Abstracts and Aappendices

Abstracts:
The topic I going to touch on is to do with gospel music and how it help to build the community with the issues around the community in the 1970s, most of the artists that song gospel song we're black African American and at that time slavery was at work in various states throughout the country which I will be basing my research on.


Appendices

http://www.christianpost.com/news/racism-sin-church-must-confront-for-gospel-move-forward-bishop-claude-alexander-says-171077/

Ethnography on hip hop

This is an ethnography on hip hop and the seven parts that make up hip hop.

Sound:

In Hip Hop the sound that makes it up are drums(sampled), bass and lyrics. In hip-hop, some of the musical element are sampled from other songs. Mostly from jazz and/or funk songs. An example of this is Nas N.Y. State of mind and Kool and the gang N.T.

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In the Nas track, he uses the drum part of the Kool and the gang song where all the other instruments of the songs we' silent and the only thing playing were the drums. In the Kool & the gang song, the drums are for sure complex and rhythmical. the sounding of the drums  quite strong and hard which keeps it rhythmical.

visual:

With Hip Hop, some have a unique style to them or similar depending on the area the was brought up but most are street clothes.

most hip hop artists either where a hoodie something to cover their head like a cap(some) they also have chains around their with jeans and trainers. For Hip Hop artists this is their sense of  own personality. a way to pick them out from others and truly stand out to others.

Technology:

Equipment used in Hip Hop are mostly turntables which were used to sample parts of a song and loop that part mostly drums breaks. This shapes the sound by taking one element from one type of music and changing it to a totally different music used for the purpose of Hip Hop.

  

Mediatic:

Hip Hop was mostly was heard live on the street by a DJ with his turntables. Now, it can be heard live events gigs some with a DJ still but some also just have a band with them while they perform. Hip Hop is mostly heard online recorded by the artists. Also, a website for Hip Hop only where all hip hop genre related is showed on there. this is the website called world star hip hop.

Temporal:

One Hip Hop isn't as long as a 1-hour symphony it's least the 3 to 6 minutes long. A whole album is 40 minutes long with lots os small 3-6 minutes long song. the reason for is the is would probably be too much listen to the same song for an hour.

Corporeal:

Hip Hop contagious to whoever sits and listens to it. Frist, the grove with start at your feet making tap them to the grove. after that, the beat kicks in and it makes its way to your head, next minute you're nodding your head to it. as the song goes on and you hear the lyrics of the chorus a few time you'll start singing along to it and even dance to it.

Discursive:

Hip Hop main topic is in society and how they have been treat by the society around their area. most artists talk about the things around them that need change. it can also be used as a political way of getting their point across making it a freedom of expression.

studio work

J cole 2014 Forest Hill Drive is his latest album he's released. It an album with no features from any artist hence making him the first to get platinum without a feature. In this album, he talks about his time growing up with his family, issues he had, and problems he solved. My favorite song on the album would be the outro note to self. Equally, I like all the song on this album but the reason for this is because of its a big change from how he usually makes his music in term of lyrics, With these, he doesn't rap at all which he is mainly known for. Instead, he sings all the ways through until the part he starts giving out shout outs. also with the chords, his voice goes well with it.

This album Born Sinner was a little later the other one which was released in 2013. This album was more of a self-reflection toward himself. He talked about how he feels,how he stills feels and what he could of then better. In this song, my favorite song would have to be Born Sinner, Reason for this his because of how he made the beat match the mood of the lyrics. He made it sound like a gospel church song with the choir for the chorus. He talks mostly about forgiveness and how being a born sinner means your not perfect. 

j Cole live performance

This performance that  j cole did at new york city also interests me no matter how make I watch it. not only because of the song or the band behind play amazing chords while he rap but also because how he interacts with the audience and gets the to respond in a that make them feel as if the part of the performance as well. one way of him achieving this is him cut one famous part of the verse and letting the audience sing it instead. Another thing J Cole does is move around a lot and show  gestures while performing. This shows how confidence he was that night he was performing. All of these feature are very important when performing to me because I like getting people involved in whaI i do. I would love to some day embed that in my performance and to also show more confidence too.  

My final project

My final project was preformed in at the summer gig. awaiting the video.

Evaluation

FMP Evaluation

Critical analysis:

With my work I submitted, I am defiantly pleased with it but compared to professional artistic work with the music industry I need a lot of work to match up to those standers. I would say my work fit into the musical industry since I tried my best to study and apply features showed by one of my favourite artists J Cole. This is proven by the fact the in my song I dod the same thing J Cole does and added singing and rapping in my song. With my work, I think I struggled with coming up with the lyrics at the start that I had to ask others for help. If there was more time what I would do differently is come up with more lyrics for my song and maybe come up with more song to perform. In the future, I will manage my time so that I can get to do more on my work. 

Research:

My key area of my research was looking at J Cole and how he's chords work well with on another and different way he structures his lyrics (verse, chorus, etc). My method towards researching this case study was analysing his techniques and he was a think when performing by watch and listening to how he perform and sing/rap and understanding why he does what he does. I also looked up on web pages the help me as an individual musician to enhance my skill is chords singing and writing lyrics. In my work, there is some element that I have researched and applied into my work. I feel that I've researched enough to understand and try to apply some of those techniques towards my work effectively. Topics I could of research if I had more time would be mixing and mastering effectively for a gig and maybe how to present myself on stage. In my research, I've learnt that jazz players use cluster chords and much complex chords to give the music a much more rich and in depth sounding in their music which take us to J Cole and how he use that to make his music stay interesting throughout. 

Technical/Practical skills:

My research has informed me giving me a clear understanding on how I should structure my song how I should write it and different chords to make it interesting. A new skill I've gained from my research is the ability to write lyrics for a song and write interesting chords for my song. My skill from the start of the project to the end I think has grown quite a bit in terms of knowledge of different type of technique and then putting into practice that will later on in the future help me.  

Project management/working methods:

A problem from the middle of the course was that I had writers block for my music and how I got passed that was seeking out help from my classmates to help me write or give me some ideas on what to write about. I would say I kinda completed my project goal. I planned on doing two covers and two originals but because of my time management, I could only do one original so I cut it short cause it was too much to balance out with all my other works. In my access time, that was provided to me, I would listen to Charle as he talks to my class about writing up our research posts and giving us different ways of improving our work. If I didn't have him I would spend my time focused on my music writing lyrics and editing it to make sure everywhere fit in perfectly within the music.

Collaboration:

To help me in my work I sought the help from two students from level 3 performance and they helped out a lot. their role was to help me come up with a theme for the song and write lyrics for it. the collaboration between us was very fun and enjoyable I was able to get so much done for my song if wasn't I don't think I would have had a song to perform. The problems however, I faced with them was that they one min they said the wanted to sing it with me next they said they did so in the end i decied to do my song on my own but i still thank them for there help towards the song and maybe in the future I will turn to them again.  

Research

I have been researching jazz chords so i can try use them to make my song sound interesting and complex. most artistes use jazz chords mostly in hip hop so people like j cole uses it in his music which inspires me to try put that in my music.
 

This is a video of the different chords in jazz which includes cluster chords. They look very complex to learn but with practise I'm sure ill get the hang of it.What i've learnt from this video in that 7th chords progression are extended chords that are  used to give a fuller sounding and richer harmonic progression.

This is me attempting to play those chords and for my first time I picked it up quick.  How I used theses in my music was by playing it as chords for the main part of the song.