Week #5 27 Aug - 31 Aug 2012

27th Aug 2012

Today the other groups present their presentation about the different musical genres. The groups that presented their work today was the group that did classical music. I learnt that there was not any piano during the baroque era and instead of it they use the harpsichord. It was only until the classical era did the piano was introduced. I also found out that baroque music was the first to introduce chamber music.

During instrument class, I kept on learning the deer hunter soundtrack.

28th Aug 2012

Today it was my group's turn to present our work. We did a presentation about rock and roll. I thought we did well as we give enough music samples and videos about the genre. Other groups also present their findings to the class. These groups were the jazz, and pop/rock groups. I learnt that jazz is actually a branch of blues.

There was not any instrument class today as all time was taken to do the presentations.

29th Aug 2012

Today we learnt about music notations. We learnt about upbeat, tied notes and the different time signatures. We also discussed our next quiz which would be on monday about 7th chords. There was not much today and soon we were dismissed to our instrument classes.

During instrument class i continued practicing deer hunter. We also learnt a new song called 'the poor people of paris' by Chet Atkins. I am going to keep on practicing both songs.