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?

• 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

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

• 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)?

• 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?

• Live performances

• Recording studios

• Theatres

• Music Festivals

• Spotify links

• YouTube links

https://www.canva.com/ 

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.