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Performing Blog #5-How do I perform my piece?

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Performing Blog #5-How do I perform my piece?

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A performance influences and audience's response in a couple of ways. Some of which are using the tone and theme of the piece to create a feeling and make someone feel the need to do something. For example, motivational music makes you motivated.
The response that my piece creates is a energetic spacey type of response to dance to.

*Guitar audio next time.*

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Performing Blog #4-What makes my piece ready?

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Performing Blog #4-What makes my piece ready?

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In order to improve my performance, I practiced the parts I had trouble with and went over it to strengthen my weaknesses with it.
My skills with the first part have improved since my last performance.
To improve my performance. I can practice, find what I am still struggling with, and get help from others.
What makes a piece "ready to present" is that everything flows perfectly, no flaws, and the performer has the notes down with little or no flaws in it.

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Creating Blog #5-What makes my piece "finished?"

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Creating Blog #5-What makes my piece "finished?"

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I know my creative work is ready to share because it sounds complete, the instruments flow well together, and the theme is established.
The setting that would best fit my piece would be an 8-bit style theme, like what would be heard in a type of arcade game.
If someone were to perform my piece, they would need to know that most of my composition is synthesizers and cinematic instruments, the style is 8-Bit, and they'd need to know what notes I played in the piece.

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We judge the quality of musical works and performances by figuring out if there are any mistakes, parts we like or don't like, the style and tone, and genre.
Our analysis of the performance and understanding it can help us create other playlists because we know how to figure out how pieces of music flow together and how to interpret their meaning and themes to them.

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Creating Blog #4-What more can I add to my piece?

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Creating Blog #4-What more can I add to my piece?

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I can improve the quality of my piece by remastering it and listening to it several times to see if I feel as if something does not sound right, and go from there.
To advance my creation, I added a new sound effect and instrument as well as a reoccurring theme and sound.
For improving it and finalizing it, I created an ending with cinematic instruments, to make it have a dramatic ending.
I am going to add another cinematic instrument in the end to help it blend with the other instruments in the piece.

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Listening Blog #4-What makes up my music II:

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Listening Blog #4-What makes up my music II:

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Understanding structure and context of music informs a response by allowing you to understand and grasp the concept of the piece and differentiate each section and spot their transitions. Also, I can now understand the form of the piece as well.
We can understand the creators and performers expressive intent because of how they use their instruments and transitions along with the flow and growth of the piece. Also, it is also expressed through the style of their piece.

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Performing Blog #3-What's going well and what needs improvement:

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Performing Blog #3-What's going well and what needs improvement:

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Based on the understanding of music structure, performance can be easier because you know how to follow along with the notes and can easily catch on to the flow of the piece. Performers improve their works by getting others' opinions, thoughts, ideas, practicing a lot, and finding out their issues in the piece.
The steps I can take to improve my performance is finding what I have issues on in the piece, practicing the piece so I don't forget and lose muscle memory, muscle memory is strengthened, and ask for help and others' opinions on my piece.
*The part recorded is the piano part, not guitar. The fifth blog for performing will have both piano and guitar.*

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Creating Blog #3-What can I create Next?

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Creating Blog #3-What can I create Next?

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You can improve the quality of work by practicing on a regular basis, getting advice from others, getting others' opinions, and simply listening to it and finding what you feel you need to work on.
Listening to music influences creative ideas because it gives you an idea and understanding of what you can do and what you want to do or are capable of doing.
Creating music influences creativity because it allows you to elaborate on your performance and do things your own way and helps you find a style.

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Listening Blog #3-What makes up my music?

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Listening Blog #3-What makes up my music?

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The musical element that would represent the first song in my playlist (Taking A Stand) would be the Sound category. That would be because the piece starts out soft, gets louder, then soft again. Also, the transitions are very well done and flow perfectly with the flow of the song.
For the second song in the playlist (Autobots Reunite), the category that would fit that song the most would be Rhythm. That is because the piece follows the same beat throughout the piece, but also even in the end of the piece. It is hard to notice, but once you catch it, you cannot forget it is there. It is a constant.
For the third song on the playlist (The Avengers Theme Song), the category that would fit that song is Melody. That is most fitting because it smoothly transitions from section to section, keeping the same theme.
For the fourth song on the playlist (Binary Sunset), the category fitting that would be Harmony. That is because is very smooth in tone and modulates in parts of the piece. It is a very beautiful song.
And for the fifth song on the playlist (Why do we fall), the category that would be most fitting would be Growth. That is because many sections in the song are repeated throughout the piece, and sometimes, it changes pace. As the pace changes, the pattern of notes is the same, just faster.

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Creating Blog #2-What Influences Creativity?

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Creating Blog #2-What Influences Creativity?

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You can use your knowledge as a performer to begin the composition process by basing your work off of what you have learned so far, how you've improved each time, what you are interested in, and what draws your attention.
When one is composing composition, one thinks about the part they are making a composition for, they visualize it, and refer to a person, place, or thing.
All of those factors both help influence the composer to make creative decisions and manifests them.

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Performing Blog #2-What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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Performing Blog #2-What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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The understanding of the structure of musical works helps inform musical performance because it makes it easier to play the song because not only do you know what you're doing, you are also more adaptable to the situation.
Performing also helps inform you about techniques with your instrument.
Performers improve the quality of their music by practicing, getting others' opinions, asking for feedback, and the music will sound better when you improve your technical abilities.
The steps you can take for improving this performance would be to add other instruments, add parts for those instruments, practice alone, practice with the people playing the other instruments, and get their feedback as an ensemble.

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Listening blog #2-What's on my playlist II?

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Listening blog #2-What's on my playlist II?

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My three new songs for my motivational music playlist are, "The Avengers Theme Song" by Alan Silvestri, "Binary Sunset" by John Williams, and "Why do we fall?" from the Dark Knight Rises soundtrack, by Hans Zimmer. These songs fit the motivational category because they all inspire the listener to make a change. The Avengers theme song shows the power of teamwork. Binary Sunset plays when Luke stares into the sunset, contemplating on his journey, influencing him to do good. And the Why Do We Fall song plays when Batman rises up from the ashes, faces his fears, and climbs out of a pit with a broken back. Those all show what you can accomplish if you believe in yourself. We know what the musician was trying to express because of the placement of the songs in the movies and how they sound.

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I am going to be using loops from rock genres and drums.
I am going to find a slow and steady beat for the background. I am going to play synth notes for the melody, simulating a "Lost In Space" feeling.
I got the idea for this by playing a song from "2001, A Space Odyssey."
My motivation came from when I played a form of that theme with my teacher Mr.Chidsey.

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The piece I am playing is by Richard Strauss, originally called, "Also Stuck Zarathustra."
What informed me to play that piece was the fact that Mr.Chidsey and I had the idea of doing that, and it just worked out.
The musical elements that captured my attention was the electric instruments playing the melody. That was pretty cool.

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For this podcast, I am going to be doing Motivational Music. People choose music to listen to by something they like and a specific theme they'd like to experience.
For my playlist, I am going to use "Taking a Stand" by Henry Jackman, and "Autobots Reunite" by Steve Jablonsky. Those two pieces fit that category because every time I listen to them, the songs make me feel important and motivated to do something. The tone, instruments, and pace do that for me.
The emotions that the composers were trying to convey were standing up for what you believe in and reuniting with others.