HSC performance pieces (3 Viewers)

[bumhead]

where are all the guitarists?

i'm doing:
for the love of god - steve vai (really nice song with a lot of technical stuff in there)
bad horsie - steve vai (cheesy metal song with some cool horse imitations on the guitar)
satch boogie - joe satriani (pure genius)
images - cacophony (jason becker and marty friedman) (becker sweeps like noone else! its sooo hard!)

damn.... i wish i was that good!

im going

canon rock - jerry c
always with me always with you - joe satriani
and more than likely pull harder on the strings of your martyr - trivium

but im too crap at the moment

 

[homestarrunner]

Ya'll sound like such talented musos! My friend, jess is a singer, and she doing:

*Diamonds are a girl's best friend - Moulin Rouge/Nicole Kidman
*Blame on the Boogie - The Jackson 5
*You're the voice - Farnsie
*One day I'll fly away - Moulin Rouge/Nicole Kidman

She's gonna be great - i've heard her pieces and they're awesome; but she's worried that all the classically trained performers are gonna blow her out of the water and she'll be scaled badly for her lack of sophistication.

What do you guys think?

 

[ur_inner_child]

Nah. Classically trained performers are a different style altogether. Just make sure she practices and gets good feedback/criticism, and creates a wonderful performance overall, then she shouldn't stress too much.

One piece of advice though, make sure she's doing songs that display a lot of her talents. Remember dynamics. In her repetoire, maybe there should be a LITTLE bit of variety. My biggest criticism is that one or two of those songs are really common for a HSC Music 1 piece (Nicole Kidman etc). You guys should probably try and avoid that.

 

[pitbulloncrack]

I do music 1, and i guess alot of you do Music 2?

the thing with performance in Music 1, is you have to remember to be engaging (our head of music calls it the HSC-X factor, which is lame, but gives you a good indication of how you need to try and engage the marker not only audially but also aesthetically, to an extent).

You need to pick pieces that showcase what YOU can do, which seems obvious, but alot of people in my class get marked down because the pieces dont suit the way they play. Get somebody to tell you which pieces suit you best. Don't just play the music, you have to lead the music (this is especially important if you're playing with an ensemble).

I dont know if that helps anyone?

 

[dimsimus]

I'm playing guitar for all my pieces.
Quater Past - Fall of Troy
Guitar and singing for these two.
This is the Way - Devendra Banhart
The Fool on the Hill - The Beatles
And Viva on Garage Rock under Music for a small Ensemble.

 

[jazzmuzik]

On trumpet...

-Concert Rondo (mozart)
-Blue Trane (coltrane)
-Sesame street (maynard ferguson version)
-A Viva on ballet music in particular Tchaikovsky's score for "Swan Lake"

 

[jazzmuzik]

Guitar (Wolfgang, van halen rocks)

Joe Satriani - Always with you, Always with me
Jeff Healy - While my guitar gently weeps (originally the beatles)
Steve Vai - Purple Haze (originally Jimi Hendrix)
Smooth - Santana and rob thomas

Great song coice, if i played guitar this was to be my pick good luck!!

 

[champo14]

Trombone Institute of Technology - M. Davis
Laura - J.J. Johnson Transcription
Concertino for Trombone - Gordon Jacob
Bagatelle for Trom. + Piano - Eric Gross
Sonata (Vox Gabrieli) - S. Sulek
Elegy for Mippy II - Bernstien

Less than a week away! Anyone else in '07 play the trombone?

 

[sunja]

I'm doing
-Recuerdos De la Alhambra by Franseco Tarrega
-Bulerias By Paco Pena
-Sol Azul By (My Comp)
-and Tarantos By Sabicas
all on Flamenco Guitar

Cheers,
Crino

 

[timmyj233]

My performance is on the September 11th, good day for disasters I guess.

I'm playing:
Take 5 by Dave Brubeck (piano)

Light My Fire by The Doors (piano + organ + voice)

Underground by Ben Folds Five (piano + voice).

 

[Fish Sauce]

My performance is on the September 11th, good day for disasters I guess.

I'm playing:
Take 5 by Dave Brubeck (piano)

Light My Fire by The Doors (piano + organ + voice)

Underground by Ben Folds Five (piano + voice).

