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I am performing a mashup of different songs from different genres and styles. I am doing this with 2 other vocalists Hannah and Will. We will be doing about 30 seconds on each song of the mashup and do different types like old school to newer music. We will all have an equal amount of songs to do as well as together and harmonies. We will also be performing two cover songs, 'Love the way you lie pt 2" by Eminem and Rihanna and 'Nothing on you' by B.O.B and Bruno Mars.

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i will research different mashups to get some ideas for what we can do. Also to find an easy/simple beat/backing track to do this over. We will also be conducting a primary research questionnaire. The questionnaire will be about vocal techniques and different genres of music people like. I hope to find out how people warm up their vocals or if they don't and whats the most popular genre of music.

I will also research about different microphone to find out information on which is the best to use while performing on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0Os8Nvqxg
this is a mashup cover that i found which gives a good idea of how a mashup works. This is a primary source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6OYv2FifCI
This is a Youtube video that helps you to increase your vocal range which would be good for me as i struggle. This is also a primary source.

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i have decided to do this  because it will be fun and i think that its something that isn't popular or not done as much. It would catch the audiences attention as its something other people wouldn't of done. I also think this idea is good as we can have a range of different songs and not just 2/3. Also there would be different types of tones of voices. We can also find songs that suit us or do harmonies for the songs were not as strong on.

The reason why i chose not to do an E.P is because if feel like it wouldn't show my whole potential in singing, as you can edit and add effects which i find is un-natural. I also feel that you wouldn't get as much out of it singing wise, as if your performing you get to rehearse and go over the song and improve it properly instead of editing it.

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i will develop more stage presence as we will be doing a lot of songs so there will be a lot of different moods and vibes. i will also be more confident on stage as well and working with 2 other vocalists. I will also develop more harmony skills as there will be a lot in their in the mashup and covers. Other skills that i will develop is time management, making sure we use our time effectively when it comes to rehearsing and getting as much rehearsal times as we can so that we are prepared

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My challenges with this project will be the mashup cover as there are a lot of different songs to remember and changing the flow of the song to fit with the backing track. It is different to everyone else's performances which will be a challenge for us. What also will be challenging is trying to stay in time with the beat and not get mixed with the original versions. The other challenges will be trying to convey the message and emotion of the songs we are performing. Also to use our time effectively.

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Holly KirtleyCopy of Project 4, Task 1 - Action Plan Template.docx

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A stage plan is to give to the sound team so that they know our stage layout for our performance so all instruments/microphones and monitors are in place ready for us.

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This week i have been working on finding songs that can go into our mashup cover to go with the backing track that we found. Our goal for our mashup is to be old school 90s R&B. Me, Hannah and Will, will each find a couple of songs each, try sing them onto the backing track to see if they fit or not. We managed to come up with the order for the beginning songs.

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This week i have been looking at the songs that me, Hannah and Will are doing for our mashup cover. We have looked at songs that have got 2 female vocalists and 1 male rapper so that its equal for everyone. We have also decided on another cover which is Love The Way You Lie P2 by Rihanna and Eminem. I will be singing the verses and harmonizing over the chorus and the rap. Hannah will sing the chorus and the middle 8 and Will will be doing the rap. We started to practice this in the Pods but didn't have much time. and also performed it in our last lesson on Friday

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This week we all met up to practise our mashup cover and our cover song (Love the way you lie) so that we are confident on knowing the order of the mashup, melody and lyrics and also the lyrics to 'Love the way you lie'. We also worked on harmonies for Love the way you lie in the chorus and pre chorus.  We are doing this to make our performance more effective. We also discussed and try to work out harmonies that we can put into our mashup cover.  Our aim for next week will be to work out the harmonies for our mashup .

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This week we started to work on the harmonies for the mashup and came up with most of them, there was some were we couldn't decide if it should be a low or high harmony. We were also looking at another cover song that we can all get involved in

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This week we went through our mashup cover to see if we remembered the harmonies and order of the songs. We also ran through our cover song' Love the way you lie" and talked about Hannah singing the first verse as i struggle a bit with it. We also were looking at another cover song to perform .

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Today we had booked a pod and rehearsed the mashup. The order we are doing it is starting off with Hannah singing ' crazy in love' then ill rapping 'one dance', then Hannah singing 'let me love you', then i sing 'scrubs' and then Hannah sings Wasn't me'. There are also other songs we have to add in just working out the order. We also chose our cover songs which is 'In2' by Wstrn, Wretch 32, Geko, Chimp  and 'All eyes on me" by Meek Mill, Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj.

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During our 2 hour break me, Hannah and Will went into a pod to practise our mashup cover so that we remembered the order and melodies of each song. We also practised our other 2 cover songs so that we remember the lyrics and our confident with them all.

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Today I have made a social media page on Facebook for our gig showcase. I made it for people to come and watch our performance. It had all the information of the gig for the public to know

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The idea behind our project was to put together in a band or solo a 10 minute performance of 2 or 3 songs. I was in a band with Hannah Taylor and Will Harding, and our idea for our project was ‘throwback songs’.

