Ed Soal Year 13 BTEC Music

Practise Session 1: 4/10/15 Today I decided to work on paradiddles mainly on the hi-hat but nearer to the end I used the rudiment around the kit so that I felt more comfortable with it and felt as though I could execute this rudiment anywhere around the kit possible. At the start I started on a practise pad so that i felt confident with the paradiddle, I did this whilst watching a Drumeo video on youtube which is all about developing speed and control in your paradiddles,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1IQj83NCgI . When I managed to grasp this I went on my kit to test it out on the hi-hat. I decided that what would benefit me the most would be to start very slowly and play along with a metronome at 40 bpm. Once I felt comfortable with the tempo I increased the speed of the metronome by 10 bpm every time until I felt that I had covered most speeds that I would come across when drumming in church and in college. Nearer to the end of my practice I briefly started to experiment ...

Development of Pop Music From the 1950's to the Present Day. Looking back on my presentation I have seen some areas which need improving as well as key areas which I managed to do well in, for example how certain artists influenced society and the culture which surrounded music. In this post I am going to evaluate my presentation and notify to myself the important areas where I fell short and didn't analyse and describe these areas in enough detail, or perhaps didn't research enough to explain them greater when questioned. For example I didn't really expand on genres and how they changed throughout the decades thoroughly enough and I just generalised genres without really talking about all the sub-genres which were influenced from other larger genres. This affected how correct I was and how I was only hovering above the water and wasn't going deeper into the details behind the development of music through the decades. To improve I would give exact detai...