Solo Performance Evaluation
Before I start practising any of my chosen songs, I first organise them so I know in which order I’ll be preforming them. I looked back at some of the songs I played in my first solo performance and picked the strong ones which were ‘Caged Bird’ and ‘I Want You Here With Me’.
The reason why I picked Caged Bird is because that is one of my original songs that I know confidently with flair and also because from my first solo performance set, that is the only song where I am playing piano and I know I would have no problems with that, the only thing I need to do was to add melody lines to it. With 'I Want You Here With Me' the reason why I picked it for my second solo performance is because that's the only song where there's a backing track and a guitar solo which is what I am doing but most of what I am playing is just me improvising on the top of the backing track.
After deciding which songs from my first solo performance I was going to pick, I added two more songs to my set list which would make up to 18-20mins.
I carefully looked at my set list of songs that I performed and during the half term we had before my final solo performance I on a new set of songs that I wanted to add to the final set list. each day I worked closely on each section of the song so I could get the best of it in time for the concert and play by memory.
The reason why I picked Caged Bird is because that is one of my original songs that I know confidently with flair and also because from my first solo performance set, that is the only song where I am playing piano and I know I would have no problems with that, the only thing I need to do was to add melody lines to it. With 'I Want You Here With Me' the reason why I picked it for my second solo performance is because that's the only song where there's a backing track and a guitar solo which is what I am doing but most of what I am playing is just me improvising on the top of the backing track.
After deciding which songs from my first solo performance I was going to pick, I added two more songs to my set list which would make up to 18-20mins.
I carefully looked at my set list of songs that I performed and during the half term we had before my final solo performance I on a new set of songs that I wanted to add to the final set list. each day I worked closely on each section of the song so I could get the best of it in time for the concert and play by memory.
Like I said before, from the first solo performance list the songs I decided to play again was Caged Bird and I Wan You Here With Me. I also added to more songs to make it up to 18-20mins and the other two songs I picked was my very own composition which I was working during the week off before the solo performance and another called 'Superhero' which is an original from a friend of mine where I did a Keytar melody line in the original song, so that is why I decided to use it for my solo set performance.
Each day I took time practising my guitar and piano solos slowly to perfect it for the solo performance and by doing that I started by going through each section of each piece where I found it hard to play or wasn't too confident about it. I took the opportunity to go to my guitar teacher and go through some of the pieces i found difficult. my guitar teacher and i have been going through some of the techniques that can really improve some of the passages i find difficult and they have been really useful for me and in general as a musician. One of the useful things that i do to ensure i play correctly in time and in rhythm, i use a metronome to help me play in time. Also, using a tuner is one of the most important aspects of a musician and i must always be in tune whenever i play any type of genre.
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