I think that we had used our time effectively as there was times when someone wasn’t in and we didn’t have that much time overall to complete it. We didn’t end up doing the mashup cover as it was quite complicated to sort out for a full 4:10 to fit loads of different songs on there, and as we changed from a mashup, to a cover song with 2 hours left before our performance, I think we used the time effectively to come up with a plan B which was singing ‘nothing on you’ by B.O.B and Bruno Mars.

The main challenges in this project was definitely trying to come up with the mashup as we were struggling to find different songs to fit onto the backing track. We worked out that we needed around 30 songs to fit the whole backing track but we could only come up with 1:30 mintues worth of songs. Also trying to work out the harmonies and who’s singing what. This is why we chose to do another cover as we wouldn’t of finished he mashup in time. Some other challenges we had was finding somewhere to rehearse as there were times where places were fully booked or not everyone was in so it was hard to rehearse without someone there.

I have learnt in this project how to communicate more with the audience and my band members as well. I have learnt how to make decisions in such a small amount of time, and taking the risk of changing things last minute, but able to still perform it at the end. I also learnt to not just stand in the same spot throughout the performance and to move around, showing body language. I also felt a lot more confident with the performance as both the songs were in my range, and were both songs that I enjoyed performing.

I think that our performance went quite well, seeing that we had changed our song 2 hours before our performance which put a lot of pressure on us, but it came out better than we thought. I felt that there was good energy between us all on stage and everyone looked confident. There was a point in the second song ‘nothing on you’ where Will had froze, and forgot part of his parts of the song but he managed to get himself back on track and carried on. There was some parts we could’ve worked on, like in ‘love the way you lie’ the song starts before the backing track played so it was all about getting on time to the beat at the beginning and also when it got to the rap part, will was either rapping a bit too fast or too slow, but still managed to keep on beat. Other than all of that I thought that our performance went better than we had imagined due to the changes we had made.

The skills I have learnt will help me a lot in the future, for example communication with others on stage and towards the audience will help because I will be working with other people in the future in anything I’m doing so it’s key that I know how to communicate to people in my group to make things work out better and easier  for us. Also, to plan our project better and make sure that what we chose, is what we can do and have the time to do and to be a bit more organised, like organising the songs and stage presents in advance so when it comes to it, there won’t be no problems or complications.

Overall, I think our performance went well and even from the mistakes that were made. It is a skill for us to learn for future notice and it well help us out in the long run.

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Today is the day of our performance, and we feel like we aren’t prepared to perform our mashup just because we haven’t completed it in time. So we have decided to scrap the mashup and come up with another cover to sing. We chose ‘nothing on you’ by B.O.B and Bruno Mars.  Hannah sung the chorus and me and Will both had a rap verse each to do, I wasn’t that sure on the lyrics so I had to have them up on stage with me just in case.

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I thought that Naomi’s performance had a lot of emotions flowing through each song. Her first song ‘Right to be wrong’ she was singing the song with a lot of passion and effection and was singing it as if she had wrote the lyrics herself. She was also showing a lot of body language as well which made her performance more effective and better to watch. Her second song ‘Purple Rain’ also showed a lot of emotion as well as she was really showing those emotions in those high notes, she showed that she was confident singing those high notes as well. She also showed a lot of body language, raising her arms up when it got to a big part of the song which shows she was putting her all into it. Her third song ‘Natural Women’ she was really telling the story and showing each emotion of the song. She looked and sounded confident and was interacting well with the audience and herself on stage, not just standing still, doing little sways which was really effective in her performance.

What Naomi could’ve improved with her performance in all her songs was when there was part of the songs where it was quite high or it was more her vocals then backing track to put a bit more effort into getting those notes and not making it as breathy and more belting, but not too much. It worked with some parts of the songs but there were times where she could’ve put a little bit more effort to get those high notes out.

Overall, I think Naomi done really well with her performance. She was really confident, showed a lot of emotions in all 3 songs and really told the ‘story’ of them all. She also was showing body language and just seemed like she was enjoying being up there.

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What I have enjoyed during my Level 2 course at ACM is getting to know more abut music and exploring different types of genres. Also finding my own voice in singing as before i weren't quit sure what my range was and now that i know its in a low pitch. I have also enjoyed working with different types of musicians, getting into bands and performing different types of songs that i usually wouldn't do myself. Being at ACM has made my confidence go up a lot as before i joined i wouldn't sing in front of anybody whereas now i can get up on stage without a care in the world.

Some things that i have found challenging during this course at ACM is when the whole class would perform a song that was already chosen to perform on a Friday, and mostly it was a song that wasn't in my range which i found difficult because sometimes i would be straining my own voice  to perform it, or i wouldn't perform it at all because i didn't feel comfortable doing it.

Next year i would like to come back to ACM to do Level 3 because i think it would be a good experience and theres nothing i want to do more than music. The only thing that worries me about Level 3 is if we don't get to choose the music we do as i find it hard to sing any song in a high range.