Term 4 Week 8 Videos

• G major scale 3 octaves

As usual, I've started practicing playing my violin by first exercising with the g major scale 3 octaves. 

• Indonesia Pusaka

This song is the second song that we've decided to play for the grade 12 graduation ceremony, even though we didn't decide to play it for our assessment. Since this song is a little bit harder than the medley of Indonesian traditional song (even if the tempo is slower), I mainly practiced on this song for this week

Term 4 Week 7 Videos

• G major scale 3 octaves

Since G major scale 3 octaves is my regular exercise before playing any songs, I've started practicing with the g major scale 3 octaves exercise.

• Medley of Indonesian Songs

This song is the medley of indonesian songs including Suwe Ora Jamu and Janger Bali. It is quite fast and catchy melody, and this song will be performed both for my final assessment and in grade 12 graduation ceremony, so I practiced this song instead of the Suzuki book.

Term 4 Week 8: May 28th-30th 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today was the first rehearsal day for the grade 12 graduation ceremony, so we were quite busy on practicing the medley of Indonesian traditional songs. We've spent both sessions on practicing this medley perfectly, and I think we are much better in playing this song compared to the Indonesia Pusaka song. I felt more comfortable in playing this song because all of us were able to play it without much mistakes or difficulties in finding the right pitch or tempo. However I think we need to practice more on our pizzicato because when we play the pizzicato part, most of us didn't play at the same time, so the sound was not synchronising. Also, sometimes the pitch for the pizzicato part was not correct for some of us, so if we concentrate on this part, I think there will be no more problems in this song.

- Wednesday: Since the graduation is in two days, we only had time for practicing for both songs. It turned out that we also had to play the Indonesia Pusaka song for the graduation, because it would be boring if we only play the medley all over again for about 30 minutes when all graduating students come out from the back stage. I was a little bit worried because we are not as good as we are than the medley song when we play the Indonesia Pusaka. So we concentrated more on this song today, because it turned out that we had a slight different variation in the song than the one we originally practiced. However for me, I think the new variation is much easier than the original one for all of us, so if we practice a lot for this song, I think we can make a nice harmony. 

- Thursday: I thought that today we were going to have another rehearsal in the 8th floor after school, but it turned out that today's rehearsal was without the students, so we only had time to practice during the music time. Today we finalised our preparation on the two songs: the medley of Indonesian traditional song and the Indonesia Pusaka song. I think we've advanced in the second song because we've mainly concentrated in this song yesterday. So I think we are well prepared for our performance during the graduation ceremony. Also, today was our last assessment day of playing the medley of Indonesian tradition song with violin. Grade 10 students supported us by playing flute and Angklung, so we were able to do our assessment successfully with good harmony, and I felt relieved because grade 10 students will also play during the graduation ceremony. 

• Instrument Class:

SIMILAR TO LAST WEEK, WE DIDN'T HAVE INSTRUMENT CLASS AT ALL THIS WEEK, BECAUSE WE'VE SPENT ALL OUR TIME PREPARING FOR THE GRADE 12 GRADUATION CEREMONY PERFORMANCE AND OUR ASSESSMENT ON PLAYING VIOLIN IN AN ORCHESTRA. SO WE'VE SPENT ALL OF OUR INSTRUMENT CLASS STAYING IN OUR MUSIC THEORY ROOM, PRACTICING ON OUR ASSESSMENT AND THE GRADUATION CEREMONY. HOWEVER WE ALSO SPENT SOME OF OUR TIME WRITING OUR REFLECTIONS IN OUR MDW BOOKLET. 

Term 4 Week 7: May 21st-23rd 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today we received our real music sheet for the medley of Janger Bali and Suwe Ora Jamu. The combination of these songs will be assessed for our final assessment, which is performing a song by playing with violin. I think our class is going to perform all together as a small orchestra even for our  assessment because we also have to practice for the grade 12 graduation ceremony which will be held next Friday. I think the combination of these songs are quite easy for me, but then the melody is very nice, and these are not the songs that I usually practice on my violin, so it was more fun for me to play something different from what I usually play with my violin. Also, I enjoyed helping Pinka and Rilya on figuring out how to play the medley because it's the first time for them to actually play a formal song with violin. I think Pinka and Rilya had hard time in understanding and feeling comfortable with violin, but I tried my best to help them improve their skills in playing violin.

