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Explain the following keywords, using definitions ions and explanations from your own research sources

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Present research on music industry job roles explored in class each week, discussing the responsibilities needed for each job. Give examples of famous people.

TIP: You should make us of at least 2 research sources to help you gather your information (websites, articles, videos etc)

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Add links to at least 2 songs that you listen to. You should discuss:

What it is you like about each song

The types of sounds and instruments used

What the lyrics, vibe or mood of the songs mean to you?

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ABOUT ME: Write a about you and your interests in music, giving examples of artists or bands that have inspired you. You should discuss:

Who you are and your interests and hobbies

Do you play, sing or produce music?

Favourite bands and artists

Favourite songs - explain why you like them

Have you been to any gigs? Who would you like to see perform live?

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This is where you will write a final evaluation of your assignment work. You should discusss:
What went well?
What would you improve?
What did you learn?
What did you enjoy?

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Each week, you should reflect on your practical sessions. You should discuss:

What you did

What you learnt

What went well

What you could improve on

Include screenshots and videos from your own projects and performance sessions

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Write a bit about yourself and what you want to achieve with your music one day:

What are your aspirations in music?

What job in music would you like to have one day?

Why do you want to achieve these things?

How do you think you will achieve them (college study, making beats, university, playing in bands etc)?

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1. The music industry offers many jobs for people who have experience in music production and performance.

2. Every job requires a range of skills, so it is important we understand the varying roles and responsibilities of professionals producing and performing music.

Task:

A music producer has the job of recording and mixing music by an individual or group in studio for a single, EP, Album or any other body of work.

A producers listening skills are one of the most important things about the job as they need to be able to hear or any inconsistencies about the music they are recording.

Producers working with big bands aren't challenged with the task of organizing equipment but they can be tasked with organizing who and who shouldn't be in the studio during recording.

Portable Studios, portable recording equipment used for horse racing, live tv etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1.  Mentorship of musicians and artists.

2. Organisation of recording sessions

3. Arranging instruments and studio space

4. Managing money and budgets

5. Composing and arranging music

6. Communicating creative ideas

7. Collaborating with musicians/artists

They grew up in a musical environment, instead of getting loads of different equipment he got the absolute best out of the gear he already has. Creativity with different sounds and sound effects.

What skills & characteristics do music producers need?

1. People Skills - be able to build a connection and positive relationships.

2. Networking - Bringing musicians and other talented people together.

3. Vibe - a producer needs to be efficient and always on time

4. Identity - successful producers have a unique style and musical identity.

5. Technical Skills - producers need to be able to use equipment - old and new.

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Producer of the 22nd best selling album of all time "Nevermind" plus albums such as "Bricks Are Heavy" by L7 and "Siamese Dream" by The Smashing Pumpkins. Butch Vig has worked with band such as Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth and L7.

born in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Vig grew up in a music family with his mum being a music teacher. Vig played Piano for 6 years before seeing The Who perform on The Smothers Brothers in 1967 (The same performance which ultimately sent shards of cymbal into Keith Moon's arm and caused long-term hearing loss for guitarist Pete Townsend after Keith Moon has put explosives inside of his bass drum unaware to the fact that the tech had already set up explosives previously.) This show ultimately led Vig into trading his piano for a $60 drum kit.

Vig started a couple bands in the early days of his career including bands such as "Spooner" (Formed in 1974), "Fire Town" Started in 1986 until it's unfortunate end in 1989 Fire Town released two albums "In The Heart Of The Heart Country" (1987) and "The Good Life" (1989), and the band that is still around to this day "Garbage".

Vig started producing records in 1983 starting with smaller American rock bands such as Mecht Mensch, Killdozer and Die Kreuzen in the mid-late 80s and then moving onto bigger bands such as Urge Overkill and Cosmic Psychos in the early 90s, before working with bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, L7, Tad and finally Nirvana in 1991. Since then Vig has worked with a variety of bands such as Green Day, Foo Fighters, Goo Goo Dolls and most recently Silversun Pickups. Vig is best known for his work on Nirvana's Nevermind but his work with other bands can't be forgotten.

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Explain the importance of health and safety in the music industry. Provide examples from different environments:

Live performances

Recording studios

Theatres

Music Festivals

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1. Theatre Director

2. Sound & Lighting Technician

3. Stage Manager

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PLAYLIST: Create a playlist of music that inspires you. Try to pick a range of genres and tracks that highlight your interests within music. This can be:

Spotify links

YouTube links

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PROMOTION - Using the online graphic design software Canva, create some artwork that represents you as an artist.

https://www.canva.com/

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Using CANVA, design a H&S poster for a chosen performance/production space.

