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I have chosen performing as my chosen roll. I hope to have a better understanding of singing and also learn what I can improve about my performances.

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In 2021 the website below said only 39.4% of musicians were female. I found this statement from this website https://datausa.io/profile/soc/musicians-and-singers#:~:text=The%20workforce%20of%20Musicians%20and,Musicians%20and%20singers%20is%20White.

This makes my role even more important, to keep increasing the amount of creative work in music. My role as a performer is to improve my ability to make the audience feel the emotion intended by a song and also deciding what demographic of people I am aiming my music towards.

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One of my artefacts I will be using is a recording of me performing to my fellow college students. This happened back in December in the atrium . The next artefact will be from November when I went to the recording studio for a session of recording. I will also be including the video from my vocal technique assessment. My fourth artefact that I am still to record will be from the open mic I am organising for the week after the Easter holidays.

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I have already finished my planning. I have a good idea of the artefacts I will be including and writing evaluations to. I will be uploading 2 pieces of evidence by the end of march. I will be working on my development part of my graded unit from today the 28th of February onwards and working towards my end result.

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To arrange an open mic. Firstly I will need to ask permission from the college.Next I will need to advertise it. I would like to advertise it on the tv in the seating area in the music box. This open mic will be open for anyone to sing. I will perform at least one song and have another student in my course record it as evidence.I will also need to arrange borrowing a mic , mic stand and also an amp. I will also need to bring a speaker and my phone with Bluetooth to connect to the speaking to use for the backing tracks.

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My open mic event could take upto 2 weeks to organise. For my other artefacts they are already in my portfolio so I will just need to get them altogether and upload them.

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I will be including my band performance from December because it shows my ability to work in a team and my ability to sing upbeat songs. I also feel it shows a performance side to my singing and how I am able to engage with the audience.

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I will be including this piece of singing because it shows that I can work in a professional environment and put a piece together in a short period of time with a team of sound engineers.

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I will be including this piece of evidence because it shows my understanding and ability of keeping to good technique and also my ability to show technique without any help.

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I will include one of my music business  assessments on contracts.

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I will upload one of my music business assessments by the first week after the Easter holidays.

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I will include this performance because it shows I can be professional and organise my own performances, this will also show how I can engage with the audience and make them feel the emotions of the song.

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In a source I found on the website attached below it stated “ Your singing voice is an actual instrument, and it can be considered the hardest instrument to master because of how intricate and individual each voice is” This statement made me think I really need to show the technical side of singing and the ability I have to sing in a healthy way that also sounds nice to listen too.

https://johnhenny.com/why-is-singing-so-hard/#:~:text=Your%20singing%20voice%20is%20an,aligned%20to%20create%20beautiful%20music.

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By mid march I will include 3 theory assessments and also evidence of theory I have worked on in my vocal lessons.

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I will include 3 theory tests I will sit to show my understanding of theory and how it helps with my performance. I will also use a video of my understanding of theory in my vocal lessons to prove that theory helps with singing performances and the understanding of a melody.

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I will be adding a copy of my performance CV by the end of march.

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I will be including this evidence to show I can create a CV to highlight my strengths as a performer and to also give an understanding of what type of performer I am.

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I’ve worked on trying to get the best performing CV. I researched layouts of CV’s for performing on Canva and took ideas from that to create my own.

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https://dunedincollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HNDSingingSolAssessments20052024/EX9eYLK-HPhBrULl3NZb8VoBDWglLhq6Exx5p4TkzZgDXg?e=BH0Rtr&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Song 1 of this video

In Artefact 1 I singing Piece by piece by Kelly Clarkson. This artefact shows my understanding of getting a message across to the audience, in this artefact I put emotion in to my voice while also having emotion on my body to make it come across to the audience. To help me put across a message in this song and to really make the audience believe what I was saying I had to get into character. To do this I made a character card to help me get into the emotional role.

