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final composition the start of something big .

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final composition the start of something big .

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Creating 5-What makes my piece “finished”?

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Creating 5-What makes my piece “finished”?

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-How do you know your creative work is ready to share? When I know when my creative work is ready to share when its fully done but its almost done

-What setting would best fit the performance of your work? open sea sitting back listen to the waves

-What should the performer(s) of your piece know about the composition in order to successfully perform it? Well the first thing performer should know its about blues & it takes time to make a piece .

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How do we judge the quality of musical works and performances?
By listen to the sound of the song and how it feels and how the way people

are.

-How can our analysis and understanding of the music help us create playlists of similar music? Because I try to keep working on this peace  to make it sound like similar music by taking time to work on it.

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-How does a performance influence audience response? It makes people how this kid is bring the blues back & trying to creating a piece  about blues.

-What response does your piece create? My piece create this feel like wow this person wants to do a about blues.

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-How did you practice in order to improve on your first performance? How I improve on my first performance was to keep trying and fix the things that I got worred and make it better

What has improved since your previous performance? A lot of things improved like make new things on Logic Pro is so much fun to work on

-What steps can you take to improve on this performance? everything is going to improve .

-When is a piece “ready to present”? being to go all the way in Logic Pro

and keep working on it  then ask a teacher to come over to see there though

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

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

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How do you improve the quality of your creative work? By asking the teachers to see what I could do to make it better.

-How did you refine or change your previous musical ideas to advance your creation? How I advance my creation is by adding new pieces in my music

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Melody

-How does the piece move HORIZONTALLY over a period of time?  By practicing when I have free time to work on my piece

-Is the main melody CONJUNCT (stepwise) or DISJUNCT (jumps around)? Yes it dose by having a rhythm to the song.

-Does the direction of the melody move smoothly or change frequently? Yes &. no I try to make it smoothly & everything else .

How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response? Cuz I have to find a structure for the song to make it better .

-How do we understand the performer and creators expressive intent?By working on and make it feel good

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-How do you improve the quality of your creative work? What I do to improve my quality of my work is to keep trying and never give up on myself

-How does listening and performing of music influence creative ideas? My teachers is the biggest influence to me he never stop helping me

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1)Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - A Celebration of Blues and Soul (Rhythm) What is the METER is 4 /4 . its constantly repeating and its smooth
How does the composer use these musical elements to create music that is unique? He use them to make  music sound great & smooth & has a nice beat to it

-How do we understand the performer and creators expressive intent through the use of SHMRG?
The elements of SHMRG is to see how the song goes on & to see how he made a song about Texas flood

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Performing 3- What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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Performing 3- What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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Based on the first recording of your initial performance, how does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform musical performance?

How do performers improve the quality of their performance? They improve by work on everything the need to do to make it better for performance

-What steps can you take to improve on this performance? My fist step is to find a piece that make me motivated and the second step

is work on the keys and the notes of the song and the third step is to put everything together and then u play ur song

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-How can you use your knowledge as a performer to begin the composition process? Is started by what piece are you playing first  and how does the song make u feel or why did I chose the song

-How do you begin to make creative decisions?  What influences them?

And how I make a creative decision

is to see what make a good pice of music and what influence them are my teachers , family , friends , sports

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-Pick a mood/setting/environment you wish to create a playlist for.  How do individuals choose music to experience? My mood is going to be relaxing and the setting is the blues and the environment is  jazz band .

-Choose 3 new songs by different artists that fit that playlist.  Why does the music you chose fit that setting?  What musical elements create those ideas for you?
1) Relaxing Blues Blues Music ♫ ♪ 2015 Vol 1 |

2)Relaxing Blues Blues Music 2015 Vol 3

3)Relaxing Blues Blues Legends Music 2015 Vol 4 |

My fit setting is jazz band and what elements that create my ideas are everyone in the world that make me as a person and how the people around me that help me with my
songs .

-How do we know what emotions/ideas/feelings the musician was trying to express?  What did they do to convey those things? Because of the instruments that are in the song and how the person is singing and the expressions the person is feeling when they ding the song

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Performing 2- What are my strengths and weaknesses? 

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Performing 2- What are my strengths and weaknesses? 

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- Based on the first practice period of your new piece, how does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform musical performance? Structure feels so much different because of how I
learned new things everyday in class and my best teachers teach me new thing that I don't know about the song

-How do performers improve the quality of their performance? How do performers improve the quality of my performance is by practicing on my own time and when I have time in class and when my teacher is teaching the song to me

-What steps can you take to improve on this performance?

How can I improve my performance

is to practice every minute of my free. time and keep work on it and never give up on it

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Decide what instrument(s) you will be composing for

My instruments I am going to use is a guitar , electric guitar , drums ,piano

How do you come up with creative ideas?
My ideas come  from the blues songs and how they make people feel and how they sound and the motivation it gives the people something to hear when they play .

Where does your creative motivation come from?

- My motivation comes from my best teacher Mr. Chen's because he got me to like the guitar. Well the blues is all about guitar's

Does the music you listen to influence your creative decisions?
- The music I listen to does influence me because it gives me so much ideas for my new song or decisions

How? Because I like to play music and create music and play my guitar .....

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What informs your decision to pick a song?

GRAND FINALE

What musical elements particularly capture your attention? Why I choose the song is because its something different and its challenging and I like doing challenging things so I can get better at the things I like to do with my guitar

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ick a mood/setting/environment you wish to create a playlist for.  How do individuals choose music to experience?

My playlist is about blues and I

choose this because its cool sounding and its different from any other music todays music and I choose this because my teacher likes the blues a lot and we did a duet on the blues song

-Choose 2 initial songs by different artists that fit that playlist.  Why does the music you chose fit that setting?  What musical elements create those ideas for you?

(1)Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - A Celebration of Blues and Soul
(2)One of the best slow blues solos...
Stevie ray bends strings creating musical tension then when he released the strings the tension becomes resolved