april 28 2011 thursday

after attendance, mr sadrakh taught us more about john williams. we listened to some of his compositions from the movie theme songs such as starwars, superman, e.t, harry potter, indiana jones, jurassic park, and more. mr. also covered the screen so we can guess which movie did the song come from.
in instrument class, ms. melvina asked us to practice the melody. we also played our songs with our other classmates.

April 25, 2011, Monday

today mr. sadrakh is absent so he was replaced by mr. heri and mr. harry. we were given a worksheet on john williams, he is a famous movie theme song composer. he composed the theme song of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and so much more. He got a large amount of awards. He inspired our class to make a good composition. today in instrument class, ms. Melvina commented about my composition. she said it's good, but my part b of my composition is a bit confusing and hard to play.

April 18, 2011 Monday

today is the due date of the finale. mr. sadrakh checked our homework. a lot of my friends didn't do it yet, so I, as the class captain I have to jot down the people's names, their reasons, and their solutions. I am done with mine, but I found some errors in my work and asked Mr. Sadrakh if I could fix those errors and give it to him the next day. He said it is okay. In instrument class, we had fun by playing our own compositions, and gave comments about other's composition. Vivienne and I noticed that one of our friend's composition is copied from a song called TongHua. But we're not sure if we wanted to tell her about it just yet..

April 14, 2011, Thursday

Today Mr. Sadrakh checked the attendance, and checked our homework as well. Most of the students from grade 7b didnt do their 32-bar composition, but I did. After the homework check, Mr. Sadrakh demostrated using the FINALE software, so we all know how to put our work into finale. Since I got the job of giving the software to some of my friends, Mr. told me that they should ask for the software from me. In instrument class, Ms. Melvina helped us all with writing the left-hand, since we all only did the right hand.

April 7 2011 Thursday

Music Theory Class Mr. Sadrakh checked our composition today. I did 16 bars, but it was only a draft, and I want to edit it and make it better next time. Then Mr. Sadrakh started checking the compositions from random people. Thankfully, he didn't check mine because it was already time for instrument class. I have to finalize my composition and edit it to make it nicer. Piano Class Today in instrument class, I played my composition in front of Ms. Melvina. She helped me fix my composition, and she said I should add on it. I need to correct my composition..

April 11 2011 Monday

Today after the attendance, (no one was absent..) Mr. Sadrakh told us all our scores. My scores are good but not good enough... 8, 8, 7 and 7 all over 8. Then he explained more about the finale software that we are supposed to use for our melody composition. Mr. Sadrakh said that we don't have to put lyrics if do not want to. I was relieved because I do not want to make lyrics. In instrument class, we played our songs in the piano. I edited my own composition a bit to make it better. For homework, I should make my composition better, and add it so it would be 32 bars in total. And I also should start downloading the Finale software.

April 4 2011 Monday

First day of term 4, and i'm in a foul mood. My music class has been a bit boring today without my best friend in class..... so after the attendance check, Mr. Sadrakh introduced us with the new flute teacher Mr. Ed, he will be replacing Mr. Harry for the mean time while he is in Netherlands. He explained to us the assessment, and we were given homework on making a 16-bar melody. I don't really like making melodies of my own, and i usually just put random notes everywhere. My friends still don't understand the counts of different notes, and some of them doesn't even know what a bar is-shocker- anyway I just sat around while Mr. Sadrakh explained to them stuff. Then, in instrument class, I played a song, and kind of changed some notes in my melody. My friends told me it sounded a bit like Minuet, but to me it doesn't. My melody was meant to sound sad and minor.