{"id":917,"date":"2019-03-12T11:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T11:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/?page_id=917"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:37:56","slug":"final-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/final-performance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWI0BDmBv30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This final performance was majorly rushed, I only started practicing two days before the gig, so to say that I believe it went exceptionally well is a bit of an understatement. However, it wasn&#8217;t perfect, not at all. There were strengths and weaknesses to my performance, some more important than others.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to note is that I didn&#8217;t speak enough about myself and the EP. As big headed as it sounds, I was there to promote myself as an artist, and my EP, and I didn&#8217;t even mention the EP, or where the audience could follow me on social media, etcetera. This negated a lot of the point in me even doing the performance in the first place. At least I got to be a part of a great event for a great cause.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the performance itself, my stage presence was much better than my previous performances with an audience of this size. However, I could&#8217;ve done much better and I know this. I will have to work on this for future performances. Stage presence is key when it comes to getting an audience involved and engaged in a performance. The better my stage presence in the future, the more likely I am to gain fans.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that my use of FX (Low\/high pass filters, reverb, delay, flanger, etc.) was good and added to the dynamics of the set, which was important because the set I had planned was only seven minutes and I needed to make the most of it. For example my use of filter and delay in the last 2 songs. There was a few instances where this wasn&#8217;t the case however. Like right at the beginning of the performance building up to the first drop, I think I used slightly too much high pass filter. I had the same problem in my outro because it makes the mix sound harsh and it can be a bit painful to listen to. During the third mix, I could&#8217;ve used reverb and delay to smooth out the mix as it was a very quick mix and it didn&#8217;t sound smooth, not like the other mixes.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the timing, I only mad a mistake once in the whole set. During the second mix, I played the track ever so slightly late, however, I thought I&#8217;d played it early, so I used the jog wheel to nudge the track forward a beat, knocking it further out of sync, by the time id noticed it was too late, so I had to pull off the track that I was bringing in completely for a bar and bring it in a bar late. This saved the mix slightly, it was still out of time, but at least the incoming drop didn&#8217;t play over the end of the track I was taking off.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the issues I have pointed out, I believe that the performance was great, I felt comfortable, or at least as comfortably as I could feel with a hundred people watching me. The majority of transitions were smooth, I had a good use of FX, I kept the volume levels relatively stable. This is more than I expected to be able to do with a college days worth of practicing time.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to continue to practice DJing and I&#8217;m going to join an online radio and perform live every week until I feel comfortable that I can DJ in front of another live audience and I&#8217;m going to start releasing demos to clubs and going to open deck nights to get my name out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This final performance was majorly rushed, I only started practicing two days before the gig, so to say that I believe it went exceptionally well is a bit of an understatement. However, it wasn&#8217;t perfect, not at all. There were strengths and weaknesses to my performance, some more important than others. The first thing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/final-performance-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final Performance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10579675\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}