Music reflection - 17/03/2011

Today, we learned about composing our own music. The music pattern is AABA. Today we only created the first two bars of the two A's on the front of the pattern. What we have to do for next term is to compose our own melody or song and type it in finale.

Music reflection - 14/03/2011

Today, we didn't have instrument class at all. In theory class, Mr. Sadrakh announced our scores for the practical assessment. At first, he said I got a 6. Then he said "PLUS FOUR". mehehehhehee :D then after that, the students who were not satisfied with their score took the re-test to try to make their scores higher.

Music reflection - 10/03/2011

Today was the day of the music assessment. The piano students had to perform first. From what i observed, a lot of the piano students played with mistakes. I watched them in the practice, they weren't that bad. They must have gotten nervous. I was the second last from the piano students to play. I kept telling myself to keep calm because if I get nervous, I'll just lose concentration and make mistakes. I was satisfied with my performance because I played perfectly with no mistakes and put in dynamics too. :) I think all the practice I did was worth it.

Music reflection - 07/03/2011

On the 7th of March, Mr Sadrakh gave us 2 minutes to review what we learned, and after that, he picked out random students and quizzed them about major scales and intervals. For piano class, we played some major scales. Some of us chose to play contrary scales and some of us prefer playing parallel. Since i tried playing contrary, I had to play E,D,F contrary scales. Out of the three scales, I think the F major scale confuses me the most because I am not familiar with the fingering. And then we practiced our song for the assessment for the last time.

Music reflection - 03/03/2011

Today, we still continued practicing our songs to play for the assessment. I still had 2 mistakes though, I'll try not to make mistakes during the assessment.

Music reflection - 28/02/2011

Since all of us were wondering why these few days Kimberly doesn't go to class, we discussed this issue as a class and tried figuring out what was wrong, what problems she has,etc. We were called one by one to share what we know about this situation and try to come up with solutions to help Kimberly get back on track and get to class.

Music reflection - 24/02/2011

As usual, we reviewed again about some of the major scales. The students in our class are still a bit confused about where to locate the sharps. In our instruments class, we continued practicing our songs for the assessment on the 10th of March. I must have been not concentrating because I had 4 mistakes.

Music reflection - 21/02/2011

First up, in theory class, we reviewed about major scales. Some people had difficulties in understanding it. Mr Sadrakh gave us a mini quiz today and questioned us about the scales. This coming Thursday, we will have another quiz. In piano class, we practiced scales for a while then moved on and played our classical songs. I think I'm doing pretty well, the day of the assessment is still far but I've made great progress.

Music reflection - 17/02/2011

On the 17th of February, we learned about the treble clef (G and F clef) and started learning scales with sharps on them. We also reviewed about the 8 notes of a scale and its intervals. I thought it was quite easy because I've learned all of this before.

For instrument class, we only practiced what we are suppose to play for our assessment on the 2nd week of March. I think i played well, I memorized the notes and put in dynamics.