- Wednesday: Today we also took our whole session playing violin with the medley of Janger Bali and Suwe Ora Jamu, but in different variations. I think we did a much better job than yesterday because everyone had lesser mistakes, and I think Pinka, Rilya and others who played violin for the first time are also getting the melody of this song, and starting to catch up the original speed of the song. I was so happy that we could actually make a harmony out of playing only with one instrument. Now I also want to try playing other songs with my friends that can make different variations out of one song and one instrument because I feel so proud about everyone of us actually making a good orchestra.

- Thursday: Today we received another music sheet, which is the Indonesia Pusaka song. I was very excited that we got to play another song during the graduation, because if we only repeat one song over and over again, I thought it would be quite boring for the listeners. However I think this song is harder for those who are not violin students because in this song, we also have to use the "D" string in addition to "A" and "E" strings. It was quite hard to explain well to my friends on how we have to play for all the notes and whether the note they have plucked or played is in the right pitch or not. Hopefully we will get better starting from next week, because the assessment date is coming soon, and also the graduation ceremony is right after the assessment, so I think I need to help my friends more on playing this song with violin.

• Instrument Class:

WE DIDN'T HAVE INSTRUMENT CLASS AT ALL FOR THE WHOLE WEEK BECAUSE WE PRACTICED PLAYING VIOLIN FOR OUR ASSESSMENT AND GRADUATION CEREMONY WHENEVER WE HAD MUSIC CLASS. HOWEVER WE ALSO DID MDW IN OUR THEORY CLASS BEFORE OR AFTER WE ARE DONE PRACTICING THE VIOLIN FOR ALMOST TWO SESSIONS.

Term 4 Week 6 Videos

• G major scale three octaves

Since last week's exercise for g major scale three octaves was in two beats, this week I've played the four beats exercise for the scale, because I've already practiced for the right pitch last week. This week, I've not only concentrated on the pitch, but I also concentrated on the speed so that the sound will become perfect. 

• Suwe Ora Jamu

Since our class started practicing violin as an ensemble of a class with the song Suwe Ora Jamu both for violin students and for other students who first tried playing violin, this video is me practicing the song twice, first with pizzicato and second with argo. Since we learned what pizzicato is, I revised what we've learned in class in my video, and when I played in argo, I also considered which note I have to move the bow up and which note I have to move the bow down. 

Term 4 Week 5 Videos

• G major scale three octaves

For today, I went back to the original g major scale in three octaves with two beats for each note, because when I played with four and three beats, the pitch and the speed when I play the song is not even, and sometimes I also play the wrong note because my speed got faster. So I went back to the original beat and concentrated in playing slowly while considering the pitch.

• Concert in g minor - A. Vivaldi.

When I played until the second part for last week, my pitch was quite better, but the speed has increased towards the end of the song, and for one or two notes, I played the wrong note because of the fast speed. I didn't notice the next note because I was concentrating in playing the song faster. So this time I decreased the speed and tried to maintain it, while trying to get the right note for the entire two parts of the song with the right pitch.

Term 4 Week 4 Videos

• G major scale three octaves

As usual, I started practicing my violin by first exercising with g major scale in three octaves. This time, I practiced the exercise by playing three times for each note, because this exercise helps me to feel the rhythm of a song, and it also makes me to concentrate on the pitch for each note. So this time I exercised with three beats and tried to make better pitch.

• Concert in g minor - A. Vivaldi

I practiced this song until the 2nd part again, because when I first recorded in my previous video, the first part of the song was nice, but the second part of the song was very bad. The pitch was often out of tune, and the speed was also changing towards the end of the song. So this time I tried concentrating on the speed with the right pitch. 

Term 4 Week 2 Videos

• G major scale 3 octaves

This video is the first video for the second week of music. I am exercising in the video by playing g major scale in 3 octaves in 4 times for each note. It made me to have a faster speed in exercising so that when I play the song, I can play it faster even though the pitch is not perfect. 

