Evaluation of Individual performance

I think my individual performance had a mixture of positives and negatives but was overall good. The positives about it were the feedback I got given about the lyrics I had written which made me feel good because my song writing skills was something I had been trying to develop over this whole process. The negatives was the way I sang the song because I don’t feel I gave my lyrics enough justice with the way I sang them. The hardest part through out this process was finding the right sound. Not being able to play an instrument put me at a major disadvantage which is why I recorded someone else playing the backing for me while I sang. Alongside this I have a lack of confidence in my singing which always holds me back. If I had the chance to do this again I would definitely try harder to learn how to play an instrument because I think it would put me more in the moment when I play the piece and makes it feel like it was completely my own. Also I would put more of the focus on my singing development by using the techniques stated in my power point instead of the actual lyrics. As well I would do more research into techniques and tricks I could use to make my performance style stronger and play out timing better throughout the process.

Final Lyrics

My Individual piece

Making my own original piece was very difficult because of my lack of musical ability. Writing the lyrics was a long process but trying to do the music was even harder which in the end I chose to have someone play it for me. I look on the internet for different chords and how to play them so I could try playing them myself but it didn't turn out the way I had hoped.

The song writing process:

Artists as writers

A major influence in my song writing is listening to how other artists write their lyrics. The factors I look for in this is:

• The use of metaphors and similes
• The emotion behind the lyrics 
• How the make me feel 
• If I can relate to them or not 

Artists I look at in relation to these are:

• Sam Smith 
• Ella Henderson
• Ed Sheeran 
• Labrynth  

Artist as Artists

When starting working on my Individual piece I started looking at Artists I like and all the things that make the good artists such as:

• Vocal range and ability
• How they performance
• Entertainment factor
• Likeability

 The artists I looked at for examples of these are:

• Evanescence 
• Paloma Faith
• Sam Smith
• Ella Henderson

Group work 2

Another part of our group performance we thought about was writing out own song. We wrote it based about student life and going out because of how much it relates to us.We used the mind map idea and wrote down everything student do in the day and on a night out.The song was called 'Student Life.'

Group Work 1

For our group music piece our main influences we're a mixture. This was because we all had our own individual tastes which made it tricky when picking songs. We searched on the internet for covers that other people had done to see if it gave us any ideas. Our ideas varied from 80's music to current chart pop and RnB music. In the end we decided on using a medley of Sam Smith songs. This was because we thought an each song would show off each individual persons singing style and vocal ability. I chose 'I'm not the only one,' Levy chose 'La la la' and Kirsty chose 'Like I can.