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 use 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

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My favourite band of all time is probably oasis but i love the smiths and stone roses just as equally. The beatles are just incredible and they are the best band of all time and theres no conversation about that.

Ive also came to love punk and my favourite punk band is blink 182. i love wunderhorse and fontaines dc at the moment they would have to be my favourite bands rn. IM starting to enjoy nu metal like limp bizkit and deftones

Songbird- first song i learnt on guitar

Roys tune- Reminds me of my trip to germany

Hide your love away- Just a banger

Rambling bars, window kid- its new and i love window kid

Epilogue, Wunderhorse- Just a beautifully written song and the best up and coming band

Ive never been to a gig techinally but ive seen liam gallagher at the dubois vs aj fight at wembly last september

In 12th century Spain a guitar like instrument

was created while in the 19th century the modern classical guitar was created and is pretty much the same as it is today

the guitar was first used in Arab countries and Egypt

So many great people made the guitar popular with one of them being Eddie van Halen who invented new and cool ways to play the guitar

The guitar is used in every style of music more predomitly in rock and metal

Ill list 5 famous guitarists

Eddie van halen

jimmi hendrix

Prince

George harrison

Pete Townsend

Ill be honest I kinda presumed the guitar came from Spain so that didn't shock me but it originating in Arab countries did shock me a bit

My dream job in music is 100% to be in a successful band i cant see my self doing anything else its the only thing im good at and the only thing ive ever dreamed about

I want to achieve this because i had a terrible time at school and ending leaving in year 9 , by doing that i picked up the guitar again and for a long time playing was the only thing that excited me i just couldn't wait to play every day and i still feel the same now . So in many ways music and specifically the guitar saved my life

I belive i will achieve these things by playing every day writing new songs every now and then and pushing myself as far as i can. It would also help to be able to do that with my bestfriend as we both smashed it and pushed eachother to the max last year

i on the other hand hadn't properly practised the song because i was focusing on my festival setlist but there is no excuse because id played it 100 times before

i also think we where under rehearsed and put on a time crunch to kind of gel and try and make music which for some people doesn't work well

Thursdays practice session went well i spent 2 hours in the booths with Ellie and we went through loads of songs together and then after that the others joined us and we agreed on bittersweet symphony to preform which took us a while to get going but once we did we sounded banging

Friday was good i kinda postponed my work and what i was doing which was definitly a bad idea it all builds up

Over all week one was good and it feels great to be back

I saw here standing there - The beatles

I love this song because it reminds me of my girlfriend and i also love to play it on the guitar

The song starts of with a catchy riff and a mega bassline but almost as interesting (for guitarists) it prodomitly uses 7th chords with the most used one being E7

There is also a really cool solo before the last chorus that adds more power the song

The lyric 'id never dance with another' makes me think of my girlfriend and the rest of the lyrics are just banging theyre so easy to sing and as i said the song is so fun to play on the guitar

Song 2

Poppy - Wunderhorse

i mean come on you cant not like this song it just makes you feel relaxed and its such an easy listen perfect song to just sit and stare out the window into nothing

It starts with Jacob slater singing softly and a slow guitar riff before the rest of the band join in and it gets louder towards the chorus then its slightly stripped back before the loudness kicks back in and they start playing this awesome solo.

The Lyric 'with you' is sang over and over in this soft voice that's almost psychedelic proper hits the spot man.

I dont think i could name one thing wrong with this song

The girls sounded amazing and me and max played what we had to play. max done well to get the song down quickly and stayed in time with me

I had an easy job was only 4 chords simple chords at that so the song didn't cause me any hassle whatsoever

On thursday we wrote a song in the practice booths and it turned out great

He has worked with Tempa T, Window Kid , Local and many more.

One of his first tunes to kick off was enter the dragon which came out in 2018 and since then he has been on fire releasing songs like pay for thrills and Boozy with Window Kid

I used TMRW music group and YouTube for my research on ZERO

The roles and responsibility's of a producer

A music producer manages the sound and recording for artists in order to make songs sound good without the producer the songs would never see the light of day or sound like they've been recorded on a phone with no mixing whatsoever.

A music producer needs to be able to use DAWs to record and mix sounds and also need to have an understanding on how music should sound in order for it to sound right.

Some music producers use their laptops and MacBook's so that they can use DAWs such as logic and Ableton but other more old school producers use mixing desks as they may feel they have more control or just prefer them

Producers also need to organize their stuff so that when recording a song is needed they know where everything is and they can get it out quickly and set up ready to record this includes session musicians as some bands or solo artists may need extra musicians to help with the songs and it is the producers responsibility to organize that.