Sounds pretty cool, good luck!

 

[jono44]

hey guys im am so stuck.. hsc music examiners are coming down to my school in 3 weeks...
my teachers choice of topic we studies were musicals, radio/ film music. and an instument ad its repetoire.
i am a drummer/ percussionist
and my choices are

1. instrument and its repetiore- drum solo with a piano ( drum and bass)
2. core performance instrument and its repetiore. drum solo/ african . cuban ryhthms with percussion.
3. radio/ film music media . - im doing nolita fairy tale by vanessa carlton but my teacher says its too broad its not film music.. but its radio music and all you guys are doing songs from the radio. i am so stuck and pissed off..
4. musicals. now what musical features drums//./ my teacher says do a musical that features the drums... and what the hell might that be??!!!
please help ... esp those that have done this before.
p.s i am in the aussie international school in singapore. so the markers are flying down to singapore are the top music hsc markers...

Help !!!

 

[mashimaro12]

My performance is on the September 11th, good day for disasters I guess.

I'm playing:
Take 5 by Dave Brubeck (piano)

Light My Fire by The Doors (piano + organ + voice)

Underground by Ben Folds Five (piano + voice).

september 11? same day as mine. i wonder how many schools they get through in one day... your school must be nearby. what school?

im playing piano:

Prelude in C minor by Rachmaninoff
Rondo Capriccioso by Mendelssohn
A duo by Scaramouche that I forget the name ...
Argentinian Dance no.3 by Ginastera...

that piece kills me. literally. good luck everyone

 

[elmafud]

I'm doing:

- "Popular" from the musical "Wicked"
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" By Ray Henderson
- An appropriation of "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones with influence from "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" by Doris Day and "Broken Promises for Broken Hearts" by She Wants Revenge.

 

[champo14]

september 11? same day as mine. i wonder how many schools they get through in one day... your school must be nearby. what school?

There are more then one set of HSC markers. Remember, they have to do every school that does music in the entire state in two weeks!

At the moment they're halfway through the performances. Encore nominations come out a little over a week! Who's anxious?

 

[bethrealistic]

There are more then one set of HSC markers. Remember, they have to do every school that does music in the entire state in two weeks!

At the moment they're halfway through the performances. Encore nominations come out a little over a week! Who's anxious?

Out of interest, do they notify the school or you in "a little over a week" if you're shortlisted for Encore?

I know with Textiles they don't let you know about the Texstyle exhibition until long after the HSC written exams have been completed; end of November.

 

[champo14]

I think both, but I definitely know that you get a letter in the mail after they have finished collaborating the nominationswhich, so my music teacher says, is the week after the prac exams finish.

And I remember in previous years they have annouced at the year 12 final assembly people who got nominated for encore, so its definitely this term sometime.

 

[eevee]

I performed today, it wasn't as nervewracking as i was led to believe by my damn music teacher. The examiners were really nice and helpful, even when i stuffed up my viva ( blundering around and getting tongue tied is NOT the way to go people)

The piece i performed were;
Release - George (Music of the 20th and 21st century)
Nobody knows you when you're down and out- Bessie Smith( Jazz)
Noone knows who I am -Jekyll and Hyde musical (music of the theatre)

Being a vocalists sucks sometimes, but today i think i kept my cool, and i was told it was the best i'd ever done it.( No boasting intended, i was just really pleased)

Now to relax..... ahhhhh....

 

[mishy-mushu]

Im singing all mine because as some ppl have said I really cant do viva or compistion.
1. Beautiful- Christina Aguilera
2. Lover Lover- Sonia Dada
3. forgiven Not Forgotton- The Corrs
and This Flower- Kasey Chambers.
My eman is today and im not nervous yet thank god.

 

[rae77rae]

i am doing music 1 atm and i am going through the process of picking HSC pieces. i have a couple ideas for example:
This is the moment from Jekyll and Hyde (musical)
The unexpected song from song and dance (musical)
Bridge over troubled Water
Ave Maria
and many more...
i am a singer and have been trained operatic/classically and have about a 4 octave range
i want to find a piece thats going to show off my voice!!
Have you got any ideas?