Movie Trailer piece of music

Link to our soundtrack---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4SPn5fnMA&list=UU1kgyM7RKDwcNPhkOOIXWgQ

So in this piece of music we had used a variety of instruments and a lot of mixed tempo also a variety in volume (dynamics) and quite a few of instruments such as the electric guitar, the drums an African drum and the piano (not to be confused with keyboard).

As we start the piece we have a strict build up making sure we use the canon effect bringing one instrument in at a different point of time contrasting to starting our piece with all the instruments coming in with one go.

We have also used a variety of tempo building up a steady rhythm until we hit the point of the trailer where the screen/monitor goes black and there is a sudden boom/bomb.

A variety of drone notes have been played by Omar on the drum whereas me and Raza have managed to play quite a few of ostinato's as our parts required them. Jerome has played a steady pedal note throughout the performance while he played lead and also managed the tempo of the piece.

On a slightly more critical note we have not managed our volume very well in terms of not being able to hear some people in our performance and also not being able include/use sound effects and vocals so far on this piece we are therefore planning to use more sound effects and vocals further on in our piece.

Romantic/Tense piece of music

On this piece of music, I partnered up with Jerome and our objective was to create a piece of music that would go well with a tense or romantic scene. 

We tried to be a bit unorthodox with the notes we used so I didn't play all the legitimate chords for example; for 2 bars I used F (sharp), A (sharp) and even D (sharp) together synchronized all of them played together doesn't make a legitimate chord, but it was still quite key in making the actual piece sound like how we wanted it to sound.

As Jerome used the right hand side of the keyboard to create a pitter patter effect it was contrasted to my arpeggio side of the keyboard which went to a more smooth and consistent rhythm. As the track went on we added more of a quieter and high pitch.

Overall this was a good piece of work but we could have made it better by using more of a variation of chords  but I feel that instead of just changing the pitch and dynamics we could have also varied the tempo better.

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By: Shawn Simon 9CC

On this piece of work we have been split into groups of 4, we were asked to compose a minute long piece of music on a specific scene in King Kong.

Our group used a keyboard, xylophone and drums as our instruments, we applied a few techniques such as a pedal note which is one repeated note over a long period of time and a drone note which is one single note held.

We could have been more co-operative together to make a better piece but over all we were good and composed a good piece of music.

Shawn Simon 9CC