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I'd heard the song previously before but never listened to it enough where Id know the song to be able to play or be confident with how to song went.

Our feeling with this song being for an audition was to have a section where everyone had a solo as well as when playing the song I tried to change chord voicings throughout the song and play sections differently.

The big thing we thought was for holly to introduce us all so that whoever we would be auditioning for would know who we are as well as what we do etc. This took a couple goes to get right however when we did it went so well and also made us alot happier together which is a good image

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Sophie Ellis Bexter - Murder On The Floor (Festival Headliner) Week 6

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Sophie Ellis Bexter - Murder On The Floor (Festival Headliner) Week 6

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When I first heard festival the initial thought was a big epic intro to grab the crowds attention and it especially is normally done when it is an artists Biggest song which This is Sophie's biggest song.

Me and holly on the walk to rehearsal came up with the idea of the big chord play and cymbal crash with the chorus melody played over the top This got bought into the rehearsal and it worked very very well as creating an epic sound as well as an ear grabbing intro.

The next Big thing was Slightly funking up the verses while also giving it a more rock feel because they are good to dance to and keep the song still interesting by this we gave the drums a funky groove as well as me and josh giving a rock tone as well as changing the pre chorus strumming pattern to more of a stadium rock strumming pattern

And finally the last thing to make this feel like a festival song was for holly to speak to the crowd as Well as bringing down the song in a section to build for the last double chorus

I feel this went very well on the day and everything went according to plan as well as me being very happy with my playing

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Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis Baxter

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Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden (Studio Recording) Week 7

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Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden (Studio Recording) Week 7

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Our Initial Approach was to Play along to the original song so that we could listen along to all the small and get it as close to the original so there is no changes between us and the track playing over us.

One Main Challenge was the song being tuned to 432hz which makes playing a regularly tuned guitar along to the track feel abit off however you can fix this by tuning the 432 instead.

As well as this another challenge was the section after the chorus which is timed very difficultly however playing along to the track enough made this timing become normal

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Bpm - Changes however starts at 185

Key - D minor

Structure - intro, Verse, Chorus, breakdowns

Arrangement - Drums, Electric guitars (2), electric Bass, Piano, Synth, Soft and Harsh Vocals

Tonality - Minor

Rhythmic patterns - Mostly off beat from the early main riff to the chorus 5 78 riff, and later on in the breakdowns it is still off beat and very jumpy

Lyrics/Theme - Love, Loss

Dynamic Range - Quiet intro however all very loud and in your face

Instruments/Equip - Emgs or high output pickups at least peavey Amps style

Performance - Harsh Gutterals as well as slight fries but all lines of false chords

Production Techniques - Sub Drops, Explosion drops, huge snare bombs

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Asking Alexandria - Not The American Average

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Madonna - Like a Prayer (radio Edit) Week 8

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Madonna - Like a Prayer (radio Edit) Week 8

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The brief for this week was to create a radio edit for madonna's like a prayer which normally is which a long song for the radio so our instant thought was to shorten it down to around 2 and a Half minutes. As a group we then noticed the guitar intro which we choice to cut so that it could instantly start from the lyrics and a memorable bit.

The Structure we decided to go for was Chorus verse Chorus Bridge Double Chorus. Which felt like it played all the memorable bits While still keeping it compact enough

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Celebrity Skin - Hole (acoustic Live Lounge) Week 4

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Celebrity Skin - Hole (acoustic Live Lounge) Week 4

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To stay to the brief we bought down the guitar to acoustic and using open chords as well as a light melody from josh, in a live lounge sort of style.

This went easily and very well our only thought was it felt very boring while playing and to listen to The way we thought to Improve this was to add little solos on each instrument and to try create Some dynamics like lighten down even more sections

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Due to changing to my own music for my Assessments It meant I didn't need to look for anyone to play I could just use my band That I make the music with.

This would be easier on my programme notes and I could relate my case study back to myself using example from this assessment as I am highly inspired by both my case study artists in all of the music industry write

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2 Tracks

2 live or 1 live and 1 daw

Programme notes - Influence of you doing it

A programme note is an article written in a programme for a play or concert. It provides information about the performance or production, helping the audience make sense of the artistic work. These notes serve as a guide for concert-goers, offering insights into the musical and historical background of the pieces being performed.

