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.

15 and 16 January 2013

The start of a new Semester and a new year, 2013. I think the start of a new year means we need to have a new motivation for example I want to play music beter than last year.

On 15th We discuss what assessment we are going to have this semester. The first one was to sing the Russian Song. The class choose either Katyusha the old Russian song it's about a girl singing about the Nature. Dark Eyes is about the beauty of a girl eyes. The theme of the song is kind of weird afterall Russians are weird. But they made good melody, it was hard for us to sing so Mr John decided that we sing only one phrase the first.


The video is about me trying to play a new song. As you can see it was a mess, I'm going to practice more so that I could play it well before February.

LOL for previous week

Me playing my violin as usual -____-

I don't what to say but I need improvement a lot

27-29 November

This week we are going to have our notation test, it was supposed to be done last week but we bargain and we are allow to do it now. I am happy though. But I don't remember all the point I need to finish the test. Mr John gave us some clue to do it so I hope I can get a good score.

Today we practiced our instrument test. We practiced hard because next week parents are going to visit us while we play our instrument.

Thursday, we revised what we have done on the test. What mistake we have made during the test. I don't remember how many mistakes I did. Luckily I made only 3/4/5 I forgot -_-

20,21,22 November

This week we were having fun, although we are going to have an analysis written test on Wednesday, the topic is Broadway Music, I think I was ready. But after then I saw the "pre-test" and everybody was confuse with that because it's hard. Well, after you read the text few times it wasn't that hard. But it's really confusing.

Good news that Mr. John postponed it into Thursday so I have more time to study but, I'm just confused on what to study. We learn dynamics,  legato, slurs, Pizzicato, fortissimo, Staccato. I was confuse but I get it. "Finally" LOL

In instrument class, we play pur song as usual. I am now the two grenadiers, I'm getting better at this except for power. Anyway next week I'm going to play again and move to next number (I hope).

Videos week 4

This is the video of me playing the song, the two grenadiers and scale. I hope I'm getting better at this