Daily Reflection - September 28th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

It was our assessment day. The first ones who had their turns were piano class students, followed by violin and guitar. They did their performance well, although some of the students did some mistakes. Woodwind class students didn't have their turn on that day because the time wasn't enough. Thus, I will able to have more time to rehearse my classical music performance. 

Daily Reflection - September 27th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

Before we started the lesson, Mr. Herry asked us to write the goal of attending today's meeting. My goal was to be able to play the flute more fluently than the practice I did at home a night before the class. I could satisfy my goal by rehearse by classical music performance in front of the class. I was satisfied because I didn't do any mistakes while playing the song ("Amazing Grace"), but the song is too short since I only play the first part of the song. Therefore, I have to research for the continuity of the song and practice for it so I will able to do my assessment well tomorrow.

INSTRUMENT CLASS

I didn't have instrument class because Mr. Hary didn't come to class. 

Daily Reflection - September 21th, 2011

THEORY LESSON
We watched classical music performance by representatives of each instrument class. I didn't become one of the representative because I wasn't still able to play a song. Then, Mr. Herry announced music notation quiz score of some student who hasn't been announced yesterday.

INSTRUMENT LESSON

I practiced playing C major by flute. Then, I practiced playing simple songs such as "Ibu Kita Kartini" and "Amazing Grace". I still haven't been able to play C major fluently so I encountered much difficulties when playing the songs. I have to practice more at home, especially to play "Amazing Grace" for classical music performance assessment.

Daily Reflection - September 20th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

We had review about the quiz we did last week, which was about major scales, dominant 7th, and major 7th chord and its inverse. Apparently, I got 50 out of 50 for the quiz. I am very happy and I will learn harder about music notation. 

INSTRUMENT CLASS

I continued practice playing G major by flute. Then, I started practice playing C major. I found playing C major is more difficult than G major, but still I have to do more practice so I will be able to play both G and C major fluently.

Assessment Reflection - Western Music Presentation (September 13th, 2011)

It was my 2nd assessment in the 1st term. I did it in group and my group mates were Shafiera, Gaby, Dhanes, and Samuel Kevin. 

I became the leader of the group thus I had to make sure that I and my group mates had done their job for the presentation. On this assessment, I was in charge for preparing slides for country music. I worked together with my friends in determining impact to the society of each music genres.

There were some challenges while preparing and doing the assessment. First, I confronted some difficulties in summarize the information and it was difficult to read all of the information on the internet because it took a long time. I overcame the problem by read the information which I thought is important and needed to be told during the presentation.

I also had difficulties in determine the impact of society of country music because at first I couldn't find the information about impact of country music on the society on the internet. During the presentation of other group which happened to be before my groud did, Mr. Herry has mentioned that one of impact of country music to the society is at first country music could affect people to commit suicide. Thus, at home I did research for the suicide commited by people after listening to country music song.

Although we were late in performing out presentation (since the presentation should be done in September), because my group has seen the other groups' performance, we could do the presentation well. Our group could fulfill all the subtopics which have to be presented during the presentation. I was nervous while present the presentation and I think the audiences could see it obviously that I was nervous.

By doing this assessment, I can get much information about western music, especially country music. I also learnt that each music genre has different impacts to the society. By doing this assessment I also get to know about names of composers, musicians, and music instruments which I didn't know before.

Daily Reflection - September 14th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

We had quiz about major scales, major 7th chord and its inversion and dominant 7th. I did it well although at first I didn't really understand about anything at class because I did research for major scales, major 7th and dominant 7th chord last night. I also did exercise sheet given by Mr Herry the day before the test which has the exactly same questions as today's test.

INSTRUMENT CLASS

We practiced playing G major by flute. I didn't play it fluently but at least I could play it. I have to practice playing G major at home.

Daily Reflection - September 13th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

We had review about major 7th chord and its inversion. I've understood the major 7th chords but I haven't understood the inversion. Mr. Herry gave us an exercise paper to be done at home because there will be a quiz on the next day. Tonight, I have to learn about the inversion and review about the major 7th chord thus I will be able to do the quiz well.

INSTRUMENT CLASS

I didn't attend instrument class because I had to present my group's western music presentation in front of the piano class students. Explanation further about our western music presentation will be written later on the other post.

Daily Reflection - September 7th, 2011

THEORY CLASS

It was the first music class after holiday. We learnt about major 7th chords and its inversion. I didn't really understand about it because I haven't even memorized the major scales. I will ask my friends to explain further and do some research for major scales and major 7th chords. 

INSTRUMENT CLASS

We practiced playing "Mary had a little lamb" song. I didn't play it really well because I still have some difficulties in blowing the flute. I will practice playing the song at home.