Fourth Week of April

26 April 2011

Today I’m not coming on time to the classroom and it’s because of my last class is physical education that is not inside the school. When I came to the class, Mr. Herry was telling some of the students who haven’t know their score for the essay report. After that, Mr. Herry ask us about our partner or our group members for the singing assessment. At first, Mr. Herry thought that we are prepared and ready to do the rehearsal for this singing assessment but then none of us ready with it. We still haven’t got the minus one of our song and we also not yet practice at all. Then Mr. Herry give us like a comment on our performance that we have show him throughout the time we have music. Mr. Herry said that actually we can do better than this but we didn’t make that kind of effort so Mr. Herry is like making us to be motivated to do our works and make a better performance in this last term. After that, Mr. Herry let us listen to our friends own composition jingle that we have submitted in the music room computer. Then we have to write our comment for every jingle so basically we need to write the comment of our friend’s work one by one. Before we start listening to the jingle, Mr. Herry check our resources that we bring to the music class and then start with listening to the jingles. Mr. Herry give us the paper of where we should write the comment that he have provided “Grade 10 Music Jingle Draft Feedback”. After we done listening to the jingles then we can have our practice time for the jazz group performance but then almost all of us use that time to practice for the singing assessment. And at last, we can have our recess time.

28 April 2011

First of all, today is our duet or group singing assessment. We are asking Mr. Herry to let us have a warming up first before we do the singing assessment so Mr. Harry help us to do this warming up. Mr. Herry said that we have to give comments after every performance, he will randomly ask us to make an oral comment and we also have to write it down in our notebook.

My group is the first one to do this singing assessment. My group members are Saskia, Tiara and Victoria, we are singing Let It Be – The Beatles. The summaries of the feedback from others are my group needs to be louder, be more careful with the pitch and it will be better if we remember the lyrics of the song. Then move on to the second group and the members of this group are Frederik, Juan, Ju Yeop Lee, Marco and Marcus singing We Are The World. They did a good performance but it will be better if they have more preparation such as prepared with enough paper for the lyrics so no need to exchange papers with one another, not out of pitch, improve on their actions in the stage and not late to sing at the beginning of the song. Then we move on to the third group and this time is duet between Emily and Yovita. They did a very good performance because they are the first group that remembers the lyrics of their song and they have a good pitch in singing the song. Then it’s time for our lunch, so we can have our lunch break and continue after it. After lunch, we continue with the next group and the members of this group are Ivan, Raymond, Caleb and Ais singing Spiderman. They can make a better performance if they have the division of the voice and be more careful with the pitch while singing the song. Continue with the fifth group and they this is a duet between Harsya and Jeffrey Koby. They have a good pitch in singing the song and they can make it better if they can make it not only one voice like make it into two voices and it will be good if they remember the lyrics of the song. Next is a duet between Ann and Indi. They sing Lean On Me and I think this is the best performance compare to all of the other groups. They remember the lyrics of the song, have a good pitch and they also have a good division of the voice. It will be better if they can make a little bit louder because their voice is not really balance with the minus one and it will be great if they have more choreography while they are singing. The last duet group for today is Brian and Jeffrey Pribadi. They have to improve on the equal amount of the singing part because mostly Jeffrey Pribadi is singing the song and Brian only sing a little bit such as the chorus part only, both of them also out of pitch. Actually there is one more duet group Dwi and Wahyu, but today they are not ready to sing. Mr. Herry give us another chance for the one who want to do this assessment again to improve their score in the next two weeks. This is the end of today’s class and at last, we can go home.

This is the seventh video that I have recorded in term 4. In this video, I’m practicing to sing my group song performance that is singing Let It Be song by The Beatles. This is my first practice of singing the song that’s why although I have use the background voice to help me to sing the song, I’m still out of tune and not in the right pitch. I need more practice to make it better.

This is the eighth video that I have recorded in term 4. In this video, I’m practicing to sing my group song performance again that is singing Let It Be song by The Beatles. This is not my first practice anymore, so I think I have made an improvement a little bit. I’m still using the help of the background voice and this time I’m more in the right pitch but not really good yet. I still need more practice to make a better performance.