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.