Music Reflection - 22 August 2011, Monday

Today, we had another review on major and major 7 scales again, but also we learnt about the triad in major 7 scale and the 1st & 2nd inversion. Also, today was the day I redo my singing assessment because my last one wasn't so good. I felt relieved and felt much better because I have finally released the stress of singing in front of an audience and the happiness of the improved score. However, I once again didn't remember the lyrics for the 2nd part of the song because my mind just got a blackout or something. At lunch, I perfectly remembered all of the lyrics, but then in the singing itself, I just forgot about the lyrics for the 2nd part of the song. Then, I just skipped that part and continued with the rest part of the song. But in overall, I think I did a good job, much better than the last one.

Music Reflection - 15 & 18 August 2011

In the 15th and 18th of August 2011, we basically had reviews about major and major 7 scales. Everyone knew what to do except me because I never learned about theories of music, I just do practical and playing on the guitar all the time. So, I had no idea what I had to do in those two days because I never learnt scales before. Then on 18 August 2011, we listened to two of the classmates that wanted to redo their singing assessments. After that, we just went to our specific part of the instrument groups and play.

Music Reflection - 11 August 2011, Thursday

Today, we presented the presentation about the musical eras and the composers. Our group was the longest because we have the most slides out of every other groups. Because of having a lot of slides and being the longest, the audience were bored and I can see that by their faces and that they didn't really pay any attention to us. And I agree with this, even I was bored because we had no music to keep the audience entertain. The thing that makes us have a lot of slides was that after explaining each of the musical eras, we tell about 4 composers in quite detail in the specific era and then our favourite composer for that era.

Music Reflection - 8 August 2011, Monday

Today, we were put into groups for about 3-4 and we had to do a little presentation about each of the musical eras, like: Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern. Just do a little description about each of the musical eras. Also, there were about two people that didn't do their singing assessment yet, so they sang after the presentations. My group for the presentation were Steven, Shavira and myself. I think that the little presentation wasn't that good because we weren't that prepared for one of my group mates was fooling around. For next class, we are going to be in the same group we got today and present the musical eras a bit more detail and the well-known composers in that era.

Music Reflection - 4 August 2011, Thursday

Today is my first music session because I was absent last week for family occasions or events and I had a little bit mixture of cough and cold. I knew that today there is a singing assessment because I asked my friends. Unfortunately, I didn't know the full detail of this assessment, so I came unprepared. I was told that we can sing while playing with our instruments or do karaoke. I was thinking of doing a karaoke and I thought there is going to be a karaoke system for us to sing to, but there wasn't. It turns out that what my friends meant by karaoke was that we are allowed to bring the music background (no lead vocals) with us. So I was unprepared and I was trying to download the song that I had chosen in karaoke version while the others was doing their assessments. I got it, so I was ready and when I was about to sing, the music sounds terrible; the music sounds somewhat weird and it wasn't even in the right pitch. I didn't do good... I was told that I can do it again in the next session, but depends on the teacher's mood. I hope that I can do it again and I will be ready for it.