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Criteria D part 2 (Alison and Hannah's song)

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Criteria D part 2 (Alison and Hannah's song)

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Their piece was fused by EDM and tradiional Vietnamese music that has been faded gradually from young peoples knowledge. Their aim was to get the old music to come back.
As I noticed during when I was listening the song the song itself was not really included and didn't give us too much of what their purpose was. Also I discovered the connection between the verse and the chorus had a small break for about 2 seconds to actually play into the chorus which made the song sound disonnected.
However, the EDM and the song (with the lyrics)had matched with the beats and didn't disclude the elements of the Vietnamese song. This made it sound more like an EDM which I believe would attract younger people.
The part where the song was disconnected can be fixed by adding a beat or even adding another part of the song which sounds right during the break (between verse and chorus).

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Criteria D  part 1. (reflecting on our own performance)

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Criteria D  part 1. (reflecting on our own performance)

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We mixed a song which is a traditional japanese song called nada sou sou. Our aim was to make a song enjoyable for any age and gender so we decided to mix with classical and EDM.
I believe our peice was able to look into the purpose and aim for what we wanted to do and were able acomplish it. For this I have 2 main reasons why I suceeded. One of the reason is where we were able to successfully fuse 2 genres which was challenging for us and also playing with 2 different instruments but also rearraging the chords from scratch to make it sound right when playing.
However I still believe that there has to be improvements made during that performance because we made some mistakes which leads us to time management and lack of practice. This occured because we first spent the first 3 days of music class using garageband which we didnt use later on.
This could be prevented by time management and more practice especially if you are doing it on live /video.

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Our link to final performance

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Web link to our final performance.

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Goal for this assesment (Knowledge and Understanding)

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Goal for this assesment (Knowledge and Understanding)

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Recently, we start to realize that the majority of young people are interested in pop music and the majority of the elderly are more likely to have attachment/ warmth to traditional music since they are more familiar with it. Therefore, in our piece we decided to fuse traditional Japanese music with EDM. Instead of using the traditional guitar called the shamisen we are going to use the electric guitar which is one element relate to EDM.

I believe that the fusion of these two music will change the perspective of both younger and the elderly and give a wider range of all aged people to listen. The new arrangement has shown reflection that all music was originally from the traditional ones and it is needed to be respected the same as the new popular ones.

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Since we thought that the piano and the guitar is the same, when we played it together it didn't sound the same. Later on we figured out that the chords are the same but the notes are not (if we put on the capo).
So we counted from the pl ace where the capo is and counted down to where the F note. Finally when we tried rehearsing it all worked.

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Writing them big so I can memorize it

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We decided to play 2 verses for the whole performance since it had to be 2 minutes long. Figuring out the notes was not that hard since we already know from the piano.

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We started using garage band and we found a Japanese old traditional genre - minyo called " nada sou sou".
We were able to find the melody on youtube and download it on GarageBand. Since it was a lullaby we found it hard to fuse. From the research we have, keeping the elements of the folk song and turning it to an EDM was not easy. In, addition we had a lot of trouble  with technology since we were not that good. It was hard to control and our lack of knowledge on technology made it worse.
Struggling how to input "just the vocal" in the bars was far too complicated and decided in the end to not include the vocal.

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Learning the power chords was a challenging task for me since it was my first time. I had my guitar teacher to teach me the chords and wrote them down on a piece of paper. The most challenging thing was where I place my fingers in the right place because my fingers couldn't reach to the right spot and took a long time to change the chords in time to the music tempo *(same as the piano)

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We have started practicing and I have decided to play the guitar and my partner Alice to do the piano.
From this day, we have be
en looking at the chords and the notes of what we are going to play. Since we planned to fuse it with EDM we tried to stick with the idea however there was one problem when we played the piano and the guitar (acoustic) the music wasn't an EDM. Since we quit using garageband there was no electrical instruments and didn't match to the elements of EDM which is including electrical instruments. Therefore we changed the genre to rock so I can bring in my electric guitar and turn it into a rock.

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We were able to explore garage band nevertheless, it was too difficult for us to manage with technology so we decided to perform Live. Knowing that there are only certain amount of time left we still measured and planned (discussed) that it was our only way to succeed this assessment.
Although we couldn't make a great progress in our assessment task we have chosen the song already did a research about it which makes it easier and faster for us to learn the song on the instruments. The song is called "nada sousou".

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11/4 Friday

Today it was our first day processing through our assessment on garageband and since it was our first time using, we tried to figure out how to use the tools and searched for more extension needed for making our fusion music - (EDM and minyo fusion) We found a place where you can add different beats and sound effects in the song where we could use for fusing with an EDM. EDM includes an upbeat beat, with the electronical instruments included for exampple, drums and electronic guitar.

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-  Minyo, or a folk song, is a simple structured and honest song transmitted through commoners about their feelings, customs, and kindness. It was transmitted from mouth to mouth and was created either by a group of people or by a single person.
-  It was created, enjoyed, and transmitted by commoners. Anyone can create and sing minyo with no special talents or skills. There is no official way to enjoy creating and singing it.
- Ideological values -- Minyo was sung by the oppressed people.
-Artistic values -- in the selection of themes and in the capture of poetic moments Minyo contains the subtlety and concreteness of emotional analysis.

- They use a traditional type of instrument called shamisen. It is a guitar looking instrument which has only three strings. It is usually made out from wood and snake skin on the outside.

- During the late 19 th centuries rapid collapse of the feudal society, and Japan's severe oppression which lead to changes in the life styles of laborers, farmers, and of fishermen; and here developed into a something called modern or a new Minyo.

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I and my partner have decided to fuse a traditional Japanese song to another genre or style of music and perform by using Garage band.  The traditional song that the genre is called Okinawa Minyou