Selasa, 08 Mei 2012

Week 1: April 9-13
Music Notation In Jazz (What is the role of Music in your life?)
Theory: This week is the first meeting for music class in term 4 and Mr herry gave us an introduction about the topics that we are going to learn in term 4. Music has a big impact in our life because everyday we listen to music and I realized that music can help me to change my mood and feeling and sometimes music make our become a better day.


Practical: In instrument class we were assigned to choose one song from the booklet given. I have decided to choose a song called Close To You and today we learn the song until bar 8. we play with both left and right hand.

Sabtu, 24 Maret 2012

Week 8:
March 5-9:
Explain the roles of jazz blues in the early development of jazz!
Practical: Jazz Blues is one of the prominent roots of early jazz. Because of this the role of jazz blues is very important in the development of jazz since African-American derived  spiritual blues chants and use it into their jazz creations. This is the music that can used to express our blue feeling.
12-Bars Blues Practice: Today we used most of the time to practice our own composition and by the end we were group into 2 and we play together (like an ensemble) and besides that we also perform in front of the class. But I also have to practice at home to improve the rhythm and the tempo of my song.

Week 9:
March 12-16:
How is my understanding now about improvisation especially in blues?
Practical: After we learn about blues jazz for about 1,5 month now I have a better understanding about blues jazz and now we even know how to improvised and for me it is quite challenging but as the week go now I have a better understanding on how to improvised my blues jazz song.
12 Bars Blues Improvisation
This week we learn 2 things in class. In the first meeting we learn about walking bass and it is very interesting. In the second meeting we rehears for our 12 bars blues composition and all of us done it very well and we only need to do more practice.

Week 10:
March 19-23:
How Does my understanding of blues after my performance?
Theory: After my performance now I can reflect that I have to put more attention when I play and I need to put more focus so that I can play all the song smoothly and perfectly. And after I perform now I understand that the feeling that we had when we play blues and classic is different and the technique that we used is totally different from classic music.
Practical: This week we practice the 12 Bars Blues Composition with our group and we have done it well and for the second meeting we used the whole music session for our 12 Bars Blues Composition practical assessment and I have done it well.

Kamis, 22 Maret 2012

Week 9:
This is the video when I was practicing the whole song for the practical assessment rehearsal for the next meeting and I need to do more practice so I can play it smoothly and perfectly.

Week 10:
This is the practice that I did before the practical assessment and form the video I think that I am ready for the assessment and the only thing that I have to do during the assessment is just concentrate and watch the tempo so that everything go smoothly.
Week 6:
This is the video When I was practicing the A part of my blues jazz composition. Now I can play my A part with both hand without making any mistakes.

Week 7:
This is the video when I was Practicing my B part of my Blues Jazz composition and from the video I had done it well. I have to do more practice so that I can play it perfectly.

Week 8:
This is the video when I was practicing my C part of my blues Jazz composition and I can play it perfectly. So it means that now I can play the whole song of my blues jazz composition.
Week 4:
This is the Video when I was practicing for the singing assessment. Me and my partner Sarah decided to sing I Got Rhythm song by George Gershwin and from the video I think I need to do more practice so I can reach the right pitch so I can get a good score during the assessment.

Week 5:
This is the video when I was practicing the whole All of Me song ad from the video I can see that the result is quite satisfying after the process of learning the song part by part finally I can play the whole song and I can play it nicely.



week 1:
This is the video when I was practicing the basic chords from All Of Me song and it is quite challenging because this is the first time for me to learn jazz chords. So I need to do more practice so I can get use of it.

Week 2:
This is the video when I was practicing my All of Me song A and B part and from the video it was good although I need to do more practice so that I can do it better in the next video.

Week 3:
This is the video when I was practicing the C part of All of Me song and I need to do more practice to get a better result because from the video I still cannot play the C part smoothly.