• Concert in g minor - A. Vivaldi

Since I've played the first part of this song since term 3, I continued playing the next part of this song, where the entire harmony is getting faster with more notes together. So before playing this song, I have exercised the g major scale for 4 times for each note because I had to play faster with the next part in this song.

Term 4 Week 1 Videos

• G major scale 3 octaves

This is the fist video of me practicing my violin by first exercising with G major scale 3 octaves, which helps me to relax my fingers and get ready to play a song.

• Concert in G minor - A. Vivaldi

This is the song that I started playing at the end of term 3. Since I'm still interested in this song and I haven't finish playing this song, I chose this song for my second video after exercising with G major scale 3 octaves.

Term 4 Week 6: May 14th-16th 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today Mr. John was absent, so Mr. Herry substituted us. We first evaluated our Jingle composition as a group. First, we evaluated Rilya, Pinka and my jingle by listening to the composition from Finale. We got a lot of positive and negative feedbacks from our classmates, so I wrote them down on my journal and reflected on them for my future composition to get better than this one. When my group were discussing about our composition last week, we thought that our jingle is quite catchy even though the melody is entirely chilling and calming. However the feedbacks from our friends made us realise that not all audiences feel that way. Many of them told us that it is not quite catchy because of the calm melody, but we also got a lot of positive feedbacks, such as that our composition matches with the airline commercial as we wanted and that the simple and calm melody makes the audiences very chill and relaxed. 

- Wednesday: Today Mr. John was still absent, so Mr. Herry substituted us again. Today we continued playing our violin as a group. We tried exercising with our violins by playing 'A' and 'D' strings. Since I'm a violin student, it was a very easy thing for me to just play two different strings, but there were also a lot of my friends who were having first experience playing violin, so Mr. Herry asked the 5 violin students, including me, to assist the other 5 non-violin students by sitting next to them each other and helping them to sort out how to play violin with good posture and making good sound, so it wasn't boring at all to me and it was also very interesting experience because this was the first time for me to teach someone how to play violin.

- Thursday: Today Mr. John came back to our class, so we continued playing violin as a whole group of class. However we played in different variation from tester (but same song), so we got to play with pizzicato, argo and learned the down and up sign. Again, I got the chance to teach my friends next to me, and I hope my advises made them feel easier to play the violin because I was very eager in teaching them because it was so fun to watch them learn new things that I know and leading them to a better way of playing violin. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We came back to theory class after lunch, and at first we finalised evaluating other group's jingle composition, and with Mr. Sadrakh, all of us tried playing violin for our final assessment, which is the "playing a song with string instrument". I'm quite excited about this assessment, because since I had an assessment on playing our own instruments in term 1, we didn't have ant other solo assessment on our instruments, so I'm very excited on choosing which song I'm going to play, and how 

i'm going to ply n a nice melody. I'm also very excited for other classmates too, because this time, all students have to have an assessment in playing violin, even though they are nit a violin student, so I'm very looking forward for this assessment.

- Wednesday: After the snack, we came back to our theory class and continued playing violin. We played the first line of "Suwe Ora Jamu" with Violin 1, 2 and Cello, and I think we were quite good, because m friends who were playing violin for the first time were also very good in playing the violin.

- Thursday: We didn't have instrument class today because we continued playing violin as an ensemble until the end of the music class. Also, we received our real MDW booklet today so we filled in our reflection on our essay assessment with today's daily reflection.

Term 4 Week 5: May 7th-9th 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Since next week Tuesday is our submission day for the'Jingle Finale' assessment, our group (me, Rilya and Pinka) continued making the Finale Draft for out Jingle. Our entire melody is calm but it's quite catchy for us, so when we were done with our melody, I think it's going to a good song for certain commercials such as the airline or the mattress. However since we haven't converted our composition to Finale, we quickly have to convert the melodies and the chords in finale so that we will not miss the deadline, and we quickly need to get checked by Mr.John before we print it because we don't want to have any more error after printing out our work. 

- Wednesday: Today we didn't have music class at all because we had a seminar at this time with Mr. Peter and Jason B's mum, who is the chairman of the Lorena Transportation. We had to listen to some speeches given by the people working for Lorena Transportation, and we had some discussion about the importance of good roads and good transportations needed in Jakarta. Anyways, therefore we didn't have music class today.

