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LO2 - Technique.

A lot of this week revolved around bettering my already written songs by using any kind of feedback.

LO3 - Performance.

I worked a lot on songs I'd written and performed them for feedback.

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LO3 - Performance.

This week I performed my music again and took the previous performance feedback on board.

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LO2- Technique. This week I further focused on what I could do to improve my songs both in production and performance.

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LO1 - Professionalism. This week I start to dissect and analyse myself and my work using professional techniques and tools.

LO2 - Technique. A lot of this week revolved around writing and coming up with ideas for songs; I show how what techniques I use when writing.

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LO1 - Professionalism. This week I start to dissect and analyse myself and my work using professional techniques and tools.

LO2 - Technique. A lot of this week revolved around writing and coming up with ideas for songs; I show how what techniques I use when writing.

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LO2 - Technique.

A lot of this week revolved around writing and coming up with ideas for songs; I show how what techniques I use when writing.

LO3 - Performance.

This week I performed my music for the first time in front of an audience.

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LO1- Professionalism. Here I analysed the skills I have and make a plan on how to create the best summative work I can.

LO2- Technique. I start breaking down the songs and think about what I want and need in the recordings to make the chosen song sound good.

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LO1- Professionalism. I being to compare myself to the musicians that inspire me and see what a realistic version of my fanbase would look like.

LO2- Technique. I further evaluate my strengths and apply them to my song.

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Possible Ideas 1 ("I hope you're alright")

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Possible Ideas 1 ("I hope you're alright")

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Collaboration opportunities & skill sets 1 ("I hope you're alright")

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Collaboration opportunities & skill sets 1 ("I hope you're alright")

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 Chorus Draft 1 ("I hope you're alright)

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 Chorus Draft 1 ("I hope you're alright)

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Chorus Draft 1 - "I hope you're alright"

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Chorus Draft 1 - "I hope you're alright"

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Chords (At the moment)-
Capo fret 1: G, Em, C, Em, G, C

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Again, this is an extremely personal song, so I wouldn't want many other people collaborating on it, especially not for lyrics or vocals. This song is supposed to be powerful but sad though so I would really like drums, keys and guitar involved.

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This is the very first draft of the song, this is raw vocal, with no production whatsoever ever and an acoustic guitar. This is the very BASE of the song, hopefully a lot about it will change.

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I got to work with house band, so I wrote out the chords and when they're played with the lyrics. This sesson made me realise that it is this song I'd like to continue my project with. Having these chords with placement made it very easy to communicate how I wanted everything to sound with the house band and they also gave me some helpful tips.

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In my head- blameAlex                                                                                          1/9/2023

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This is an acoustic version of the newly written verse 2.

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In this Learning Performance Workshop I performed "in my head" for the first time. This was my first time ever performing my own song.

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This is a video of what I wrote during our spark lesson on Monday, using the technique of writing from an honest current experience. I wanted my song to convey the panic in my lyrics so I made the creative choice of making it at fast tempo.

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I performed "Martian Man", "Run" and "Arcade Fantasy" for the first time to help my performance anxiety.

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This is the beginning of the new song I wrote this week, "Marian Man".

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This is the second half of the new song I wrote "Martian Man". 

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This is the bridge for "Arcade Fantasy". From here it goes to the chorus and then end of song. 

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This is VERY old video from my channel of my song "Arcade Fantasy". I cannot stress enough how much I hate this version of the song and if I do choose to work with it, it will change loads.

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I originally wrote "Run" in July 2023 but this is the revisited version from this week. 

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I uploaded an acoustic version of my song "Run" to YouTube, just to give it that "second life".

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This is a conversation I has with a peer regarding our progress and challenges so far.

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In today's Life Performance Workshop lecture, I performed my song "Run". I really struggled trying to explain which parts of the song needed which instruments and also explaining the tension and release parts of the song.

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This week I had a mini surprise performance in front of the class as a part of a songwriters circle. I didn't know I'd be participating in this at the start of the lesson so it was a bit of a shock at first but then I took this as opportunity to improve my confidence and it ended up going ok. I performed my song, "Martian Man" as not many people have heard it yet and I was eager to get an audiences opinion on it.

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This was my first attempt at recording my song "Run" in attempt for production. I'm really not happy with how it turned out, hence why I re-recorded later.

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I tried writing a piano part for the song but in no way do I play piano so I don't even know the chords I'm playing. This is very much subject to change.

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We were set a task of trying to include our imperfections in our songwriting. By doing this I wrote this song, "Probably Never", the imperfection I decided to keep was that I accidentally forgot to write a bridge. I ended up quite liking this song and hope to develop it, keeping this imperfection.

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I've read over the criteria needed for the summative and I've came up with a better idea to what I was doing. Before, I thought that the easiest way to show variation would've been to do the same song in 2 different genre's but this would've made SO MUCH work for myself and honestly could've ended quite badly as I've only ever really written in one genre. So after looking back on my strengths, I'm going to show variety in a different way; doing an accapella version of my song. I'm also going to change to a more softer and gentle song I wrote as I find it easier to make accapella versions of acoustic songs, so my summative song will now be, "probably never".

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I changed the key so I could sing "probably never" more comfortably. I also changed the song ever so slightly by taking out the "ohh's" and adding an imperfect cadence at the end of the song on the lines "to her".

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This is the first attempt at adding harmonies to the song, I think I'd like this in both versions of the song.

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I decided to see what the song sounded like with piano for a live performance reference. Not sure why it says it's 8 minutes long, it's not.

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LO3- Performance. I start to look through my songs and see how the people I look up to in music have influenced my work.

LO1- Professionalism. I look at how the musicians that inspire me have impacted my songwriting and also begin rehearsing my song for the live performance.

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LO3- Performance. I finalise how I'd like the live and DAW versions of my song to sound.

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I used this weeks songwriter circle to show my summative piece and get feedback on how to improve the song. Listening back to the video, I now think the song needs harmonies all the way through or even a two part melody. Some peers also suggested that in the outro to have the chorus again underneath as the lines "for her". I think this is extremely good feedback and will try to incorporate this.

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We rehearsed and recorded the live harmonies in practise for LPW on Thursday. I also decided that piano was going to be the lead instrumentation and have guitar joining in the chorus.

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This is the live version of my song, 'probably never'.

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The overall response of the song was very positive. People loved the stripped back feel of just the vocals and piano. Everyone also far preferred the piano version to the guitar I played in the songwriters circle last week. The only constructive feedback I was given was that it felt too repetitive so to change the melody or structure at some point.

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This is part 1 of the lyrics to the new song "probably never".

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This is part 2 of the lyrics to 'probably never'.

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I went to small pond studios and fully re-recorded all the tracks in the song. This is the most up to date version of the song.

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This is the final live version of 'probably never' before it gets