9th February 2010

Today is the due date of our music individual booklets (containing most of the information in our group slide presentations, including one favorite musician from that era). Since my group did Swing Jazz, I picked Duke Ellington as my favorite musician. Thus, my report is about the Swing Jazz era and Duke Ellington. Since I had the Catholic-Buddhist Retreat in the weekend, I didn't have much time to do the work, so it's mainly last minute work. I was quite stressed when I tried to do the 15 page report in one night, but luckily I finished it. Since my printer was broken yet again, I had to submit the report in the second music session, right after the recess in which I printed and bound the report. Since I forgot to put in page numbers, I quickly scribbled them to at least have page numbers. One of the pictures was printed wrongly, but it's not really a major mistake. Mr Herry also checked our music blogs in front of the class, and those who didn't finish updating their blogs felt ashamed. After the split session, Mr Herry told us that we need to perform "All of Me" on our instruments several weeks after today. He then picked several representatives from each instrument group, along with the instrument teachers, to do a short performance of the song itself, so we can get an idea of how the song sounds like. Then, in the instrument class, we all practiced the song. In the guitar class, we learned the chords first. Since I already performed this song alongside the Swing Jazz group members, I didn't have much trouble with the chords. Mr Herry reminded us to upload all our blog entries as soon as possible to avoid loss of marks.