Reflwction May 30th 2012, Wednesday

Warning! This reflection might be the last one for some time :) gonna miss writing my blogs!

Today, we had our Music Development Booklet reflection time :P It wasn't that fun because we had to write and write and reflect and write A LOT. It was actually interesting but also painful. We had to write four paragraph reflections for each criteria. We also had to fill in all the blanks so that was tiring, at first it was easy because we had a lot of stuff on our mind to write down but as we got to the end and Criterion C and D i sort of ran out of things to say. I did pretty good though ;) We didn't have instrument class which i think is unfortunate because this is the last music session for a while. Well, I hope the next time we have the Music subject it'll go as well as this year. Or even better...

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Reflection May 25th 2012, Friday

Today, we got our music reflection journals back after Mr Sadrakh collected them to check if we were doing our reflections. My Baroque performing song assessment score is confirmed (7/10) which I am okay with, I'm not thrilled but I more than passed so thats good enough for me :) We had a choice to redo the assessment today or not but i decided not to because i would be nervous again and i already passed anyway ^^ (6/10 is the min. passing score.) We also got our solo singing scores back and i got 10/10!~ ~ ~ I dont know if i ever mentioned that before in my earlier posts but just in case. I'm very happy with my score and i think my whole motivation is Madilyn, because when it was her turn she wouldnt sing out loud because our classmates where pretty mean about these things. I decided to stand up for Maddy by singing without fear and it worked :) I think the lesson here is to believe you can and not to judge others. Our class however, have trouble doing so :(
P.S we didn't have instrument class today because of the people redo-ing their assessments all of them improved a lot and got better scores :D

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Reflection May 23rd 2012, Wednesday

Today, we had our "performing a song written during the Baroque era" assessment. I practiced playing my assigned song (Minuet 3 by Bach) a lot with and without my teacher and at home i can play it with minor mistakes but today in school, it was ll very scary and i couldn't really concentrate. I got too nervous that i played the song a little too fast and some parts which i could not play fast i messed up on. I did feel less nervous this time than usual Music-instrument-playing or singing type assessments so i did improve. :) We got our scores for the written assessment/quiz i got 8/8 and this blog reflection score, (also 8/8) the actual due date for the blogs isn;t today so Mr Sadrakh gave more time for us. Good thing i updated them already :p We didn't have instrument class today. I found out my Baroque song performance score at the end of the class and i got 7/10. Mr Sadrakh told me to redo my assessment on Friday though. I dont really get why because i passed already and got 70% already. I don't really want to redo agin because i dont like the feeling of performing infront of my unsupporting class but i'll think it over. :)

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Reflection May 18th 2012, Friday

Today, some people performed their assessment song again. I didn't though but I'm still practicing at home :). We reviewed the notations and some people had to go infront of the class and sing the notes in a random order. I was happy i didn't get picked because i really don't like to sing infront of the class because they can be a little..."unencouraging". We did the basic C Major scale (C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C) and sang the notes (DO-RE-MI-FA-SO-LA-TI-DO) It was actually quite fun. We had normal instrument class but Mr Sadrakh was absent and we were supposed to get a subtitute (Ms Marie) but all of the violin students agreed to not have a substitute and just rehearse our songs individually. We did a pretty good job too, considering the fact we had no supervisor. :p

Sincerely yours, Author*

Author's note: Mr Sadrakh was absent today so Mr Harry subtituted for our Music theory class :D
 P.S Thanks Mr Harry!

Reflection May 16th 2012, Wednesday

Today, some people did the practice assessment again and they were pretty good. Madilyn performed again and apparently now she has to play Canon as a duet with William, I think they'll do pretty well. We had a normal instrument class and we practiced more this time. I practiced my song too and i wasnt that good. I hate nerves :( I think if i keep practicing i'll beat them but we'll see. This is a short reflection because today wasnt that elaborate

Reflection May 11th 2012, Friday

Today, we reviewed musical notations (C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C) I'm not bad at finding which note is which but i do have to think first and count to see which note is which. It isnt that challenging for me but i can't find notes by ear like Mr Sadrakh :p The remaining students who didnt perform the practice assessment last meeting performed today. I did too and it was very nerve wrecking and scary because every one was watching. I knew i was gonna do bad because of my nerves :( I think Madilyn did the best job (she played Canon by Pachelbel) I will keep practicing until the day of the assessment and hopefully my nerves won't get the best of me then.

Sincerely yours, Author*

Reflection May 9th 2012, Wednesday

Today, we had a short assessment rehearsal. Most of us played today but the rest, including me, waited for Friday. I wasn't ready and was very nervous so I think Friday would be better. Instrument class went well, we practiced our songs individually. I'm goint to play Minuet 3 by Johann Sebastian Bach. I really like the song and have learnt it before. I'm not too bad at it but i get really nervous when i perform infront of the whole class and usually lose focus and don't play as well so i'm practicing a lot to prevent that :) I will keep practicing

Sincerely yours, Author*

Reflection May 4th 2012, Friday

Today, in theory class, we read a worksheet about Johann Sebastian Bach's life and works and then answered some questions about it on the back of the paper. It was not hard to do at all and it was suprisingly fun to do (: Now, we know more about his life, i learnt that he wasn't famous when he was alive and he married two times in his whole life. He also came from a family of great musicians and everyone in his town who was a good musician would be called a "Bach." I think his life is pretty interesting. In instrument class some of us practiced our assessment song infront of the class. I didn't get to and i didn't really want to. I don't like performing infront of people. Unless i need to, i am still practicing at home though and im almost doing it perfectly. (:

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Reflection May 2nd 2012, Wednesday

Today, we finally had our Baroque composers short essay assessment. (It was postponed from last week, Friday.) The test was basically a paper with questions about the Baroque period and it's different music styles. I reviewed last week and this week and right before the test so i pretty much remembered everything. I had a problem with concerto and the names of the composers and where they were from though ): I hope I'll still get a good score. We didnt have instrument class today due to our assessment but Mr Sadrakh did tell us that our next assessment would be to play a composition from the Baroque period and he chose for us to play Minuet 3 (as i said before) Therefore i will practice to play it. Good thing we still have a lot of time.

Sincerely, Author*

Reflection April 27th 2012, Friday

The whole grade 7 went to Waterbom today so we didnt have any classes including Music. Will study for the essay assessment on Baroque composers though ;)

Reflection April 25th 2012, Wednesday

(Note: Sorry this was published late)

Today, we reviewed our Baroque booklets to study and practice for our upcoming assessment on Baroque composers, music and the era. I practiced with the help of the internet because i didn't do that well in the Baroque booklet and only got 6. I asked some of the other students who had the assessment before us and they told me the basic things in the assessment and i focused on the points. I don't think it will be that hard but we'll see but yes, i did read up on it (:. In instrument class Mr Sadrakh announced to us that we would have to play Minuet 3 from Suzuki 1 for the Baroque era song playing assessment AFTER the written assessment. I don't think that will be a problem for me either because i have studied and played the song with my violin teacher and that was one of my favourite songs to play. I'm just worried that i'd end up doing bad because of the pressure and everyone looking. I'll practice for it though.

Sincerely yours, Author*