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.
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