2009년 12월 1일 화요일

1 Dec 2009

Tuesday 1st December

Today, we learned about Johann Sebastian Bach. Mr. John gave us all papers regarding this musician. After we read the handout, we did a short quiz which was actually very easy. After checking the quiz with answer, we proceeded to know our coverage of exam. It was about history and theory. After this, we got handouts regarding the history. Mr. Herry distributed us 5 papers to study.
Lastly, we also learned about Kodaly which was very interesting.

25 Nov 2009

Tuesday 25th November

Today, we had the real quiz, which was also an assessment for the scale, triads and chords. After a short explanation from Mr. John, We started our exam and I finished earlier than others.
After this quiz, we got our scores for the singing assessment for Indonesian song called 'Gundul Gundul Pacul'. I got 8.5 out of 10. I am not very satisfied, but still I am going to work to get higher scores by doing this theory quiz. For the students who haven't done their assessment, they did the assessment.

10 Nov 2009

Wednesday 10th November

Today what we did was only practicing for the own composition song performance assessment. I practiced with my other woodwind groupmates and we practiced in IT room since there were some parents practicing in our room. When I practiced, I also helped Jean for flute. However, I was little worried about my performance since I was still having problem to make a high tone.
I think I need to practice more to make a high tone.

24 Nov 2009

Tuesday 24th November

Today Mr.John called out our scores for the last quiz. I got really bad...... which was only 57.5 out of 100........ :( My friends Tiffany and Ade got 100..... I felt so depressed because I could not do this properly while they did really good.
Since most of our class got low in this quiz, Mr. John taught us again about chords and triads, including the major 7th and dominant 7th.
When he explained again and I asked my friend for kind explanation, I could understand how to write correct chords and triads.
I am planning to improve the quiz next class which we are going to have a real one for the score in report card.

18 Nov 2009

Wednesday 18th November

Today we started our lesson with thoery lesson about chords!
I felt really helpless since I did not know about diminished and augmented triads. Even though Mr. John explained to us, I was confused. Trying to understand, I only memorized how are the triads change when they become minor, diminished and augmented. After that, I took the quiz and I felt 'oh my god!' because I could not do it. Helplessely, I submitted my work to Mr. John and regretted to myself. It was again my new challenge to understand this topic for next quiz. We got the answer sheet of the quiz and I found that I have done many mistakes.
Today, other than quiz, we had Ian's saxophone performance. I was very impressed by his performance because Ian could blow the saxophone well even though it was really hard to learn Saxophone.
Today, we also started our assessment on Indonesian song which was called 'Gundul Gundul Pacul'. Since the time was not enough, Ade & Jayne and James & Andrew B only did their assessment. I still remember James did the very funny dancing within the music. :P

17 Nov 2009

Tuesday 17 November

I did my performance assessment today! How nervous it was! I was preparing for my performance while others were playing inside the room. When it was my turn, I breathed once, and started my performance. I felt a little shy to play my own song. However, with Ms. Melvina's help of the background music, I could do better. After the performance, I wrote my reflection on the 32 bar song composition, copying to finale, and about my performance. I did my best to write the reflection.
By the way, I also saw aryo and emir's performance which was very impressive also! I really liked everyone's performance up till now!

11 Nov 2009

Tuesday 11th November

Today we started our performance assessment! At the beginning of the class, we were told to write a reflection about 32 bars composition!. After filling the paper, we started our performance. For the performance, I really liked piano group student's performance. Their composited song were really great. It was like a masterpiece. Especially, Keizia, Adeline, and Tiffany's song were my favorite^^*
For my performance, I had to do next time because we did not have more time!
I got a new challenge today that I need to do the performance good like piano students. **