Formative Assessment - Day 1

Formative assessment – (Monday)

(part of my practice diary for my formative assessment week)

For this following week I will be undergoing a formative assessment in my lecture classes. These assessments began yesterday with my first assessment being throughout my technical development lecture. Throughout this assessment, this included; 1 repeating pattern, 1 chord based song and 1 16 bar extract from a song chosen by our teacher. I found that throughout this assessment I began feel nervous to perform as in the past I have had severe stage fright, however as I got on stage I felt more at home than I have ever felt when playing something to a crowd and all of the nerves slipped away from me as I played. For the first extract I felt that I played the repeating pattern fairly well despite slipping out of time for one note. For the next chord based strumming song I felt that I also performed well on this. For the last song I felt that I performed the best for it, with no slip ups apart from a little slip up on the last 2 note that I didn’t play but instead held the note as that was the way I had been practicing it.

What I could have done better:

I felt that for this assessment I didn’t have any major issues except for what I’ve stated which was very minor. So I feel that the best I could do with improving is to make a set routine for practicing the extracts, as some days I focused on some more than others when I should’ve practiced them all to the same level and amount of time.