24 may 2011

This is it, this is the big day, the judgement day. After a few dozens of practice, now we are going to perform all of our hardwork. I had no problem in my performance since long time, so i am very confident about my skill. I didnt event rehearse before break, i was too confident. my confidence was right, from my opinion, we are the best group yet, we perform flawlesly and it was a big success. Now we are going to reflect back on all things

19 may 2011

We had our group jazz rehearsal as a daily task. We rehearse in front of the crowds, and we made some comments. We are going to improve some parts in the begnining and end.

10 May 2011

Today we did a lot of reflection on Jazz group, singing, and jingle Finale. we made some comments on those matters. We are going to practice the jazz group again

12 May 2011

Today we re-did our group singing performance. I did it well, although there is no changes since my last performance :( but surprisingly mr.Harry decided to apreciate our effort and gave us extra marks, yeaaa. Now we are going to practice the Jazz group

3 May 2011

Today we heard Marcu's, Dwi's, and Angky's finale piece and performance, they were nervous, it was good though. Now we are having instrument class and going to make some comment regarding on those people's performance.

5 May 2011

We saw some technique on how to make our performance even more interesting. Our singing performance by the way, is not so good, thats why i have been listening deeply on what mr.harry had to say today. We are going to practice more on our singing performance

28 april 2011

Today we are having our group singing performance. Our song was Spiderman theme song by Michael Bubble, we did good. A fatal mistake has been made though, due to the reason of lacking of practice, we didnt show any divided voice and our performance is rather flat. I will improve this

19 April 2011

Today we are showned our score regarding on jazz's role on the society report. I got 7/8 and was really furious about it, i did much better than a friend i have which got full score. Turn out i forgot to put up bibliography, and turn out to be a technical problem, sad.

12 April 2011

Today is actually not a really good day. I havent done any of the 2 assesments given, and now there is another one. Great.... we are told to make a reports regarding on music role in the society. This time specificaly we will be needing statistics to prove our thesis, a survey is in order.

7 April 2011

Today we received a new task, to make a 30 second music as a baclground song for an advertising or so. The theme i picked is a shoes commercial, a lot of ideas hit my brain. I am going to make a jingle based on a lot of percussion instruments, since its the only music tools i am good at.

17 March 2011

Today is the last day we have music class for term 3. First of all, Mr. Herry give us the paper where we have to make an evaluation for him to improve on his teaching. After that, Mr. Herry let the students who haven’t do the assessment of performing their own melody improvisation to do their assessment. I’m enjoying my friend’s performance and it’s nice to listen to their improvisation. Then Mr. Herry asked us to perform in front of the class once again our group performance but due to the reason that it’s already time for our lunch so Mr. Herry let us to have our lunch first

10 March 2011

Today we received the reflection paper for the bar blues. Mr harry also teach us a bit about how to synch well in performing group jazz song. Many theory and methods were explaine, theories which is essential in forming a group of people performing jazz.

Scale Rehearsal

8 March 2011

Today i was a bit late because we had an outside-of-school physical education today. Since every hasnt perform their blues bar, today Koby and Lee performed for their assesment. They perform rather well, and later we had another assesment starting. We are going to perform a jazz song picked by mr.Harry by forming a group.

3 March 2011

Today i had my blues bar performance assesment. Everthing went well, it went to well that i make minor mistake in the end. I wasnt suspecting a glorious performance like today, since my rehearsal hasnt been very good, and i wasnt really confident. Everything turn out great i really glad.

1 march 2011

Today i did submit my finale composition. Today we have some sort of rehearsal and perfom it in front. i was not able to give it all. My performance was not the way i expected. neither i have to fix my notation or there is something wrong with my nerve. I get too nervous when it comes to in front of many people performances.

24 February 2011

Today finale's draft are supossed to be submitted. i didn't do it. but then again i was not sure about my finale because i got few idea in my head on how am i gonna play it. I have my back track'n blues style but then again the blues-jazz minus one mr.harry was overing is pretty good

22 February 2011

Today we are having our singing test. Blues scale was really exciting, I learn a few trick to master the blues scale easily, just play it relax. Feel the music and eventually i can play the scale beautifully, i know its just a scale then again blues scale is just sounded great.

10 February 2011

Today we learn something about blues. Blues scale is within my grasp and i will master this skill. Also today mr. Harry teach us more about Jazz. Blues is really interesting and i lik to know more. I learn the blues scale at instrument class, and felt really good about it.

8 February 2011

hohoho this is it. We are going to have the music assesment today. Well i did flunk! sigh... i was sure im going to be that good last week. Last week when we rehearse everybody was like complimenting my voice because it was really good. Pardon me, i'm having a heavy flu last week. I didnt have it today-_-, i suck.

28 January 2011

More handout for today.  This one is about american history. Then we're given a few minutes to read it. After that, we learn a little bit of chord progression. Then we're given 'I got rhythm' music sheet. We have to remember the lyrics by next week, because its going to be an assesment. singin the music of course

25 January 2011

Today a task was given to make an essay. The essay would consist of 200-400 word. We did the research and had to present it. Jazz mode was performed by people who hasnt done it yet.

20 January 2011

Today,we were given a few papers on Jazz music. Then, we discuss on the sheet about syncopation, improvisation, types of jazz music, etc.I got a lot information on what is the real jazz music and how to make it. At the second section we played some jazz modes.

18 January 2011

Today we had a small Jazz quiz. Few papers of jazz info containing essay is given to help out with the Jazz quiz. We did the first 16 and was fun, i almost did everything but ofcourse not in a complete sentence.

13 January 2011

Today we are given a task to research about Jazz music. The history of Jazz and how it affects the society. This task will take form of a report, and will be submit soon.

7 April 2011

Today we are given task to research and find out more about how music has become a part of everyone's life. Mr.Harry explained that we are going to have to do some survey to prove our theory. I choosed to interview people for their music hours per week. This way i could identifed how deep does music effect their life. Variety of genre will be expected in people preference.