Thursday, November 19, 2009

week 6 (term 2)

10-11-09
Today, we were going to do the assessment. Before the assessment, we had practiced first for 10 minutes. Everyone was playing confidently and well, I think. My turn to play my composition is after Kevin, I was nervous because I got a bad feeling about it. There was a little error but I hope I could get a high and reliable score.

13-11-09
At the next meeting, we reviewed our music theory ( G major, D major, A major + the inversions). And then I saw Riza and Gaby performances. Next, my teacher asked us one by one about the music theory.

week 5 (term 2)

03-11-09
In this day, we checked our inversions and transcript them into a sheet. Then some of my friends showed their performance of their compositions. Thereafter we reviewed the accidental numbers.

06-11-09
At the next meet, my teacher asked me about the finale homework, I already done with the notations but I haven’t done with the lyrics, so I decided not to send my composition. After that, I continued my lyrics composition and wrote my reflection on making a music composition. At last, we did the rehearsal for the composition.

week 4 (term2)

30-10-09
In this week, we only had our music class for once because there was a holiday. My teacher showed me how to authorize the finale software. Then my friends and me sang ‘La Bamba’ for twice. I saw Amadea’s performance with her own composition. After that my teacher told us to practice our own compositions for the assessment.

week 3 (term 2)

20-10-09
Today I did my assessment in singing ‘Gundul-Gundul Pacul’ song. I chose Riza as my partner while singing the song. After my performance, everybody did the same thing. Then we learned about 7 major and the inversions.

23-10-09
Second meeting came, we sang the ‘What a Wonderful World’ song together. There was a little mistake while I was singing the song since I had not learned the song before. After that, I saw Daud, Raissa, Gaby, Derian, and Adi performances in singing ‘Gundul-Gundul Pacul’ song. Finally, my teacher checked our previous homework. I forgot to put sharps on the inversions.

week 2 (term 2)

13-10-09
At this time, I copied my task about midi files into the one of my teacher’s file while my teacher was teaching other students. Then, I learned about how to make 32 bars of pop song. After that, my teacher checked my bars and told me about the mistakes.

16-10-09
Next day, we learned two new songs, first ‘Gundul-Gundul Pacul’ song and ‘La Bamba’ from Mexico. Next, we copied our music arrangement to a paper.

Week 1 (term 2)

06-10-09
My teacher told me about our next tasks. Later, we learned about how to make a pop song. A pop song has AABA form mostly. And then we identified ‘Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star’ song and searched for the similarity. After identified, we tried to make a pop song by our selves.

09-10-09
In next meeting, we discussed about many variations of a song form. My teacher also showed us about a software which is called Finale. Thereafter, I saw one of the sources which contains histories of many popular and classic composers.

week 5

08-09-09
Today, we got our booklet, we studied a bit about the booklet. Then, we learned about sharp, flat, and natural. Sharp= +1/2, flat= -1/2, natural = back to original. After that we watched our previous assessment. I looked very terrible but from the video I knew my mistakes. After watched the video we saw Banu’s performance with his instrument.

11-09-09
In the second day of the week, my teacher told me about the worksheet and how to access it. I saw Lucky’s blog. Then, we sang Indonesian song, we were singing ‘Berkibarlah Benderaku’. It was a good experience.