Today, we got our 12-bars blues back. And to my surprise, I got a very low score on it, which was 8 out of 10. Apparently it was because I got the wrong chord again, who knows how. But I am very upset by that. Aside from that, Ian also finally had his assessment on singing and dancing the song "Sway" since he was absent on the assessment date. Some more students from each instruments also performed All of Me who have not performed it during the last session. The electricity was also off for a few seconds during the music session.
19.02.10
February 19, 2010.
Today, two performers from each instruments performed All of Me. From piano, there was me and Kodji. Followed by guitar's James and Budi. Andri and Hasan came up next representing strings. And last but not least, woodwind's very own Calista and Jean. Andri played wonderfully although some improvements could still be made. As for me, I think I played just fine although the minor mistakes I made due to no practise and my playing out of memory since I have misplaced my All of Me music score. But with some practise I'd be able to master the song in no time I'm sure. Then, during instruments class I was asked to tutor Vilhel to play the walking base. As she's a very fast learner she did fine. And that concluded today's music session.
16.02.10
February 16, 2010.
We didn't do a lot today. All we did was submit the 12-bars blues, this time on the given handout. But no worries, this time I've already fixed my chords. And during instruments class, we practised the walking base which I find very easy to play since this is really simple, all it is actually is the usual chords, except that it's the first, second, third, and fifth note. It sounds more complicated than it really is, and to my friends they might be confused by this at first, but once they get the hang of it, it'll be a piece of cake. So that was all for today and there wasn't any significant progress to my seeing.
12.02.10
February 12, 2010.
Nothing important happened today. All we did during music class was that Mr. Herry played our 12-bars blues composition we submitted last session to show us an approximation of how it is going to sound like when it's finished. He also checked mine, but apparently my chords are wrong because I didn't know that there was a specific order of chords to be followed, so I only made the chords up by myself. Then, during instrument class, Mr. Herry taught us about the walking base which I found very easy to play since it resembles a simple scale, except that we only take the first, second, third, and the fifth notes.
09.02.10
February 09, 2010.
Dues!
Today two things were due for our music class; our individual music booklet and our 12-bars blues composition homework. The individual music booklet was part of our assessment. It is about the jazz style that we presented a few weeks ago in music class, which in my case would be Swing Jazz, with an addition of a biography of a famous musician from the era. My famous musician was Count Basie who is a very talented musician of the time. The second thing that was due was our 12-bars blues composition homework. I submitted it on time and although it was just a quick composition I think I did pretty well on it. And then, during instruments class we played All of Me again as we have been playing it during the last few weeks.
Altogether, we didn't really do anything important today since during theory Mr. Herry only showed us some of the blogs that have not been updated yet, and during instruments class we played All of Me again for the umpteenth time this term. However, we did get to submit a part of our assessment, making today not a complete waste after all.
02.02.10
February 2, 2010.
Steven's Fusion group did their presentation today and I think it wasn't good because it is very obvious that they copied their whole information from a website. They were also not prepared, from my point of view I think it was Steven alone who made the whole presentation by himself, but he himself was too lazy to make the presentation at least decent enough so he just copied the whole thing from the net. It was very disappointing. And then Bayu did his presentation since he was absent on the day we presented our presentation. He did normally, nothing new. Aside from that, we were also told to compose a 12-bar blues composition and during instrument class we played All of Me again, just like how we've been playing it since 3 weeks ago. Yawn.
29.01.10
January 29, 2010.
Today we sang the song Sway after practising it several times last week. My partner was Vilhelmina Kwee, she's new to music because she just transferred to music this semester from art and she joined piano too. I think I did well even though my partner's voice wasn't really heard. However, I was very disappointed upon hearing my results which is only a bare 8 out of 10 when James and Hasan got 9. It was very disappointing because I think I did just as well as they did and deserves a 9 as well.
26.01.10
January 26, 2010.
Today was the group presentation, in which my group presented the Swing Jazz presentation. Even though some of my team members weren't able to present their slides finely, such as Andriani who were stiff and were only reading the text from the slides, and some other members, but I think we did good. Amongst all of the teams, I think we did best because for example, Adeline Kodji's Ragtime Group's theme was too bright and there wasn't that many pictures. The team members also delivered the presentation in a monotone way and the audio files weren't managed properly. They weren't very well-rehearsed. Another group is Kezia's group in which they didn't have the examples, lack of audio files and pictures, and they also failed to include the bibliography. Next group was Jessika's which also lacks in several aspects such as pictures and audio files. They also presented it in a monotone, making it not very interesting. The last group was Vilhel's group, and I think they did even worse because it is very obvious that they didn't rehearse at all, they lack audio files, pictures, and their information was too detailed and looked like it has been copy pasted. They also presented their presentation in a monotone. So overall, I think our team was the best because not only did we have video files, we also performed a swing jazz song live.
22.01.10
January 22, 2010.
All we did today was see Michael Buble performed the song "Sway", which is a very popular jazz song and its' melodies sound very familiar to me. After that, we also had a group meeting deciding on what will be done and who's going to do the job. Frankly, we have all decided on this via msn but it doesn't hurt to re-confirm, seeing the other groups have not been as responsible as us. We even have start researching on our topics. Then we present our group ideas in front of the whole class. We're the only group who will perform live playing a Swing Jazz song, "All of Me", a song that has been distributed to our class by Mr. Herry last week and has been played during my instrument class, which is why it's an easy song. This makes me even more confident that my group will, once again, be the best throughout the whole class albeit some of the members are not very good speakers.
19.01.10
January 19, 2010.
Today we got divided for our jazz presentation group. The system is to choose one person from each instrument, starting from the piano. And then the piano students will choose one student from each instrument whom they want to be teammates with. Since I didn't choose anyone from the woodwind group, I ended up with Andriani Weinardy from the violin, Kevin Himawan and James Hadisurjo from guitar. Our topic is Swing Jazz, which is going to be very easy because I know that Swing Jazz is very popular. I am very much looking forward for this presentation because I think our group is going to be the best.
15.01.10
January 15, 2010.
Today is the first class for semester 2 and we reviewed on what we are going to do for this semester. This semester we are going to focus on jazz music and its' different types. I am very excited about this since we're also going to compose a jazz composition, kind of like last semester except that this one would be jazz instead of pop.
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