26 Aug 2009

26 August 2009

Today, we finally did our Music assessment about presenting the Jazz Music. Our group (Me, Adeline, Tiffany, Jayne and Andria) had prepared well from before, and we were confident to present to the class! haha However we were still very nervous. Since before, we were preparing the music, videos and images. And we were successful today! From the videos and music, we have got many attention from the audience, and the teachers.

According to the comment from the teachers:

Mr. John - Every body were so collaborative, doing their research with their own role, and they have mixed well together and created a good presentation. Especially, the visual illustration was great that there were videos, songs and even one of the group member played the song. I liked Eun Hye using the palm cards, and the eye contact. There sources were given, so it was really nice. The one of the best group presented ever!

Mr. Herry - I think the content, which were almost perfect, and they had many informations. There were also animations which i liked. However, the negative point is that the postures of some of the group members were not firm. They were moving to point the pictures. I hope there will be no moving to show the pictures next time. They can also use the mouse to do that.

From these comments, I concluded that for the next assessment, we have to be controlling our postures that we can stand firmly, not moving, making people to be not distracted. I also learned that we need to be more collaborative to share making the palm cards and practice together. Anyway, i am very satisfied that we had mostly good comments from the teachers! My challenge for next time is to prepare more, and try to get more attentions from the people.

25 Aug 2009

25 August 2009

Today, in my class we were having a performance rehearsal. Starting from James, We presented our musical ability by playing the Classic songs. First! The guitar group presented. Starting from James, Bayu, Melvin and Emir Played. James played two sad songs which were really nice! It was called adelita, and the meaning was tears. It really felt like tears because James emphasized the sad rhythm well. When Bayu and Melvin played for the duet, it felt like their song was fast and cool. I also liked theirs. Lastly, It was Emir who played for guitar group. Emir, as usual, he played and sang at the same time. I really liked the song because the rhythm was good and his voice also matched with the song. As guitar group finished, there was Tiffany and Andria who played duet for the Canon in D. I felt that they played very well and especially Andria was really good in Violin.

Finally, although i was suffering with my lip problem, I performed a song called 'AMAZING GRACE', representing the woodwind group. I played in A chord, but I am not satisfied because my sound was not smooth enough. It was very challenging that I played in front of the class. Next time, I would like to show a better performance of myself.

19 Aug 2009

19 August 2009

Today, in Music class, Mr. Herry was late because he was in the Assembly. So, Instead of Mr. John, Mrs. Melvina substituted him and became our teacher since Mr. John was absent.:(
With Mrs.Melvina, we sang Indonesian Independence song 'Hari Merdeka'. I knew the song, so it was easy to sing with friends. When Mr. Herry was back, we discussed about the intervals again and he asked us what we don't understand. We also practiced the interval questions.

After this, we discussed about the group presentation! When we were discussing, we found out that there were some problems with the group members that we haven't finalized last week. So, we decided the group members again and in group, we gathered and decided each student's role in the presentation. I got the part to look up for the Jazz styles. After we decided we presented our each roles to the class room. I think we need to work hard for this Assessment!><

14 Aug 2009

14 August 2009

Since, the assessment is over, We were studying the intervals! Actually... I did not understand about the intervals before Mr. John explained it to me. So, when Mr. John called me in the class to ask me to solve about the intervals, I was very embarassed because I did not know about the intervals. However Mr. John kindly explained to me so that I could write the answer on the board. We learned about the 1st inversion and the second inversion which was very easy when Mr. John explained to us~! I am very happy that I learned something today!^^ ><

11 Aug 2009

11 August 2009 TUESDAY

Today, it was really nervous day, that we had the singing assessment! We sang all part of the song and also had to sin the most hardest part, which is the refrain part. It was so nervous that we sang with a partner in front of the class. I made partner with Adeline. In real, we did not practiced for the assessment, but prepared at home alone. If me, I have prepared to memorized the song all, at home. I practiced by hearing the music from youtube and it was so challenging that the lyrics were too long and the song was kinda hard to sing. It was fast in some parts, and I could not speak the lyrics so fast in some parts.

However, in the assessment, we were allowed to memorize only the first verse and could sing with looking at lyrics after the first verse. I with Adeline, were singing together but i was not good... I couldn't perfectly memorize the song because i was too nervous. I was not satisfied with my assessment. Although I wanted to repeat, I could not repeat the assessment. I watched my other friends singing after I did. We were the first one to sing because Adeline was the first one to go when we do it alphabetically. However, assessment was done. I am going to challenge for the other assessment. ^^ Next time, I would like to memorize the song perfectly, and sing louder than this.

7 Aug 2009

7 AUG 2009 FRIDAY

In our theory class! We proceeded to learn the theories, continuing from the last session. We studied about the Gmajor scale with triad and 7th chord. After we learned, Mr. John and Mr. Herry asked us to solve on the board when he gave us the problems. Each of us, When were called by the teacher had to go out to the board and write the answer! It was scary.....:( I wasn't called, so I was really lucky!^^*v

Today we had introduction of our new assessment. It was about the World music investigation. We had to choose for the groups to present the topic and choose the topic for the presentation. There were four topics:

1. Pop Rock
2. Country Music
3. Jazz music
4. Folk Song

He also gave us the schedule for the assessment. He wrote that on 14th, We do the group discussion, on 21th, due of the assessment and on 28th, The individual paper duedate and we had the instrument performance assessment.

