We started composing our jingle for the commercial which is a joint assessment for business and music. My jingle is going to have four different instruments: violin, piano, guitar, and vocal. It's durations won't be too long and it will be in a minor key, ending in a major key. Afterwards, we had another group performance. My group performance has definitely improved than the one last session, however I'm still not satisfied with it and it still needs to be improved. Luckily, we still have sufficient amount of time to do that improvement before the assessment.
20.04.10
April 20, 2010.
This session, we watched commercials since we have to make a commercial jingle for later. So Mr. Herry was showing us some commercials so that we'd get the idea of what commercials should be like, and also the music that affects the overall mood of the commercial itself. Thus, music plays a big role in the commercial's atmosphere. Afterwards, we performed in our groups our songs as much as we've gotten into them. This Love by Maroon 5 for us. It wasn't the best performance and we still have much to improve. Luckily, today wasn't the assessment day. Our group will be much better for the assessment.
16.04.10
April 16, 2010.
Today was our assessment. Our assessment took up the whole 2 music sessions. The assessment itself consist of the history of jazz and basic notations. I, myself, did not find the quiz hard. For the history, there was questions regarding the time and the types of jazz, and also focusing on our own styles of jazz, which in my case was swing, like its' instruments and its' characteristics. For the history part it also asks us to write a short biography of a well-known musician from our style of jazz, in which I wrote about Count Basie. For the notations part, there's two parts. The first part asks us to write the scale and it's major and minor chords. The second part asks us to write the 7th, 9th, and 11th chords of the given keys. Overall I did well on the quiz although I'm not sure I did perfectly. I had some doubts while answering the history questions, but I think I still did well. Next time, I'll study harder for the history parts though, just in case.
Below is my practise video. In the video, I'm playing the song "Arabesque" by Claude Debussy. It is not a complicated song but it is one of my favourite songs. I think I played pretty well below.
13.04.10
April 13, 2010.
Today, we had our singing assessment. We sing the song "I Got Rhythm". Unlike the other singing assessments in the previous terms, in this term, our singing assessment is done individually and not paired like the previous ones. Meaning, that instead of doing a duet, this time, it was a solo. Once the announcement was made, panic roamed around the classroom and was displayed in most of my peers' faces. However, I was not one of them because I think that I'd be able to do this song well. We have had several practises before on the previous sessions and I've gotten to know the song pretty well, and thus I believe that I'd be able to perform the song well, and I did. Everything was in tune and I used gestures, and in the end, I got one of the highest scores in my class for it. Next time though, I'm going to make sure that I get the highest score and not just one of the highest scores in my class.
Below is my practise video. In this video, I'm playing the scales a third apart, legato, hands together one octave apart for four octaves in the key of C, D, E, F#, Bb, Ab major and harmonic minor scales. As you can see, it's still not perfect and I still have to practise some more in order to make it perfect. I think I also need to play it faster.
09.04.10
April 9, 2010.
All we did today was summarize the Q&As we did from the last music session. At the start of the session, Mr. Herry handed us a big white paper to write the Q&As on and markers. Then he started distributing the Q&As written by the swing jazz members from 10C and 10D to us (we were grouped according to the styles of jazz group from last term). From the questions handed out to us, we were to write the Q&As down on the piece of paper. Our group wrote down ten Q&As, which was a fair amount compared to the other teams. Then, the other teams would ask three of the total number of questions each team makes to the team who made it. Our team answered every question asked to us with the correct answers. As for the group performance, I have already gotten the scores from an online site and so now all we need to do is practise it.
Below is a video of my practise today. In the video, I'm playing Chopin's Etude Op. 10 No. 5, or also known as Chopin's Black Keys. However, my performance here is not my best since I made lots of mistakes, the tempo is not stable and also not fast enough, as the real tempo is supposed to be 116/beat.
06.04.10
April 6, 2010.
First of term 4.
Today is the first music class for term 4. This term is the last term we are ever going to have music class since the music in Binus is not qualified for IB. However, today must be one of the fun-nest music classes we've ever had during the past 6 years of music classes with Mr. Herry. We started by reviewing the 7th, 9th, and 11th chords. We also got our individual booklet report on the style of jazz, which in my case was swing, back, and were told to make five Q&As from it. Afterwards, our groups for the group performance later on this term was decided by fate. My group consists of me, Jessika Oktasya, Kevin Himawan, Andriani Weinardy, Bayu & Ian with Mr. Sadrakh as our supervisor. Our song to be performed is 'This Love' by Maroon 5. I am very excited and is looking forward to the performance because this should be fun. After this, the first thing I'm going to do is look for the scores online. I honestly love the song.
So that concludes today's progress on music class, which in my opinion is very significant since we get to review, make the Q&As, and also decide our groups, supervisors, and our songs.
Below is my practise tape from today because Mr. Herry told us to record it. Recorded, I'm playing the major and minor scales of C, D, E, F#, Ab, and Bb both hands, four octaves. This has not been my best yet because, as can be heard, I have made several mistakes and the tempo is quite slow too.
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