Reflection February 29th 2012, Wednesday

Today, Mr Sadrakh was back and he asked us our IDU group members. Most people already did the blogs but forgot to send Mr Sadrakh the URL/Website. I forgot too but already did recently, i hope Mr Sadrakh gets it. We also did our assessment booklets on the Finale task. I STILL dont understand how to put the chords on top of each bar???? Instrument class was the same but Mr Sadrakh told us we would start the real instrument class (real, as in we actually practice and play the violin) on Friday ad that we would be practicing and playing our melodies or our group's melodies (Mr Sadrakh will pick it soon.) :P

Reflection February 24th 2012, Friday

Today, Mr Sadrakh was absent so Mr Hary subsituted our class and we submitted out Finale works to him. In instrument class we didn't do anything because we only got a substitute teacher and she teaches EL and she can't play violin and Mr Sadrakh doesn't give us songs to play. (not that that's bad..) ;) Mr Harry didn;t say much or taught us much just how to use the Finale software properly :p.

Reflection February 22nd 2012, Wednesday

Last week i was absent so i didn't write my blog. Today, i found out we were supposed to do a 32 bar composition in Finale and submit our Barouque composers booklet. I already submitted the booklet though, i'm also doing the composition right now. I will submit it this Friday. It isn't that challenging to me because we already have the chords but i wish we could just write it in our music books because it's easier and i dont know how to erase a note if it's wrong but i can undo it though. Many people didn't have the Finale homework either because they had difficulties in printing the finished work or simply, forgot to do it. I hope i can finish it and submit it on time and have no problems in printing or anything. :D In instrument class we just discussed how we shouldn't be late to Mr Sadrakh's class. (music theory)

Reflection February 15th 2012, Wednesday

Today, we were supposed to give our assessment booklets on Baroque Composers but Mr Sadrakh gave us an extended due date. I think that's unfortunate because we worked really hard (well, the people who finished their booklets already) to finish the assessment for today just to find out that we didn't really need to submit it today. Oh well...we got the contents of what we should have in our Baroque composers booklet today and i think that's dumb because we're supposed to get it before we even started so we can all get perfect/better scores. I din't do some of the contents but i already printed and bindered it so, i'm not gonna redo it again. We didn't have instrument class today but, we got our "FINALE" copies on our USB's already yay. Mr Harry also told us to make the blog and how for the new students, although i still remember mine :p

Reflection February 10th 2012, Friday

Today, we reviewed the chords again. I think i have memorized most of them its still quite confusing to remember which chord is which though. I started my booklet today hopefully it is correct and i can finish it in time because we have so many projects and hw's to do right now. '~' We didn't have time to get the copy of finale though i think Mr Sadrakh forgot about that oh well i'll remind him/ask for the software next week. Instrument class was very short today because we had to copy down a melody that Mr Sadrakh made but that's okay i'll still practice at home though. :D

Reflection February 8th 2012, Wednesday

Today, we found out that we have to do our music assessment which is to make a booklet containing the biographies and works of Baroque composers. I think it will be a challenge and i will research more about them soon but i think Mr Sadrakh should at least tell us what exactly to put in our booklets because im kinda lost here. He also told us about a software to help us make our own song for the big assessment (the one for PE, Technology, English and Music.)it's called "FINALE" he showed us how to use it to. I think its very simple and useful for our assessment because we can now make the sog just by clicking and dragging notes on the screen and we can play the whole song there. On Friday, we have to bring our laptops so Mr Sadrakh can help install/give us a copy of the software. Instrument class was the same but it was fun :D

Reflection February 3rd 2012, Friday

Today, music theory class was kind of challenging to me because i didn't really memorize the chords to well. I can memorize them if you ask me from the 1st chord , 2nd etc. but not if you pick random ones. I'll work on that though. I forgot to bring my violin again today. I forgot because i'm not used to having music class anymore but i'll ge used to it soon. I also didnt do much research on the baroque composers only a little and i din't print it or anything. Instrument class was the same we haven't really done much (not that i mind)hehe :p i hope i have time to study at home next week and also memorize all the chords and intervals and also remember to bring my violin and other music stuff. (not that i didn't bring my journal, music book, writing tools and folder today, because i did.):D

REflection February 1st 2012, Wednesday

Today, we learnt about notations again and (still about scales too though) and we learnt about chords which is actually to play two or more notes at the same time to create the melody. We have to remember the 1st chord until the 7th chord. I hope i can remember them by next week. It isnt so hard for me though, we also got a music homework about Baroque style composers (min. 3) and we found out that we will have to make another booklet like last time but about Baroque style composers. I hope it won't be too challenging. In instrument class it was about the same and it isn't really challenging either but we still have to practice though. '~'