Year 11 - Music
Solo keyboard performance
Solo performance
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Unit Summary
Pupils develop solo performance skills, focusing on accuracy, technical control and interpretation. They refine stylistic awareness, practise effectively, and improve fluency and expression to prepare confident solo performances.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to analyse a keyboard performance, identifying strengths and areas for improvement and you can improve the accuracy of your own performance.
Key Notes
- Analysing performances is a very useful way for performers to develop their playing.
- We can analyse different aspects, which can be grouped into accuracy, technical control and interpretation.
- Playing pitches, rhythms and performance directions accurately helps to create a fluent, effective performance.
- Using the correct practice strategies can help to improve these.
Vocabulary To Learn
- accuracy: how effectively a performance uses the correct pitches, rhythms and performance directions
- fluency: how effectively a performance 'flows' seamlessly without interruption or hesitation
- intonation: the tuning of notes; if a performer has good intonation it means that the notes are not out-of-tune
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Accuracy and fluency are completely unrelated.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Analysing performances is a very useful way for performers to develop their playing. We can analyse different aspects, which can be grouped into accuracy, technical control and interpretation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'accuracy'
how effectively a performance uses the correct pitches, rhythms and performance directions.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Accuracy and fluency are completely unrelated. Correction: While they are separate concepts, as a performer they are often linked. This is because for a performance to be fluent, it has to be accurate. Where performances lack fluency, it is usually where the player struggles to play the notes accurately.
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