04.11.09

November 4, 2009.

Final Draft.

We submitted our final draft today, and in my case it's still my quick composition. I'll work on it this weekend so that my song will be finished before its' due performance. So I submitted my quick composition for my final draft as it is still part of the draft and not the final composition just yet. It didn't take a long time for my to copy my composition since it's still the exact same one as the one I submitted as my draft. And then during instrument we just played our compositions along with its' chords etcetera.

Concluding today into an okay day since I really haven't make my composition and all I did was just copy the draft into the final draft because I have had everything figured out whilst composing the quick composition so while the others had their chords being made by their better classmates or teachers, I was finished.

03.11.09

November 3, 2009.
Draft.

Today we were to write the draft for our final 32-bars long composition. I, of course, have finished my composition albeit being the effortless one. I made it without any consideration and thus, the result is also bad and very unsatisfying. But since this is just a quick one and I'm not really going to use it for my final composition I have no worries. I will have to make my real composition soon though. But for now, for my quick composition, I have finished everything, all 32-bars of it along with its' lyrics and chords. Aside from that I also get to help my other classmates who are still not done with their compositions or are still confused about what to do.

So not much progress was made today, but today was fine since today is Adeline Kodji's birthday and I'm really looking forward to her surprise. Progress was okay because we get to jot down our draft composition.

28.10.09

October 28, 2009.

I see words of green, red letters too.

Another singing assessment today, making this two singing assessments in a row in two consecutive days. Today, we're singing What a Wonderful World. My partner today is no longer Jessika Oktasya, it's now Kam Eun Hye because she just got back from a forum in China so she wasn't available in the previous 3 sessions. I think we sang the song well, even though this is Eunhye's first time. But since it isn't a hard song at all and we have practised it several times before, we did fine. Everyone else also sang the song pretty well.

Today, we conclude all of our Western singing assessments so that there would be only one singing assessment left for this term. So there's a good progress.

27.10.09

October 27, 2009.

Notations.

We didn't do much today, we were just given a simple test on music notations and the intervals. The singing assessment for What a Wonderful World is also going to be hold on the next session, which would be tomorrow. The test was really simple and I am pretty sure that I would ace it. Aside from that, there wasn't really anything else that happened during music class today.

So today I still didn't learn anything new since nothing much happened today, we just had the short quiz.

21.10.09

October 21, 2009.

Inversions.

Today we learnt about inversions, which I naturally find very easy. Mr. Herry gave us several keys to work with, starting with C major. Then, we also sang the song What a Wonderful World again. We're also to sing the song Gundul-Gundul Pacul for the Indonesian song for our singing assessment. We received the lyrics via email and I have memorized some parts of the lyrics. I already know the song's melodies because this traditional song is very famous, however I still need to memorize the Javanese lyrics, which although aren't hard to pronounce, but are hard to memorize.

Today, we didn't really do anything significant in music class cause I didn't learn anything new. The lyrics to Gundul-Gundul Pacul itself I learnt it via email and not during class.

20.10.09

October 20, 2009.

La Assessment.

Today is our singing assessment for La Bamba. As we were to sing the song with our partners, I partnered up with Jessika Oktasya for this assessment. I think we did very well singing the song. However, not all performed today. For example, Adeline Kodji and Kezia Prihanggodo didn't perform due to the shortage of time. But rather than that, everything went well today. Everyone sang well in my opinion, nothing new. Aside from that, while the others sing, we also get a blank music paper to write the draft of our composition. We're also going to have another singing assessment next session, this time singing What a Wonderful World.

Our singing assessments today made a huge progress for our music lesson.

14.10.09

October 14, 2009.

What a Wonderful Bamba.

Naturally, we sing La Bamba again, this time in our respective instruments group. I find it very easy, since the lyrics itself, although in Spanish, but isn't that hard to pronounce since it's pretty much the same as the pronunciation of English mixed with Bahasa Indonesia, so there's nothing new there. The assessment for singing the song is going to be held next session, and the song is to be sung individually or in pairs. Aside from that, we also get to sing the song What a Wonderful World, a classic I've learnt in the fifth grade. Even though it's an old song, it's still very popular nowadays. I, myself, find the song calming. The lyrics are also very touching and beautiful, making it one of my favourite songs.

Polishing La Bamba and learning What a Wonderful World was a significant progress to note, making today's music progress alright although still nothing new was learnt.

13.10.09

October 13, 2009.

La Bamba.

Para bailar La Bamba, se necessita una poca de gracia, or if translated into English means "in order to dance the Bamba, you need a little bit of grace" was what we learnt during music class today. This Spanish song is very familiar to me because this song is very famous and I have been hearing the melodies over and over again, so it wasn't a challenge at all for me to sing it. Aside from that, today our midi files and Finale was also due. I printed out the Finale file because I thought we were supposed to submit the scores in hard copy as well but apparently I was wrong, but I submitted it anyways.

Concluding today's progress into a fair amount, we got to learn a new song we're going to have to sing later on to be assessed on. So that's something.

07.10.09

October 7, 2009.

Tiffany & Tchaikovsky.

Our simple ABBA composition was due, which I have actually finished during the previous class. Now we were told to expand it unto 32 bars long. Done! Then we were given another assignment which is to look for 5 midis from classical composers having the same initial as you do, Tchaikovsky, in my case, one of my favourite composers of all time, and then transpose one of the five midi files into scores using Finale. I have the Finale programme, but unfortunately mine is the 2006 version since I purchased it on 2006 when Mr. Herry first taught my class on how to use it. And up until this moment on, he's still teaching my class on how to use the programme. So now I'll have to tell my brother to do it because he owns the Finale 2009 programme.

So, today, I didn't learn anything new since Mr. Herry was just teaching our class on how to use the Finale programme for the umpteenth time, so nothing was new and nothing new was learnt.

06.10.09

October 6, 2009.

Term 2.

First music lesson after the term break. We reviewed about our activities for this upcoming term. Unlike last term, this term we are going to perform our own pop composition. I felt so eager upon hearing this since I have always loved composing songs just like last year in year 9. As always, we are going to be using the Finale software to jot down our compositions, and we're going to be singing two songs; one Western and the other Indonesian. Afterwards, we were also told to practise our composing skills by composing a simple ABBA song, which I finished without hesitation.

Altogether, today was fine. Having an overview and all, but we didn't get to actually learn any new skills today. We only got to learn about our future activities.