- Thursday: We didn't come to school today, which means we didn't have music class because today was a public holiday in Indonesia. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We didn't have "Instrument" class today because we had to gather again in our theory class in order to check our blog and MDW update. Since I haven't done week 1 and 2 for my blog, I will update them today with the 3rd and the 4th week. 

- Wednesday: We didn't have music class today because we had a seminar at this time.

- Thursday: We didn't come to school at all today because today was a public holiday in Indonesia. 

Term 4 Week 4: April 30th-May 2nd 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today was the performance day of our singing assessment. At first, Rilya, Pinka and I panicked a lot because we didn't get to practice together for the whole sessions last week because of the UN try out. At least we got to practice for the first session, and we were the second one to perform on the second sessions, so we still got some time to practice. We got confused at this point because we forgot how the lower pitch went, and we even got confused in he higher note that we used to find easily. Since we didn't have enough time, Pinka decided to sing the lower pitch together with Rilya, because Rilya was afraid if her lower pitch is not matching with the normal pitch. So after the practice during the first session, we had our assessment. At first when we sang, all three of us were not confident with our voices and were afraid of our pitch, so I think we sang really softly. But after the first trail, Mr. John knew our problem and told us not to be afraid of our pitches, and it doesn't matter if out pitches go off for once or twice, and that the most important thing is confidence and loud voice. So for our second and last time performing the song, I think we did much better with more confidence, so I'm quite satisfied with our performance.

- Wednesday: Today, Mr. John taught us about chord progression in C major chord. He taught us many different types of chords from a single scale, and it was very cool to here him playing each one of them for us. I think this would help us in composing our jingle later, because we also have to put various types of chords in our composition for back up music. However I'm still worried about the chords, because even after learning different types of chords, I don't know how to apply them in my composition or any type of composition, because I'm very not used to chords and haven't learned them for a long time.

- Thursday: Today we worked on our jingle composition. Today was the first day that we actually started composing for our final project. I struggled a lot today even after I've learned different variations of chords, because it was first time for me to work on the chords first before compositing by notations. I tried my best to get a good chord, but then I had to give up on them because I thought that it would be only wasting time if I'd been just struggling on chords. Besides, I can still get some help from my teachers and friends with the chords for my composition, so I just started with a melody. But the thing is, melodies aren't as hard as chords for me, but it's also very hard to get a catchy jingle from my own head by bringing out all musical talents I have in me. Eventually, I got only 2 bars for today out of 16 bars of composition, but I'm still grateful with the two bars, because since I've at least started on them, I'll be able to think of many different melodies related to the first 2 bars, so I'm hoping that my final draft will be submitted on time. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: Today we didn't have our instrument class because we've just started our singing performance (assessment) on our second session.

- Wednesday: Today we didn't have our instrument class again because we had to continue learning the chord progression, and Mr. John wanted us to fully understand to usage of chords in music.

- Thursday: We didn't have instrument class again today because we had to start composing our jingle, and therefore we had to spend both sessions in sitting in front of piano, thinking of our right chords for our jingle, and the catchy melody for our composition.

Term 4 Week 3: April 23rd-25th 2013

WE DIDN'T HAVE OUR MUSIC CLASS AT ALL FOR THIS WEEK BECAUSE WE'VE SPENT THE WHOLE WEEK EXCEPT FOR FRIDAY ON HAVING OUR UN TRY OUTS. EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT JOINING UN, PEOPLE LIKE ME WERE TO BE GATHERED TOGETHER AND BE FORMED AS A CLASS TO HAVE OTHER ACTIVITIES IN ENGLISH, SO WE DIDN'T GET TO HAVE ANY NORMAL CLASSES AS IS IN OUR TIMETABLE. 

Term 4 Week 2: April 16-18 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today we didn't have music class because the whole grade 9 had National examination try out called UN. Since I'm not Indonesian, I didn't need to take the try-out, but since there were also other students who are not taking the UN, we had another separated class for students who are not joining UN which is not the normal class we usually have, so we didn't have our music class today. 