A producer needs to be able to:

1. Mentorship of musicians and artists

   So that work gets done and the band isn't just playing random songs for however long  

2. Organisation of recording sessions  

   Too know who's where and when so that the studio isn't double booked and everyone knows what they are doing

3. Arranging instruments and studio 

   So that the studio is set out and recording can happen as quickly as possible and so that nobody's waiting around for everything to be ready

4. Managing money and budgets 

   Without budgeting you could get half way through and album and realise you don't have enough to finish it or spend loads on an album and barely make a profit

5. Composing and arranging music 

   Having an understanding if this just means you know what your doing when it comes to creating music and you what goes where and how loud each part needs to be

6. Communicating creative ideas 

   Without communication you could be sat on an amazing idea that would never see the light of day or it could be a terrible idea but that's what constructive criticism is for

7. Collaborating with musicians and artists  

   Very important too broaden your network within music and start working with people you wouldn't normally work with

Skills and characteristics

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 set the atmosphere and feel of studio  

4. Time keeping producers need to be efficient and always on time  

5. Identity successful producers have a unique style and musical identity  

6. Technical skill producers need to be able to use equipment old and new  

She was okay but she took unnecessarily long i mean it took her 40 mins to get to the point of why she was there and then a further 1hr 20 chatting nonsense

Thursday was great spent 4hr 45 in booths first two with my girlfriend going over some songs and then the other 2hr 45 with the band playing our original later that day me and my girlfriend elleana went and done an open mic i sung two songs my original Shadow man and hide your love away by the Beatles and then me and elleana done bittersweet symphony.

A music performer can be any type of musician ranging from a Rock or metal band all the way to choirs and orchestras

A music performer may preform in more intimate settings like radio shows or small venues to crowds of 100 or less people or in other cases to bigger venues like stadiums and festivals to crowds of 1,000+ people

The roles and responsibilities of a performer

Preform music for live audiences - This is very important for a music performer as it is there job and what they are being paid to do

Audition for positions in orchestras, choruses, bands, and other types of music groups- Unless said performer is any good at playing solo they would need to join one of these groups to achieve what they want to achieve and be in that setting with other musicians to better there own skills

Practice playing your instruments or singing to improve their technique - There's no use picking your chosen instrument up once a week if this is what you want to do you have to be playing hours everyday to master your chosen art

Rehearse to prepare for performances - going in to a gig blind is never going to work and you will end up messing up and it being very embarrassing so rehearsing with your band is very very important  

Find locations for performances and concerts  - until you get going preforming doesn't pay a lot so you need to be constantly booking venues and finding places to play so you can earn money while also bettering you performing skills

Travel to performance venues all around

the world- Unless you have a decent management team you will be spending the money on travel costs to go and play these exotic international gigs and festivals

Promote their carers by maintaining a website or social media presence or doing photo shoots and interviews - Social media is so important nowadays in the music industry without a decent following you'll find you'll get no where and be stuck dreaming instead of doing what you want to do

Skills and characteristics 

Confidence – performing in front of people confidently  

Flexibility – a performer will need to take on a variety of different roles  

Stamina – performers work long hours so they need to be able to go for ages  

Teamwork – playing and performing together well 

Musicianship – music performers need to be very good at what they do 

Critical – a performer needs to be able to tell what they do right and wrong and take critism from others to improve  

This is the final song of the night and Liam starts of by Thanking the crowd and telling them he'll see them tomorrow followed by the song name and saying 'Love and peace forever see you later, all youse lot at the back all youse to the left all youse to the right all youse bang in the middle goodbye and take care of yourself' This shows great stage presence and crowd control by Liam as he's not trying to cause aggravation between fans as i imagine they has not trying to start any aggravation bd all been stood there for along time crowded up to each other but he's also making them feel as if they are apart of the band and they are all playing together

Noel then gets the crowd to show there appreciation to the other band who was on that night and then Liam says expect the ones that was ' Shaking my caravan big time out the back the twats' noel reply's with see you later then kicks in with some feed back noise while Liam says god knows what before Alan white counts in and the whole band start to play that wicked intro that was played on the mellotron but the refined it to be more rock and roll

Liam starts singing and the whole band sounds electric some might say. The orchestra they have playing with them sound amazing and everything works extremely well together. If you thought the intro was incredible Little by little it gets even better.

