Term 4 Week 1-2

Week 1
What is the role of music in your life?
Music is a very important part of my life I guess. It serves as a good source of entertainment and relaxation for me. I'm usually quite bored at home, but having music allows me to get past boredom quite easily. It's also a motivator and a stress reliever for me, as some songs have motivating lyrics. Listening to songs while working also motivates me for some strange reason. I can also express myself with music, by singing songs with emotional meanings. Although that does sound sort of sad, it actually helps a lot to relieve my stress with music. So, music is quite important for me.

Instrument class
I tried to learn a new song for once in instrument class called Hotel California. It was a difficult song as I'm not really good at plucking strings. However, learning this song might prove useful for my assessments, as it helps my fingering at the same time. At this point though, my playing is still unclear, and my articulation is still pretty off.

Week 2
What are the uses of music in society?
Music has a lot of roles to play in society. Everyone would agree that music is a source of entertainment, as it is omnipresent in everyday life. In fact, society would be very different without music. No national anthems, no jingles, no catchy songs, it'd all be rather dull. Music is also used as a source of revenue. Out in the world people use music to make money by selling their work and playing concerts. Its a good although difficult job to take though. Other roles of music include helping people express themselves, enhancing the brainpower of people and being used in therapy.

Instrument class
Instrument class this week was mostly used to prepare us for the notation test. Although I didn't do so well in the end, Mr. John helped us a lot. He showed us how to distinguish what chords were being played by analyzing the notes. The examples given were quite easy, as he only drilled us with 7th chords. Of course, that left us sort of unprepared for the 9th, 11th and 13th chords, but its okay. Mr. John tried his best to prepare us and that's what matters.