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A, D, F#, E

(Played as the root notes of the capo 2 chords, on bass.)

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G, C, Em, D

(Played throughout on the acoustic guitar and two electric guitars on capo 2.)

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Our performance for this piece begun with the first verse being sung and then played using only an acoustic guitar using a single strum for the chords. The song builds up to add in the rest of the instruments at the last bar of the first verse, where one electric guitar strums single chords and the other plays the broken chords as notes. The bass guitar is plucking the root notes of the guitar chords frequently, and the acoustic guitar is now strumming more frequently too. This continues on into the chorus, which is emphasised more through the build up of texture and dynamics in the instruments. In the second verse, the dynamics are pulled back down again with all the instruments playing, so single strums are being used and the bass plays occasional legato notes to keep the other instruments in time due to lack of percussion. The last bar of this verse is then used to build the song back up through use of the guitars to play the chorus again. There is another strong repeat of the chorus here, and the song ends by one electric guitar and the bass guitar dropping back out. The last part of the final chorus allows for a note to ring out on the acoustic guitar, the remaining electric guitar, and with the vocals.

We referred to our song previously as a rebellious protest song, that we had stylised as soft rock. I think that we achieved this through the use of the electric guitars and their slightly heavier tone in the song, as well as the lyrics which brought our point of the song across as a view of the world and became the main focus. Thus, I am confident that our piece was an appropriate response to the stimulus we had acknowledged.

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Our peers told us that they liked performance because of the lyrics. They also said that to improve, the timing of the song needed sorting a little in certain parts of the song. I would agree with this, as it was hard for the guitarists to stay in time with each other even when I was trying to help them and when we used a metronome. So if we had a longer session, timing would be the first thing we would have to work on as a group.

I think that a strength of my role in the song was, for the most part, keeping the other instruments in time, as this is something the guitars especially struggled with during rehearsal. A weakness of my role could be considered to be the simplicity of the notes I played, as I could have used some note changes or changes in tempo to make the song more creative and develop the structure. If we had more time, I would have done so.

Overall, I think that our performance was positively reflective of our choice of stimulus, and that we worked well to make our point about the stimulus of politics through the song and its lyrics. If anything, to improve I would get the group to work on the timing a bit more. Also, some differentiation would have been good in the composition of the structure. Otherwise, I am quite happy with the performance and I think it was relevant to the stimulus

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There's something that I must confess
I wanna get it off my chest
It's been bugging me for a while
But it's safe to say
I hate the human race

Let's not even discuss politics
UK is screwing up over something called Brexit
And  the US has a trump card
That's grabs people by the pussy
And it's kinda terrifying
Then there's North Korea with a
dictator, not a leader
Kim Jong Un something I don't know
The world is covered in corruption greed and evil
I'm looking at miss Theresa May
when I say you're all over paid

But I digress
I could just keep going on and on
about the problems we face
But it's safe to say
I hate the human race

Everyone's superficial
Because of plastic surgery
Pumping themselves up
I'm surprised they don't suffocate
The world worships unnatural beauty
You're too small too fat too flat
Why don't we all care less

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In our song, the instruments used were vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar and two electric guitars. The development of the song mostly involved working with the dynamics throughout so that the electric guitars didn't overpower the vocals and acoustic, so we had one electric guitar playing the broken chords and the other the block chords strummed. We also had to work on the structure of the song and cut down on some verses that had been pre-written due to the length.

Another development was that we also wanted to use the flute in this song, but ended up dropping this idea in the final performance as it didn't entirely fit. But, I believe we still had a performance that was effective.

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In this performance, we chose to write a song based on a stimulus that was a view of the world. To go into more depth, we wanted to use the idea of bringing up all the current problems in the world in the form of a song, including topics like the political situations in England and America. However we also wanted to bring in some comedic effect through the lyrics. The song ended up being a soft/pop-rock piece with the use of instruments and the rebellious attitude in the lyrics.