- Wednesday: Today Mr. John first explained about one of our projects which is writing an essay about 'how music influence the society'. Also, after the submission of the essay, we are going to have a singing assessment in singing Indonesian traditional song called 'Tanah Air". We tried singing "Tanah Air" after watching a video about the impact of music to education that can give us some inspiration in writing an essay. Luckily, since I'm not an Indonesian, I was not required the memorise the lyrics of the song because it's quite meaningless memorising a song without knowing their meanings. Also, Mr. John and Mr. Harry told us that we should try singing in different voices, so Rilya, Pinka and I practiced singing the song with different voices in a group. In my case, I sang the normal pitch, Pinka got the higher one and Rilya got the lower one. It was quite easy for all three of us to find the higher pitch of the song, but we struggled a lot in finding the lower voice for Rilya, so I think we really need to practice on finding the right voices and practicing with them.

- Thursday: Today we continued practicing on our singing assessment. I was quite relieved that we get to perform in a group this term even though we haven't figured out about the different voices, because if it was a solo performance I would have felt much more nervous. Anyways today we continued trying to figure out the lower voice without help from Mr. Harry. Finally we got to figure out the first line of the song for the lower voice, so for the first time we tried practicing with 3 different voices. It turned out that it sounds very nice with different voices, so with this little hope we got, we tried getting the lower voice for the rest of the entire song. Until now, we have figured out all the lower voices except for the highest note of the song, so we're wishing that we will get the note next week because we didn't much time today to figure out the entire song.

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We didn't have instrument class today because of the UN try out.

- Wednesday: We didn't have instrument class today because we have spent our time in the theory class practicing for our singing assessment, and wrote our reflection for yesterday and oday. Also, we discussed about the a cappella we're going to sing on the song "Tanah Air". 

- Thursday: Today we only had few minutes in our instrument class, because we had no other classes spent on our instruments for this week. However Rilya and I still practiced for the lower note, and I helped her to find the right key because I will be singing the normal pitch. I think she was quite frustrated with the lower note because we spent a lot of time finding the right key, so I'm trying my best to help her find the key and hopefully we'll be able to create a great a cappella. 

Term 4 Week 1: April 9-11 2013

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today was the first day of music for term 4. We received our assessment schedule today and discussed about projects we are going to have for this term. According to the schedule, we are going to have assessments such as singing the Indonesian song assessment,  composing jingle and writing an essay about the impact of music to the society.

- Wednesday: Today mr. John played chords with piano and guitar for us to guess what chord it is. It was very hard for me to get the correct answer because I've never learned chords before. Also, even though I've learned scales, when I try to convert them into triad chords mentally, it is very hard for me to think which chord or notes have natural, sharp or flat notes. Therefore in order to prepare for next chord test or composing my jingle, I think I need to practice more on chords and try to think fast when someone suddenly ask me questions about chords.

- Thursday: Today Mr.John gave us a worksheet about chords and scales that we had to answer. At first I filled in a worksheet where I have to write scales for certain notes and some chords from the same notes. We also discussed about the jingle that we are going to compose in a group of 3. I think I'm going to be grouped with Pinka and Rilya, so I might have to get some help from them with chords.

• Instrument Class:

 - Tuesday: Today was the first day of instrument class for term 4. Since it was the first day of instrument class, our string class did nothing at all. We only talked about our vacations during the holiday, and just talked about what we are going to do for this term. Because we didn't do anything for our instrument class, my friend Rilya and I played piano together, and I also listened her playing guitar.

- Wednesday: Today during the instrument class, I stayed in violin class. However I didn't get to play my violin because Mr.Sadrakh only checked Jason playing a song on Suzuki. Therefore for today I only watched him playing violin, but I really enjoyed today's class because I've ever played the song that Jason has played today.

- Thursday: Today we received a worksheet of this week's MDW reflection paper from Mr. Herry. We received this paper during the instrument class, and we had to submit it today, so I wasn't able to play my violin, but instead I concentrated on finishing the worksheet today, because I didn't want to delay my work anymore. Therefore I only wrote my reflection for this week, and listened to my other friends who played violin and piano. 

