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1: Assess personal goals, in relation to the effective

rehearsal of a fifteen minute performance:

-1.1a: methods for effective preparation for each rehearsal:

What will I do to effectively prepare?
- I will come into each lesson knowing what work I will be
covering in that lesson. I will also practise more, for example
practising for 4 hours a week. I will break my practice up into
chunks so that I am not just trying to practice the whole of a
piece and getting bogged down in it.
- I must write a summary of each rehearsal and what I can
improve on. I need to ask my teacher about improvements.
- I will make sure that I have discussed with my teacher what
type of warm up techniques best suit my voice and also my
piano skills.

These are the key points that I am going to incorporate every

time I rehearse:-

Good posture
Breathing deeply employ the diaphragm not just the
lungs
Release jaw cheek massage
Drink warm liquids
Do scales this will warm up the bottom and top range
of my voice
Try lip and tongue trills

For example if I was a singer I would have to make sure I

warm up my voice by singing high notes carefully. Another
way of warming up your voice is playing piano scales whilst
singing them.

For my piano pieces, I will make sure that I warm up by

playing scales and arpeggios at varying degrees of tempo in
order to make sure I am fluent in the wrist.

1.1b: methods for on-going refinement of personal

instrument and/or voice.

- I will make sure I ask my teacher or my music tutor what I as

an artist can improve on. They may be big improvements or
little improvements. Regardless I need to act on them. I will
use my practice diary to record this information and act upon
it.

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- I will make sure I bring a note pad to each lesson so when my
teacher/tutor gives me constructed criticism I will need to
write it down.

From the example below, you can see boxes containing

different rehearsal criteria. In the first box it asks you what
you did in the lesson. This would mean that you as a musician
would need to write in what things you practised, how long
you practised them and what progress you made. I personally
would write how I practised my whole fifteen minutes
performance start to finish. It took me approximately 10
minutes. However these are not my only pieces, I have
another two group pieces, which would bring the time up to
fifteen minutes. My continuous practise of my fifteen, minute
performance throughout the lesson has resulted in me making
significant progress. I practised the transitions that are in
between each song. I decided to put these transitions in place
to capture the audiences attention and to add a bit of flavour
within my songs, which are a lot of the time sad and
miserable.

The third and final box is about your what went wells and your
even better ifs (WWW and EBI) this is a box for evaluation I
must evaluate my own performance by watching it back over
and over again, but you must always ask your teacher for
some advice, maybe even you music tutor. My what went
wells would be for fluidity and confidence and that the pieces
were played to a good standard, however my even better ifs
would be to concentrate on my own skill level and to not add
any funky notes or musical phrases into the original piece of
music to make it sound better.

You can see my improvements over time in 1.2. rehearsal

processes, where I am completing my diary logs.

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Example of the practice diary I use with my piano teacher:

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1.1c: refinement of my image as an artist and my
inspirations:

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- I respect all criticism given to me and I act upon it to ensure I
get the best out of my lessons.

- I attend all of my music tuition with again the odd lessons I am

ill. Which is good because I learn more if I attend more

- I also believe I work to the best of my ability and also

encourage others to do so too.

- I could work on my piano skills at home more.

- I need to make sure that I bring all of my books and notepads

to my music lessons.

1.1e: Impact of active engagement with other

musicians and peers:

I think it is very important to have a good relationship with

your peers in music, especially when performing. A better
relationship will result in better communication skills while
performing. Personally I have a good relationship with my
peers and musicians from the lower years of the school. They
can learn from me and I can also learn from them. The impact
of having these positive relationships with your peers and
maybe even teachers is that they will enjoy being around you
and want to practise more resulting in a higher chance of you
not making mistakes while on stage.

1.2: Describe the profile of the rehearsal process for

specific performances of fifteen minutes material
defining the following:

-1.2a: the rationale for the rehearsal process:

The purpose of rehearsal is to get better at our set for our final
exam. And to spot any weaknesses or weak points and work
on them to erase them and to erase the chance of making
those same mistakes on the performance day, which will
result in a flawless performance. You can talk over the
rehearsal with your peers or band and see if anything needs to
be changed or arranged. When we rehearse we get a better
idea and view of our performance. Adding new things into
performances adds contrast especially if one song or section is
a lot different to the others.

