practice videos

   Week 1

                                                 This is my first practice video for term 4. I decided to choose the jazz song 'Smile' because I am familiar with it. In this video, I started to play only the melody for 8 bars. I will continue playing the next bars.

                                           

                                                  In my second video, I showed that I continue playing the next 8 bars so I actually play 16 bars for total, which is half of the song. I will try to finish it.

                                       

                                                                           Week 2 

                                     

                                                  In my second week, I have practiced to play the melody for the whole song. I could already play my right hand fluently. I need to practice my left hand starting next week.
                                                     

                                                  For the second practice, I even played it more fluent. I played only the melody for the whole song in this video. I might try to play it with more dynamics.


                                                                           Week 3

                                                  In my third week, I started to practice on my left hand. In this video I tried to play the first 8 bars. I could play it all but still not fluently. I need to practice more because I think that the finger position of few chords is a little bit difficult.

                                           
                                                  In this video, I started to play with both hands, both melody and chords at the same time. I just played the first 8 bars and I think I could play it well. I need to continue practicing it.

                                                                           Week 4

                                                  I continue doing my practice during the 4th week. In this video I practiced to play with both hands for 16 bars. I could not do it well, I think I made a lot of mistakes because I am not familiar to the chords (esp. the last one) I will try to practice the fingering and play it over again.

                                         
                                                  For the second practice in week 3, I played both hands for 16 bars. I still could not play it fluent but I played it better from the previous video after a few practice. I made a few mistake but not a fatal error, I think I made a progress but I still played it very slow. I will try to play it faster for the next practice video.
                 
                                                                            Week 5

                                                     In this video, my partner Shafiera and I started to compose the melody for our music jingle. The theme that we are trying to make is traditional. We practiced the melody for our first instrument, which is piano. Actually, the song is not finished yet, it is almost done though. But we think the melody is good enough so far.

                                                      For my second practice video this week, I practiced my melody for jingle alone without my partner. We decided to give different tasks in need to complete the assessment on time. I am responsible for the jingle music and this is me practicing the melody for the first instrument. I changed some of the notes and play it faster to test whether it sounds nicer this way or not. I just need to make it in finale. I need to make another 16 bars for the second and third instrument.

                                                                            Week 6

                                                           This is my first practice for this week. In this video, I played the chords of the song 'Don't Know Why'. My jazz ensemble group have decided to choose this song because we think that it is a nice and easy song to be played. I have made some mistakes in this video and I did not play it fluently. I need to practice more and try to not make mistakes.

                                                        This is my second practice at home this week. I have practiced to play the chords and I think I have an improvement here. I did a fewer mistakes that the previous video that I recorded. I will try to play the chords until the end of the song.