Second Week of May

10 May 2011

Today I’m a little bit late to come to the music class. First of all, Mr. Herry have write on the white board about what will do for today. On the white board, it says that the first thing is reflection on group jazz rehearsal, then finale feedback rehearsal and then instrument. After that, Mr. Herry shows us the videos and he tells us to watch it. The first video is our group jazz rehearsal last week and then we look at our friends performance such as the grade 10 last year, Caleb singing video where Mr. Herry said that he have a good voice, Harsya singing video where Mr. Herry give a comment that he keep singing although he is out of tune, Koby singing video where he have a good expression of singing the song and last we watch the video of Journey Towards DP two years ago so now they are grade 12. Mr. Herry continue the class by opening our finale soft copy and then he give each of us the specific feedback on how we can improve it for the final submission. At last, we can go to our jazz group. In this time, Mr. Harry ask Victoria and I to go to Mr. Herry to ask his help to make our playing more variation. So both of us didn’t join the group practice and we stay in the music room ask the help of Mr. Herry to teach us making the variation in playing the song. Victoria is not only playing the first note of each chord again but also then she need to play another thing such as play the until the second note of the chord and Mr. Herry ask me to play a little bit different from last time mostly the left hand. I have to play the left hand like walking chords. And finally we can have our recess time.

12 May 2011

First of all, Mr. Herry remind us that today is the day for us who want to re-do the group singing assessment. Then Mr. Herry check our attendance and also our resources that we bring to the class. After that, Mr. Herry tell us what we will do for today that are re-do the singing assessment, submit hard copy of the final jingle so Mr. Herry call us one by one to the front to submit it. The first one to re-do the singing assessment is Brian and Jeffrey Pribadi singing So Big. Mr Harry said that they need more expression and while Mr. Herry said nice try. Then the second group is Ivan, Raymond, Ais, Caleb singing Spiderman song. They still reading the lyrics however by doing this re-do Mr. Herry thought that we can make it better by remembering the lyrics and it turns out not like that. After that, Mr. Herry distributed to us the paper where we should write the reflection of making the jingle task. While we are writing the reflection, Ann and Indi is doing their re-do singing and they sing Lean On Me. All of us agree that they sing it loud enough. Then, we can have our lunch break and Mr. Herry said to us that after lunch, we have 20 minutes to practice with the jazz group and then come back to the music room to do another rehearsal. However, my group practice in the music room and due to a reason, Mr. Herry decided that this time is better for us to keep continue practicing rather than having another rehearsal. And at last, we can go home.

This is the eleventh video that I have recorded while I’m playing the piano in term 4. In this video, I’m practicing to play the chords of Fly Me To The Moon. This time I play wih a little bit variation that Mr. Herry have teach me. But then, I haven’t practice if for many times therefore I still make many mistakes and got stuck in the middle of playing it.

This is the twelveth video that I have recorded while I’m playing the piano in term 4. In this video, I’m still practicing to play the chords of Fly Me To The Moon again. This time, I play it with the variation again and I think comparing to the last video, I’m doing it a little bit better. I played in the lower part because I think Mr. Herry ask me to play it there. And hopefully as I have more practice, I can play it better.