For our purposes, programme notes are the written part of your S1 - where they serve to help the assessor 'make sense of the work'.

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This week started work on my case study the main problem I had to work around was taking previous information I knew and found where I found this from originally.

for an example some of the information I had stored in my head was from some of the while she sleeps documentaries.

such as the making of so what as well as the making of sleep society

Another main source I used was the lost media video of while she sleeps when it comes to talking about their early years

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MAP ZOOMED INTO MY GENERAL IFLUENCE

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Learning out the learning outcomes and the assessment. For the development log an improvement that could be made in general is more multimedia ad using different files rather then just the typing out. 6 artist case study and argue a case for their impact as well as talk about as if someone doesn't know anything etc.

Goal is to write, produce and release and ep By the end of the year

Set a goal i.e. do something now do something at the end of the year

INSPIRATION

Underoath

While she sleeps

Asking alexandria

Bring me the horizon

Charli xcx

I feel I am inspired by music with more synths and post production as well as taking elements from their close related genres.

this is why I put seemingly a rouge choice of Charlie xcx because the experimental nature of her music and all of the sound design included inside of her music and how she changes the norm of a genre

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Case study Decisions

Sean long

JST

Songs To Do

Girl Who

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Inspiration acts as a catalyst for creativity (active)

influence (passive)

where are some common sources of inspiration for you?

David tan, Festivals, working gigs

Who was on of my earliest influence?

probably reel big fish, Green day

How have your influences and inspirations changed?

Ive gained a wider genre of influences such as dance music, pop music of many kinds and alot heavy music and a wider range of heavy music genres

MEMORY MAPS

Earliest memory

and Road Trip both

probably being in the Car travel places and my dad used to put on cheer up by reel big fish and hearing that opening riff

film scene

soundtrack of the original karate kid really got me seeing that 80s pop and 80s hair metal and thinking this is alright

festival experience

Guilt trip at slam dunk was outside and muddy and horrid weather yet was still hardcore and sounded great

Production quality

knocked loose new album due to the fact it is metal and sounds just so huge

and also anything off brat Due to how experimental it is and the space different sounds fills

POTENTIAL CASE STUDY

Ben Bruce/Asking (first 2 albums)

Sean long

Charli

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva

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Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva

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Tasks Find piece of gear and use quanititve data and qualitative

peavey 6534+

quantitive Data - "Not many amps provide such a good metal tone, let alone a decent clean and crunch too. A highly credible, more Marshally flavoured take on the much-loved 6505+." (musicradar)

The 6534+ is what the 6505 series should have been from the start (zzzounds)

Qualitative Data - "sound 10/10" (ultimate guitar)

4.7/5 (audioFanzine)

What got me inspired - Inspired by players and love the way music sounds that uses it (asking Alexandria, the devil wears prada)

How would I normally find gear on information - Youtube and as well as going around on google finding using different gear sites, and sometimes look on tikTok because it will have a lot of honesty and realism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fem0TIXxdoQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT2kY8Va9jU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwZQou-xt4

https://equipboard.com/pros/ben-bruce?gear=amplifiers

This all secondary research but the way id be Able to do primary research is by going somewhere and playing one

Academic conventions

Primary and secondary research

Qualitative and Quantitative

Harvard referencing your sources

Diary Based Things

This week Have been working on

Playing through and getting better at our own music

Working on learning some asking Alexandria Songs because I take inspiration and could do one for my assessment

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In events respects for this week my group all went to a venue we were hoping on having our event in so we could ask the event management as they weren't responding back to our emails.

We also spoke to greg about the same thing that day luckily he said he could help us getting the venue for this. this was our biggest problem in the event so far, there was alot of stress in this. We also found out in doing this that the capacity of hallamshire hotel is 100 standing which isn't as many as we would've liked for our event however I think to get anywhere near the amount of people we wanted it would've cost us alot of money. therefore this is best option as well due to the financial element as well it fully having a bar, and a full sound system.

