Minggu, 30 Mei 2010

28-5-2010

This day was a holiday and I did not had any music class, but I still practiced my rondo composition for the exam.

26-5-2010

Today I practiced my Rondo composition with the saxophone. I also practiced the scale on my saxophone that is the C scale, G scale, and the F scale. I had problems with the notes because I was confused between the piano notes and the saxophone notes, but now I understand it because I asked my Saxophone teacher Mr. Harry.

21-5-2010

Today I practiced my rondo composition with the saxophone in front of the class. I only had little difficulties in playing the Rondo that is missed wrote the notes, and that made me pay the wrong notes.

Minggu, 16 Mei 2010

14-5-2010

Today I learned about a new clef which is the C clef or the alto clef. After Mr. Herry explained about the clef, he also gave us an exercise on it. After that we listened to one of my classmate's finale ad Mr. Herry thought us on how to save the finale into a midi file so we can play it by only the sound using another software.

Kamis, 13 Mei 2010

12-5-2010

Today Mr. Herry gave us a quiz on many symbols of a scale. There were two paper quiz. He then gave us another quiz on bass clef. He also checked our reflection in our journal/ book.

7-5-2010

Today I transferred my draft Rondo the final Rondo paper. There were also a part where I should write the reflection about hat I learned on making the Rondo. The last thing I did was exercises on bass clef.

5-5-2010

Today I discussed and learned about the bass clef and done some exercise Mr. Herry gave. I had no problem in making the notes because I fully understood it.

30-4-2010

Today Mr. Herry showed us one of the finished finale of my classmate. He also thought us on how to arrange the bars, edit the title in the finale software, and also to add the lyrics to our composition. For me this information is useful because now I can make a composition correctly.

28-4-2010

Today Mr. Herry gave us the results of the test on music I did on the 9th and 14th May. My result was okay but I think I need to improve on the score next time. After that we continued to make the C part of our new composition and looked at the blogs of my friends.

Senin, 26 April 2010

23-4-2010

Today I made a new composition by using a diffrent pattern. I didn't understood that well because I was absent the day when Mr.Herry thaught my class on how to do it. But then I asked my friends on how to do it and I improved a bit and I now could make the first line.

21-4-2010

I was absent in this day

16-4-2010

Today I watched 3 videos Mr. Herry presented to the class. the songs were "When You Say Nothing at All - Allison Krauss" , "Over The Rainbow - Katherine Mcphee" , and a composition made by a binusian Adeline Koji. The first video had a slow tempo. The second was a popular music, and the last video had a fast tempo.

14 - 4 - 2010

Today I did another quiz on the major, minor chord, trid, and the classical and popular music history too. It was simply the same with the first one, so I didn't have any hard time doing it. The only problem i had is the timing because I didn't had much time to do it. Mr. Herry also showed us some of the people that uploaded videos on their blog.

9-4-2010

Today I did the quiz on the major, minor chord, triad, and there was also some popular and classical history questions. The major, minor triad for me was not that hard, but I only had the problem of the timing because I didn't work faster. I also had problems on the history of popular and classical music because I didn't studied it at home. In the future, if I have a bad score in this qui, I will do better on the test next time. Mr also thought us on how to make a finale paper.

Minggu, 25 April 2010

7-4-2010

Today I reviewed on the major chord, minor chord and the triad. At first it was a bit hard because it had been long since I practice making it again. Then Mr.Herry helped the class on learning how to upload a video on blogger.

Senin, 15 Maret 2010

12-3-2010

Today I learned on some of the major and minor notes and how to make it. Mr. Herry thought us the process of the major chord that is to pick the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd note from a major. While making a minor chord, we just have to copy the major chord and change the 2nd note to a flat note. At first I was confused on how to make the minor chord, but after I asked some friends, I now understand it. Some of my classmates also rehearsed their own composition n front of the class. I was suppose to go in front of the class and rehearsed, but I wasn't ready yet.

10-3-2010

Today was suppose to be the day that me and the whole class performed our own composition, but my class mates including me were not ready so then the assessment was moved to next week. I then practiced on my composition so I could play in front of the class good. Next week I hope I could perform good and get a good score for my assessment.

Selasa, 02 Maret 2010

5-2-2010

Today is another day that I have no music class, because there is a HOLIDAY.

3-3-2010

Today I did my assessment on playing the classical song 'Amazing Grace' in front of the class and was recorded by Mr. Herry. Before the assessment I practiced a lot and did not have any mistake at all, but when I did the assessment I did some erors. I think this is because the confidence again that I didn't had, because of people laughing at me. Next time I will do better because I have learnt from the mistakes I did today.

26-2-2010

Today there was no music class because there was a holiday, but I still did my practicing of playing the saxophone in my house.

24-2-2010

Today me and my classmates rehearsed the classical music that we are going to play next week, we played in ront of the class. I rehearsed the song 'Amazing Grace' in front of the class with my friend Rafael. we didn't did well at the last notes because we had breathing problems, and also the audience that are my classmate laughed at us and this made us to be not confident. next time I will practice to be more confident infront of the class.

19-2-2010

Today was suppose to be the day that I submitted my final composition with the lyrics, but instead I did it in class, becuse I didn't made it as a homework. making the lyrics for m took a very long time because for me it is hard. Next time I will have to remember to do homeworks.

17-2-2010

In this day, Mr. Herry reviewed all my clasmates composition including mine. while playing the compositions iwith his keyboard, he gave feedback to me that my composition is too complicated for to play in the saxophone. He said that I need too change the composition so it would not be fast. Next time I will try to eit my composition and write the final composition in a piece of paper.

12-2-2010

Today I did my composition that has 32 bars and the pattern is AABA. I did the composition on a sheet of paper Mr. Herry gave me. The erors that I made was the last notes of the composition and also the lines of the notes.

10-2-2010

Today I learned on how to make a composition of my own with the pattern AABA. Mr. Herry gave me and the class some excercise on the composition so we could be good in making compositions. After that I tried to make a composition and I did it well. next time I will finish my own composition.

29-1-2010

This day was suppose to be the day that I present my presentation on 'Classical Music vs Popular Music', but instead I didn't did it because I havent finish my presentation with my group. I am truly sorry to my teacher Mr. Herry for not doing it. Next time I will have to do the presentaton with my group after the singing assessment.

3-2-2010

Today I did my singing assessment with my partner Rafael. We sang in front of the class and sang the song 'Blowin in the Wind'. We didn't sang good enough, because we were nervous of people laughing at us, but I learned that if we are not confident, it will make the audience just laugh at us. So now I learned for the future that I should be confident.

Rabu, 24 Februari 2010

22-1-2010

Today I sang with my presentation group and sang 'Blowin In The Wind'. I had some problems when singing because I was having a flu that made me not convidence. I also start on making the mind maping of my presentation with my group about popular and classical music. I would improve later on my singing after im not sick again.

20-1-2010

This day I learned on the diatonic scale. Mr. Herry thought me on what is a diatonic scale, how do I write it, how to change the notes to sharp or flat to be 1-1-1/2-1-1-1-1/2, and also how to sing it on my self. At first I was confused, but then I asked my friends, then I understood it. I would improve by asking my friends again.

15-1-2010

Today was the first time I studied in the music class. The teacher that thought me most was Mr. Herry. He thought me on the criteria in the music class and what am I going to do. After that the rest of the class teachers, those are Mr. Sadrakh, Mr. Harry, and Mr. John, presented us some of the instruments and played in front of us. The most inspiring for me was Mr. Harry when playing his flute and saxophone, because I never saw anyone else play those instruments. After this I will talk to my parents about if they would let me to buy a saxophone.