Ocean Under The Moonlight Guitar Parts

Right now I'm playing my part of my composition for the assessment tomorrow. This video is also posted due to the 8th week video reflection task. I think i played this rhythm part perfectly, but there are still a lot of spaces for me to improvise. I hope i improve next time

Street Spirit- Radiohead Cover

In this video i played Street Spirit composed by Radiohead, This video posted due to the 8th weeks video reflection task. This song makes me practice the alternate picking style, because the tempo is considered as fast. At first , i think this song is really hard to play and seems complicated by listening to it's guitar picking. But when i learnt it, it's really easy to play when you already knows the pattern. I hope i can improve better next time

Composition Practice for the Ones That I Accompanied

In this video, i played rythm or accompaniments part for Jasmine and Ananda composition, this video is also intended to finished the week 7th video project. I think i already memorized all the chords from both composition and be ready for the assessment tomorrow. But i need to keep up with the tempo and cope up with my groupmates tomorrow

Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd Cover

This is me playing the intro part of Pink floyd song called Wish You Were Here, and i posted this video for the 7th week video reflection task. Sometimes i also want to post other things besides my composition practice, because there's a lot of other things that i did with my guitar in this past 2 weeks. I think i played this intro really well,  but i made some miss notes when it comes to the solo. However in overall i think did pretty well in this song,  i hope i can improve more next time

Relax Melody Composition 2

This is my second attempts to play my own melody composition, i posted this video also to complete the week 6 blog reflection task. Eventhough that i'm still struggling to play my own composition, but at least i made some improvements regarding melody. I hope i can be better next time and play this melody perfectly

Relax Melody Composition 1

This is my first attempt to play flute part melody on guitar, i posted this video in order to fill week 6 video upload task. I think i'm still struggling to read my own melody music score, i also didn't feel any relaxing melody because i'm still to struggling to play and read it. I hope i can improve better and play this melody perfectly

Relax Composition Chords With 12th Guitar Strings 2

This is me still playing guitar chords composition with 12th strings guitar, i posted this video also in order to complete the 5th week blog reflection task. In this i tried to pluck the guitar strings rather than strumming it, i think i gained more relax feeling in this way of plucking, it sounds brighter and clear. I hope i can gained more relax in my composition next time

Relax Composition Chords With 12th Guitar Strings

This is me playing my relax guitar part composition in 12th strings guitar, i posted this video in order to fulfill the 5th week blog reflection task. In this video i strum my guitar strings, because i'm really curious which one more relaxing between strumming and plucking. Also i used 12th strings guitar in order to gained the relax feeling with brighter sound. I hope i can improve better next time

Relax Melody Composition 2

In this video i'm still practicing my raw melody for the relax melody composition that i arranged to fill the 4th week video reflection task. I think i'm still not playing my melody really well, there's a lot of things that i need to achieve in order to finalize this melody into such a tremendous one. At least i improve my melody than before, i hope i can create my melody even better and submit my task on time.

Relax Melody Composition 1

This is me playing the raw melody for my relax music composition, I uploaded this video in order to fill the 4th week video upload reflection task. I think that i did not played my composition really well in this video, because there are still some of the missing note that did not cope up with the chord progression that i applied. I hope i can compose the melody better in order to create such a beautiful relaxing music.

Relax Chord Progression Practice 2

This is me playing the same relax chord progression as before,also in this video i strum my guitar strings to gain much more of comfort and relax feeling. I uploaded this video in order to fill the 3rd week in video upload reflection task. I hope i can play this chord progression brighter and better because i need to create the melody part of this composition.

Relax Music Chord Progression

This is me playing the chord progression for my music composition task. I chose the chord progression that Mr.Herry gave, because it really makes me enjoy and comfort. So i decided to learn and applied this progression which started from cmaj9. I've had a lot of difficulties to play this progression,because all of these chords is something new for me. In the end i hope i can improve my way of playing guitar and applied this chord better next time

11th chords practice

This is me playing C11,D11,and E11 chords, i intended to post this video due to the week 2 video reflection task. In this video i played c11,d11,and e11 chords it sounds so massive and bright, i didn't played it so weel because this is something new for me. I hope i can learn about this kind of chords deeper  and improve the way to play it

7th chords in a song

This me playing a intro part of Officialy Missing You by Tamia song, i posted this video in order to complete blog reflection week 2 task. In this video i realized the song that i've just learned contain a lot of 7th chords such as B7,Em7,Dm7,G7,CM7,Bm7 and Am7. i've just realized that 7th chords sounds so relaxing and enjoy full , and i hope i can create a cool 7th chords progression next time.

