ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE
In the following report I will focus on two factors of performance, they are
 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS ON PERFORMANCE
Nerves / stress, including manifestations
Relationships between members
Communication with audience
Audience response
 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUCCESSFUL GROUP
Choice of members
Program selection
Rehearsal strategies
Setting up
Venue / audience
Final performance
Each of these aspects effects performers and to deal with all these things will ensure a successful group who do their jobs well and love doing it.
 DESCRIPTION OF OUR BAND
I am a part of an eight, member band, who at one time or another have been playing together for five years. The first three years I performed with four of the eight members in a class and an all girls band, this year I have reunited with them again and four other members as a new group. Our band consists of three lead vocalists. Our ranges are all fairly large and quite different, giving good variety in voices for a range of different styles of music. Our ranges are Db3 - Gb5 (break at C5), Gb3 - C6 (break at Bb4) and E3 - B5 (break at Gb4). We have one lead guitarist, two rhythm guitarists, (one who is in year 11 and the other is our music teacher), a bass player, and a drummer, (who is also in year 11). We are a covers group and like to experiment with all types of styles, pop, rock, disco, alternative / grunge, reggae, soul, jazz, RNB, blues and some international pieces from various countries like Greek, Spanish, Latin American and French. We rehears five times a week, three periods of class time and two lunch times. As a group we believe that practice makes perfect. We expect each member to rehears solo parts at home and to have private tuition for extra help. We all love to perform and do it as often as possible, our gigs range from school fetes, festivals, concerts and speech nights to an interstate tour to different schools every year.
ASPECT 1
 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS ON PERFORMANCE
Every performer, no matter how long they’ve been in the business will be effected by psychological setbacks. These effects can cause major upsets to the level of a performer’s performance, so something must be done to control these feelings. All performers have different techniques to cope with these symptoms, and in this next section I will provide some of these.
 NERVES STRESS BEFORE AND DURING PERFORMANCE
Band is family. When your student walks onto campus, he or she is instantly adopted into the strongest society on campus. They will be spending their school days among the top achievers on campus, with fellow students who look out for one another and steer each other away from trouble instead of towards it. Teachers, staff, parents, and volunteers watch over all the kids as if they were their own.
There is a term for the anxiety that affects performance. Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) has been defined by the PhD, Levy JJ. (PhD, MA & BA,2011). MPA is like stage fright. When a drum corps member is performing or they might be nervous, have butterflies in their stomach. These are the effect of anxiety during performance. A study by PhD, MA conducted on drum corps members showed the effects of anxiety and created the term MPA. The highest amount of MPA was found in color guard performers due the effect guard members have on the show appearance. The root cause for this in guard members and drum crop members is how the performers are treated during practice. The comments coaches make during practice effect the state anxiety in performers. These similar thought go through the performer in
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