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Unit 9: Rehearsal Diaries/songwritting

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 First Rehearsal session 15/09/25 For our first rehearsal session, we were given a challenge to write a song with a structure that was picked out randomly from a cup. This challenge was given to everyone to try to experiment with different structures to what we'd normally use and to help us write a song in a different way than what we'd normally do. The structure we were given was Intro, verse, chorus, interlude, verse, chorus, extended outro Here is a clip of us performing that song For our first rehearsal session, we were given an assignment to rehearse and write three songs in order to create a cd. We were given around 3 weeks to rehearse and write the songs. We eventually wrote three songs, one being called "When the time is right", another one called "Save the world", and the last one called "out of the cold". "Save the world" was originally in the key of D but it didn't suit or singer's vocal range, so we changed it to be in...

Unit 11: University

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 Bristol university - BA Music This course can lead you too careers like a BBC producer, professional performer and composer, publisher, agent and a lawyer. The programme duration is 3 years for full time students, and 6 years for part time students. The fees are £9,535 for home students, and £31,300 for international students The lecturers include Professor Justin Williams, and Professor Emma Hornby, and composers like Professor Michael Ellison, and Professor John Pickard The victoria rooms which is the music department building, includes 13 rehearsal rooms, a 530 seat auditorium, recording studios, a complex of teaching and study spaces and a student common room. Birmingham university - Music BMus With this course you have the opportunity to choose from modules like Film music techniques and history, Music and emotion The symphony: prestige and politics. The fees include £9, 535 for Uk students. The music staff include Professor Simon Halsey, Professor Michael Zev Gordon, and Ass...

Unit 11 - Employability review

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  Employability Review   This is what you should have covered last year:   Identifying skills   Generating ideas   Decision-making techniques   Strengths and weaknesses   Planning   SMART targets   Skills awareness   Team roles   Presentation skills   Online collaboration   Digital citizenship and ethics.     Task   Start a new post on your portfolio: Unit 11 – Employability Review .   Using the above headings as guidelines, write a paragraph on each summarising the key issues and take-aways. Ideally you should offer commentary that relates to your own personal practice.   Please feel free to consult any of last year’s work or resources. Use images, videos, as necessary. You may do further research online: include links to sources used.     Time   2 hours.   Identifying skills Our class discussed skills that had relevance to employability to help us in a job. For example, bein...

Unit 11: Project planning

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  1. ) What are you planning to submit? Me and my band are planning to submit a cd including 3 original tracks we have written together. We will track our progress through the project timetable that we have created individually 2.) What quality criteria are in place? Make sure the audio files are 16 bit which is WAV or AFF. And make sure the photos are 1425x1425 pixels and 300 DPI saved in JPEG or PNG files. 3.) Who are the stakeholders? The stakeholders include myself and the band, the lecturers and UAL. 4.)  What risks you have identified ? Are there steps you can take to proactively manage these?   One of the risks include procrastination where we may keep moving tasks around, the step we have taken to manage this is create a timetable to follow and encourage each other to do the work ready for each presentation milestone. Another risk could include a band member being unwell and missing days in college, in order to manage this, the rest of the band will just have to ...