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Week 2 - Preparing for Graduation Performance

Our class for week 2 was held online. We spoke about my graduation performance and the artist lineup.

Artist Lineup for the Graduation Performance:

1. Grand Piano

2. Acoustic Bass

3. Drums

4. Tabla

4. Western Flute / Venu and Bansuri

I have planned to present 6 songs and 5 will be originals and one would be a Jazz standard. We discussed on the styles as well as the genre of the pieces. The following contains a breakdown of the compositions that I will be embarking on. 

01 Latin Jazz Composition (Desire) - Featuring the Venu

02 12 Bar Blues Melody - Featuring the Bansuri (Ballad Form)

03 Contrafacts (Shiny Stockings) - Featuring the Western Flute

04 Contrafacts (Inner Urge) - Featuring the Venu

05 Indo-Jazz Repertoire (Korvai Based) - Featuring the Venu

06 Anthropology (Re-arranged)

I have scoped my practice session with a focus on Anthropology for this week. I will also be completing the composing process for Desire (Latin Jazz composition).

I have attached a video of my practice (Anthropology) in 3 keys. 

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Week 1 - The Introduction. The Agenda of the Year, 2021.

We had discussed on what we have done for the year 2021 and mentioned that I was tied down with personal projects for the ICE module with little time spent on a practice regime. I had to return back to my practice regime on my western, Indian and the other asian flutes.

- i remember that i got weaker when seasoning for composers and my ear training weakened.

- I had to quickly get back into the practice regime gradually to obtain greater musicianship, dexterity thus better performances.

The link to my updated practice regime is located in the google drive below.

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Action Plan (Suggested by Rit):

1. We had to start planning our practice regime:

- Start preparing all the Jazz standards and Jazz repertoire that I had learned in the past 2 years and start practicing them (Tunes + Improvisation)

- Start preparing the repertoire for the graduation performance and ascertain the lineup.

- Start preparing the practice catalogue so I can practice the specific exercises indicated on the practice catalogue over the months.

2. We decided to delve into Anthropology and Blue Note Melody

End of Semester

(We decided on the following 5 goals):

1. Have a better memory of all Jazz standards

2. Better ability to transpose melodies across scales (Major and Minor)

3. Improvisations (Effective Motif Development)

4. Setting repertoire for Graduation performance

5. Solo Transcriptions as a way of life

We had also talked briefly about my favourtie artists such as Oscar Peterson and Varijashree.

This was important as I needed a balance between being a music producer, performer - flautist and a composer. I am working on finding that balance between production work with regular practice hours with time for composing music. I have schedule a plan for myself to effectively spend my 24 hours.

Morning - Administrative Work (2 hours)

Afternoon - Jazz / Indian Classical Music / Musicianship Training / Repertoire Development (4/5 hours)

Evening - Music Composition / Music Arrangement / Music Production (¾ hours)

I am better with managing time and with a clearer goal in mind, I am better able to spend my time wisely.

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Niranjan Journal Entry (Principle Study)

This blog encapsulates moments, learnings and reflections with flautist, Rit Xu. I will also share on how I have and will be applying his teachings to my performances and productions.

Week 1 - The Introduction. The Agenda for the Year.

Week 2 - Preparing for Graduation Performance

Week 3 - Preparing Anthropology

Week 4 - Making it Better: Anthropology

Week 5 - Firming Up Guid Tones and Getting better at Improvising (Anthropology)

Week 6 -

Week 7 -

Week 8 -