So, Today we had groups leaders and they were the one to pick their group members. 4 Group leaders came out to the class : James, Tiffany, Hasan, and Calista.

I was chosen to Tiffany's group with Adeline. Our group was not complete.... But, We had got the topic, the best topic we think, which is the 'JAZZ'!!!!!:) I LOVE THIS TOPIC!:)

4 Aug 2009

4 Aug 2009 TUESDAY

We continued with the song 'Heal the World'. Our homework for last session was to learn all the lyrics. But we couldn't learn it all, because it was quite hard and the later part was mostly the hardest. Anyway, some of friends could sing already well, and for me, it was still hard because i just started to know the song by hearing the song at home.
So.. this was the first challenge i had to go through! I needed to sing the song well, with the correct tone, tempo and the rhythm!
When we sang altogether, it was really fun. Our class had many good singers, and maybe that's why we had big sounds when we all sang together. After we had several practices with the song, We had to sing infront of the class! omg...:( It was group of 2 to sing together in front of the class. Since we were not sure with the second part and so on, we just sang only the first verse! haha I sang with Jayne~^^ I was bad in singing....:( but, we had to prepare for the assessment that was coming soon............................. which was singing all the song....:(

My instrument class was as usual. I practiced with Mr. Hary and we practiced breathing...
I hope we have something new to learn. :)

31 July 2009

31 July 2009 FRIDAY

Today we had theory class, learning theories about c major triad, 7th triad. And personally, I had learned already in grade 8. So, it was easy to understand. After this learning, we copied it into our notebook and got signed by Mr. John.

For the next instrument class, myself practiced a scale with Mr. Hary. Others waited for me for 15 minutes because they didn't had instruments yet. I practiced the scale A and C with fast tempo and slow tempo. And for homework, I also got scale practices. I had to practice the D and G scale octave, and play it with major, minor and diminsh.

I had many homeworks ....:(

28 July 2009

July 28 2009 TUESDAY

Today is the third day of our music class. We had already been divided into instrument groups that from today, we were divided to learn one of the two session in the instrument class! In my instrument class, there were Jean. Calista, Ian, Carlo, Me. Our teacher was Mr. Hary.^^ He was really outstanding and excellent in playing Flute and Saxophone. He is a really talented teacher who could play many instruments! From today, We started learning about Woodwind Instrument. However, I was only one who had the instrument to play. So, we started with others to learn the instruments and what instrument they will choose between the Saxophone and the flute. They asked about instruments so that they can pick one which they want. As they decided to decide at home, we started practicing the breathing practice which is compulsory for all woodwind instrument players. We sat on the floor, touching our stomach and breath, followed breathing like Mr. Hary.

Before in the theory class, we with Mr. John Legon, learned about one new song called 'Heal the world'. This song was really famous, that it was composed and sang by Michael Jackson. I felt sad while singing because Michael Jackson was dead now, and the lyrics were really touching. We learned the song with Mr. Herry playing piano. The song was really nice. We learned the first verse, and got how the rhythm is.

ps: Adeline even cried while we sang the song. ^^

24 July 2009

24 July 2009 FRIDAY

WOW! There was finally the long waited auditions for the guitar group! The boys who came out to play for their songs were: James, Emir, Aryo, Bayu, Mark, Jayne, Kevin, Carlo...etc.

The performances were awesome!! haha~ From the audition, students competed with one song which they picked, performing in front of the class. They played really well and i especially liked Emir's because he was singing and playing guitar at the same time!^^ Although he was a new student, his adaptation to the music class was amazingly fast, and he was good in singing also! hehe Other players also did really well and most of them played same song. I couldn't pick the students if I were the teacher because they were all good! I thought the boys really wanted to go into the guitar group that they must compete to go in to the group.

Finally, Mr. John picked for the students who passed. There were 7 students from 9 who passed and others moved to the woodwind group and string group. I felt I will be needing many efforts to do hard in my flute class with Mr. Hary like others. ^^

21 July 2009

21 July 2009 TUESDAY

Today it was our first meeting after holiday. I was really excited to attend my one of favorite music class! haha I missed my music class since I was taking art in the previous year! I hoped we have new things this term and we do something fun!

First of all, we had introduction with the new students and old students. Mr. Herry explained the rules and he informed about the materials we should bring to the Music class. One of our very first task was to choose our instrument class! And I WAS VERY VERY SURPRISED! Guess what?? There was my favorite WOODWIND GROUP! It was totally a new group which was changed from a vocal group! Now, the vocal group was gone, and interchanged with this WOOD WIND GROUP! I can play flute, better than violin... so, i could register in to Flute group! I was liking this music class since, there is now a flute class~ ^^

However, i still missed the violin group because i was always in Violin group before this term. I just wanted to challenge with the new woodwind instrument 'flute' so that i can perform with variety of instruments.

So.... this is how i registered to the Flute group today. There were no many people joining flute. Lucky! I had no audition to go through! haha~ But, for the other group such as guitar group, there was an audition the next session. Since many boys wanted to go in to Guitar, Mr. Herry asked all the participants to perform one song to only pick 7 students.

HAPPY:)