Simply music~

23rd April 2010

2010-04-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

Today we made the 4 bars draft for our jingle.

I didn't know that we were supposed to be doing it on Finale though, so we did it manually. I have lost my Finale because it was un-used for quite an amount of time.

I made a simple but light tune that's going to be played by violin, trumpet, flutes, drums, cello, and piano. I've decided to use more than 4 instruments if I can.

After the time to make the jingle was up, we were back to instrument class, which of course, was used to another rehearsal to our Jazz Song.

We rehearsed our songs again in front of the class, I did better than before and it was quite satisfying. :)

20th April 2010

2010-04-26T11:03:00.000-07:00

Today, we were given commercials to review and watch. It was interesting, and my favorite was the coca cola celebration commercial, even though it was spanish and that I couldn't understand it. =.=""

Afterwards we got our instruments ready and we practised the 8 bars to our song, which in my case is "Fly me to the moon".
We reviewed our performances in front of the whole class, I like how everyone practised really hard, I like the group that performed "This love", they blended all the instruments fairly well. :)

16th April 2010

2010-04-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

Today we had out written tests.

I was prepared but nervous. As soon as I received the paper, it surprised me quite a bit, because I had to write a friggin biography. I don't even knoowwwww dhsajkdhsakfhsahfa :(

But ah well, again everyone tried their hardest and we could all see that quite clearly.
Though after the test, we don't have any time to do anything or practise so we finished music class with no more event for the day.

13th April 2010

2010-04-26T10:52:00.000-07:00

Today, we had our singing assessments.

WHICH we didn't know at all. Because the message on facebook, which I read, said that today was supposed to be written test.

Which of course led to people being unprepared, including myself.
Though thankfully, the song was quite easy to sing, but I didn't got to memorize it because my name starts with an "A".

So yeah, I didn't get a good mark this time. But frankly I don't really care how they assess me, as long as I try my best and it's enough.

"I got rhythm" is a jazz song with a very playful tune, it was fun to sing.

6th April 2010

2010-04-08T05:41:00.000-07:00

Today is our first music class for term 4, it turned out that we still have quite a list to do D:

We were given an exercise for the major 7 thingys again, and then there were the 9 and 11 SDKLASD
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS >:T

But yeah, I finally figured out what it is though =w=;;
Okay so and afterwards Sir Herry told us to make 5 questions for our test around next week D:
OMG OMG

He also split us into groups, my group is consisted of Kezia, Jean, Andrew.B, Mark, and myself.

So yeah that's about it for the day :D
I would have to practise more to accomplish a better grade this term~!!

23 February 2010

2010-03-01T19:17:00.000-08:00

Me and Andrew Sie played All Of Me, something was wrong with my string and it always escaped my grip.

So yeah, the performance was a total failure D:

I'll just have to practice more so I can play better.

19 February 2010

2010-03-01T19:13:00.000-08:00

We reviewewd all of me again, Andri and Hasan played this time. And next week in my and Adrew Sie's turn to play, I'm not very good at playinmg Allm Of Me, one of my fingerr is stiff.

Afterwards we practice again and get ready for the real assessmengt next week.

16 Feb 2010

2010-03-01T19:11:00.000-08:00

Today we revised our custom 12 bar blues, I have submitted mine, though it was weird. We also learned something called the boogie base.

Next week is All Of Me assessment :D

12th February 2010

2010-02-15T19:53:00.000-08:00

Today, Mr. Herry played to us most of our 12 bar blues compositions.

I haven't finished mine so I haven't submitted it yet
And the rest of the class had to play All Of Me well..

At least to those who haven't played it.

9th February 2010

2010-02-15T19:51:00.000-08:00

Today was supposed to be the due date of our indiviadual biooklets, but I forgot to print mine D:
And of course, blog in which I just updated today

Yeah, I fail :(

2nd February 2010

2010-02-15T19:50:00.001-08:00

Today we learnt about the 12 bar blues.
We heard the performances of the instrument teachers, they did on-the-spot improvisation and it was awesome.

Then, we were checked on our 12 bar blues homework. We had a split session, so there was a recess afterwards.

After the recess, we saw the presentation of Fusion Jazz group (they also performed the song "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz, it was pretty good).

We also saw Bayu's part of the Ragtime presentation, since he was absent when the Ragtime group did their presentation.
We all had fun watching the presentations. Since this friday is the PTC and the Catholic-Buddhist retreat, the individual reports and the 12 bar blues homework are pushed back to next week Tuesday.

