31/May/2012

Music theory: Today was the last day of music class. We had to the the reflection workbook. We got to explain and revise what we did of all the assessments and tests we had. It was really tiring too. For the second session me, alysha, amyra, nathalie, and jasmine was late to class because we actually want to print our screenshots but then, we we're too late.

Instrument class: There was no instrument class

29 May 2012

Music theory: I re do my assessment because i had 6 for the last score. I played better with the fingering but the tempo wasn't that good because one of my friend said that its better to have a better fingering than a better tempo but i don't play good.

Instrument class: Today there was no instrument class.

24 May 2012

Music theory: Today is the assessment day where i have to play the song 'minuet 3' with my violin instrument. i think i did pretty well on doing it but i had some mistakes when i was playing it. I think i had to re do because i think i wasn't really that good with the fingering when i played.

Instrument class: Today, there was no instrument class because we had the assessment on playing our own song.

22 May 2012

Music theory: Today Mr John reminded us about our process journal and our blog. We had to finish it all because i have to make it faster because Mr John wants to make scores for our process journal for the end of the semester. When i get home today i will make entries of my journal and i will fill up all my blog with my entries. I will also practice for my assessment on thursday.

Instrument class: In music instrument class, we practiced our song for the assessment and we want to improve ourselves.

17 May 2012

NO SCHOOL.

15 May 2012

Music theory: Today in music theory i was asked to play my baroque music alone with my music instrument.

Instrument: Today all the violin students were asked to play their song. I practiced a lot of times today. I can't really play it well but i have to practice more so i could improve on playing it.

10 May 2012

Music theory: Today during music theory, Mr John and our class reviewed all the basic on music theory. We reviewed f cleff and G cleff. We need to understand all of it. Next time i will learn more so that i could remember everytime when Mr John ask me.

Instrument class: Today we played scales in instrument class.

8 May 2012

Music theory: Today Mr John was absent, but we still practiced for our assessment on playing our own instrument playing one of the baroque music. I need to practice more so i could do it correctly. Next time i want to practice more on playing my instrument with the song i chose.

Instrument class: I practiced playing my song in the instrument class by the help of Min ah.

2 May 2012

Music theory: Today Mr John announced our singing assessment score. I got 10 for my assessment. After that, we did some kind of reading comprehension that will make my score higher. Next time i will practice the baroque song for my assessment.

Instrument class: In instrument class we were supposed to play scale and learning some parts of our own baroque song that we chose.

31 April 2012

Music theory: Today we discussed about the upcoming assessment, which is playing Baroque music with our own musical instrument. The piano players played their music in front of the class for as an example. Next time i will choose my baroque song from my suzuki violin book.

Instrument class: In instrument class Mr Sadrakh helped us to pick a baroque song for ourselves.

26 April 2012

Music theory: In the first session, we had time to study things about Baroque music that will be in an essay for our assessment. We were supposed to answer all the questions in the space that will be provided by the teachers who made it. For me it wasn't that hard because i memorized some information from my book. Next time i will do my assessments more seriously.

Instrument class: There is no music instrument class for today because we had our assessment.

24 April 2012

Music theory: Today we learned about baroque music again. We talked about the baroque music and we learned for the assessment. We learned from our reflection and our music book. We learned all the information about it. I think today will really help me with our assessment that will be held for next session. I will learn and memorize the important parts for the baroque music assessment.

Instrument class: There is no music instrument class for today.

19 April 2012

Music theory: Today is my music assessment day everyone went well and perform well. I think i did pretty good with natasha and i did what Mr John asked me to improve on. Mr John also said that we tried our best and we did a good effort on doing this assessment. Next time i will practice for the up coming assessment.

Instrument class: There is no instrument class for today.

17 April2012

Music theory: Today we sing "Santa Lucia" for next session and for the assessment. We were told that we can do it with a partner and we are supposed to sing it infront. Next time i will practice singing the song for the assessment so that i could get a good score.

Instrument class: Mr Sadrakh was absent, so we didn't do anything in our instrument class.

