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In my proposal, I said I was going to be logging all my work and research into the promotion website but I'm having trouble viewing it publicly and accessing it in college, so I've made a padlet to log all my progress and research and will leave the website for promotion purposes only.

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Take to church - Hozier (R&B/Soul)
Panic Room - Au/Ra (Alternative/Indie)
All I could do was cry - Etta James (Blues)
At Last -Etta James (Classic Soul/Rock)
Almost There - Anika Noni Rose (Jazz)
House Of Gold - Twenty One Pilots (Folk)
Xanny - Billie Eilish (Alternative/Indie)

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From college:

2x Microphones

2x XLR

2x Microphone stands

From home:

Tripod

Camera

My sister (Leo)

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She isn’t a person of many words. But I did talk to her personally in more detail and hopefully there won’t be a problem with the duets.

I, obviously talked about what kind of tone and pitch she has and how is she going to adapt to these genres.

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Since my website didn’t work, I decided to create an instagram page to go with my YouTube channel. @iiaraaa_
I’ll upload video and pictures of my work to promote it.

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This video is also on Instagram and it’s just a small piece of the song.

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So a little update on things, it’s going much slower than I thought but some good news I’d like to share - I’ll be doing a photo shoot!
There’s no set date but I’m trying to get it done this weekend (10/05 - 12/05) so it won’t interfere with Tuesdays Child gig night which I’m performing at.

I think this is great because it will help my promote my YouTube channel and really just have that professional element to the whole project. Looking forward to it!

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I really ought to get started with recording, editing and uploading soon; there isn’t much time left.
I have a little bit of a set back but I’m trying really hard to get back on track as soon as!

My plan from proposal has changed here and there making it hard for me to know where I am at, but hopefully this weekend I’ll have some time to come up with a new plan of action.

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So, I learnt something new today, if we were to look at your larynx we would see that it’s diamond shaped and that the vocal chords are stretched across it in a V shape. Most of the songs I’m doing for this project require a lower pitch and richer tone, and I looked at what the physical change for a different range would be and it turns out that when you're singing low your entire larynx changes shape so the chords can contract and thicken as contrary to when you sing high, the larynx lengthens and stretches to thin the chords out!

This is best achieved if you learn to stay relaxed when singing, so that the larynx can change its shape and the chords can freely vibrate without any influence from the exterior muscles.

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I've been doing these exercises to widen and strengthen my lower range, these are:

1. The Glottal Stop-

Its a very small unit of sound that brings the chords together quickly. This is to take into register the feeling of space and complete relaxation, it will ensure the compensating muscles stay out of the way so that you are isolating only the chords on the inside.

2. The Drinking Water Sound-

This sound is considered extreme so it is not to be used without moderation. The drinking water sound is pretty self explanatory, it is the quirky little sound as if you are pretending to drink. You do this with your mouth closed, and with all the space in your mouth, isolate your feeling of the larynx and try to vocalise the sound of drinking.
This sound releases the larynx and allows the chords to connect deeper, resulting in more depth in tone.

3. The Vocal Fry-

This is the sound that sounds like a creaky door opening and closing. Again, it is a small unit of sound that our chords can make, it sounds a little wacky to use because you are slow the airflow down so much that we can hear each oscillation of the chord. For the exercise with the vocal fry, you are going to slide from a conformable low note to an unfamiliar low note. The instance you feel is the tiniest pressure applied to your chords, that's when you slip into the vocal fry.

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Relationships are really important, if I was to be in a band I would have to collaborate with all the band members and always have the band's best interest in mind. Although, when it comes to solo performers, its best to keep a good relationship with other musicians - this helps maintain good social sills and possibly learn and help, not only myself but my peers as well.

Throughout, the whole FMP, I had to have a good relationship with TuesdaysChild because with being asked to be the support act, I did not want any unnecessary feud or complications between me and the band.

My role on my FMP was to be my own manager and, of course, the singer on my project. Although, my project was just recording, editing and uploading. I had a really hard time organising step by step what I needed to do, making it difficult to moving on with the project.

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This is the layout of the practice room where I will be doing my

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In the beginning of the term Niamh asked me to be her band's support act, which I gladly accepted because I, myself, am a young career and thought it would be fun to be a part of it.

When discussing the genre of the set list, Niamh asked me to do a small set of 4/5 songs and gave me the freedom of choosing songs. I went with what I was most comfortable with, and that was, 'When I was your man' by Bruno Mars, 'Impossible' by James Arthur, 'When I look at you' by Miley Cyrus and finally 'Don't you worry child', an acoustic cover with my own twist. These are all very similar structure wise but I'm confident that I can make it differ from each other.

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I had to make a last-minute change to my plan, because YouTube wasn't allowing me to live stream. So I created a Twitch account and streaming there except it kept crashing.

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18-05-18 was when TuesdaysChild performed in The HarleQuin, it was a really great time and very successful as well. We raised over £50 for the Northampton Young Careers Charity!

Here's a small clip of my performance for TuesdaysChild's gig.

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Health and Safety is one of the top factors when working literally anywhere. In the music industry every role and job is exposed to different kinds of risks when working, today we listed some of health and safety risks that could happen at a musicians/technicians venue.

