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• What type of research did you do, and why?

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• How effectively did you work with others?

• How well did you manage your time?

• How effective was the rehearsal process?

• What are you particularly proud of in the development and delivery of the project?

• How effective was the final performance?

• What kind of feedback have you had about the final performance?

For this column your posts can be written, or spoken in the form of vlogs, or a mixture of the two.

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• personal vocal or instrumental practice

• arranging

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• performing

• musical director

• songwriter (if including original material)

• MC

• stage manager

• front of house

• promoter

• treasurer

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• Set list

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Ethan- guitar

Zoe- vocals

nadia-vocals

set list - I will survive, isn't she lovely, boys don't cry, heaven knows I'm miserable, original song

roles and responsibilities- Ethan-guitar ,Chris-bass, Connor- drum , Nadia, Joyce and Zoe-vocals

time- we have a 20 minute slot which is our time to preform

potential audience market- due to the songs we preform being quite universal I feel like we could cater to a lot of different types of audiences

Boys don't cry - The cure

creep- Radiohead

isn't she lovely - Steve wonder

Heaven knows I'm miserable - The smiths

jeans don't fit

The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

for this song i have noticed he goes higher during the end lines in the chorus to create more focus on it which is something i have tried to focus on doing during rehearsals.

i will survive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhZPp08s74&list=RDFHhZPp08s74&start_radio=1

at the start of this song Gloria Gaynor drops her voice to a more breathy tone which is accompanied by a single chord which creates more focus on the lyrics

this piano intro consists of an e dominant seventh ascending followed by a F diminished seventh descending,

The chord progression for the whole song is A minor to dm 7 to G to C to F to B to E back to A minor this is called the Circle of fifths.

the third song we will be doing is isn't she lovely by Stevie wonder, this song was written by Stevie wonder about his newborn daughter aishia and was released on his 1976 album 'songs in the key of life'

the fourth song that we will be preforming will be creep by Radiohead that was released

The venue that we are preforming at is called the mash house and it is a live music venue centered in Edinburgh's Cowgate, it has a rustic feel with brick walls and low lighting which makes the room feel very intimate.

https://www.outtheboxfest.co.uk

The actual event that we are going to be preforming at is called the out of the box fest and it is being run by Edinburgh college from the 12th of may till the 15th where there will be a series of bands preforming from all the different levels in the college, we will be the second band preforming in the 12th of may.

I also noticed that i got more comfortable and confident towards the end so again just would be good if that was continued.

i also liked how the moments where we did get lost we tried to help each other by making eye contact and cues to get each other back on track.

i also like how in that we were making the decisions of who would sing what parts so that the songs would sounds its best with the varies of voices we were working with.

Picking out highlights i think we all worked as a team together really well especially the singers, personally i was very nervous the whole day but was proud of myself for not freezing while actually on the stage and pulling it together. I was pleased with how my two solo songs went and managing to sing with volume as well as hitting all the high notes.

I do however personally with that i had moved around a bit more on stage as i felt i stayed in one spot and looked down more than i should have as a audience member mentioned i have good stage presence just in a more restrained way.

in regards to how i would use this to prepare for future performances. i would be more prepared for my other band members songs as i feel i got my two songs and hyper focused on nailing them so even though the other songs were prepared i could have known them better as there were moments where the other singers on stage got lost and i could have helped them out.

we performed at the mash house on the 12th of may.

The first thing we did was go through a sound check to make sure we sounded good and that everything was level and even as well as to our preferences, we got there at 5 and got on stage after the previous band was finished, we sang a verse and chorus from boys don't cry to make sure we were all level and we could all hear ourselves, in that song i was very satisfied as i could hear myself fine. After that another one of our singers arrived so we sound checked for her which also went well, because we were the first band on we just left out things on stage and i left the mic adjusted to my height as well as the setlist that one of our bandmates had prepared for us.

once on stage and we did any last minute preparations as the audience spoke among themselves, when we were ready we gave the sound tech a signal and we were ready to go. I started by saying hello to the audience and introducing the first song we would be preforming as well as the singer leading it, i also did the same for the other singer's song as well as the last

Another personal inspiration for myself would be a singer called Kelsey Karter who sings in a complete opposite style to Amy as she has a lot more of a grungy and rougher voice with a lot of "screeches". although both of these woman have very different voices i do find myself taking inspiration from them both as they both have very strong and powerful voices as well as taking inspiration in their appearances as they dress and present themselves in a way i personally really resonate with.

As for band inspirations over they year of working with my bandmates i have gotten to know them quite well and can say that for the general band as a whole we take inspiration from bands like the smiths and dinosaur junior as when we were making our original song which was preformed the guitarist took the lead with developing the melody and he mentioned that those were band he was channelling during that.

for my personal preparation for the two songs i took lead on which was Heaven Knows I'm miserable by the smiths and creep by Radiohead i took the time to watch videos of the original artists preforming these songs live to see the techniques they used and how that can help me in my performance, however due to the fact that these and obviously older men and i am a younger women our voices sound extremely different so i sang it in a higher octave and watched a cover of someone similar to me singing the song so i could gain inspiration and knowledge of how to sing it in a way that was more suited for my voice.

Carrie Manolakos - Creep (Radiohead)

overall i would say it was very positive and left me with a lot of hope and encouragement for the gig and took away any silly worries i had.