Term 3 Week 11 Videos

This week was the assessment day for our final assessment on our own arrangement of 'Katyusha'. Even though my group has done the assessment on Tuesday, I still practiced Katyusha and the regular scale because I was a little bit addicted to the song, and I missed playing it with my friends after the assessment.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Katyusha Arrangement 

Term 3 Week 10 Videos

Next week is our assessment day for our own arrangement of 'Katyusha', so I practiced a lot in my theory and instrument class, and also at my home. And since I always play the scales before playing the song, I also played the g major scale 3 octaves for once.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Katyusha Arrangement 

Term 3 Week 9 Videos

Since next next week is our final assessment of performing our own arrangement of 'Katyusha', I practiced mainly on Katyusha, and also played the scale before practicing the Katyusha, because if I directly play the song without doing the warming up, I usually make many mistakes while playing the song.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Katyusha Arrangement 

Term 3 Week 8 Videos

This week was the submission day of booklet, so I didn't have much time to practice on my violin, so I just quickly practiced on the Katyusha arrangement and my regular base warming up scale.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Katyusha Arrangement

Term 3 Week 7 Videos

Finally I had something else to practice. We have made our own 'Katyush' arrangement, and according to my group, we decided to play Rilya's arrangement for our final assessment, so I started practicing on the arrangement so that I can fully memorize them during the assessment day.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Katyusha Arrangement

Term 3 Week 6 Videos

I played the original melody of 'Katyusha' in my instrument class with piano, but we haven't started working on our arrangement in 'Katyusha', so I had nothing to practice again for this week; thus I just practiced the same thing again as last week.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 Last Number

Term 3 Week 5 Videos

We didn't have instrument classes at all for this week, so I didn't know what to practice at home, so I continued playing the last number of suzuki vol.5 with the g major scale, which is my regular basic warming up scale.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 Last Number

Term 3 Week 4 Videos

We were now moving on to our next assessment of group presentation, and we had many free times for our instrument class. I honestly didn't know that to practice, so I just practiced the same thing as last week.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 Last Number

Term 3 Week 3 Videos

We had our solo singing assessment this week, so we didn't have much instrument class. Therefore I just continued practicing on what I was practicing last week.

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 Last Number

Term 3 Week 2 Videos

We were already busy with preparing for our first solo singing assessment, so I just practiced a scale and continued practicing the last number from suzuki vol.5

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 Last Number

Term 3 Week 1 Videos

It was Week 1 and we actually did nothing for this week in our instrumnet class, so I just practiced a scale and a song that I wanted to play from Suzuki Vol.5 from the 1st semester. 

• G major scale 3 octaves

• Suzuki Vol.5 the Last Number

Term 3 Week 11

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: Today was the assessment day of playing our own arrangement of a Russian Song 'Katyusha'. I was grouped with Rilya, Pinka, Nigel and JB, and we used Rilya's arrangement for our assessment. At first, we did some practices before doing the real assessment. I had to fully memorize the sheet of arrangement because I had to have some more time to memorize them completely. Luckily, I was able to fully memorize the arrangement plus the intro and the ending, so all of our group mates were able to do the performance by memorizing the arrangement. I think our group did a great job in our assessment, because most part went well as we practiced. There was a very little mistake in the ending though. When we practiced, we planned to play the ending directly after repeating the song 4 times. However Pinka and I had a pause after repeating the song 4 times, so when Rilya played the beat with her guitar twice, Pinka and I were able to start the ending together and finish the performance safely. I don't think anyone noticed that we had that mistake, and we didn't seem to have a mistake, so I was glad that Pinka, Rilya and I had a good communication and team work even if we weren't talking to each other during the performance. 

- Wednesday: Since we are all done with our assessments, we basically had a free time for this session. We first discussed about our due date for MDW booklet and our reflection and videos on our blog. Honestly, I am very stressed with this stage, because I am trying my best to finish them on time, and I never submitted them late, however my teachers are keep giving me the pressure to finish earlier, and they are offering me to submit them earlier than the dead line, even though at first they arranged the schedule for us to take more time to work on them. 

