12,13,14 February 2013

This week was fun but it requires a lot of hardwork. We have 3 assessment due, this week the presentation, next week is our booklet and the next next week would be our arranging the Russian music. On Tuesday we continued to make our presentation. It wasn't easy but there were three composers so we decided to divided the three of them, Darren got Tchaikovsky, I got Kabalevsky and Matthew got Prokofiev. Wednesday, we got ourselves the sheet music of Katyusha for violin 1 and 2. I got violin two but it was harder, JR as a violinist senior switched it and he played it (I was grateful). Wednesday we spend our time playing the modified Katyusha. Finally Thursday, we present... Darren didn't come but we still had to present, I have no problem with that and when Darren comes we will present again. Anyway things were getting better but then it's time.. We didn't get time to do it.





Instrument:

I played the Katyusha for a while and then because there was only few minutes left in the instrument class I helped binar played pacman

5,6,7 Febuary 2013

This wasn't a fun week for us because there was no music class on the 5th and the 6th because of the ISA test. Before we get to the music class, I want to say that ISA wasn't hard and for the writing test, it was bad because there was only 30 minutes to do the work.

Mr. John was absent during Thursday so we had the theory class with mr Herry. We discussed what out upcoming assessments wwere. It was arranging a Russian Music, Katyusha.
We were divided into two groups only because there was only 2 pianos in our class, matthew and pinka. I got into Matthew's group with JR, Matthew S and Darren that day we were measuring what's the lowest note and the highest note we can put in the arrangement.

29, 30, 31 January

This was a fun week for me since we started to make the presentation of our Russian Composers. We had a little argument dring the making of the presentation. We then decide to say some phrase in Russian. It's hard for us, for example my name is Rico, in russia it's Рико.... they read it as Erico. We had a debate with other groups about which composers we are going to take.

But overall this week is about our collaboration with other groups. Our presentation format mostly be Title, 3 great composers, their famous work, how their music change people. How it affect or the relation of their music to the Russian revolution.

This week is AWESOME!

This is Katyusha. This was the first time I play the song Katyusha, I think it's not that hard for me to play it because I have played many different and harder song. I'm not fluent playing it yet but I think if I keep playing I will get better in no time.

The second one is me playing the scale, it was until fourth finger. It sucks because I just tried it so I will practice my katyusha and scale more..

22 and 23 January 2013

This week we sang the song Dark Eyes.
We were warming up for around 5 minutes then we start our singing assessment. We were supposed to sing the whole song but Mr. John said we didn't need to so We sang only the first verse. 

This is the lyric of the song:
Ochi chyornye, ochi zhguchie, 
Ochi strastnye i prekrasnye, 
Kak lyublyu ya vas, kak boyus' ya vas, 
Znat' uvidel vas ya ne v dobryy chas. 

The lyrics is actually simple but the hardest part is how to pronounce it. I didn't think I did well on my singing assessment but turns out that I got a 9/10. Mr John mentioned to me that the only mistake I did was my rhythm. I wasn't fast enough or sometimes I sang it too slow. He told me next time to practice more. 

At Instrument we played our song. I am now officially playing sone number 10 of suzuki book 2. I was at no 7 then no 8 and 9 wasn't that interesting because I think that it's easier than number 7 so I decided to skip it.