Using Aural skills in music Task 2.1 26/4/17

TASK 2.1

Be able to reproduce a melody

Learners will be given a simple rhythm to clap from a popular song. Whilst keeping time learners will join in and replicate the simple rhythm to show understanding

Learners to take part in a simple call and response exercise to demonstrate understanding of time signature Tutor to clap a range of rhythms learners to respond with the same rhythm

CALL AND RESPONSE IN 4/4

CALL AND RESPONSE IN 3/4

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USING AURAL SKILLS Task 1 26 /4 17

TASK 1.1

Know about time signature

Listen to a range of music given by your tutor and identify the different time signatures, learners to listen to a range of different genres of music from classical to Hip Hop and point out the difference in time signatures and describe how different time signatures affect the mood and the tone of the music

Michael Jackson- Billy Jean is in 4/4 beat and it’s a uplifting tune, made for dancing makes you want to sing a good pop song  

Future- Mask Off is in 4/4 it is a calm beat, its a dancing beat too

Ne-yo - Miss independent is in 4/4 it is mid tempo and is good for club music

Harry Potter theme music is in 3/4 it is weird and scary type waltz music that works best in film type setting

CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS TASK2 FIRST DRAFT

One day on Friday night Kira and Bianca were walking up to meet Toni and Ben up Potty Heights because nobody was on the street and it was quiet. As they were walking up they met Jake and Jordan near the shops but they were looking for Talia, Paris and Luke. Kira got a phone call and it was Zak and Kai saying they saw something in Scott Hall field.

They all met and gathered together and ran to the field, Zak said something fell out of the sky and it was something green glowing, they all went near it but Jordan was the oldest so he was not scared. Suddenly they heard strange noises until some black thing came out the ground and clawed Jordan on his face so Toni screamed like a girl and got a bat off Ben and hit it until he got blood all over him and the bat. Kira and Bianca started laughing at Toni about the screaming and Jordan looked angry, so Kira got something to get rid of the blood off Jordan's face. Zak got a bag and Ben and Jake covered the skinned alien and took it to Potty Heights.

People where being taken over by aliens. The aliens where shining the green light, which would decrease gravity which would make people rise into the space ship, they built a machine to make people turn into aliens to make a army. The machine would transform them into weird creatures.

The sky was dark red and misty as the green lights was shining down. As the group was heading back to the flats they saw a scary creature climbing the flats. It was about 6ft tall and he looked furry and it was matte black. The creature had no eyes but it had sharp blue glowing teeth. As the creature was climbing up the flats they notice they saw smaller aliens following including Paris, Toni shouted Paris then she turned around and they saw her face was taring apart. Jake said she must of been bit because she has a mark on her neck, Talia went close to Paris so then Paris dragged her and carried her to the top. The group ran in the flats and got the lift to the 14th floor, they where panicking.

When the door opened they where greeted by an army of aliens and they all had there teeth showing wide. They notice they saw alien Paris and Talia but they had to get through all the other aliens first. Kira had an idea she had a firework from bonfire night in her bag so she sparked it and lit it and threw it down the left hand side so the aliens can follow it so there away from Talia and Paris. Once the group got to Talia they had to fight Paris to get to her. Bianca was throwing stones at Paris to get attention while Kai stood behind her with a bat and hit her on her head twice until she fell and was unconscious. The gang got Talia while the others got some fuel to Paris and they aliens saw Paris getting burnt to death and they got scared then ran away. So the faith and humanity was restored. 

As the group left Paris burnt they did not realise she was twitching.....

CREATIVE WRITING TASK 2 PLAN FOR STORY 19 10 2016

Alien abduction,
One night at Poternewton Hieghts

Characters

Bianca, Toni, Talia, Dom, Taffie, Kira, Jordan, Jake, Kai, Zak, Ryan, Luke, Paris big black alien

On Pottnewton Hights 

Getting chased by Aliens

One day on friday night Kira and Bianca were walking up to meet Toni and Dom up Potty Hights because nobody was on the street and it was quiet, As they were walking up they met Jake and Jordan near the shops but they were looking for Talia, Paris and Luke. Kira got a phone call and it was Zak and Kai saying they saw something in Scott Hall field .