Liams calm and collected not mesmerised by the moment , everyone in the crowd is either singing along or dancing JOHN SQUIRE is there Noel joins in at the chorus with some woos while Liam sings i am the egg man

For the rest of the song the whole vibe never changes Liams playing his tambourine and everyone is loving what will become one of the most monumental moments in music history

At the end of the song Liam finishes singing and flips his mic stand over while the rest of the band carry on playing he then starts walking around the stage giving it the biggen kicking things about he then climbs of the stage and starts tickling a camera man before hoping back and walking about some more and then standing there taking it all in.

The band then take a bow and applaud the crowd before waving and walking off.

Noel says ' see ya tommra' and then Liam says ' give it up for JOHN SQUIRE'

As i said this is THE BEST performance of all time and if you say otherwise you are extremely wrong

Also talked to suzy about how I prefer working and we came up with ways for me to do work in lessons while predomitly doing most of the work at home

College was shut Wednesday and Thursday

Kurt is stood still for the intro while dave builds up the drums and sprays water out of his mouth when the beat drops and krist is jumping up and down and then Kurt moves up to his mic and slides his hand up the guitar neck to play a higher chord and start singing the verse and is almost stood dead still on the mic.

Everyone except Kurt is showing this amazing energy plaything this song , even the random guy dancing on Kurt's side of the stage is having a good time

The band keep the energy going into the chorus where Kurt is still stood dead still and the camera pans down to Krist's feet and he's got no shoes or socks on

nothing changes until the end of the second chorus where a random audience member climbs onto the stage and then stage dives right in the crowd and then kicking into the solo Kurt wacks the mic stand with the headstock of his guitar before running about the stage and doing circles while falling onto the ground all while play the easy but recognisable solo

Kurt then stands back up and the band kicks back into the chorus to finish the song

Roles and responsibilities

The sound engineer is responsible for mixing and recording the live sound so that the audio coming from the stage doesn't come off choppy or rushed to the audience

They also need to be able to set up and have all the equipment ready like microphones and the pa system and have it all organized so that if something goes wrong they can fix it quickly

For certain performances they may need to have special effects or noises so having a catalogue of these effects and or noises close by would be really helpful and kill time so that they dont have to download or try and find them before the performance

Skills and Characteristics

A sound engineer needs to have good people skills and not just sit and shy away

They also need to have good communication so that if somethings going wrong they can point it out and tell people about to resolve the issue

They need to be able to use mixing desks and digital software to record and mix sound

They need to have good problem solving skills and stay calm under pressure so that if there is a problem they can fix it and not cause anyone any stress

i used this website

https://www.hud.ac.uk/subjects/music-technology/what-sound-engineer/

and this website

https://www.oiart.org/news/what-skills-do-you-need-to-be-a-sound-engineer

for my research

We had planned to do bittersweet symphony from the start and throughout the weeks me and Elise wrote an original

Everyone had to adjust as we had guy playing the fiddle and Ricky on the drums but it all went really well and we sounded great

I think I could of maybe practiced the song more although I was only 4 chords but I kinda kept changing the strumming pattern trying to follow the fiddle but it was okay and want that noticeable

We hadn't really rehearsed bittersweet symphony in the practice sessions we was focused mainly on the original so for it to turn. out how it did I am amazed and proud of max and Elise

Everyone memorised there parts and played them beautifully and for their first time being assessed on a performance Id say everyone was confident and believed in there ability to go up there and put on the best performance they could. As for myself I didn't feel nervous I just felt at peace and that I had to go and do the best I could or what was the point.

Even though we hadn't planned the end of the song we finished together and there wasn't any awkward who's ending it somehow we all stopped at the same time.

we planned the beginning of the song with me starting off and everyone else joining in.