A7,B7,C7,and D7 practice 2

This is me playing 7th dominant chords that i've just learnt, i posted this video in order to complete week 1 term 4 video blog reflection task. In this video i improve my way of strumming 7th dominant chords and i also started to memorize it. I hope i can applied this chord in various kind of music and improve my way of playing guitar

A7,B7,C7,D7 Chord Practice

In this video i tried to learn dominant 7th chords, i posted this video in order to complete week1 blog reflection video task. In this video i played A7,B7,C7,and D7 chords. Actually this kind of chords is familiar with me, but i never realize the name of the chords. I hope i can improve and learned deeper about the things that i played

Fly Me To The Moon Higher Octave Melody

This is me playing Fly Me To The Moon high octave melody and some chords for the intro part. I also uploaded this video to complete blog reflection week 8 task. I think i played this intro really well, but i still made some little mistakes in the chord progression, i realized the chords that i played is not accurate and precise as the original song sounds. I hope i can learn the other parts and play better next time.

Fly Me To The Moon Low Octave Melody

Hi this is me playing fly me to the moon low octave melody. I posted this video in order to complete blog reflection task week 8. I think i played this melody really well even though it's only the intro because i haven't memorize the next part of this song. I hoped i can improve to play better and perform well on the next week performance.

Cool Blues Riff 2

Hi, this is me playing blues feel riff made by myself. I posted this video in order to fulfill week 7 weekly video reflection task. I think i played and create this blue riff really well, i created this based on the chord E and put some funky accent when i strum my guitar. At last i played only little part of the one of the famous legendary blues song called crossroads. I hope i can improve my way of playing guitar to be better and be successful musician in the future.

Cool Blues Riff 1

This is me playing a song with a blues feel made by band called Oasis, i posted this video due to the week 7 blog reflection tasks. I think i played this solo really well because i really like to hear this intro blues solo, it's very catchy and blues feel oriented. I hoped i can learn other song with blues feel like this and improve better for next time

12 Bar Blues A Final Improvisation 2

Hi, this is also me playing my final composition for the 12 Bar Blues improvisation assessment this week, and also fulfilling week 6 video reflection task. I think i played this compostion better this time, because now my soul can fell my own composition trough my heart hahaha, I hoped i can get the highest score and become the best performer on this week assessment

12 Bar Blues A Final Improvisation 1

This is me playing my arrangement for the 12 Bar Blues Improvisation task. I posted this video in order to fulfill week 6 video reflection task and also to practice for the 12 Bar Blues Improvisation assesment this week. I think i create it simple and nice, even though i've had a lot of difficulities when writing this arrangement in music score. I hoped i can get the highest score on this week assesment at school.

C 12 Bar Blues Improvisation 1

This is me playing 12 Bar Blues improvisation based on chord C, I posted this video in order to fulfill week 5 video reflection . I think i did not played it really well, because i've just learned the C Blues Scale and cannot apply it and improvise it as well as i played A blues improvisation. I hope i can play and feel it better next time.

C 12 Bar Blues Improvisation 2

This is me playing 12 bar blues improvisation based on chord C, i upload this video due to the week 5 video reflection task. I think i played this improvisation better than last time, because i started to feel it with my heart hahaha. I hoped i can improve and played better next time more next time.

A 12 Bar Blues improvisation 2

This is me playing 12 bar blues improvisation based on A, i posted this video also to complete week 4 video reflection. I think i played this improvisation better this time, eventhough there are still some note that are out of tempo, i still can played the improvisation better than last time. I hoped i can improve and play better next time.