Some examples are:

Falling off the stage

Ear Damage

Eye Damage

Projectiles

Slip/Trip

Electrocution

Losing your voice

Audience

Glassing

Fire Regulations

Stage Collapsed: SWL

Security

But there are many procedures taken to prevent these issues from happening, an example would be ear damage, this can be prevented with ear defenders or some kind of protection. To re-enforce this, it is law that you must have ear defenders when practising music.

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Monday*
5 Mins
Exercise - vowels to scales
10 Mins
Warm up - The Glottal Stop
30 Mins
​Lyric Memorising
1 H 30 Mins
​Song Rehearsal

Tuesday*
5 Mins
Exercise - vowels to scales
10 Mins
Warm up - The Vocal Fry
30 Mins
​Practising tempo/rhythm
1 H 30 Mins
Stage presence and song troubleshooting

Wednesday*
​5 Mins
Exercise - diction exercises
10 Mins
Warm up - The Glottal Stop
30 Mins
​Lyric Memorising
1 H 30 Mins
Song Troubleshooting

Thursday*
5 Mins
Exercise - Humming along to a song
10 Mins
Warm up - The Drinking Water Sound
30 Mins
Diction exercises and timing
1 H 30 Mins
Stage presence and song troubleshooting

* I am, consistently, drinking water during warms up and rehearsal because your vocal chords are the last muscle in your body to get the water, so its really important to keep hydrated!

On a side note, I do have to say that the drinking water sound, although it was hard to get the gist of it, it helped to connect my deeper notes and the glottal stop was great too for my understanding of space, helping me isolate only the chords.

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Even, with all the rehearsal done, my sister had to drop out because of mock exams and so I had to come up with something else as I couldn't do duets on my own and there wasn't anyone else available or up to the task, also it was too late to learn anything new, I just used the songs that I did for the supporting act for TuesdaysChild which were:-

When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars

When I Look At You - Miley Cyrus

Impossible - James Arthur

Don't You Worry Child - (Acoustic Cover)

Hurt - Christina Aguilera

The general genre of this songs are mostly singer-songwriter and pop-ish which are genres I shouldn't be doing since I want to try something new with my repertoire, but I do not have time to learn 3/4 new songs for my final performance, the live stream.

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Mixing is when you combine all the different instrument tracks or sound tracks together into one to make a song or piece of music that sounds as professional as possible.

When music is recorded, there are many techniques to make the recording sound more professional and appealing, these are:

Volume Balancing

Panning

Compression

Gating

Equalisation

Reverb

Effects

Mix Balance
When mix balancing the volume and stereo balance it is important to each instrument in the mix to sound as good as possible, for the ultimate professional sounding recording.

Volume allows you to be able to control how far back an instrument appears to be, for example, if quiet, it will sound like it is far back in the room.

Panning is the placement within the stereo field as in it allows the mixing engineer to spread the sound from left to right to imitate how sound is heard naturally.

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Equalisation is when you change the different frequencies to adjust the amplitude of how you want the audio to be.

There are 2 types of equalisation: Graphic Equaliser and Parametric Equaliser

Graphic Equaliser is basically utilized in live performances to remedy issue frequencies as it has thin recurrence groups 1/3 octave, as for the Parametric Equaliser is for more regular sounding as it takes into consideration more extensive lift and cuts. It has parametric channels to enable changes to the width of the frequency band that is utilized to shape sound in our mixes.

Equalisation is mainly used to fix unwanted noise like a drum ring in the recording, we can also add effects to the mix an example is we could make it sound like its coming from telephone by turning the gain down on a low pass.

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Compression is a type of dynamic processing it is used to control dynamic range of a performance. When used on a particular instrument it allows it to fit smoothly into the mix. This will stop the quiet passages of a vocal performance for example being masked by other instruments in the mix.

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What’s good in a performance?

Smiling

Be Presentable

Breath Control of vocalist

The diction of the vocalist

Confidence

Engaging the audience

Connection with band

Well Rehearsed

What’s not so good in a performance?

Stiff posture

Looking Nervous

Stopping in a middle of a performance

Not being cautious of surroundings

Forgetting the lyrics or chords

Performance Techniques:

Movement

Stage Presence

Rhythm

Confidence

Fluency

Inter-band Communication

Technical Accuracy

Timing

Flair

Signature (key, moves, genre)

Dynamic control

Interaction with crowd

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What is Collaboration? (What does it mean?)

Work together

Teamwork

Co-Operation

Using other people’s strengths for your own / group advantage

Sharing

Using someone’s skills

Plan projects

Project manager

Time manager

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As a singer, I do not like the way she sings this, it is too monotone and it does not show off her voice. It does not sound good and it looks effortless. Her stage presence is not the best either, she starts near the audience but pays no mind to them and in my opinion she could have reached out and interacted with them. The song is slow and sensual an she could have acted on it, she could have moved her body a lot more but still keep it simple and effortless.

The part where she points the microphone to the audience I think it was good, it showed she was attentive to her audience and it showed that she liked the fact that her fans are enjoying it.

As for the back line, it all seems levelled out and okay, maybe adjust the sound and reverb on the singer and track possible making it clearer to listen to.