This is what I did for my initial assessment I did a piano Improvisation of Nina Simone’s Im feeling good and Ray Charles Hit the road jack with different melodies and chords. Most of it I just made up on the spot.
I chose this piece as I love playing blues I love improvising in the moment and coming up with random melodies and just really feeling the music in my heart whilst playing.
There are lot of things I could’ve done better I first of all could’ve had a better camera angle showing my hands so you would be able to see what I am playing or I at least should’ve shown my face. I also made a couple mistakes playing the wrong bass notes at time and the wrong chords. There are also a lot breaks during this piece with some awkward transitions.
I also could’ve sang and made some lyrics up on whatever I am feeling at the moment or at least even hummed in the back.
I also did a lot of things that went well I improvised almost all of the notes in key and played with a lot of emotion and played with different dynamics.
Overall I am not satisfied with this initial assessment as I just quickly did this in around 5 minutes just playing around with soul and blues because I was running out of time.
Though I do enjoy this little piece I made sounds very colourful and has a lot of emotion in it.
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music theory
S- I will want to understand music theory as I want to be able to express my ideas and emotions without having to sit next to a piano for hours and finding and creating chord progressions that I feel the most. I want to be able to know the chords for the specific emotions that I am feeling and put them down kind of like I am writing down what I feel on pen and paper.
M- I will know my understanding of music theory has improved by recording myself seeing my progress from using basic chords to much more advanced chords, creating better structure for my music.
A- is this achievable? yes it is I have music lessons every Wednesday with my tutor in which he will be able to teach me music theory. There are also thousand of videos and websites for music theory which can help me teach myself on my own at home.
R- this is extremely relevant as I am now growing to be a much more experienced musician and I really need to start understanding music and how it is made it will help me drastically.
T- by December I want to have an understanding of music theory to at least an advanced stage.