Gigs4Generations Official Documentation

Evaluation At the start of this project, I had the intention to play music in front of 3 different crowds: a younger, teenage crowd, an adult crowd and an elderly crowd. I wanted to see how each of them react to a gig, how they may connect to the music being played and the style of music they want to hear. I had the intention to create 3 different original songs to play in each gig that tailor towards the audience but I unfortunately couldn't get the time to do so. However, I feel I didn't really need to play any original songs with how the project ended up unfolding, especially with my final conclusions for each gig, creating originals for this project felt unnecessary by the end. I chose to do this project for my fmp as I want to better myself as a drummer performance-wise and the best way to do that is get experience in playing many different styles of genres. Furthermore, I would like to study music performance and production in University and follow the path of being a ful...

 Polar Bear Gig: 21/05/26 Review and Analysis This is the third and final gig of my project and this was in front of a much younger crowd than the previous two. At the start of this project, I had the ambition to perform in 3 generations of crowd: young, adult and older and now I can say I have successfully achieved that. The whole point of this gig for me was to perform in front of a younger crowd and observe how they react to the music being played. However, another key aspect of this gig was that it was my first time organising a gig which helps me upskill my event management skills. So this gig went incredibly I think, whether that was because this was the most active crowd of the three that I have played in front of, or how my own skills have developed overtime for this big gig at the end of my project. I played this gig with 2 bands (Slate and My Suede Shoes) each with 30 minute sets, giving me an hour of runtime. My Suede Shoes is the priority for me to talk about in terms o...

 Beggars Folk Music Club Gig: 14/05/26 Review and Analysis This is the 2nd gig of my project and this was a smaller set aimed for a much older audience so everything was completely stripped down and acoustic for this gig. I was on the cajon while my friend Mia sung. We made the creative decision to strip down the set to cajon and vocals purely which strongly matched the folky vibe. Other artists had guitars and played protest, country or folk while others also went completely acapella. Going acapella was a really good way to encourage the crowd to join in which worked really well for us. Unfortunately, our bigger set was completely stripped down to 3 songs which still gave me enough to work with for my project and it was enough to get some great crowd engagement and observe how they saw the music. What I noticed The venue was very small and homely unlike any other music venue I have played in. The club took place in a village hall in a nearby town and obviously with it being very f...