own today as my confidence was low on the new songs. I used YouTube to stream the original tracks. They were quite quick and I found that I often lost my place. I therefore spend the rest of the session learning the bass tabs off by heart. This was difficult as my right hand plucking technique is not very good - I often played the wrong strings.

DRESS REHEARSAL ON STAGE and rehearsal in practice room: Wednesday 3rd May (2 hours)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/JH9FSGjFnpc

Rehearsal 9: 4th May

I used this session to improve my right hand playing technique on bass. I stopped trying to use a pick or both fingers, and decided to use my thumb. This worked really well and I made less mistakes. I reviewed my dress rehearsal footage and found that I need to play in front of a mirror so I can see what the audience sees. I need to make more eye contact with the audience.

As a band we went through all the songs one last time. I feel we need more practice, but as we all have busy GCSE schedules, we have found it very difficult to find any rehearsal time. I will review our performance below.

PERFORMANCE: WEDNESDAY 10th May

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVBrnUe3mRY

TASK 2 – THE PERFORMANCE

FINAL LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aVBrnUe3mRY

TASK 3 Evaluation

Strengths Reflection:

1. What went well during the performance? Think about the performance as a whole (the whole group performance):

i think that the performance went ok but i still think i could improve 

I really enjoyed performing to the audience. I was very nervous, but it was a good feeling.

2. What did YOU do well during the performance? Write about the strengths of your individual contribution:
i did well on performing all songs, attempting to play in time with my band members

Improvement Reflection:

3. What could have been done better if you were to perform again? Both as a whole group and your individual contribution.

my hand technique, playing in time with my group members and being able to remember all bass tabs

4. Now write what you need to improve and write a strategy of what you will do to make those improvements:

Improvement #1:my hand technique 

Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:

by practising getting it right 

Improvement #2:playing in time 

Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:

by getting all my band members together and practise getting it right 

Improvement #3:confidence

Strategy: How could you make that improvement?:

do more perfomance

Feedback from others:

5. What was the feedback your received from your teacher, other group members and members of the audience?

Teacher:

• Be more confident with your bass playing and don't pause when you make a mistake,
• Change the rhythm during different sections by changing the number of times you play each string with your right hand.
• Look at the audience at times.
• Keep your foot tapping with Tao's to keep in time.
• Consider rehearsing with a backing track of just drums on YouTube.
• Print off the Bass Tabs and have them on a stand beside you incase you get lost.
• Make sure your phone is turned off during the performance.

Audience:

• Practice your timing together and if there are issues then look at each other and communicate non-verbally.
• No safety issues.
• Better performance when Jake was with you to keep you in time.

6. How did this feedback help with your evaluation of the performance? e.g. what did they notice and comment on that you didn’t realise/know/think about?

i didn't realise that i was not playing in time with tao. what i would of liked to have done is video us playing before the performance and watched it back so i could have found this out before the performance,

Conclusion:

7. Write a brief summary/conclusion of your performance:

i think we did alright in our performance but i could still improve on my timing and also my hand technique