Skills

• Versatile
• Playing well in a band
• Playing in time
• Learn all scales
• Picking
• Rhythms
• Soloing
• Reading music
• Reading tabs
• Play chords

Qualities

• Communication skills
• Motivation
• Working well in a team
• Helpful
• Reliable
• non-judgemental
• inclusive
• Positive

Why are these skills important?

• to be a more employable musician
• to work well with others and have more skills

why are these qualities important?

• so you get on with people better
• so people like you so they employ you

where can you find information?

• open days
• prospectuses
• websites
• information books

Strengths 

• working efficiently
• punctuality
• friendly
• helpful
• careful

Weaknesses 

• experience
• reading and writing
• where i live

Opportunities 

• being at college
• gaining experience
• playing in lots of bands/ groups

Threats 

• travel
• experience
• location

Why is it important to develop your strengths?

• so people will want to employ you
• so you keep getting better

Why is it important to work on your weaknesses? 

• so you can improve and do new things
• so you are more employable

Strengths

• Performance skills
• learning by ear
• playing in a band
• playing a variety of instruments
• being adaptable

Weaknesses 

• recording skills
• Studio one
• vibrato with trumpet
• singing
• fingerpicking on guitar

Opportunities 

• use of recording studio
• great tutors
• playing in bands
• doing gigs
• being around other musicians

Threats 

• Travel
• Experience
• Qualifications
• Time
• Nerves

1. Write down the names of as many 1960’s artists/ bands that you come across during the session.
• Temptation
• The Supremes
• Pink Floyd
• Bob Dylan
• Mick Jagger
• The Beatles
• Gerry and the Pacemakers
• Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
• Cilla Black
• The Rolling Stones
• The Kinks
• The Who
• The Animals
• James Brown
• The Mammas and the Papas
• Cream
• Joan Baez
• Tim Buckley

2. Write down the main ‘styles and genres’ of music from the 1960’s that are discussed in the programme.
• Merseybeat
• British Blues
• Soul
• Motown
• California Scene
• British Psych
• Rock Gods
• Poets and Protesters

3. What are the key arguments and strong opinions that come out from the discussions in the programme?
• consumerism
• It was a time everything changed in the music industry.
• Britain started to take over in the music industry.
• It was the beginning of rock/pop festivals.

1. Write down as many 1950’s artists/ bands that you have come across during the session. 

• Frank Sinatra
• Dean Martin
• Elvis Presley
• Bill Haley
• Eddie Cochran
• Lonnie Donegan
• Fatz Domino
• Big Joe Turner
• Buddy Holly
• Ike Turner
• Dom Rennie
• Doris Day
• The Everly Brothers
• Gene Vincent
• Ray Charles
• Judy Garland
• The Mudlarks
• Des O’conner
• Hank Williams
• Johnny Cash
• Little Richard 
• Bo Diddley 

2. Write down as may ‘styles and genres’ of music from the 1950’s that are discusses in the programme. 

• Rock Pioneers
• Western swing
• Crooners and Swingers
• Skiffle
• American teen idols
• Soul
• Jazz

3. What are the key arguments and strong opinions that come out from the discussions in the programme? 

• Times were hard – music was soft (Britain was broke after the war).
• Lonny Donegan – very important and broke boundaries.
• Skiffle died really quickly.
• Musical explosion.
• People started writing new songs more.
• More young Musicians and stars.
• First ‘teenage’ market.
• Birth of music industry.
• Music was simpler.

Top 5 tracks:

1. Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley and his comets.
2. Diana – Paul Anka.
3. Mary’s Boy Child – Jester Hairston.
4. What do you want to make those eyes at me for? -Emile Ford.
5. Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley.

Shawshank redemption

-The music is very subtle and thin to start off with.
-There are quite a few minor chords to represent the pain the character is feeling.
-As the conversation builds up the music builds.
-The instrumentation is very subtle and starts off with just a quiet drone played by the string instruments and a piano playing quite dreamy, sorrowful chords over the top.
-When Morgan Freeman speaks the strings sound warm and quite positive.
-The piano plays a high pitch, slow melody accompanied by strings, this makes it quite tense and eerie and fits with what the characters are saying.
-The chords the piano plays are repeated over and over and are a semitone apart which makes it feel quite tense and a bit dissonant.

The good, the bad and the ugly

-Instrumentation: Strings, castanets, brass, classical guitar, glockenspiel, timpani, piano, cymbal.
-Classical guitar plays a repeated arpeggio which accelerates and is quite fast which builds tension.
-Each time the music changes chord it is quite dramatic and builds tension.
-When the trumpets enter they add volume and brightness to the music. They play a melodic theme which is repeated by other instruments and is very recognizable.
-The chords rise up which adds to the tension.
-At one point in the scene the music stops completely to show what it’s like from the characters perspective and to create tension.

Jaws

-Melodic theme is played by low pitched instruments with accented notes played by brass to make is sound scary.
-Melodic theme has a semitone interval, is low pitched and accelerates which makes it sound tense.
-The bell on the boat rings at randomly to symbolize how the character and the boat is out of control.
-The strings play a very fast melody to symbolize how the character is having to think fast.
-The melodic theme accelerates also to show how the shark is getting closer and the character has less and less time.
-When he climbs the mast of the boat the horns play a melody that is repeated by the flutes which is quite major and positive which could be showing hope for the character.
-When the shark comes back the trumpets play a high pitched dissonant chord to show the tension and danger the character is in.
-Brass plays rising melody as the shark is approaching.
-Just before shark dies the music stops for a split second for anticipation.

Task one:

Foo Fighters – The Pretender

Intro – the guitar plays a melody which is mainly arpeggio’s. It makes the song sound smooth and fits in with the vocal melody which is mostly using steps and repeats twice.
Verse – The electric guitar plays an ascending riff with the vocals coming in after 2 bars. The vocals use steps and repeat the same melody twice.
Chorus – The melody in the vocals is repeated a few times and mainly uses steps.
Bridge – Here the vocal melody uses a leap.
Last chorus – Here the melody’s are polyphonic as the melody from the intro come back in underneath the main melody of the chorus.

Pencil Full Of Lead

The tune I have chosen is the trumpet part in pencil full of lead by Paolo Nutini. The tune starts on the flattened 7th of the chord and goes down in steps firstly. Then there is a leap up to the top note and it comes back down in steps. The first bit is repeated twice then it changes, in the song it is repeated twice then at the end of the song the last bit of the melody is repeated a few times. The song is in the key of D major but the trumpet is in E major.