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Last MPX Session

For the last songwriting session with Music Potential, I we were asked to write a five year plan. This was to find out where I want to be in 5 years and how I'm going to get there. I went into great detail in this plan and I did a lot of writing. I was given good advice form the tutor Deci4, he drew me a diagram to help me see my plan more clearly to help me realise my goals. He also told em to put lists in my room about different tasks I need to do, different lists being in different places  to give more structure and better memory of what to do. After we made our plans, we had to present the plan to our peers. I told them the story of how I got to this point and then what I was going to do and how I was going to get there. I mentioned to them I feel like I am a jack of trades but master of none. They told me to focus on all the skills I had and practice more and eventually I would improve all my skills.

Barclays Money Session

Today I went to Birmingham to attend the Barclays session about money. It was a good chance to get help from professional on how to manage money. I needed this help because money is always a problem for me. The first thing we did was get introduced to the Barclays team and told about the structure of the session. We then got separated into different groups at random to do a task about how we treat money. I learned that I could manage my money a lot more. We then had to come up with a business and showcase it to a group of people in a Dragons Den type of scenario. I enjoyed this because I like Dragons Den and it was fun to come up with a business.

Music Potential Colaboration Session

This session was one of my favourites. This is because everyone teamed up form the music production and songwriting groups to make one big song. Everyone got a chance to leave their mark on the song, wehter it was helping produce the song or singing or rapping. I floated between the two groups; I did a few piano loops and then I wrote 8 bars to be rapped. Here is the rap I came up with:

Listen to the beat go down

Cause we're gonna bring a crowd

London Bham any town

Everyday we bring a crowd

We have a diverse sound 

You know we play it loud

Blind in the past but now I see

The music scene is where I'll be

I'll work it, work hard and earn

Along the way I'll learn it

Try and stop me you can't block me 

Give me your best you'll never rock me 

Cause in this world It's hard

To find your skill and art

But one day I will find my level

I know I have music potential

Everyone loved my rap and they decided to use it towards the end because of the mention of music potential they liked the pace and the producers started adding drum and bass to the track to match my speed. I enjoyed this day so much. An all round good day.

Second Employability Session

In this session, we had to do mock interviews. We were given the job specification of a hypothetical job and we had to prepare to be in an interview in front of the rest of the group. The job was a position an sort of manager for Punch Records. I found this specification easy to work with because I am a very creative person and felt like I had a lot of the skills needed. I was chosen to be the first to present so I got up and began to talk to the group. I had done things like this in the past on several occasions. The feedback I got was generally positive, but people were saying that my confidence seemed a bit weak and I was shaking a bit. This has always been a problem for me as confidence is not a strong point of mine. I didn't really feel nervous but it still came across.

Hyde Park

I was given the opportunity to visit Hyde park to meet the London MPX groups and see their live performances along with my groups performances. When we got there, it was very deserted because there was nothing going on. Waiting gave me a chance to converse with all the people form the course who I hadn't before. I met a lot of interesting people with different stories. Later when we were waiting for the event to start, a girl started performing on a small stage. She wasn't part of MPX but was very good. We waited more but then we all went to a big tent-like structure with a stage. This was where the MPX students were to perform. The performances were great and I was pleased to see the people form my group grow so much in their performance skills. I was a bit sad that I never had a chance to perform but I can understand why; my performing skills are not the best.

Music Potential 08/07/2014

Today I got a text saying that there would be no music potential session. I was a bit upset because there really aren't many sessions. However, I made the most of the day and practice my performance skills and piano skills.

Music Potential 01/07/2014

In this session we all really started to feel more confident. I know I did at least. We were all sort of free styling on three mics as we were being recorded. We also did our songs that we will potentially perform. The feedback I got was I still need to work on my eye contact and my movement. My voice is also slowly improving, I just need to practice a bit more. I look forward to the studio session I'm going to have with Decipher on Thursday.