Music reflection - 19/11/2009

Today, Mr. John and Hary also teached with Mr. Sadrakh. Throughout the lesson, we were always quizzed about scales, tonic triads or chords. We were also asked to count intervals from a certain note to another which made me soooooooooo confused >_< . Later, at the end of the class, Mr. John gave an announcement that we will have a practical assessment which includes playing some scales and playing the pentatonic melody we composed...

Music reflection - 18/11/2009

Today, taking the attendance was quick. We reviewed about scales and chords, and later discussed about the minor scale. We learnt the third and fourth minor scales and we were quizzed about their chords which was VERY confusing. In instrument class, we learned how to play tonic triad inversions. Finding the notes are easy but I still need to work on my fingering... >_<

Music reflection - 12/11/2009

Mr. Sadrakh took our attendance first and checked our blogger home work. And then he told us to read our reflections (the one we wrote weeks ago). After that, we discussed more about major and minor scale, as well as chords.

Music reflection - 11/11/2009

Today some people took the re-test and ofcourse, played better than last week. After that, we all had to fill in  sheet with our reflections about singing an Asian and Indonesian song, composing and playing our pentatonic melody and about using the finale software.

Music reflection - 05/11/2009

Today is the day of our assessment. Before it starts, some kids unpacked their instruments (no pianos of course) like violins, guitars and flutes. They practiced playing their melody. I was nervous when I was called to play mine because I thought the song was weird but after I played, most of my friends complimented my song.

Music reflection - 04/11/2009

Today we reviewed about the two pentatonic scales and C and G major scales plus chords and were told how to put lyrics on a melody properly. Then we learnt the minor scales and their structure and afterwards Mr. Sadrakh gave us home work. We have to re- write our final melody on a sheet of paper for tomorrow's assessment, playing the 16 bar pentatonic melody we composed.

Music reflection - 29/10/2009

First we checked our attendance and "finale" homework. Most of us will submit it tomorrow because we're not finished yet. Then later we watched other students practice the melody they composed for the assessment next week.

Music reflection - 28/10/2009

After Mr. Sadrakh took our attendance, we discussed our "finale" home work which we have to submit tomorrow. Some students are still confused about the software installation and how to use it so Mr. Sadrakh explained it again. He showed us how to set up the wizard, place the note and lyrics. Then, we wrote our reflection on a piece of paper about singing the song "Gundul gundul pacul".

Music reflection - 22/10/2009

As always, we started by checking our attendance. Then Mr. Sadrakh asked us to copy our song lyrics to a sheet of paper given yesterday. Devina's song was about the sound of music, Amatta's was about cows, Vienna's is about her melody, Dita's and mine were both related to happiness! I think each of our own topics are unique (and quite funny ^-^). After that, Mr Harry explained about the finale 2009 software. He explained each step for installing the software to make sure we understand.