Performance Appraisal The three pieces I studied were all performed by female 'rhythm and blues' artists. The pieces were: Pink - Like A Pill, Brandy - What About Us, and Janet Jackson - All For You. They all had various kinds of backing tracks with their vocals recorded on top. I wanted to achieve roughly the same kind of thing, so I used a backing track and sung on top. Most backing tracks that I use are either from a CD, downloaded off the internet or I create them myself. However, this time I could not find a suitable backing track for any of these songs. The song that I wanted to perform was Pink - Like A Pill, so I choose the closest song to it, Don't Let Me Get Me. This is also sung by Pink, it's from the same album, and its got the same structure and feel to it. I found a suitable backing track for that song on a karaoke CD. I wanted to make my performance sound upbeat, but also reflect the meaning of the song. Alicia (Pink) put meaning into the song by using dynamics and harmony backing vocals. I will try to do the same, but I wont have the backing vocals. Compared to my other two songs (Brandy - What About Us, and Janet Jackson - All For You), my chosen song isn't much different. All three artists have really powerful voices and can express themselves really well. Brandy's song has a slightly more of a dance feel to it than a lot of other r'n'b songs. Her backing track has lots of sound effects and the main feel of it is almost futuristic. This goes well with her video (on CD included in coursework) as a lot of it is computer generated graphics and solo dance routines. The meaning to this song is quite a mixture. Her boyfriend or lover is messing around in the relationship, but Brandy provides a 'girl power' view by saying she doesn't need him anymore and that she can do better.
gonna be," a tune with a guitar solo that sent chills up my spine. Next came another catchy
...e around. The three songs I chose, I felt, best expressed the music style of the album. It was through similar beat patterns, that I was able to deduce this. After considerable analysis of Lorde’s music, I have discovered more of myself through relating daily situations with her lyrics, and the thrills I experienced from the beats placed on the tracks.
It is believed to be one of her best pop songs. This song is considered a pop song because it is written in the form of verses, bridges and choruses and it ends with an outro. The first verse of the song starts with “Share my life, take me for what I am”, which is shown specifically at the time 0:23. It ends with “Just all that you are and everything that you do”, which is shown at 0:53-0:58. The verse is followed with a bridge, which begins with “I don’t really need to look, very much further”, specifically at 1:00, and then follows it and it ends with “I can’t run from myself, there’s nowhere to hide” which is from 1:15 to 1:20. The song’s structure continues with a chorus, which starts off with “Don’t make me close one more door” which is at 1:21, and then it follows and ends with “If I don’t have you, you, you, you, you” which is at 1:51 to 1:56. It carries on with one more verse and one more bridge, and it ends with an outro, which begins with “Don’t you dare walk away from me” which is at 4:12 and ends with “If I don’t have you, oh you” which is at 4:27. The exact times for each verse, chorus, bridge or outro is all shown in the table below. In addition, the song is considered a pop song because it’s time duration is within the average time for a pop song, which is 3 to 5 minutes, and the song is about 4:50 minutes. Moreover, it is appropriate for different people from different places and it
“Rock Awhile” by Goree Carter is a lot more upbeat than “Devil Got my Woman”, with more swing to it. This song is much faster paced and can be danced to. Also about a woman, this song has more happy lyrics about a woman he loved and how his baby was coming home. There are a lot more instruments to this song like an electric guitar, a piano, a saxophone, percussion, etc. and the song was primarily instrumental, which emphasized these different musical instruments. Goree Carter’s voice was a lot smoother than James’ which made it easy to understand and follow along with, and the strength that came from his vocal style easily pulls you in.
and when we go onstage we can let it all pour out. The song is very
If you know this song, it 's probably now stuck in your head. Kind of like "It 's A Small World." Now you have two annoying songs stuck in your head. You 're welcome. Just sharing the joy!
“Sunday Candy”. When I hear this song, I don’t hear Jamila Woods, I hear you. Sorry for the dramatic antics, but GIRL. LET ME TELL YOU. This was the second new song I learned being in of Poor Richards. And GIRL. It took forever to get to your solo, but when we got there--holy fuck. MADAME PRESIDENT . You kill it all the time. This is why you always have a million solos. Because you always kill it.
In 1955 Former radio deejay Pat Boone begins a career by releasing "sanitized" versions of black R&B hits. Boone's versions of these songs often contain edited lyrics: such as substituting "drinkin' Coca Cola" for "drinkin' wine" in T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday" and "Pretty little Susie is the girl for me" instead of "Boys, don't you know what she do to me" in Little Richard's "Tutti Fruitti."
Later that year at the last concert of the year I did a solo/duet with a girl named Lauren Wilson. She was a pretty good play to. The song we did was Star Wars and we both did good. I have not done a solo sense but I hope to do another one soon.
Her voice even with its distinctiveness, sounds like an instrument in the mix. Over the years the track has been remixed multiple times. Its fast paced drum beats are easy to sync with today’s music. The notable remix by Danny Howells become commercially popular amongst the rest.
In this paper I critically reflect on five different self-assessments: locus of control (LOC), emotional intelligence (EI), listening self-inventory, team member type and conflict management. Throughout my discussion, I focus on their correlations and apply the gathered information to my work-life experiences. I will also provide a systematic assessment of each of these questionnaires. This evaluation will address any possible weaknesses I had found within the tests and prepare my final conclusions based upon those final educated results.
In today’s competitive job market with all of legal precautions employers must take in the workplace environment, employers face the challenge of attracting, developing, and retaining the best employees. Personnel assessment is a systematic approach to gathering information about individuals (Dessler, 2011). This information is used to make employment or career-related decisions about applicants and employees. Any test or procedure used to measure an individual’s employment or career-related qualifications and interests can be considered a personnel assessment tool (Dessler, 2011). There are many types of personnel assessment tools that help in the selection process. Human resource management and employers can use various tests as well as the personal interview to aid in the employee selection process.
Organization is a group of people brought to gather to achieve specific goals. Goals can be achieved if team member are performing well. Performance is the results of activities given to the employees in an organization to be achieved within specific period of time. Evaluating the current performance of employees against past performances and organizational standards is known as Performance Appraisal (Dessler, 2005). Furthermore performance appraisal helps the company know how individual employees are performing and how to improve their performance thus improving the performance of the company (Grubb, 2007). A performance appraisal is propose in which the performance management system in an organizations set work goals, determine performance standards, provide performance feedback, determine training and development needs and distribute rewards as well as evaluating an employee’s job performance during a period of time. The performance of team member is much more than appraising individuals’ works, it is managing the business, so the performance of an employee is influences by the performance of an organization. It is target to achieve the best results for the planned strategic by managing activities of employees. There are many different opinions on the performance appraisals, some organizations do performance appraisals without any aim just follow others., where some organizations do performance appraisals to make sure they have a record of a piece of paper in the employee’s file – they are careless about do corrective action. But successful organizations understand the importance of combining performance appraisals into their performance management process and strategy plan as the success of any organizatio...
...ement systems which combines both financial and non-financial measures which are considered more appropriate with the growing market. For instance, the two well-known performance measurements used by wide range of companies: Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and Performance Prism.
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