- Thursday: I didn't have music class today because I had a personal schedule related to my family. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We used our theory class today to practice for our arrangement of 'Katyusha' before we perform the real one, so we used the instrument class today to perform our real assessment in our theory class. Therefore technically we didn't have our instrument class today.

- Wednesday: Since we also had a free time in our theory class after finishing all of our assessments, we also had a free time in our instrument class too. Therefore I went to Rilya's class (guitar class) to play piano with her, and I also learned some chords and techniques and a song by playing with guitar. I was always hoping to learn guitar, so I was very happy that Mr.John and Rilya supported me to play the basic things with guitar.

- Thursday: I didn't have music class today because I had a personal schedule related to my family. 

Term 3 Week 10

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: Today was Nyepi Holiday

- Wednesday: We practiced for our Katyusha again for the last time because next week is our assessment on performing on it.

- Thursday: Nothing special happened today because we only spent our time playing our instruments.

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: Today was Nyepi Holiday

- Wednesday: We didn't do anything much today for instrument class because we've already played our instruments in practicing Katyusha.

- Thursday: Nothing special happened in instrument class either today, so I just played piano, and spent my time with my friends singing. 

Term 3 Week 9

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: We practiced on our arrangement in Russian music, Katyusha. My group was me, Nigel, JB for violin and cello, Pinka for the piano, and RIlya for the guitar.

- Wednesday: During the theory class, we continued working on MDW booklet, because we had to submit them for Mr. John to check our progress and give suggestions on some part.

- Thursday: Mr. John made a intro part for our arrangement, so that we don't need to start playing Katyusha right away. 

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We didn't have instrument class today because we've been spending the whole time practicing on our arrangement.

- Wednesday: Today we didn't have instrument class because we had our practice on our arrangement in Russian music in theory classroom according to our group members.

- Thursday: We all didn't have instrument class again because today we had to practice the arrangement with the intro. 

Term 3 Week 8

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: Today we learned about Tetrachords with Mr. John. He taught us about the lower and higher tetrachords, and he also taught us about the major and minor tetrachords.

- Wednesday: Today was the submission day of our home project, making a booklet about the Russian music, similar to our presentation. Luckily I was able to finish it on time.

- Thursday: Today we just discussed about our trip to Singapore, but since I'm not going, I'm not really involved in it. Also, I've submitted the finale for Russian music arrangement.

• Instrument Class

- Tuesday: We only had few minutes on instrument class today, so I just played Katyusha with piano

- Wednesday: I've played Katyusha by my own (the arrangement I've made), and heard Jason and Rico playing Canon.

- Thursday: Today I just basically listened to Jason and Rico practicing on Canon, so I also played the melody with piano. 

Term 3 Week 7

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Today, the last group did their presentation (which was Darren, Matthew and Rico's group). Then, Mr. John gave us our MDW booklet, so I think I have to catch up it quickly.

- Wednesday: Today Mr. Joh was absent, so mr. Herry asked us to spend our time to catch up everything in MDW booklet, because we are very far behind the dates. 

- Thursday: Actually today's supposed to be the due date of the draft of 'Katyusha' arrangement finale, but since I was absent last Wednesday, Mr. John gave me more time to work on it.

• Instrument Class

- Tuesday: We didn't have instrument class today because we've spent our time listening to last group's presentation.

- Wednesday: We didn't have instrument class today because we've spent time working on MDW.

- Thursday: Today we only had few minutes on our instrument class, so I've spent the time playig piano, trying the Katyusha notations for violin with piano. 

Term 3 Week 6

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: At first, we've spent some time working (mostly planning) for our presentation because Thursday is our presentation day. But I wasn't feeling well today, so I'm not sure if I can come tomorrow.

- Wednesday: I wasn't able to come to school today, because I felt very sick yesterday, and yesterday night I got very sick, so I wasn't able to come to school today.

- Thursday: It was the presentation day today. I think our group have done quite well, but while Mr. John was just watching the presentation, Mr. Herry asked us many questions, so I tried my best to answer all questions.

• Instrument Class

- Tuesday: We spent some time o instrument class today to get the violin sheet of 'Katyusha' from Mr. Sadrakh, because we have to start working on our arrangement in Russian Song.

