Term 4 Week 6 (14 - 16 May 2013)

THEORY

On Tuesday, Mr. John was absent so Mr. Herry was the substitute teacher. We listened to the different Jingles our friends made. My group's jingle went first and then after that Mr. Herry asked the others for feedback. Some people said it's catchy, but some didn't. I think all of them said it was very simple, someone said too simple in fact. Some people also think that my group's melody lacks dynamic and it sounds boring, but since it's for an airline commercial (or a commercial in an airplane) I think it's supposed to be soothing and relaxing.
On Wednesday, Mr. John was absent again. We had to continue our MDW so far in the week. After that, Mr. Herry asked us to copy down the melody of "Suwe Ora Jamu" in our music books. Then he asked to borrow the violins and then we started practicing. First, we practiced similar like yesterday; we practiced how to play the A-string, but we also practiced the E, D, and G-string. I had trouble with that because of the same squeaky sound that was produced by my horrible bowing.
On Thursday, we practiced the same thing but this time with variation. We learned how to play argo and pizzicato in the violin. It was very fun to play this because I like learning new things.

INSTRUMENT

On Tuesday, we didn't have instrument class because we still had to discuss the jingles. Right after that, we discussed our new assessment: playing a song with a string instrument, which is the violin. Today we mostly practiced the A-string. I think playing the violin is hard because every time I try to play there's always a squeaky sound.
On Wednesday, we didn't have instrument class because we had to practice our violin-playing. After recess, Mr. Herry divided the parts into Violin 1 and Violin 2. Violin 1 will be played by the ones who take violin instrument class, while Violin 2 will be played by the ones who aren't familiar. So we started and finished the "Suwe Ora Jamu" melody. I think it sounded really good, even though it's not perfect. I should definitely practicing on my bowing, but I don't know how to do that because I don't have a violin at home.
On Thursday, we didn't have instrument class, but we practiced more of the violin again.