2012.3.16 - friday

            Today when I came in to class I was told to directly bring in my cello so we could start playing immediately. We practiced well and I played but I think i need to practice the tune of my cello because I keep switching between my two cellos and one of them is slightly smaller and I'm more used to that one. However after a while i gotten a bit more used to it. Then, I think I got the minuet down, but i'm having problems with salut d'amour. Not with the playing but it's just that the stand books are too narrow for 6 pages spread at once, so i have to switch it myself for now. My 4th string also broke today during the practice so i was unable to play salut d'amour much since it requires the 4th string a lot. But i could play the minuet cause it didn't need it.

2012.3.12 - monday

            Today we started with the usual attendance checking. Then, we went straight into practicing the songs we got a few meetings earlier. Mr Sadrakh said that he was unable to print or save the file he created for me which was the Minuet for the cello by boccherini or something if i'm not mistaken. So in the end I just asked for the piano part from mr John and played the left hand part. But I made improvisations to it so that it would be more suitable to be played by a cello. It turns out that there's another part for the song however there is no parts for piano or cello yet. There is only a guitar and violin part available for that part so far, which is unfair. Or maybe they'll just have them play in the end as a solo and the rest of us we just accompany the first theme of the song.

2012.3.9 - friday

         I was really sick on monday so I missed school and one session. Today, I came to class almost late because there was this wedding tent extending out until the road in the usual route I took to school. It was especially annoying. It made the whole road very stuck even though I leave the usual time. I almost did not catch a lift because they were already shut down. However I made it just in time. It turns out that they were already learning another song. The teachers did not have a suitable cello part, there were only scores for violin, flute, and piano. So in the end I couldn't join in to play the new song yet and just practiced the old one. Mr Sadrakh was making the cello part for the song using the Finale program so I can play it next time.

2012.3.2 - friday

           Today we all came into class and brought out our instruments to practice the song we gotten last time. It is an Edward Elgar song called Salut D'Amour. The sheet music given to us was a piano score. I had to make my own adjustments to the sheet music myself for me because I need to read using the bass clef. Apparently they did not have one ready for the cello so, with the help of my private tutor I made the adjustments accordingly. It's a fuss to have so many pages though, the flipping is hard. I played quite well today, but I haven't been able to play until the fourth page in coordination yet.

2012.2.24 - friday

           Heidy, Bryan, and I did our Romantic Music slide presentation today. We finally did it and thankfully it was a success. I hope we get a good enough score for it. In the end of our presentation we had to submit our booklets. In the booklet, i did 10 pages as instructed. I talked about Romantic Music and the powerpoint presentation did help me start off since by then I already know things about it roughly. In the booklet I just need to go a bit more in depth about it. We also filled in reflection booklets about our assessments. In the end, Mr Herry said that we need to update our blogs because it is inconsistent and it will be checked.

2012.2.20 - monday

           Today is the day that we are supposed to be doing our presentation. My group and I are ready as ever and we have already worked on it together in my place. We were done with the presentation really really early actually. Right after Ronaldo, Verena, Yohanes, and Hashfi are done with their presentation, it was supposed to be our turn. However, we experienced a major technical difficulty which was that the powerpoint presentation program at school is the old version, while the one in my mac desktop is the newest one. We tried converting it with a Ronaldo's laptop but his powerpoint was an older version than mine. So in the end we had to do it on friday, together with the submissions of our romantic music booklets.

2012.2.17 - friday

          Today, we were given back our results for the quiz we did before. I am satisfied with my results, however, i was really annoyed by one careless mistake I did in the definitions. I knew by heart that accelerando was gradually getting faster, however, I made a careless mistake and wrote that as gradually getting louder and I'm really annoyed by that one mistake. everything else was good. After giving back the paper, mr John gave us photocopies of a song that we are needed to perform for the class chamber orchestra. However I think the numbers are odd since there is only one violin, one cello (me), one flute, two pianos, and the rest are guitar players. I really wonder how it will sound in the end. It's odd.