A 12 Bar Blues Improvisation 1

This is me playing A 12 Bar Blues improvisation, i posted this video in order to fulfill the week 4 video requirement. I think i don't really played a good improvisation in this video, because sometimes i could not control my emotion and played out of tempo. I hope i can improve more and played this improvisation better next time

I Got Rythm With Bats

This is me and Batara singing "I Got Rythm" by George Gershwin. I post this video in order to complete blog reflection week 3.  We divided our voice into 2 in this video which is melody and bass line.  I think me and Batara did not sing this part really well because we oftenly did not cope up with the music background. Hopefully we can improve our singing and cope up with the tempo

Singing I Got Rhytm 1

This is me singing i got rhytm in one voice in order to complete blog reflection week 3 which is singing. I only sing the 1st voice layer aand i think i did not sing this part really well because i oftenly did not keep on tune with the background music. I hope i can improve it and sing this part perfectly

A Blues Scale

On the second week, this is me learning A Blues Scale. Based on this scale  I can make melody composition based on the 12 bar blues a. I think i need to memorize all the pattern first, because in this video i only played 1 pattern. I hope i can play and create my own composition and also memorize all the other patterns based on this scale.

12 Bar Blues Chord Progression Based On A

Now this is me playing 12 Bar Blues Chord Progression based on A due to the blog video reflection week 2 . I think based on this chord  i can make another melody composition using different scale. I hope i can play it more fluently and create beautiful melody based on this chord progression

Blues Scale Based From C

This is me learning and practicing the blues scale based from C in order to complete blog reflection week 1. i need to train this because it needed for me to make a melody composition based from 12 bar blues c. I hope i can improve and memorize this scale and play it better next time.

12 Bar Blues Progression From C

This is me playing 12 bar blues based on c . I think this chord progression really help me to make an melody from c scale, i learned and posted this video in order to complete the weekly video which is video week 1 and train for the 12 bar blues composition assessment. I hope i can improve my skill to get the highest score for this task.

Jazz Essay

How Jazz Impacted The Society

 

 “Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.” Quoted from Louis Armstrong[1]. What is jazz? How does jazz play a role in our society and development? At the begining of the 20th century, jazz music was found by Afro-American people in New Orleans and other cities in the South East of America. Its unique style of music and beat really stole people interest and fastly spread around the world. At that time jazz was not only presented as entertainment, but instantly became a developing movement to other parts of the world.  At the 20s and 30s era, jazz became the most influental music around the world as it awaken people spirit due to the world war and great depression. This essay will explain slightly about how jazz impacted society.

            At first, jazz was only played by Afro-American people by combining African beat with elements from European classical music. It became a tremendous musical genre with synchopated rythms; which is unique and completely different from classical music. It appeared at the early 1910s in the South East of America like Kansas City, Chicago , and mainly in New Orleans. Jazz then rapidly gained popularity and evolve into one of the biggest musical genre in the world. Several of jazz musician like Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Count Basie inspired people by their records and entertain people. There were also a lot of styles and subgenres of jazz music; such as Swing, Bebop, Ragtime, and blues that werer really popular at that time. Then at 1930s, several jazz artists conducted tremendous contributions of development to their society by initiating to record their compositions rather than just playing them live on pubs or jazz clubs. Jazz records were the main assets to gain popularity, as the records awoke people’s spirit by the poetic and soulful lyrics; helping them to forget all the sadness and despair caused by the Great Depression era and the World War 2 which started to spread around the world..The Great Depression was the era of economic depression that took place at the early of 1930s followed the World War 2. The era was the biggest, longest and the most devastating of the 20th century. It caused by several things, but the main highlight was an unstable economic condition in America which started to spread around the world. Then the second World War also took place to make the condition more devastating, where many factories were shut and a lot of people lost jobs.

At that time in America was in bad condition caused by war, racism, and chaos which tortured the society. At the early 1930s, as the US government tried to abolished the racism, jazz became the voice of minority or the coloured people especially the black. Before the anti-racism policy was applied, black people are often treated unequally ; where they were separated from the white in schools, public transports, and even clubs or restaurants. During this era, jazz has proved that coloured people in America can too contribute to enrich the nation’s culture; and played a big role in building relations between black and white people as well as to cintribute to the American cultural history. In the next decades after the 40s until 80s, the popularity of jazz faded away because the rise of other musical genre like pop, rock, and hip hop. Those genres stole the spotlight and became the mainstream in the world. After the downfall, jazz also tried to survived by being established in various international festival such as the annuals in Montraeux, Blue Note, New Orleans, and Montreal Jazz festivals. Those international festivals had promoted new stars and rising talents such as Miles Davids, George Benson, and many more. Jazz festivals became medium that connected people around the world to communicate, relate, and express their passion and intention.

