Group Critique - Level 2's

D1A Pod 3 - The vocals were very strong, she learned all the words and was in time and key for the whole song. To improve she should've moved around more to make her performance more exciting. The drums should've came in earlier. I think they tried to build effect by waiting for the drums to come in but because they left it to long it didn't quite work and by the time the drums did come it in sounded odd, like he suddenly remembered he was supposed to be playing. I feel like they tried to change key towards the end of the dong but it wasn't a full key change so it sounded a bit odd. I couldn't hear the keyboard, but was made aware by the rest of my group that he was only playing one note at a time instead of chords. This wouldn't create much of an effect in the song and would easily get drowned out, which could have been one of the reasons no one heard it. Whenever I play keyboard on stage and don't plug it into the PA, so it's only coming through the speakers on the keyboard, I can hear it fine because I am stood close to it but the rest of my band and the audience cannot. Make sure that the piano is plugged into the PA and it is coming through enough of the speakers so everyone, including the audience, can hear it.

ED1A Pod 3 - Great timing and levels throughout the whole band, you could hear everyone and no one was drowning out any other band member. The vocals were strong and so were the harmonies, I was told that they had to improvise the harmonies because it wasn't practised enough but I didn't notice this. The vocalists had good stage chemistry throughout the performance and the guitarist on the left of the stage was also communicating to them through body language which made the performance more enjoyable as I knew they were enjoying it too. However, the only thing that let the performance down was that the rest of the band didn't move a lot, but this is something that will come with practice and confidence.

ED1A Pod 2 - The vocals were very strong and you could tell the male vocalist was confident, but because the only other person moving around was the other vocalist, it looked a bit out of place that no one else was really doing anything. I think the male vocalist shouldn't have moved around so much and the rest of the band should've moved more. His screaming was good but seemed a bit forced and was possibly caused by the fact that he maybe couldn't hit the note when singing. The female vocalist didn't get as much singing parts as the other but maybe this was just optional. I think when there is more than one singer in a band, they should all be given an equal amount of parts, otherwise it either looks like one is almost taking over and not letting anyone else do anything, or like the other doesn't really want to be a part of the performance.