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How to submit and what to submit and how to organise

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGTiP7aXGw/eio1xx11ORJ5PTjxGHnUQg/edit?utm_content=DAGTiP7aXGw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

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Has produced some of the biggest Crabcore and metal core bands

Basically made a genre

Mixes sound huge and big bass drops

Consistent sound

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Inspiration from all genres

Use of synthesisers in heavy music

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I can mix and master my own music

I know about live sound

I have large knowledge of the lesser known sides of live such as rack gear

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What is my style - casual black, work wear, skate adjecent

Does it fit within the genre - yes, everyone in metal and adjacent genres are all similar

Do I have my own style - Not hugely

Is it modern - it is defiantly modern.

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I've made it a goal where every day up till my assessment I have played my song to our live project to get was locked into the live production elements and knowing of the song as much as possible.

Doing this also makes sure that I can get the stretch in the verse of "masochist" as clean as possible because it can be pretty sloppy due to how long the stretch is.

If I am not playing the song In full I am putting half an hour each day to just play the stretched part over and over again until I find it comfortable to play and the notes are as clean as possible.

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I am also setting aside 30 minutes a day to play through "instant" to the live project as said before to get more comfortable with playing to the live element and get as clean as possible when playing as well as getting comfortable with the stretches inside of the song

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One aspect of personal development this term was playing as a part of joshes assessment this was a good practice and growth opportunity for me due me not regularly learning songs and going out my way to try and learn new techniques on the guitar rather then just writing.

This song was also a song I wasn't familiar with so I was starting fresh which I think was good for progressing in my ability when it comes to ear learning as well as tab reading if I was sight reading without prior knowledge of the song.

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I started off to learn this by watching a video of the band playing this song live at a festival, Because I felt this would be an easy way to watch how the band play the song rather then just listening to the song and going in blind I feel watching the hands of the players could help with rhytmn because that can be hard sometimes going in raw to a new track. After spending an hour each day for 3 days I felt comfortable enough with the structure of the song and what/where the parts are and comfortable enough to be able to play with the band at a practice to get better

As said before we booked into a practice session to get the song as tight as possible I feel this was good because it would bring us all together and tight as well as it helps because you can look how each other play the songs to get a reference and be able to be as close players as possible

A video is aside of an example of me doing this

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I was asked to play Hollys assessment and decided that I wanted to play everything in these songs with triads and different inversions and try and stay in the same pentatonic area of the fretboard to not be jumping around and move as little as possible to make the chord changes as seamless as possible as well as making it sound very cohesive

I also feel like doing this makes my future writing alot better due to being able to know where more chord positions are which could help to layer up songs better as well as this it could be a good opportunity to get work in the future because it means you can play songs in any position needed and be in your own frequency range letting other instruments breathe.

A video aside shows an example of me doing this practice

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Sweet Dreams - Guilt trip, Metal lick Practice

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Sweet Dreams - Guilt trip, Metal lick Practice

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I felt I lacked the knowledge and skill for many metal style licks which some are used in joshes songs as well as this I thought It could be useful for me to know these due to them being used alot in some other music I am inspired by such as modern hardcore.

I set out to learn the song sweet dreams by guilt trip to solve this due to knowing that this song in particular has alot of these licks in the song and the main hook of this song featuring them largely

To do this I tried learning just on my own then after I went to the guitar play thorough on YouTube posted by the band themselves and try to play along with them as much as possible until I got to a section I didn't know, at this point I would slow the video down to 50 percent watch what they were doing and try to replicate and slowly built up the speed by 10 percent until I could do at full speed.

Then move onto the next section

There is a video to the side of an example of the lick section

being practiced and how I would do it for 20 minutes a day till I got it

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One Main Development of the song masochist was the extra padding in the choruses as well as the bridge section totally changing for an ambient section as well as a live drum solo to give some more excitement

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Not a huge amount has changed since the original writing other then getting rid of the mutes in the verses and having them as straight cuts in a more choppy fashion as well as before more padding and harmony in the choruses.

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Playing The Song INSTANT

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B Eccleston C Scott JB Allcock WBE200 Track 2 T3

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B Eccleston C Scott JB Allcock WBE200 Track 1 T3