Jazz also started to be formally introduced into school curriculums to help build children personality, because jazz materials contain freedom in musical expressions which enable children to appreciate differences in life. Jazz education was founded in America in 1947, but not without controversies since the beginning before being formalized. Besides in formal schools and musical courses, several independent communities have also been developing various programs and activities to further introduce and uplift the genre again. In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran provides classes and jam sessions free of charge to anybody who wants to learn and develop their musical passion in jazz. The similar spirit can also be found in many other cities in Indonesia, which reflects the role of jazz as a new source of knowledge and lifestyle for many people. These ‘underground’ movements have gained high appreciation from respected clubs and cafes which regularly invite them to play or hold joint events. Furthermore, just quite recently Indra Lesmana (son of the late Jack Lesmana) released a full album in an Apple application format. The album includes songs which were mainly recorded and played with iPads, artworks, and even various interactive games. This ^phenomenon proves that jazz has escalated its role in our society as part of technology revolution; which can currently be accessed, played, distributed and enjoyed by unlimited number of people in the world at the same time.

Jazz is a considerably important element of our civilization, because the very genre has proved itself through the tests of time and societal changes as an influencial universe of music. Despite the impressions of being ‘complicated’ or even ‘scientific’ to play as well to enjoy; jazz serves strong foundations to our society in its roles as an intelligent product of culture, a medium to various different people in the world, a tool of education for young generation, as a modern element of lifestyle, and lastly as a part of the future development in technology.

Adrian Zandri Hendro

10F

 

Resources

 

1.      “An Introduction To Jazz’s Influence On Society: The 4th of a 4-part Series on the Essentials of Jazz” AllYourJazz, 27 July 2008, Mike, 26 January 2013,

< http://www.allyourjazz.com/2008/07/an-introduction-to-jazzs-influene-on-society-the-4th-of-a-4-part-series-on-the-essentials-of-jazz/>

 

2.      “Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement  How Jazz Musicians Spoke Out for Racial Equality” JazzAbout, Jacob Teichreouw, 26 January 2013,

< http://jazz.about.com/od/historyjazztimeline/a/JazzCivilRights.htm>

 

3.      “Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for Victory”, National Government Humanities,  29 September 2010,  26 January 2013,

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/jazz-and-world-war-ii-rally-resistance-catalyst-victory#sect-thelesson

 

4.      “Jazz Education” Jazz In America, Ryan, 26 January 2013,

 < http://www.jazzinamerica.org/JazzResources/JazzEducation/Page>

 

5.      “Great Depression”  Britannica,  7 Juny 2008, 27 January 2013,

< http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/243118/Great-Depression>

 

6.      “Top Ten Jazz Festival” Trip Advisor, Frank Lombardo,  27 January 2013,

<http://www.tripadvisor.com/GoListDetail-i212-Top_10_best_Jazz_festivals.html>

 

7.      “Jazz By Decade: 1930-1940” Jazz About, Jacob Teichreouw, 27 January 2013,

< http://jazz.about.com/od/historyjazztimeline/a/JazzByDecade193040.htm>

 

8.      “Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran” Warta Jazz, 17 November 2008, Beben, 27 January 2013, < http://www.wartajazz.com/komunitas/2009/11/17/laporan-pertemuan-ke-67-komunitas-jazz-kemayoran>

 

 

 

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[1] “Louis Armstrong quote” Jazzquotes, 31-12013,< http://jazz-quotes.com/artist/louis-armstrong/>

Violin Practice at School

Since last week, i've been learning and practicing violin at school due to the material of term 3. On monday morning Mr.Herry taught us about violin position and how to bow the strings correctly, he also guide us one by one until all of our bowing sounds nice and clear. Then in every session of music subject we spend some time to practice violin, Mr Sadrakh oftenly helped us to practice violin too. At first i played violin really worst, but after i practiced a lot i already made improvement, at least i can bow the strings correctly