January 22, 2010

We learned about blues-chord and rehearse singing Sway and also planning about our group presentation in our swing jazz group. Our group will perform about all of me song but I never heard of it. I guess I have to research about all of me song and start practicing from now.

January 19, 2010

Today we got divided to six groups. I made into Swing group that contains of Kevin, James, and Tiffany. We also learned to sing Sway and learned how to make 12 bar blues. I don't know what is blues if you ask me. And because this term theme is jazz, I need to learn more about blues. I will need some information about it too.

January 15, 2010

Today is the first day of music class. Sir Herry will teach us for the whole semester replacing sir John. So, he explained about Assessment Criterion because there will be no term test for music class. Quite happy to hear that. He also taught us about our behavior. We should be on time, be attentive and pro active, be motivated and follow teacher's instructions. Since he mentioned it, I think our behavior is not enough and it should be improved. I will improve my behavior to be like what he told us.

December 8. 2009

Today we learned about the taka-tiki systen again, plus kodaly sign and traditional instrument of our country, Anklung. It was fun playing the anklung instrument. Each of us get an anklung to hold, then our guide will tell us using the kodaly sign if it's your turn to play. We shake the anklung with right hand, and hold the anklung using left hand and that's how we play.

December 2, 2009

Today we learned to read the rhythm of the notes using taka-tiki system. I did well because I have learned it all about the rhythm since I learn to play piano and using taka-tiki system is a great way to learn the rhythm if I didn't understand how the notes rhythm works. I will learn the taka-tiki system for the upcoming quiz.

December 1 , 2009

Today we had an exercise about the composers back then in Baroque era, Johannes Sebastian Bach. He wasn't famous when he lived. His masterpiece known after he died. We also learned the kodaly sign. I don't know what for is Kodaly sign. For deaf people maybe to play the instruments but we practiced it, though, just in case we need it. We also had practiced for the upcoming examination.

November 25, 2009

Today I sang Gundul-Gundul Paculcul, an Indonesian song. I wasn't able to memorize the whole lyrics so I just focused on the lyrics and I was so nervous. I don't think I got a good score for that one. Then I got quiz about the yesterday topic, dominanth and inversion scale and I think I might a good one on this because I know how they worked.