This Project was actually really fun, we ended up doing a decent job I believe. One of the issues we had to learn how to overcome was making a drum pattern, it was a difficult job and all three of us had little experience doing this, luckily I did some reflecting on what I learned in my music technology class and was able to figure it out and design a really cool drum beat to fit the song. We had some trouble at first also when we ended up recording the first time, we recorded without headphones and it caused all the recordings we made before to feed into the microphone and it started to echo and sound awkward. So a way of overcoming that is that we re did a bunch of the parts but with headphones. If I was given another opportunity from the start I would have saved a bunch of time and did this the first time. I also would have wrote out some of the music so we could play it on our instruments also, this was something I really wanted to implement but we didn't have the time to write the parts out. My biggest issue when creating the video was actually that I wasn't in a lot of the video, I made the drum pattern which was a big part but other then that we didn't know what I could do, we then tried to implement a saxophone part, but that ended up not working because we didn't have music and I was playing a lot of wrong notes. So to solve this problem, I ended up doing some of the claps and some singing but mostly dancing in the singing video we did. It was difficult doing the singing part because a lot of it was outside of my range. If I had another opportunity I might have looked up some of the chord changes before hand which would result in a better fit of my saxophone playing and the mixture between the melody and my sound. This really helped me develop as a musician in the sense that I don't get a lot of experience preforming pop music, its something I enjoy because of how energetic it is but it scares me sometimes because I am not that crazy when I make music, but having this opportunity it really helped me develop a sense of how to cover one, and it was a really helpful experience, and I hope to have more like this in the future. I linked my partner Davina's portfolio post on here but I was unable to obtain Erica's.
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Where I am as a musician does not disappoint me but I feel like I really could improve so much more in the future and grow to do great things on my saxophone. Right now I have posted a video of me attempting to play multiple parts of a pop song I like After I ended up performing a little more in college, I learned a lot more about using technology in my music. I learned about recording and using things like makey makeys and other devices. I felt like this was something I really had to work for in my education to become a well rounded music technology user. How I have changed as a musician since I have arrived at JMU has been immeasurable. I feel like how much I improve year to year as a musician in general is incredible. Ways I felt I have improved a lot in since I have arrived at JMU is I have become way more efficient with my air usage and preparing music. I have also learned to play my scales and arpeggios much better. I still have much more time to learn at JMU and by the time I graduate, I am aiming to be playing some of the premier saxophone repertoire in various ensembles.
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