The original

We hadn't played this together not on stage in like 3 weeks by the way so the way it turned out was amazing

Starting off the song i remember thinking the camera was recording and i played it beautifully and then like halfway through my intro Elise turns to me and says you know we are not recording right so i felt a bit stupid there but when the camera was recording i played the intro wrong which i never do cause i wrote the song but it wasn't that bad of a mistake i brung it back around and fixed it

Elise and max joined in and she done this great like sort of humming moaning thing before she started singing which sounded amazing and then she started singing and sounded great man like she was meant to be there

My stage presence throughout the performance was terrible i was in a horrible mood Monday and it carried through on stage which in future i need to fix

I play the same chords throughout the whole song and i only really messed up on the intro but apart from that i kept the tempo and the rhythm throughout the whole song and played it fine

Elise and max sounded great max kept the bassline and made no mistakes and Elise just sounded amazing and sung the lyrics that she wrote perfectly

I ended the song by strumming the guitar harder because in that moment i felt all the emotion and i needed to let it out

right there i wished i was playing a more heavy song maybe July by Wunderhorse because of how i felt i wanted to let it out and sing and shout my heart out while playing my guitar which most likely would of got smashed but i didn't and i wasn't i was playing the song that me and Elise wrote together and that's all that mattered in the moment and we preformed it beautifully

For the rest of the week im focused on finishing work that needs doing and preparing for the long boring week off

at times the work seemed to much and kept getting on top of me. I still continue to dislike logic and that hasn't changed at all but overall i feel happy to be back

There's been ups like meeting new people and making new friends there's been downs like Evan not being accepted but i feel like this term has gone pretty good

Right at the start being put into bands by guy was the best thing that could of happened there was no awkward do you want to be in a band with me or being left out everyone had a band straight away and got into it and started playing together which cleared up so much anxiety and worry what with starting alone. Even though i knew all the tutors and that it was still hard what with Tyler being on tech and Evan not coming back i did feel alone to start with.

The first couple padlet tasks was easy enough but it was just taking a while for me to get back into the groove and motivation after being off for so long which has continued throughout this assignment

I've found it hard to concentrate and kinda motivate myself to be able to do the work and to my own misfortune I've left it to the last minute countless times

I don't know why that's been the case as im fully committed to music id be lost without it cause I'm litterly not good at anything else but somethings just been holding me back and I've been slower working because of it

I have enjoyed this first term and i hope to enjoy the rest i just need to properly focus on completing the work straight away because right now its 2:17 and I've got to be in at 9:15 tomorrow but i have work to do

On more positive notes all the preforming and playing with others i did last year have massively helped my confidence towards preforming. i feel as though i can help people who have not preformed before because i know exactly how they feel and what they are thinking when it comes to preforming Infront of others

I look forward to the first gig outside of college so i can be that sort of mentor figure where its not just tutors saying its going to be okay but a classmate who maybe some people feel they can speak more openly too cause that's who i want to be i want to be someone others can speak to about performing and hopefully help them and motivate them to be better and put more into there performances and to not be so nervous about performing

1, Fires - As i say constantly working with electrics and so many different inputs and outputs all it takes is and overload of power or one dodgy cable to cause a a fire and then there needs to be fire exits so people can get out of the fire

2, Food drinks - Spillages are very dangerous as a performer could be walking about on stage and slip and hurt themselves or you could be at your soundboard and spil your drink on your sound desk and the whole gig is ruined so bottled water is a must with the cap tightly screwed on

3, Cables - With terrible cable management that is a constant trip hazard if you have a singer who likes to prance about and you have cables lying around they could trip and harm them selves so use ductape and put that over your cables adds a bit of extra time on taking everything down but it stops so many potential injury's

4, Heavy amps - tech teams are always carrying heavy amps and drum kits which when dropped on a foot or a hand or even another person can cause serious damage so i would suggest putting wheels or a carrier thing with wheels to mitigate the chance of the amps being dropped and back pain for the tech teams

5, Old guitar strings - guitar strings snap and sometimes when the snap or they are not cut properly and the end they can poke someone's eye or slash your hand as it snaps from your bridge so changing strings every few months will help with that. You can prevent it I've had a string snap like 2 hours after its been put on but changing them regularly helps with them not snapping all the time

6, Sound and ears - We work with very loud equipment and without ear protection and sound control your gonna damage your ears which you need by the way so you need to control your sound and or wear proper ear protection

Mental and physical health is so important not just in the music industry but in general if we are talking about mental health it would be rude not to mention the 27 club where so many musicans dont make it past 27 because theyre struggling mentally. Or if we are talking physical health its some sort of a trend that when you become a big rockstar you then become a massive alcoholic or you abuse drugs most of the time both there are so many examples of both of these in the music world

Amy whinehouse

Kurt Cobain

The whole of motley crue

OZZY OSBOURNE

Keith Richards

and that's not even a start

all these musicians either struggled with substance abuse before fame or started taking these things to help with dealing with the fame

If i was to reach that level of fame i would try to focus solely on my work and putting my all into music for the people but sometimes its just not that easy for people to do