8 Sep 2009

8 Sep 2009 Tuesday

The day of submitting the individual report- I researched about the Jazz music. I am so happy that I have finished with the report!^^**

Today, we practiced to solve question related to the scales of major and minor. They were quite easy for me, but still, I was confused in some parts. When I was writing numbers for the notes, I was confused that I thought c was always 1. But, from today's exercise, I knew that it can change when the scales are base on particular chord. I thank to Adeline because she helped me!^^ thanx~

However, after the recess between 2 sessions, we started with steven, who have not performed yet. He played piano for us, and I thought he was good!^^ All of our class students actually performed really well! Isn't it?hehe

After, his performance, we were asked to write a reflection over our performance. I wrote what I think of my performance, and I wrote what do I have to improve. When we were writing the reflection, Mr. Herry showed us the videos of our performances which I never want to remember again!....... Next time, I will do my best, and make improvements to my skills!

2 Sep 2009

2 Sep 2009 Wednesday

Starting with the performance from Jean with her flute, We heard songs from Calista and Ian also who were playing saxophones. I felt surprised that they could actually play the instrument well although they were new learners. During the saxophone performance, I felt I would like to learn the Saxophone.

After all the performances finished, we learned about chords of major and minor. There were symbols and scale for each chords. Especially, we had major, major 7th, minor, minor 7th, 6, 69, for both major and minor and dominant 7 and minor 7.
I alreay learned this before, but I felt new when I was reviewing this. But, the explanation was clear that I could understand them. After learning about the chords, we proceeded to learn about the accidentals, including sharp, flat and neutral. Mr. Herry showed examples by drawing the piano on the board. Such as 'd flat = c sharp', we learned that this is called enharmonic tones. It was great to learn the new terminologies.

For the term test, I would like to memorize them all and save in my knowledge space in my brain.

1 Sep 2009

1 Sep 2009 Tuesday

Today, continueing from last week's assessment of presentation, we did our assessment of performance. It was about performing any classic song I chose and practiced in my instrument class. So, starting from group of Piano, guitar and violin continued to do the assessment. From the piano, I was impressed by all the players because all of them were wonderful in playing. Especially, I could feel that they had practiced a lot. For the guitar group which had so many people, I felt that boys were all good in their skills for guitar because they also did very good such as they have chosen difficult, and nice songs to play. Personally, I really liked Bayu's performance because while he was playing with Mark, I was impressed by their cooperativeness, and Bayu's speed of his finger playing the notes so fast.

Besides, i did my performance for the last player. But, I was the first from the flute students. The remaining flute students were decided to do tomorrow because there was no time.
When I performed my song called 'over the rainbow' I lacked the skills to vibrate appropriately, because what i did was trimolo, which is vibrating so fast. Also, for the expression, I think I did not do well since I didn't had part to become loud and sometimes quiet.

Next time, I would like to do better, with more difficult song. Also! most important thing, I will practice hard for my assessment!^^