Creating an Amateur Show Our performed piece was based on the poem titled Amber written by Jennie Fontana. This was our stimulus and my first impression of the poem was that of the sea and the waves. This was the main theme of the piece we had to perform. To get into the final piece we first had to understand what we were dealing with, in musical terms. We learned the basic music terms and what they mean and tried to create a small piece that demonstrated at least one of the characteristics. The piece I created was based on tempo and pitch. I played a basic set of notes on the keyboard, then sped them up and then stopped (using silence) and then proceeded to go up an octave. I've done it three times. Everyone else in the group did this so we could have sonic recognition of what each one sounded like. Then they had to teach us simple ways to write music in terms we could understand. I have taken previous guitar lessons so I know the basic chords and notes, however in class we learned to write it using numbers and lines, TAB. The way we were taught to correct a minimalist form of notation was to produce dots. Suppose you were using a drum and you were counting your beats, one, two, three, four. And on every third of the four beats you hit the drum. We would write it like this: This gave us a way to remember the rhythm of the piece and who was supposed to play what it was supposed to be. This was very helpful especially with four people playing instruments. We used this form of notation in a piece we created. This was the time when we all had percussion instruments and had to come up with 4 lines of 4 bars. We had to use… half the card… when he left, he came back 20 years later and had turned into a Monk. Some of the funniest lines we were able to use during the final performance because they would lower the tone of the overall performance, which was fair enough, but there were a couple that I thought would bring the audience down. When it came to the final performance there was almost nothing that hadn't been done, the performance seemed almost perfect and the singing was quite strong too. We had some wonderful acting, which made a point and made everyone laugh. The stage was set up for the dancers above and there were also lights which had to be positioned quite well to make sure everyone was highlighted and seen correctly. The whole performance was great and went very well. There was nothing that went wrong and the whole audience had a great time. Bibliography: