{"id":1249,"date":"2022-10-11T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2022-10-21T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T14:33:00","slug":"initial-assessment-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/initial-assessment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For my initial assessment this year, I decided to perform another guitar cover from a band I love, this time we have The Beatles and my cover of George Harrison&#8217;s 1969 song &#8220;Something&#8221; from their iconic <em>Abbey Road<\/em> album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Something - The Beatles (Cover)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odUwRavj6MU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Something &#8211; The Beatles (Cover)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the highlights here for me is my strumming and sense of rhythm for most of the song, this is a piece which switches up the strumming patterns at a fairly frequent rate so keeping tabs on what I&#8217;m doing with my right hand was a challenge but one that I feel I overcame for the most part. I am also pleased with how I change chords, particularly the pace at which I do so. This is an attribute of mine that has been steadily building over time and here is a great song to show that ability as we have quick changes as well as multiple barre chords being used &#8211; I still struggle with these at times but here they didn&#8217;t cause me much worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my favourite cover to play so I always look to improve it. One way I can improve that is by building onto the little riffs; the two I play here in the bridge are taken from Paul McCartney&#8217;s bassline and are meant to fill what could be empty space in a simple acoustic cover. They are both relatively basic walkdowns &#8211; one from Ab to E and the other going from A to D &#8211; but this isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;m proficient in so it was shoddy to say the least, with practice I am sure I can work up to performing them without dead notes and messy timing. After the bridge we have the final verse progression and I only went round once when I should&#8217;ve gone round twice, a simple error to fix for next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall I am pleased with my playing and where I am at with this song; I love playing it and it showcases the best of my abilities as a guitarist. As an aside, I managed to get a copyright claim on YouTube so I must be doing something right if the algorithm recognised the song being played for the full duration of the video. Moving on, I hope to work on more songs at this level so I can expand my repertoire but, for now, I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/324\/2022\/10\/Oliver-Wright-Initial-Assessment.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of Oliver-Wright-Initial-Assessment..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f5e31a64-683c-49b5-9504-42d9e9fe80d1\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/324\/2022\/10\/Oliver-Wright-Initial-Assessment.pdf\">Oliver-Wright-Initial-Assessment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/324\/2022\/10\/Oliver-Wright-Initial-Assessment.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f5e31a64-683c-49b5-9504-42d9e9fe80d1\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Targets:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Become a more confident performer, to go beyond simply playing an instrument and start truly performing with an instrument.<\/li><li>Evaluate using video and audio recordings to save time and add variety to my portfolio.<\/li><li>Gain fluency with my instruments, such as understanding certain mechanics and principles.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my initial assessment this year, I decided to perform another guitar cover from a band I love, this time we have The Beatles and my cover of George Harrison&#8217;s 1969 song &#8220;Something&#8221; from their iconic Abbey Road album. One of the highlights here for me is my strumming and sense of rhythm for most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/initial-assessment-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Initial Assessment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1249\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10656512\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}