October 28 2010

Today Mr. Herry checked our homework. He also explain more about the 8 bar melody theory. Mr. Herry also asked us to write lyrics in our composition so it could be a one whole song. I'm not good at making lyrics so I just match the number of sylabels and the number of notes and I just start to write random things about my self.

October 25 2010

Today I listened to my friend's finale project in front of the class using Mr. Herry's computer. Mr. Herry teach us how to transform and develop a 4 bar melody in to an 8 bar melody with several expanding skills. I could understand the expanding skills well and I also tried to practiced it in theory class. As a result, my previous 4 bar melody could be an 8 bar longer melody and it sounds better.

October 21 2010

Today I learnt how to use and opeate the Finale software in theory class. Finale software is a software to make our composition using the computer. It has a lot of fiture to program our own composition including the playback fiture to play our composition digitally so we could visualize how our melody sounds like. I also watched and listened to some of my friend's composition.

October 18 2010

Today I made my melody composition with the A B C format style and my teacher gave feedback on how to make my composition better. Mr. Herry also played one of my friend's composition using piano and i think the composition sounds good. I would try to take his advice and practiced it so I could make a better composition in the coming composition making activity.

October 14 2010

Today I learnt about composing melody with A B C style arrangement and I was given the homework to compose 12 bar melody with not a single bar repeated. I forgot to bring my music book today and I also forgot to do my previous music homework. I would try to do my homework and not to forget doing it for the next music classes.

October 11 2010

Today I made my own notes composition that consists of 4 line with 4 bar each. In each bar we have to composed our own notes with a total of 4 beats. In the beginning I just randomly put random notes together in a bar but when I try to play it it sounds weird so I change the notes in a lot of part so it could sound better. I think I would like this kind of activity because it uses our creativity in arranging the notes so the composition could sound good.

October 7 2010

Today I had my western song singing assestment. If the last music assestment I was asked to sing an Indonesian song solo, this time I gotta choose 1 song between 'You've got a friend' and 'Somewhere out there' and I could choose if i want to do the assestment in duet. I chose the song 'Somewhere out there' because I chosed to do a duet with one of my class mate, Kevin and we tought that the song was better if we sing it in duet than the other song 'You've got a friend'. We did the assestment pretty well specially in reaching the notes but we forgot the lyrics of some part of the song.

October 4 2010

Today I had my singing assestment. I sang Indonesia Pusaka in front of the class. I did some practiced at home to memorize the lyrics but during the assestment I think I did it not very well because I laughed at some part of the song because my friends are making jokes. I would be having another singing assestment and I would try harder to get better score for the next assestment.

September 30 2010

Today I have my triad/chords and inversion assestment. I think I did it well because i practiced the topic several times at home to understand the topic better. For the next assestment, I'm going  to have my singing assestment and I have to practice hard because I have problems with self confidence specially when I should perform in front of a lot of people even though they're my friends.

September 27 2010

Today I had quiz about notation. I got 15/20 and 20/20 for the quiz. I think I did the quiz well enough due to the marks I got. On Thursday, I'm going to have my inversion assestment. I have studied the topic at home and try to understand it better to be ready for the quiz.

September 23 2010

Today I practiced about chords and inversion. I did the practice not really well and I still have problems understanding and memorizing the theory. Next week I'm going to have a quiz about chords and inversion so I have to study harder to understand the topic well so I could get good marks.

September 20 2010

Today is the first music class after the term break. Mr. Herry told us about our scores. I got 8/10 for my singing assestment, 9/10 for my classical practical assestment and 6/8 for my project. I think my scores are good enough and I was satisfied with it and I think i deserve it due to the effort I gave to practiced. Today I also practiced making chords and inversion in theory class. I'm not really good at it and I need some more practice to understand the topic better.

September 6 2010

Today I have my classical music assestment. I played the song titled Adentico that was composed by Matteo Carcassi. I practiced this song several times at school during the instrument calss time with other guitar instrument students. I also practiced this song several times at home and I could memorize it well. After the assestment I tought I played the song well because I had not missed a single note and I hope I could get satisfying score.

August 30 2010

Today me and my class mates discuss about the classical songs that we are going to play for our assestment. I started to search for classical songs with my guitar instrument teacher Mr. John during the guitar instrument class. I tought this classical music assestment would be hard because I don't really like classical music and I can't enjoy this kind of music genre. But I'll try my best to enjoy the song I choose so I could practice it maximally.