Group Music Evaluation

This week for music we were told that we were performing our song. I was happy with my performance because we all performed and we didn't mess up. We were successful because we all practiced a lot and performed it without messing up.Next time I would try to use the left had as well because it would've sounded better. 

Group Performances.

This term for music we are doing group performances. I chose to work with Lily-Ray, Genica and lauren. Lily is playing the ukulele, Lauren is dancing and Genica and I are duetting on the piano. The song we have chosen is a million dreams from The Greatest Showman. We chose this song because we could all mix in our ideas and also play it in harmony. 

Here is the song.

I think that A million Dreams is about living your dreams, though you might have to sacrifice some other things to get to your dream. So far we are learning parts of the song that we want to play, Lauren has started with her choreography while Genica and I have sorted out what parts of the song we are playing, Lily has figured out on what she is playing too. The most challenging part is how we are going to combine all our instruments together. 

The Greats - Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace, Known as Liberace is a famous american pianist, singer and actor. He was born in West Allis, Wisconsin, on may 16th 1919. His parents had immigrated from Formia, in italy. He had a identical twin that sadly died at birth, he had three other siblings, George, Angelina and Rudy. Liberace began playing the piano at the age of four, his father had also taken all his children to concerts to further interest them into music, also demanding the task master for high standards for his children, wanting them to perform at their best potential. By the age of seven he could memorise difficult pieces. By the age of 8 he had met Paderewski, the former prime-minister of poland.

Facts about Liberace

• Liberace is an american pianist who learnt how to play the piano at the age of four.
• Liberace's stage name as a teenager was Walter Busterkeys.

• Liberace Created a Cookbook, he also owned a restaurant
• Liberace invented a disappearing toilet, that retracted into the walls of a bathroom.

My First Solo Performance

Last week was the start of our solo performances, it was really nerve racking because it was my first time performing in front of the class. I played Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance on the Piano. I chose to play the song because it sounded really good on the piano so that's why I played it. I was happy enough with my performance because I practiced for a long time and felt happy with it. 

^Here is my performance^

Percussion

What is the percussion?
The percussion is a instrument that has to be striked by something to be played.


Here is the drum it labelled

Some famous drummers are Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Chad Smith, Neil Peart, keith Moon and more.

The famous one handed drummer is called Rick allen, He is from the band Def Leppard.

DRUM EVALUATION
 DId you enjoy playing the drums? What was challenging? I did enjoy playing the drums, it was challenging when I didn't know how to play.
How good was your rhythm? why? I think my rhythm was ok because I did well but then I messed up a bit.

The Guitar

What is the difference between an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar?
The body is different, Electric guitars typically are smaller than an acoustic guitar. An acoustic guitar has a hollow body and are thicker wider and larger.

Three musical artists are Prince, David Bowie and Elvis presley.

What kind of musical ensembles can guitars feature in?
They can feature in Orchestra's, backing tracks and more.





Bon Jovi is a band that creates and performs rock music.

Facts about Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi actually owns the band, the other members are his employees
Instead of being called Bon Jovi, the band was going to name themselves Johnny Electric.
bon Jovi was turned down by many music companies.
His first ever song was a Star Wars song.
His father was Italian.

Did you enjoy learning the guitar?
Yes, it was really hard though, I only know the chords E and G.
What did you find challenging about playing the guitar?
Trying to learn the chords, I didn't even know how to play the guitar so that was really hard, it also hurt my fingers because the strings were really hard.

The Keyboard

This is a keyboard, it is an electrical instrument that is similar towards a piano.

What is the difference with a Keyboard and a Piano?
The difference between a keyboard and a piano is that a keyboard is electronic, this means that you have to plug it in for it to work. A piano is an acoustic instrument which you just have to tune to be able to play it.

What is the difference between the white keys and the black keys?

The difference between a white key and a black key is that the white keys represent the musical tones while the black keys represent the half step intervals between the musical tones.

On a keyboard what does your right hand play and what does your left hand play?

Left hand plays the melody while the right hand plays the deeper notes.

Stevie Wonder



Stevie wonder is a famous Musician, here are some facts about him

1. Stevie wonder Is Blind

2. he was in a car crash and lost his sense of smell and temporarily lose his sense of taste

3. He has been married twice

4. He's written songs for other musicians.

5. He's only recorded one record label 


Keyboard Evaluation

Did you enjoy it? Yes, I enjoyed playing the keyboard because the songs were easy to learn and it didn't take long for me to play a page of shallow.

What did you find challenging? I found playing with the left hand hard because I never learned how to play the back chords with that hand.

Musical!!

Today 8Bh and 8Gb were practicing our big finale song. The song we are singing is We Know The Way from the Disney movie Moana. The song has a lot of culture words in it, but we will keep on practicing until we get it right. so far I think we have done a good job so far and that we can perfect in a while. we have four more weeks to prepare for the finale and our group performances. The song that my group is doing 'This is me.' I think that we are doing a good job so far with the singing. our performance is coming along well and we just need to choreograph it and touch up our singing.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZrAmRxy_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjxugyZCfuw