Me solos :P (MUS-HACK) (Part 1 : Musical Theater and Collection)

 YO YO YO, I'm back with me bloggies for the year, topic music. Musical Theather night is coming up in term 2, that's something I'm looking forward to :). I've decided to 2 musical solos to perform for the night, then for the other solos, I'm thinking about making them some pop songs or something later on in the year. 

First solo; I can hear the bells - Hairspray ~

A little bit about it:

In 1960s Baltimore, dance-loving teen Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) auditions for a spot on "The Corny Collins Show" and wins. She becomes an overnight celebrity, a trendsetter in dance, fun and fashion. Perhaps her new status as a teen sensation is enough to topple Corny's reigning dance queen and bring racial integration to the show.

My scene:

The scene I'll be performing is about Tracy bumping into this hot guy (Link) from her favour tv show " The Corny Collins Show' in which he happens to go to the same school as her. When he bumps into her she has this vision and dream and is really love-struck, shes talking to her Best friend Penny in this scene and makes use of people around her.

How will I perform this:
My aim for this is to have the dialogue of him (Link) and I bump into each other on stage, he says his dialogue then me love struck in the middle of the stage, he leaves, Penny enters .... she says her dialogue then the song will begin. How'll play Tracy in this scene is acting love stuck , and determined that I will win Links, heart.

Second Solo; Nothings gonna harm you - Sweeney Todd~ 

A little bit about it:

Evil Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) lusts for the beautiful wife of a London barber (Johnny Depp) and transports him to Australia for a crime he did not commit. Returning after 15 years and calling himself Sweeney Todd, the now-mad man vows revenge, applying his razor to unlucky customers and shuttling the bodies down to Mrs Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who uses them in her meat-pie shop. Though many falls to his blade, he will not be satisfied until he slits Turpin's throat.

My scene:

The scene I'll be performing is me being the kid named Tobias (referred to as toby) ( toby is abused by Turpin, till Turpin gets murdered then Toby lives with Todd and Mrs Lovvett) and he tries talking to Mrs Lovett about if someone hurts her such as Mr Todd then he'll get rid of him because Toby has suspicions about Todd being a bad guy and looks to Mrs Lovett to be a mother figure to him. In this song, he basically sings about he'll willing to do anything so that Mr Lovett isn't hurt.

How will I perform this:

There will be dialogue, setting: Me and the person that will play Mr Lovett in my scene we will be sitting on a couch at first, then towards the middle, there is dialogue where I and Lovett will stand up move to a different area. sing some more, then she will comfort me to the couch where she will hug and hold me ( more singing in this bit). How I'll portray Toby is being a small little boy vibe where they will try and be the man of the house even though he is young, have the determined to do anything in the world kinda vibe.

I PEEEL YOU JOHANNNNAAAAAA ~ Musical Theatre

What is the song you have chosen to perform?: I've decided to choose the song 'Johanna' from the movie Sweeney Todd.

Why did you choose this material?: I've always liked Sweeney Todd and I love romance stories so I thought it would be a cool song to sing, plus I like that scene.

Who wrote and performed the piece?: Stephen Sondheim wrote the song and Jamie Cambell Bower sang it.

What is the song about?: About this boy that fell in love with this beautiful blonde girl from the apartment building, and he sings about stealing her from the Judge that's keeping her away from people.

What is happening in the story at the time of your piece?: This teenage boy is attracted by this beautiful blonde yellow-haired girl named Johanna who lives in a very high building with this evil guy named 'Judge Turpin', he spots this girl from a window from her bedroom and wants to talk to her and hang out with her. He slowly finds out that Judge Turpin locked her in the room to keep her away from the world so every day Anthony walks past the building, trying to figure out ways to save her and steal her from the judge.

What will be challenging about your piece: I have to sing from low to high in some bits because sometimes I sing lower to his level ( because I'm playing a guy, and I'm not a guy in real life so I don't have that much of a deep voice). Another challenge would have to be to keep practising to get it right but that's okay , I know I'll get there in the end :)

MusHACK (AKA Music)

Backstreets Boys group song 

Who's in the group?: Nadia, Sam, Bre (Brianna), and Me

What each person is doing?: Lows, Normal, Highs, and normal ( in name order at the previous question)

What song, genre?: "I want it that way", Pop

What part are we working on first?: How we first came up to do this song is simply because we were messing around singing karaoke tracks. Originally we were going to sing Lovely by Billie Eilish and Khalid ( that's now our plan B) but since 'I want it that way' has different singing parts to equally divide between 4 we chose that. So the first 4 weeks we were slowly singing parts and collectively improving it while we sing. We went from soundtrack to piano, now we are just singing it and perfecting it.

What is the biggest challenge?: I guess for me it would be timing and how to stay in key and learn to make my voice soft but loud. ( but not too soft)

Wairua = Music : Updated

In the Beautiful 9Bu ( which is what Mrs Richarson calls our class) in music class we are recording a music video for our assessment but it is the Song Wairua by Maimoa. At first it was going to be performed live but one of my classmates ( Pearl) preferred it to be a music video so then on we had a class vote and we all voted for a Music Video

Here is the video Music Video
What am I learning? + What I did for music this term:
To sing and dance + Maori music month ( so that's why we did a Maori song)

What I found great/ enjoy?
The whole recording was Fantastic because everybody was working together and some scene where we can do whatever we want ( dancing wise) e.g Macarena

How does our finished whole class video show my work?
 This shows my work because we were learning a Maori song and doing a Music video of it to honour Maori Music month

What can I do next time?
In my opinion I'm not the best singer but at least I can sing nice. So my next goal is to practice my vocals ( because I was a soloist).