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https://dunedincollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HNDSingingSolAssessments20052024/EX9eYLK-HPhBrULl3NZb8VoBDWglLhq6Exx5p4TkzZgDXg?e=BH0Rtr&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Song 2 in this video

The song I am singing is called “ It Means Beautiful” from the musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie , by adding in a musical song to my set list I shows my ability to perform different genres and to have a variety of themes in my set list while tying them all to a ballad theme. To improve my acting through song for this piece I made a character card to help get into the role of the character I wanted to portray.

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https://dunedincollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HNDSingingSolAssessments20052024/EX9eYLK-HPhBrULl3NZb8VoBDWglLhq6Exx5p4TkzZgDXg?e=BH0Rtr&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Song 4 in this video

As my forth song I sang Sober by Demi lovato this is a heart renching song that needs a lot of concentration to do both singing techniques and also to tell a story. In this performance I felt that the emotion really came across and I coloured my words really well. Compared to the first performance of me doing this song.

Supporting evidence

https://dunedincollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/Taylor191220232/EYIs9vR4ICZArktFQyewxqQBlHcgxJXTD8EPuoBj2SQRjw?e=mRBhQz&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

This evidence shows the difference between and early performance and a more recent one. I feel my timing has come a long way. In the older video I am trying to keep up with the backing track but in the more recent one I am more relaxed and sticking to each beat.

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https://dunedincollege.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HNDSingingSolAssessments20052024/EX9eYLK-HPhBrULl3NZb8VoBDWglLhq6Exx5p4TkzZgDXg?e=BH0Rtr&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Song 3 in this video

In this artefact i am singing touch by little mix (acoustic) I showed good technique in this performance by using different ways of singing including , vocal fry , breathy , cry tilt and also belt.

Supporting Evidence

https://youtu.be/j_H0adjLHXM?si=H9ZjEalNGoksU6pu

I have come a long way from this performance to my most recent, I struggle a lot with allergies that clog me up and make it hard to sing but after this performance I new I needed to change now before every performance I will take half an allergy tablet to make sure my voice is at the best of its ability. In this performance my voice sounds strained and Im not doing much colouring compared to me latest one.

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I struggled a lot with theory at first but after a lot of practise and teaching I managed to understand a lot more and pass my first test.

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I Passed my music theory assessments 2,3,4 in this test. After a lot of hard work and trying really hard to understand I finally done it.

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This Artefact shows my understanding of Copyright and Contracts in the industry

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This is the Theory Exercise book I had to pass to allow me to do my remediation , I worked really hard at home to understand the key parts of music theory.

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This is the Homelessness song I wrote then recorded.

Supporting Evidence

Down below is the ideas I had to come up with before writing the song and how I came up with some of the words in it and also the finished result that was recorded and chords played by me. I have never created a song before and I struggled a lot but I am really happy with the outcome.

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Planning stage

- I originally decided in my plan that I was going to use my recording studio session recording as one of my artefacts but after performing the same song again after that session I realised I had improved a lot in using different vocal techniques such as belt , vocal fry , breathy compared to the first time when I was mainly singing with vocal tilt. By adding new techniques it improves the audiences engagement by having a new sound to listen to each verse. I will carry on learning new techniques to improve my voice and also performances.

Development Stage

- The development stage was hard for me because I can be quite critical of my performances and finding a video I feel was up to my standards is hard for me. To over come this I thought back to some of my first performances compared to the more recent ones and how much I have improved and that even if I thought I messed up or my voice wasn’t on point that day. That no one else notices except from me. I am going to keep this mindset in the future to become more confident in the work I do.

- Throughout the development stage I also learned that even if I feel like something is impossible it’s not. I struggled so much with music theory at the start but I new if I kept persevering I could learn. I managed to pass my tests and it really gave me hope for myself , in the future I will keep this mindset to improve.

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Throughout this process I learned how to make a stage plan. This will be useful to know for future shows/ performances so I can be prepared and so that people working behind the scenes will know exactly were instruments and equipment will be.