1.2b: why I chose the pieces for my repertoire:

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When anyone listens to my set they say there is a massive
contrast of emotions when I play mainly because all of my
songs portray different emotions: sadness, happiness and
love. I picked a classical style intro to get the audience ready
for my set. The intro used in my set had that job. I then play
Schindlers list to add a classical feel to my repertoire as I
tried to cover all genres. The classical feel is then interrupted
by the slow melody of the titanic theme. A slow version of
drown by Bring me the Horizon is played. The main aspect of
my set is fluidity. After bring the horizons drown is played I
play a piano and clarinet with my classmate and friend
Rebecca. I am of course on piano and Rebecca is on clarinet.
We played the beautiful in the hall of the mountain king by
Edvard Grieg. I chose to play this as it starts of slow and quiet
but then gets fast and loud showing constant dynamics. I
chose to then play a slow pop song called sweater weather
this is sort of a cool down song from all the emotion
portrayed in the songs before. This song is what Id call an
imagery song. It reminds you of things and put images of
beaches in your mind. Here is the link to sweater weather:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdwKhTtNNw

1.2c: Method by which developments and ideas are

documented e.g. recording with all the with the
rational for doing so and what impact it may have:

See diary evidence of progress over one term.

1.2d: On-going opportunity for formative peer or tutor
feedback and the impact this will have on the process:

See examples of self/peer and tutor feedback on Weebly

1.2e: Health and safety implications of rehearsing the

chosen repertoire in the chosen rehearsal space

As a pianist I must warm up my hands by doing scales and

stretching my fingers and hands. When singing I must check
wires for any faults in the P.A and make sure that the wires are
safely tucked in somewhere that no one can trip over them. I
must also check the level setting on the PA so the volume is
appropriate to the venue. e.g. I dont want to be blowing the
speakers and producing an uncomfortably loud sound for the
performers and audience. Also I need to check that the piano
is cleaned with no paper on the top of it to make it look
professional. I need to make sure that the piano is fully tuned
beforehand.

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1.4: Assess success of the rehearsal process by
responding to tutor comments in relation to:

- A full dress rehearsal of the set.

- The rehearsal process as a whole

-Notes on final set mocks- WWW:

-Introduced myself
- Everything was set up correctly (clean piano)
- Little talks added a positive atmosphere to my set.
-I engaged with the audience on numerous occasions

Notes on my personal set:

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 - My set was emotional
- It was introduced.
- I showed good use of dynamics
- My pieces linked well
- In the Hall of the Mountain King flowed well and showed
correct tempo and I had no mistakes whatsoever.

Notes on Rebeccas set:

- Ave Maria was played beautifully but with a few squeaks on

the Clarinet.
- She showed amazing dynamics
- Tempo was at a steady pace.
- However she missed some notes in the melody

Notes on Aimees set:

- She missed a couple of notes

- Her mistakes recovered well though.
- Her pieces linked well.
- She needs to play with pedal.

Conclusions:

The Process:
I feel that I have been able to learn a variety of pieces during the
course of this process and a variety of techniques, such as reading
the stave, both treble and bass clef. I feel like I have improved on
my communication skills during the process and am able to show
confidence and engagement with the audience through the music.
My pedalling technique has improved greatly during the process; I
can now show phrasing and contrast in my piano set. I think that all
my pieces are to a much better standard than they were at the start
of the unit. Throughout the weeks and months of our music lessons
I have performed in many pieces with my group of three in music.
The best piece in my opinion is Little Talks. It has a good variety of
instruments building layers. I think that I have used technology
effectively in my performance. The levels on my mic for Little Talks
sounded good and I was able to set up the mic and mic stand
without any issues.

For my final repertoire, I need to make sure I have everything I

need in terms of items I need to smile make eye contact throughout
when needed. I also need to make sure I continue to introduce my
set as I did before. I need to remain calm throughout to ensure I
dont make silly mistakes.

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For the future my plans are to write songs. But first I must learn how
to sight read music off the sheet music. After that I dont really
know. But to get there I need to continue to perfect the basics like
keeping my wrists up while playing, reading and playing whats on
the sheet and dont make any thing up from the sheet like
improvisation where its not required. If I continue to play like this I
will look professional.