GCSE Music Composition - Unit 4 by

GCSE Music Composition 1

2013-02-13 12:50:01 UTC

Key Facts:
20% of total marks (30 marks)
Up to 25 hours of Controlled Assessment, informal supervision
1 piece of music
Uses 2 or more of the 5 Areas of Study
You choose style or genre
No minimum length, although more is better
Recording of final composition– live performance, ICT or a combination
Must have a musical score e.g. staff notation, annotation, graphic notation,
tab, or a combination

You need to decide on a piece which is going to influence / inspire your composition and post the following here:

Title of the piece.
Composer of the piece.
Why it inspires your composition.
What do you want to 'take' from the piece and use in your composition.

A* Grade Piano Composition!

okhokher — 2013-02-13 13:33:30 UTC

GCSE Guitar Composition

okhokher — 2013-02-13 13:45:49 UTC

GCSE Drum Kit Composition

okhokher — 2013-02-13 14:49:28 UTC

AQA Guidance for Candidates

okhokher — 2013-02-13 14:52:53 UTC

Example Scores & Annotations

okhokher — 2013-02-13 14:56:36 UTC

2012 Examiner Report - Unit 4

okhokher — 2013-02-13 14:57:40 UTC

A* GCSE Song Composition

okhokher — 2013-02-13 14:59:36 UTC

Michael Gladwin: Inner Ninja by Olly Murs

okhokher — 2013-02-27 08:45:24 UTC

This song is great because it uses a variety of beats, most of them are computer made and it shows a mix of genres like Reggae, Pop & Rap.

Inspirational link.

okhokher — 2013-11-28 08:39:58 UTC

Who are you?

What existing piece are you using as your stimulus?

What is it that inspires you about the piece?

What do you want to 'borrow' from the piece

Nina c:

2013-11-28 11:48:38 UTC

This piece inspires me because i can relate to the lyrics and they mean alot to me. I also love the melody and would like to base my own performance on it.

Hollie G

2013-11-28 11:57:38 UTC

i like how the piano chords og the song. This Song also means alot to me by the lyrics.

Amy Oram

2013-11-28 11:58:55 UTC

Let it go - Demi Lovato

This piece inspires me because I really like the melody of it. I want to borrow the chord sequence

Lewis

2013-11-28 11:58:56 UTC

Song: Animal I have become - Three days grace

This song inspires me because I like the low base part of the song playing all the way through the song

Kyra H

2013-11-28 11:58:57 UTC

it inspires me because i like the melody. im gonna borrow the beat.

Lauren C

2013-11-28 11:59:51 UTC

song: James Arthur wrecking ball (cover)

what inspires me: how it's slow and the chords

I want to borrow the chord sequence.

tom zheng

2013-11-28 12:00:13 UTC

"fight your fears" by tinox beats

it is very agressive but fluent in the melodys

maybe the strings of the instrumental what makes it sound like a war instrumental

Ashley Trim

2013-11-28 12:02:31 UTC

Ludovico Einaudi-Life

The pace that it thickens up

Parts of the piano

mathue clark time of your life by green day

2013-11-28 12:37:47 UTC

because green day on this song they change the tempo from 4 beats oer bar to 3 beats per bar.

simpalnes of it but yet sound complacated

on the guitar.

JESSIE GREEN

2013-11-28 12:45:04 UTC

song; how to save a life

it inspires me through lyrics and drum beats which are simple but also good, i want to borrow the 8 beat from the drum part of the song.

Iwan Bielecki

2013-11-28 12:45:19 UTC

favoured nations- the setup

The bass line is awesome, I would like to use some of it in my song.

Alex Shinn. Sail by AWOLNATION

2013-11-28 12:45:22 UTC

This song inspires me because the piano chords and the drum pattern are both great but also hard.

I would like to take the piano pattern from it becasue I have already learnt it and I think I can work on it more.

Dan Hall

2013-11-28 12:45:51 UTC

I have chosen the song 1998 by Peace because these so many different changes in song and they've manged to . I would like to use the section between 3:00 and 3:32 as it becomes faster and sets the tone for the rest of the song.

Ben Anderson

2013-11-28 12:46:52 UTC

Papa Roach- lifeline

in this piece i like the intro because it is fast and there is alot of ways that you could carry the song on after.

Charlie Foster

2013-11-28 12:46:58 UTC

If You Can't Hang - Sleeping With Sirens

I picked this song because both guitar parts in the intro (first 30 seconds) are awesome! It sounds really cool and could fit in my composition.

Eddie Craven: Can you feel my heart by Bring Me The Horizion

2013-11-28 12:47:17 UTC

This song inspires me by the fact that some of the instumental parts are simple but it sounds so good

I want to borrow the computerized part that runs the length of the song

dominic betts feel this by tozu productions

2013-11-28 12:48:57 UTC

what i like about this beat is that is simple but a good effective song