16th April 2010

Today we had our music test. Since we had more time to prepare, I was more confident before we started the paper. However, my confidence got a dent on it when I heard Mr Herry announce that we only had 40 minutes for 40 questions. I thought to myself that I couldn't do a question per minute (I'm still slow on notation). When I opened the sheets, I was greeted by a plethora of history questions. Thankfully, most of them were quite easy. One of them, however, struck me hard. We had to write a short biography of our favorite musician from our genre, and my memory sadly failed me. I didn't remember much detail of Duke Ellington (birth date, death date, etc.). Instead, I wrote what I could, including some awards he got. After finishing the history section, I moved on to the notation section. Luckily, I somehow finished the whole paper, before time was up, too. There were dominant 7th chords, major 7th chords, minor 7th chords, 9th and 11th chords. Turns out there was a pattern I could manipulate, so I finished early. I felt very relieved when I finished the paper.