29th January 2010

2010-02-15T19:47:00.000-08:00

Sway assessment was pretty much the usual thing

Except that instead of having Andri as a partner, I sang alone since she was absent.
I had to sing alone, and it SUCKED
I don't have much confidence but I can manage to reach my pitch, so it's okay

26th January 2010

2010-02-15T19:45:00.000-08:00

Today we simply did our presentation on Jazz
I was in the latin jazz team

I wasn't very prepared about it though
I wish I had more time

Next week is SWAY assessment!

22nd January 2010

2010-02-15T19:40:00.000-08:00

We learnt how to compose a song with the chords

:(
I can't compose it since I haven't understand anything
After today, we will have an assessment on Sway that would be in our GPA

19th January 2010

2010-02-15T19:35:00.000-08:00

We watched the performance of Michael Buble on youtube that Mr.Herry opened for us.
And then we were divided into the instruments group, such as Piano, Guitar, Woodwind, and violin to sing "SWAY" by Michael Buble! :D
It was fun though boring, and yet fun.

and we also learned about the 12 bar blues improvisation

19th August 2009~

2009-08-19T10:01:00.000-07:00

At the 18th we didn't have any music due to the fact that we were having independence day holiday at the time. :'3

So, this entry has skipped the last day and moved to the 19th of August yay
Let's see...
Today Mr.John was absent, and Ms.Melvina took over the teaching duties! :D
Again, today we learned about the chord inversions, this time for both the triads and the 7 chords.
I understood pretty clearly though I still need to practise so that I can actually do it well.
We got some time to discuss of project afterwards. Though I'm not sure what we actually discussed since we already planned everything.

12th August 2009~

2009-08-12T08:38:00.000-07:00

Another day, another music lesson~
We got the lyrics to "Hari Merdeka" and "Berkibarlah Benderaku". Both were the compulsary nationality song that we hav to learn. D:
Not that I can't sing it or anything, but I used to sing this all the time :l
But then again, independence day is just a few days away, sooo XD
And after singing a bit of the song, we were given some time to plan our presentation.
Today was a boring one. :[

11th August 2009

2009-08-11T07:05:00.000-07:00

Today we practised seven cords once more ;D
Also the inversions, we started with triads. It wasn't THAT hard really, but yeah.
Presentation is on the 26th of of August, and I was in group Latin music Callista's group.
We didn't exactly got a lot done today, so yeah. :(

5th August 2009~

2009-08-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

Lalalala~

We sang Heal The world today finally for our assessment~ It was by pairs :P

I memorized that part, but then I was nervous so yeah -flails- XDD -bows- SOWWY D:

MY VOICE FRIKKIN CRACKED AT THE SECOND PART SKDHSAKASKDASJFSHAKFHDASK -keysmash-

T^T -sobs-

Though it IS kind of fun teehee~

Yeah, practise makes perfect no? :P

4th August 2009~

2009-08-04T18:33:00.000-07:00

We were back to studying the 7 chords once again !!

I understood pretty well on this, at first I was a bit confused,but I understood eventually...

We practiced for "Heal The World" for the assessment too :D

31st July 2009~

2009-07-31T09:37:00.000-07:00

We were re-introduced to basic notations, I've learned the basics at my former school but I need to learn more :3

We learned many types of chords as well,the 7th chords and the triad chords

We also sang Heal The World again, this time in pairs...

Music lesson got interesting each passing day ;D

28th July 2009~

2009-07-28T18:07:00.000-07:00

We learned Heal The World again...

The song is nice,and I already memorized it even before I moved to Binus >:3

Kevin moved from string to guitar,so minus 1 from the string >o<

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That's it for today :)

25th July 2009~

2009-07-25T23:43:00.000-07:00

Today was the day they separate the kids to each different group of instruments

I'm the only one in the string... ==a

Most of the kids were really good at guitars and pianos !! >o<

Some of them got kicked out of their group just because they aren't good enough and the group is full, I think that's kind of unfair...

But it ends well though,so it's alright I guess....

And we sang Heal The World too... It's a good song... GO MICHAEL JACKSON !!!

21th July 2009~

2009-07-21T21:33:00.000-07:00

Today was my first music lesson at Binus...

I was very excited, the music curriculum was introduced to the others as well as myself...

We were mostly introduced to the bases of Music class and that's it :D