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Browsa

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My Practical Exams

For my first Music 1 exam this coming Thursday 15th September (yikes!), I'll be doing one performance and THREE Musicology Viva Voces. Here they are:

Core:
"Hello" by Evanescence on Piano

Vivas:
Elective 1 - Rock Music (Green Day under the genre of Punk)
Elective 2 - Australian Music (Ross Edward's musical stylings)
Elective 3 - An instrument and its repertoire (Delta Goodrem's use of the piano)

I'm all good with my core but my vivas are real trouble as I haven't prepared or done hardly anything :( The only thing I have done - started on the summaries for each viva. I am stuffed thanks to my music teacher recommending me to do three viva voces when I should have done two performances and two vivas, the second performance being "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin on piano. He teached me step by step on that peice, and I wanted to play "Hello" because it interested ME not him. Oh well, whatever happens in a couple of days, GOD HELP MY SOUL
 

kangarulz

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i'm thinking about doing...

blackbird by the beatles
classical gas
shook me all night long - acdc

and my other elective is music and religion.. which will be pretty easy, ill pull somethin from church
 

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On bass;

Portrait of Tracy - Jaco Pastorius
Power - Marcus Miller
Clocks - Coldplay (possibly, not 100% sure)
Something by Adam Nitti.
 

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mbevz said:
ahaha farmkids are so good at music coz they've got nothing else to do after they feed the cows :D


anyways im a drummer playing...

access denied - dave weckl
take the veil cerpin taxt - the mars volta
schism - tool

and im still working out what i'll do for my 4th piece....

dont steal my songs heh heh heh

Thank God there are some drummers here!! Thought I was on my lonesome in this thread :p
 

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I'm doing music 1 and 4 performances:

Drums:
Chameleon -Herbie Hancock
some random big band swing jazz peice

Guitar + Vocals:
LAst Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Hotel California - Eagles (hell freezes over version)
 

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Music 1 and 4 performances too

1) Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin (playing guitar and drums at same time :D, with a vocalist)
2) Sultans of Swing - Dire Straights (rock band)
3) Rondo-Ala-Turka - arranged by Tommy Emmanuel (same as Mozart, but think quicker and with a western almost comical feel to it, solo is dam fast lol)
4) Dont get around much anymore - Duke Ellington (jazz band)

all on da guitar: steel string and electric
 

tranquilspoons

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So far i only know for sure 2 pieces which i will be performing.

Oh Yoko- John lennong (guitar singing)
Credence - Opeth (guiatr)
and still thinking about 2 others, possibly performing my composition from last terms topic.
 

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Im an alternative rock singer/guitarist, i want to diversify but still keep one or two of my my peices that are heavy rock. Is this style considered rough ground? The pieces are quite complicated rythmically and structurally so they are not easy songs. does genre really affect the mark that i get? also as i am a singer/guitarist, i cant play any complicated guitar riffs whilst i am singing, because am showing i can play two instruments simultaneously will this compensate for that?

if anyone could help me out that would be great.

Cheers,
Runtcash
 

melbyrne123

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Hey guys, i'm doing 3 voice and 1 Piano:

Offerings by Third Day (piano)
Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas
Bring Me To Life by Evanescence
Breathe No More by Evanescence

coolness....so yah!:wave:
 

kit scara

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Oh I love Jeff Buckley "last goodbye". I love all Jeff Buckley songs.
I'm doing one in fact, but he didn't write it, he just sang it once,
"Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneus by Purcell.
And I'm also doing "Moonfall" from the Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Rupert Holmes.

For Harp I'm playing
"Sonatina I" by Dusik
and "Theme and Variations" by Naderman.


Man everyone has funky songs.

Hey runtcash, they aren't supposed to mark you down on genre, so long as you perform it well enough and you stay true to the genre. Though if you want to do rap or something they would probably whoop your ass.
 

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the thing is that you must play to your audience to a certain extent, choose variety to showcase your talent.. saying hey i can play anything!, the markers will warm more to something they can appreciate, so something weird that only you like and not many other people wont be received as well
 

Bunny04

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Of course they can't mark you down because they may not like it- Although technically you can't stop that from happening, although I doubt it has.
Wedding gigs. Yes ! Almost every bloody 2nd weekend -groan-
What's with people in Sydney and weddings I tells you!
 
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hey all,

for my performances i'm doing

vocals; hark the echoing air- purcell

vocals; stardust- the michael buble version

piano ; romance from a piano concerto by mozart

violin ; menuetto from Haydn's string quartet in C

anyone doing any of these? xxx
 

Disease

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Ben Folds Five - Army (vocals, piano)
The Whitlams - Buy Now Pay Later (vocals, piano)
Stuart Greenbaum - Affinity [from Ice Man] (piano)
Ben Kweller - In Other Words (vocals, piano)
 

Mutationis

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i'm a violinist (doing music 2) and my pieces are:

Pseudoblues- Karpiniec
Appassionata- Suk
Meditations- Massenet

they're not the greatest pieces and not my favs either, but that's the HSC. they do the job of showing what i can do and what not...
 

P_Dilemma

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is anyone going to do some Anime pieces? That'd be cool.

I'm looking for "First Love", the off-vocal piano version, by Utada Hikaru as well. Plz help!
 

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I'm probably doing 4 performances, if not 3 and a viva voce (got 17/20 for one in an assessment). Got a few songs in mind so far:

Piano
Konstantine - Something Corporate (9 mins long, but fairly simple, doing it with a singer too)

Guitar
Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day (easy enough to play, but I can do it well and that's pretty important)
Something metallica (because everyone knows a metallica solo is impressive to a marker, if i can pull it off)
The Nightmare's Beginning - Vincent's Theme from Final Fantasy 7 (I know it sounds like a strange choice, but it's a classical guitar piece, and my music teacher said it would be a good one to play)
 

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