12 April 2012

Music theory: Today Mr John is absent. So he was substituted by Mr Sadrakh we talked about assessments again. We sang with 3 by 3 to practice singing it for the assessment day. It went pretty well and we all were really serious on singing it. Next time and at home too i will practice everyday to sing the song.

Instrument class: In instrument class we only played scales with the violin.

10 April 2012

Music theory: Today Mr john gave us our booklet back to practice for our assessment on writing about the baroque music. Today is also a new term for us to learn a new song which is "Santa Lucia". We learned to sing together with the piano. Next time i will practice singing it more for the assessment.

Instrument class: In instrument class, we didn't really do anything we just talked with Mr Sadrakh about our assessments.

22/03/2012

Today i didn't perform only piano and woodwind and some of the students in guitar class. Violin would be next week. Before all of us performed we were given booklet about the assessment that we are doing today. We reflected ourselves on doing it. Since, i haven't perform, i will do it next class/ time.

20/03/2012

Today we talked on how we are going to do our assessment next week. We practiced our composition with our own musical instrument. Only guitars performed because there wasn't enough time for the other musical intruments

13/03/2012

Today we talked about pe assessment. We go our song to practice with it. We also practiced with our movements so that our performance could turn out well. We had to perform our movements with our own composition that was already given by the teachers.

8/03/2012

Mr. Sadrakh is the one who teach us today because Mr.John was absent. We practiced our composition with our own instrument and some of us are asked to play in front of the class.

6/03/2012

Today Mr.John gave a detailed information about our composition and he told us that we should learn our composition to play it with our own instrument because we will have an assessment on 21st March.

28/02/2012

We had our photo session and we had time that was given by Mr. John to pick our composition for our IDU assessment, which i will use it in the video that i will be making and also for having the background music for my group's composition

23/02/2012

We took photos of each of us in our class of us singing for our assessment when we sang the song "Hari Merdeka". We submit our baroque booklet to that we did for our project too.

21/02/2012

We got the patterns and chords that are given to make 32 bars composition. The due date for this assessment is on the 23rd of february

9/02/2012

Today we learned the basics for making the melody/compositions by using our chords that were given by the help of the teachers. Next class, i will continue making the composition.

16/02/2012

Today we are told to finish our reflection of all the music class that we had and how are we going to improve on next meeting time and we have to transfer all our reflection to our blog.

14/02/12

Today i learned about how to write the compositions and Mr. John gave extended week to do the music booklet. I am happy because i have more time to do it and i don't really have to be really worried on it. Today i will continue my music booklet and i hope i can finish it because i don't want to waste and spend more time on doing it even though the due date is still next week. So that i have time to do my other homework.

7/02/12

Today we reviewed on what we learned last week's lesson which are about flats and chord. We learned how to draw the flats and sharps on all the scales again, because some people in our class doesn't really understand about it and they still have doubts on it.

2/02/12

Today Mr. John told us the due dates for the assessment that we will be having and after that we played our own instruments. From now on i am going to prepare for my assessments afterward. I will try to start with it so that i would have more time to work on it, moreover i could do it without rush.

31/01/12

I learned on putting sharps onto scales and knowing all the scales with the sharps and i studied to put the intervals in the major scale. I gained my knowledge by learning and practicing writing the scales. Next time i will write all the major scales with the sharps so that when i have quiz i can do it properly. Also, what i didn't understand or doubts that i had, i overcome it by asking what i have in mind that i don't understand.

26/01/12

Today is my assessment of singing the "Hari Merdeka" song and i got 6/10. I didn't really get a good score because i laughed in my assessment and i did silly things in my assessment when i sing, therefore i didn't focus in singing the song. I regret it and i will do better next time to get a better score.

24/01/12

We practiced for my music assessment by singing the "Hari Merdeka" song because next meeting time is my assessment and i memorized the intervals and now i really remember the c major scale because Mr. Sadrakh helped me and i already learned it last year.

19/01/12

Today i learned how to write the intervals of the basic formula that we should know in music and we learned the major scale and two other scales. It wasn't really hard to learn it because  learned it in my previous grade.

17/01/12

Today i learned how to sing "Hari Merdeka" for my assessment and i had a good and fun time learning on it with my whole of 7c. Next time i will work on my singing skills better and i will have better attitude in my music class.