- Wednesday: I didn't come to school today because I was very sick yesterday night, and I wasn't able to get cured in less than 1 day.

- Thursday: Today we didn't have instrument class because we spent all our time doing the presentation, and answering all questions asked from Mr. Herry. 

Term 3 Week 5

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: We didn't have music class on Tuesday because we all had ISA Tests in school, which is a very important task for our grades. 

- Wednesday: We didn't have music class on Wednesday because we all had ISA Tests in school, which is a very important task for our grades.

- Thursday: Today Mr. John was absent, so Mr. Herry Substituted us again. He taught us in arranging a song, and gave us a melody of "Katyusha', so that we can arrange them in our own style.

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We didn't have music class on this week. because on Tuesday and Wednesday, we all had ISA tests, and on Thursday, we have spent all our time with Mr. Herry, about our next assessment on arranging a Russian Music, 'Katyusha'. 

- Wednesday: We didn't have music class on this week. because on Tuesday and Wednesday, we all had ISA tests, and on Thursday, we have spent all our time with Mr. Herry, about our next assessment on arranging a Russian Music, 'Katyusha'. 

- Thursday: We didn't have music class on this week. because on Tuesday and Wednesday, we all had ISA tests, and on Thursday, we have spent all our time with Mr. Herry, about our next assessment on arranging a Russian Music, 'Katyusha'. 

Term 3 Week 4

• Theory Class

- Tuesday: Mr. John introduced us with our new assessment, which is making a power point presentation about Russian music and composers. I was grouped with Pinka and Rilya like I was grouped in term 1.

- Wednesday: Mr. John was absent so Mr. Herry substituted us. He gave us the entire time planning on our presentation, so me, Pinka and Rilya discussed on what we're going to put in the presentation and divided our work.

- Thursday: Mr. John gave us a copy of 'Katyusha' because we will be having some assessments on it.

• Instrument Class

- Tuesday: We did nothing at all in our instrument class today, so I just played piano because I was bored. I played a song played in the movie 'Twilight', called 'Bella's Lullaby'.

- Wednesday: We didn't have instrument class today because we spent all whole class planning for our power point presentation, and planning on how we're going to work together.

- Thursday: Today we didn't really do much in our instrument class, but Mr. Sadrakh taught us with some techniques, like playing violin with 2nd and 3rd position, which was very hard to do.

Term 3 Week 3

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: We did our "Dark Eyes" performance today, which was our first assessment in term 3. It was a solo singing assessment, and I think I did quite well because I was able to memorize the lyrics and the melody.

- Wednesday: Mr. John gave us our score for the solo singing assessment "Dark Eyes". He gave me 10 out of 10, so I was really happy, because during the assessment day, I was quite nervous if I forget the lyrics while singing it.

- Thursday: We didn't come to school today because it was the public holiday.

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: Today we had the solo singing assessment so we didn't have our instrument class.

- Wednesday: After I've received the score for the solo singing assessment, we went to our instrument class. However we mostly talked about our assessments, and so I only played some scales.

- Thursday: We didn't come to school today because it was the public holiday. 

Term 3 Week 2

• Theory Class:

- Tuesday: Mr.John introduced two new songs, and it was Katyusha and the Dark eyes. Both of them are Russian songs because our topic for this term is learning about music in the Russian Revolutions, and its impact to the society until now. We tried listening to the songs and deciding which one will be better for our assessment. 

- Wednesday: We've decided to sing the Dark eyes because Katyusha is too fast for us to catch up, and the pronunciation of Russian language itself is very hard for us to prepare for our solo singing assessment.

- Thursday: We didn't have class today because we had to stay home due to the flood.

• Instrument Class:

- Tuesday: We only talked about our vacation again for the instrument class today.

- Wednesday: We did nothing at all today, but we only talked about our trip to Singapore and other things that are not related to music. 

Term 3 Week 1

• Theory Class

- Thursday: It was the first day of music and the first day of school too. Since it is the first day of school, we didn't do much for today. We just discussed about our trip to Singapore during the Term 3 break.

• Instrument Class

- Thursday: We didn't have any instrument class today, because we've spent all of our time talking about our vacations during the term 2 holiday, and our plan to touring Singapore.