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.
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