People will be taken over by aliens

A green light heading to the flats and then they all saw a big black alien climbing the flat with all the young ones and the group snook inside just to see where there going too, they can see them all falling out of the sky. The whole of the sky was red and it was raining steaming hot.

The killing

They heard screaming and yelling then they saw Paris turning into a Alien THEN! She picked up Talia and took her to the tip on the building and then Kira went to get a big stick to hit Paris with, she kills the alien and restores normality to the world.

Creative Writing Skills task 1C 28th Sept 2016 SHORT PIECE CHRISTMAS THEFT

Once upon a time, it was Christmas Eve and it was a snowy day, everybody was out doing food shopping apart from one family who stayed in to play games and have fun since they have everything ready for the next big day. Mother was putting all the presents under the Christmas tree and then she stood back staring at it until she saw something was missing... it was the Angel it was not at the top of the tree, she started to panic and she ran into the room and she told them the Angel was not there so the whole family was searching for the Angel,  then the father said he will go buy one.  He went into the car and drove to find one but they was all sold out, his daughter told him to get a star which he did not think of, so he bought a star and went back home to enjoy the rest of the day. While they were home the mother was asking about the star and saying how beautiful it was, then she put it up at the top of the tree. They  decided to watch a christmas movie and had some hot chocolate and the kids fell asleep for the big day ahead. The next day it was Christmas, the kids woke up ran down stairs to open all the presents. The grand parents came and had more presents to open, they opened all of it and the mother got a diamond ring, the father got a rolex watch, the daughter got a Michael Kors neckless, and the son got an electric scooter.
They did not know the presents was stolen but the grand parents looked a bit suspicious because last year the children got dolls that were cheap,  this year how come it changed and they got expensive stuff worth a lot ? The mother was asking about the police car outside the house, the police knocked on the door asking about the stolen gifts by two old people what took stuff twice from each shopping center so they said they do not know who that could be, the police said they caught them on camera so the grand parents owned up and said they stole the gifts.  They had no money and all they wanted to have was a good christmas and to surprise there grand kids, the police said its Christmas day so they told them they can keep the gifts and have a good christmas so they thanked the police still the mother and father were upset, at least the kids had a good Christmas.

Introduction to composing music Wednesday 14th September 2016

                                                                Articulation




Articulation is what we used to help describe the type of music we are listening to. It can change how it feels by the type of note and the length of notes we use. When listening articulation is what will give the song feel and meaning, we see some good use of vocal articulation in opera where the voice is used to tell the story and the articulation is used to help with the intensity and the mood of the piece
We can see this in some pop music where the feel of the notes is more important than how clearly the words are spoken this is a feel thing mainly used by young people who use a lot of slang.

Acoustic Recording Techniques the recording process 11 5 2016

The first thing we did was run the stage box and then we placed the mcrophones in the drums

This is Kai he is running this stage box cable safely out of the way to make sure there is no trip hazard

 Each channel on the stage box will have the same channel number as the audio interface so that we can keep track of what sound is going the which track this makes it easy to follow.

This is an AKG micro microphone on the snare we make sure that the microphone is placed close to the drum to help to reduce any noise spill

 AKG micro on the tom

 This is the AKG S1000 that we used on the hi hats it is place at an angle about 2 inches from the snare 

it will pick up some noise but it will be kept to a minimum and we can EQ some of the noise out when we mix the track

 The audio interface is the Focusrite clarett we use this to send sound to and from the computer all the microphones are plugged into this and then the sound goes to the computer where we can see the level and make any adjustments

 Genelec studio monitor professional monitor , we had to be careful of the sound level to protect our ears

the bass is pugged directly into the audio interface which means that there wont be any noise spill on the bass track from the drums so we don't have to put them in separate rooms

 We use Logic Pro to record the bass guitar and drum kit at he same time, we used we used six different microphones on the drum kit and the bass was plugged directly into the audio interface, each track was separated using the interface and logic pro which gave us full control of each individual sound . We were then able to mix the track also monitor and change the level of each track so we can add dynamics and effects for a professional sound.We had to take regular breaks to make sure we didn't get tired and protect our eyes and rest our backs and neck...

At the end of the day we managed to record a good track that we can add more instruments to , we add the vocals from the vocal booth which is acoustically treated this ensures that we get the best vocal sound with no noise spill at all, although you can hear the head phone spill on the vocal track