What am I wondering?:
Nothing so far.

What I learnt in Matariki and Maori Music month?:
I learnt about Maori culture and history.

NZ Music Month- Music

Task One: 
Learning the song we decided to sing for NZ music month. Wairua-Maimoa. Wairua

Task Two:
Find a  NZ Musician and learn about them and etc..
I chose Ginny Blackmore
Ginny Blackmore Slide

Sorry if I missed out any information
if I did please comment down below and tell me and while your there you might want to add a little comment about my work ( like what can I improve on in your opinion)

What am I learning?: We are learning Maori Music and writing about them
How does this show my learning?: I linked my work and put in information.
What can I improve on?: Maybe try to find more information about her.
What am I wondering?: Does she have siblings because I could find it on wiki.

Matariki - Music

Task one:
Crate a Piktochart about Matariki
Matariki

Task two:
Find out Maori Music meaning / Culture

Stan Walker- Aotearoa
- What Style of music is this? Pop Music
-Who Proforms it? Stan Walker ft Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, Maisey Rika
- What inspired them to write it? They decided to write it because it was Maori Language week.
- What did you like about it? I like the song beat and the different language.
- What did you like about the video? I liked the sentry 
-Find out what it means? Aotearoa in English

Modern Māori Quartet- Māreikura
-What Style of music is this? Modern, Classic and pop sound of music
-Who Proforms it? Modern Māori Quartet feat. Awhimai Fraser
-What inspired them to write it? I couldn't find it out
-What did you like about it? I liked how it was like smooth singing and very soothing.
-What did you like about the video? I love it how they used an instrument and getting into the song (like moving around)
-Find out what it means? Couldn't Find what the whole song means but Looking at the meaning of the word its about  nobly born female

Maimoa- WAIRUA
-What Style of music is this? Pop
-Who Proforms it? Maimoa
- What inspired them to write it? I couldn't find it out all I know is they wanted to make the song up-beat
- What did you like about it? The style and the tempo of the music.
- What did you like about the video? That every one is dancey and happy.
-Find out what it means? Wairua in English

Rob Ruha & The Witch Dr. - KALEGA
-What Style of music is this? Pop
-Who Proforms it? Rob Ruha & The Witch Dr.
- What inspired them to write it? I couldn't find it out
- What did you like about it? I like the beat and the beautiful singing 
- What did you like about the video? I like the sentry and the happiness of them singing 
-Find out what it means? I can't find the song in English nor the meaning of the word.

What am I learning?: Find out Maori culture and Meanings.
How does this show it?: Listed all the meanings and information I had gathered.
What am I wondering?: Why I couldn't find most of the information and who impaired them.
What could I do better next time?: Study more and try to gather more inspired them.

We are REVOLTING GRRR - music

What have I learnt?
I learnt how to put all my energy into song and dance to make me stand out

What did I find challenging?
What I found challenging is  end of my solo (at the start)  I had to finish

How does this effect me?
This musical effect me because this was teaching us how to perform in a Musical.

What would I do differently?
I would like to do differently for me is to let sure that everyone knows the moves, For the people is to  make sure your putting an effort in the musical, Because the people who put effort in get noticed for the right reasons and the people don’t put effort in get noticed for the wrong reasons.

What did I enjoy?
I enjoyed performing it because I put a lot of effort in it with the whole musical.

What am I woundering?
Why do people deside to ruin the performance for everyone?

What was it like performing on the day?
I felt great , had no nerves but for the other people they felt scared and some didn’t even show up to perform.

The progress of it + Video
Click Term One

Music Task

Hopeful= Bars and Melody

http://www.videonot.es/edit/1HEckhqinCDMjZ9r-U-H1VgA8iwK5q_az
I chose this song because it gives a good message about bullying. They are also my favorite group *cough**cough* *not the point of this task* This genre is pop/Rap. It is my favorite song because it has a point and a message .I like this song because a young kid is suffering with bullying and no one is helping him he is going through a tough time in his house.
(BTW of topic but if you are suffering though bullying here is a help line youthline bullying website n.o 0800 376 633)

Yellow=Coldplay

http://www.videonot.es/edit/1pc43JPnwetFZPHSyDJqnWCH8-w8oCAMd
In My option Coldplay isn't really want I would listen to back then there songs were so slow
I like there songs now but back then I never understood what they were saying. As you can see in my Video notes I proffer up-beat music or like sad song that aren't so slow. This genre is Britpop.

What am I learning?
In music we are learning to find your favorite and least favorite music video on YouTube and point out what you like/don't like about it and why you chose it.

How does this work show my learning?
I said on the song Hopeful why I liked it,why i chose it and why it is my favorite song.I said on the Yellow song why I did't like it some point what I liked about the song (even though I don't like the song) and what I didn't get about the song( some of the points I made are ether on this blog or on the link)
What am I wondering?
I wounder why does people hate/dislike coldplay and what are there reason?