Upload your final poster here

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Hi, I'm Isaac I play guitar, sing, drums (sort of) and I "can" play bass. Most of this was in the letter that we wrote but i'll just write it again.

In 2019 I discovered what were to become my favourite band of all time, NIRVANA, I discovered Nirvana when I was playing Guitar Hero on my Xbox 360 and included was "About A Girl/MTV Unplugged In New York 1993" and was the most amazing song i'd ever heard. Since then i've spent years researching, watching, listening, documenting and doing and learning pretty much anything and everything to know about Nirvana. I know pretty much everything there is to know about Nirvana so if you have any questions i can answer it them 😂.

I've played in a couple bands over the last couple years. My first being a cover band that i joined in 2023 until I left after a couple months. My second band was one I started with my friend Alfie Tiplady who you may know as he's doing L3, Until we disbanded earlier this year, and my latest and current band (@ashworn_band on everything) is a cover/originals band who cover Nirvana and am planning to release music later this year.

I started playing guitar on the Christmas of 2022. I started playing right handed but never found it right as i'm left handed, so I switched to playing left handed about a year and half ago.

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My Instagram

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My main instrument is Guitar but I can play Bass, Drums and Vocals.

Guitars:

Black Squier Stratocaster (Modded Flipped Lefty) (First Guitar)

Red Squier Mustang (Modded Flipped Lefty)

Sonic Blue Custom Build "Fender" Jagmaster (Left Handed)

Black Custom Build "Vandalism" Harley Benton Stratocaster (Left Handed)

Squier Sunburst 2001 Stratocaster (Right Handed) (I don't play it that much)

Basses:

Ibanez (idk the series) Sunburst Bass

Fender Yellow/Natural Short-scale Mustang Bass

Amps:

Fender Automatic SE (First Amp)

Marshall Vintage Modern 100w 2466 Head

Marshall 1960a Lead 4x12 Cabinet w. G12-T75's

Marshall 1960b JCM900 4x12 Cabinet w. Eminence Patriot

Speakers.

(4x12 1960B Cabinet Build In Progress)

Equipment:

Behringer X2222USB Analog Mixer

Edifier Studio Monitor R1280TS

Komplete Audio 1 Audio Interface

Mics:

Shure SM58

Shure SM57

Behringer XM8500 (x2)

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Favourite Songs Spotify Playlist

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Favourite Songs Spotify Playlist

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1. Nirvana - Drain You - This is my favourite Nirvana song and might even be might favourite song of all time. This song lyrically, musically and overall is one of (in my opinion) the best songs ever written. Similar to majority of popular Nirvana songs the simple catch riff is impossible to not like. The tempo is 136 bpm with the song changing tempo slightly throughout the song and this is a punk song. The meter of this song is 4/4. There are a total of 5 guitar tracks on this song, one suing Kurt's Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp which is the amp he used live into a Boss DS-1 for two tracks, Two more into a Fender Bassman into a Boss DS-1, and a final track (probably) straight into the board using a pedal which they named the "Super Grunge". Kurt used his Mosrite Gospel to record this song. This guitar is renowned for having a bright chorus inspired sound with it's unique body shape and air-coil pickups. Dave Grohl (Drums) used a Tama Granstar Drum Kit in Silky Yellow. Dave used pretty much only Zildjian Cymbals (18" Crash, 20" Crash, 22/24" Ride and 15" Hi-Hats. Although during the 1992 nevermind tour dave adopted an additional crash to his left over the Hi-Hat, this could be anything from an 18-22" crash but no-one is entirely sure.)

2. Silverchair - Slave - Written in 1997 whilst the band were only 17 years old, Slave is my favourite Silverchair song. The mix between the Grunge links from the Early 90s from bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam and the Older Metal roots from the 70s and 80s such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin makes the best songs of the time. The tempo is 116. The meter of this song is 4/4

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The Fender Musical Instruments Incorporation is one of if not the biggest Guitar Manufacturer in the last 80 Years!

Founded in Fullerton, CA in 1949 making this one of the first mass guitar manufacturers.

The Fender Esquire (1950) was the first ever solid body guitar to be mass produced. 2 years later in 1952 the Fender Stratocaster was made, the most replicated and sought after guitar shapes in the world.

In 1958 Fender introduced the Fender Jazzmaster, "a more expensive cousin to the Fender Stratocaster", This guitar was unveiled at the 58' NAMM Convention at the The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. The Jazzmaster was a success not just with the jazz community as the genre "surf rock" had also taken a liking to this guitar.

