Term 4 Week 7 (21 - 23 May 2013)

THEORY

On Tuesday, we continued the MDW. I wasn't able to finish it before lunch time because there was a lot of pages I didn't fill in yet, I was only able to finish one and a half pages.
On Wednesday, Mr. John gave us time to fill in more of the MDW, but in the last 15 minutes of the theory session, he taught us about tempos and beats and he asked every one of us if we could tap the beats according to the actual beats he wrote on the board. I liked learning this because it wasn't that hard and I've learned it before.
On Thursday, we tried to finish the MDW again. Mr. John told us that we have time until next Tuesday. I was very grateful for that because I wasn't done at all, especially the screenshots of the videos and things like that.

INSTRUMENT

On Tuesday, we didn't have instrument class, but instead we practiced playing the violin. Mr. Herry took over the instrument class. He asked us to copy down the melody of "Janger Bali". I think this one is definitely more difficult than "Suwe Ora Jamu" because the melody is faster and there a lot of notes in one bar. It's hard for me to read it fast. For Violin 2, Mr. Herry asked us to play the first three notes in every bar so we can get used to the speed. After that, we did a run-through. And then we combined "Janger Bali" and "Suwe Ora Jamu" and "Janger Bali" again. I love the medley, it sounded really cool.
On Wednesday, we didn't have instrument class and we practiced violin again in the main music class. Today Mr. Herry gave us a new music sheet with the whole medley of the Indonesian folk songs if I'm not mistaken. Playing this was hard because there was a combination of pizzicato and arco and it was hard for me to move on to the next few bars because I have to play the notes well since we're playing in the Grade 12 graduation.
On Thursday, we practiced playing the violin again, but this time Mr. Sadrakh sort of took over. He played the piano while Mr. John played the guitar and Mr. Herry recorded everything. It was very fun because we played the whole thing and it sounded really good with each other. I think I have problems with where to put my finger when I'm supposed to play A1 or D2 and stuff like that.