Music Reflection - 23rd May 2011, Monday

Today was the assessment day of performing my own melody. Unfortunately, I couldn't memorize my melody completly, because the (B) part was hard. If I practiced more, I'm sure I could have memorized the (B) part too, but since I only memorized the (A) part, I just saw my composition. I don't think I can get a full mark for this assessment, but I didn't really have mistakes so I hope I can at least get a high mark.

Music Reflection - 19th May 2011, Thursday

Today, for the last time, everyone in our class played our melody infront of the class during the theory class. I didn't have mistakes at all, but I didn't memorize it yet, because my melody is quite complicated. And I realized that I have to practice more to memorize the song. I hope I can memorize the melody until the assessment day.

Music Reflection - 16th May 2011, Monday

Since we're done with our written assessment, all we needed to prepare was our assessment, performing on our own melody with instruments. Actually our assessment was supposed to be this thursday, but then we didn't have much time to practice, so it has been posponed to next monday. Now, I have more time to practice, so I'm going to memorize my melody when I perform on the assessment day.

Music Reflection - 12th May 2011, Thursday

Today we didn't have instrument class, because we had a writtem assessment about 'John Williams'. I think I did well with my test because I studied a lot, and it was easier to memorize the information, and it was lesser than the written test we did last term. I think I can get a good score for the written test this term.

Music Reflection - 9th May 2011, Monday

Since this thursday is our written assessment about 'John Williams', today, we studied together about him, by reading it and trying to talk about him infront of the class without looking at the paper. It really helped me because the information was not much, and we read it again and again, so I just needed to study some part by myself.

Music Reflection - 5th May 2011, Thursday

Today in music theory class, we tried to play our own composition with our instruments. However violin students didn't play in theory class, because we didn't have enough time. So the violin students played their composition in instrument class. When I tried playing my melody, it was little bit awkward, because the song was composed by myself. But it was easier to play than the songs composed by famous musicians, because it's my own melody.

Music Reflection - 2nd May 2011, Monday

During the week ends, I converted my melody in 'Finale'. But I had a problem with Finale because I couldn't print it unless I bought the real Final software. Since I just copied the icon from my teacher's computer, it was impossible for me to print it. So I saved it in my usb, and today in music theory class, I copied my work into my teacher's computer, so that he can print it for me.

Music Reflection - 28th April 2011, Thursday

Today, actually we had to submit the hardcopy of our composition that's converted in Finale, but since Mr.Sadrakh was absent last session, the submission day has posponed until next monday. I also forgot about it, so I have to work with that during the week ends.

Music Reflection - 25th April 2011, Monday

Mr.Sadrakh was absent today, so for our theory class, Mr.Herry replaced Mr.Sadrakh. Today, Mr.Herry gave us a paper that has the schedule of our music assessments in term 4. Then, he distributed a worksheet that contained some information about 'John Williams'. There was his biography, and his famous compositions in movies and orchestras. Mr.Herry said that this is going to be our written test in term 4, so we read about him together, and at the end, we wrote a short summary about him. 
 

Music Reflection - 18th April 2011, Monday

Since almost everyone in our class finished with their final composition, today we learned how to convert it to computer. We needed 'Finale 2009' to convert our melody, so I either had to borrow the 'Finale' from my friends, or download it from my computer. But I decided to save the icon from my teacher's computer to my usb, so that I can move it to my computer. Fortunately, I brought my usb today, so I copied the icon after school.

Music Reflection - 14th April 2011, Thursday

As I said in the last reflection, I totally changed my melody. It took quite a long time to finish it, because for each bar, I had to try playing with piano, and then edit them again, if there's some part that sounded weird. Anyways at last, I finished my composition with a new melody. I was satisfied with my composition now, so I decided to use this melody for my assessment. Today, my teacher did the final check of our composition, and I didn't have any mistakes at all. :)

Music Reflection - 11th April 2011, monday

Last week, we had another homework. This time, we had to finish the 32-bars melody, by composing another 16-bars. It was again a hard work, yet when I finished it, it was not that bad. This was the first time for me to compose a 32-bars music, so it was a great challenge for me. I had some mistakes in drawing some notes, so my teacher checked each and every one of our melodies, and tried to play some of our composition with piano. My friend's melody was really nice unlike mine, so I wanted to edit some part that sounded weird. So until next meeting, I'm going to redo my composition for the last time.

Music Reflection - 7th April 2011, Thursday

Last time, we had a homework from the music theory class. Our homework was to try to continue our melody until 16-bars. Today, our teacher checked our melody, and marked those who didn't do their homework. I tried to continue composing my melody at home, but it didn't work well. Even though I tried playing it with piano, it was boring. At the end I finished composing 16-bars, but I was still not satisfied with my melody, because it didn't sound nice at all.

Music Reflection - 4th April 2011, Monday

Today was the first day of Term 4. And of course it was the first day of music. We didn't do much today, but we only discussed that we're going to compose our own 32-bars melody in the form of (AABA) in term 4. We tried to compose the first 8 bars by ourself with a repetition, which is the form of the first (A) part. Making the (A) part wasn't hard because we just had to repeat the notes we made in the first 4 bars to the next 4 bars. But the hard part was that we had to compose our own music. It was the first time for me to experience composing my own melody, so it was weird and uncatchy, but at least I learned how to compose a melody. :)