The Fender Jaguar, introduced in 1962 as Fender's "top-of-the-line" high end guitar model, taking inspiration from the previous Fender Jazzmaster, the Fender Jaguar shares some of the same aspects including a similar shape/design, controls and noticeable bridge and stop-tail piece.

During it's initial 13 year run it did not sell nearly as well the the Fender Stratocaster or Telecaster models as the Jaguar was more expensive. The Fender Jaguar is most famous for being played but Punk Rock Legend and the Voice Of Generation X, Kurt Cobain, Who played a modified Sunburst Jaguar with Di'marzio humbuckers and modified control plates.

In 1965

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Today we didn't get to go up on stage and play our song, But it's okay we pretty much got it down anyway and we'll probably get to play either later this week or next week so it's all good. Currently in F2.27 doing some of the Music Analysis work about Fender and it's going pretty well so that's cool.

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Today I finally played on the stage. I played Come As You Are (You could probably find the video that i'm currently remixing) It's sounded pretty good on stage but apparently my vocals were really loud. We are currently editing and writing in our Padlets about two songs we picked out.

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Today we started at 11:15 and went to this speaking thing that dragged on for way longer than it should've (it sucked).

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Co-founded by myself and our drummer Adam (@adddummmb/@awolddrums) our band is Ashworn (@ashworn_band on socials) formed in July 2025 we have done mostly covers of Nirvana such as Drain You, Been A Son and School. Currently we are recording our own music and plan to release an album next year.

We wanna release an album next year and to see moderate success with the album and touring/playing live etc.

We have our debut single set to release on all streaming platforms on September 24th.

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1. A Music performer is an artist and/or musician who performs music either in person live or perform songs online.

2. A music Performer can vary between many factors including instrument, genre, vocals, showmanship etc. But ideally a music performer is an individual who plays an instrument either by themselves or with a group of people

3. My personal favorite music performer is Kurt Cobain but I would also include people like Tom Delonge (blink-182) Daniel Johns (silverchair) and Dave Grohl (foo fighters)

The way Kurt writes lyrics with meaning and chord progressions that flow together so well really brings together why he's my favourite musician/performer of all time.

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1. Nirvana - Breed (Live At Reading 1992)

After a hiatus in mid 1992 Nirvana was set to headline the Sunday on August 30th 1992 at the Reading Festival. Even up to the moment before Nirvana came on there were doubts that they were going to perform at all. When Nirvana came on Kurt came out in a wheelchair and wig to mock those who spread rumours of him being in rehab and unable to perform. This performance is considered one of their best and most iconic shows they ever did. In February 1992 Nirvana switched from playing shows in E Standard to Eb Half A Step Down. Breed in particular being the opening song of the show really shows the frustration Kurt had to release.

2. Silverchair - (Rock In Rio 2001)

Ultimately Silverchair's biggest concert with an attendance of over 250k people, Rock In Rio arguably one of the most iconic and biggest music festivals has hosted bands such as Queen (1985), Iron Maiden (1985, 2001, 2013, 2015, 2019), Metallica (2011, 2013, 2015), Nirvana (1993) and obviously Silverchair in 2001. Their first performance after a year Hiatus asides a one off performance on December 31st 2000 at the Falls Festival for a new years performance.

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We had our performing day today as per usual, we played Phoebe's choice of "Car Underwater" by Armor For Sleep.

We also had our theory lesson and our Logic lesson upstairs where we did some more of our compositions and learnt about the elements of mixing.

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What Went Well?

I think overall the performance was pretty good, vocals were on key and in sync with one another, The guitar played the piece overly well with few mistakes along with the rest of the instrumentation which include drums and bass

What Would You Improve?

I think the tone of my guitar could've been better, I had a few issues with equipment failures and such but it held out for the final performance, I think i could've sung it a little better too, but the other vocals were awesome, along with the drums and bass. I also wanna improve my stage presence by moving more. Also after the first chorus on Car Underwater there was a miscommunication where there was a mistake going into the second verse causing the guitar to stop too early and the drums to stop too late. We also needed to practice the structure for come as you are as we messed it up a couple times.

What Did You Learn?

I learnt that to give a good performance you really have to give it your all. I think the performance well pretty well overall although there will always be something to improve on. I also learnt that communication within the band is very important for song structure as we made our own structure for Car Underwater and Come As You Are.

What Did You Enjoy?

I did enjoy performing, it was alot of fun and i am looking forward to future performances.