Viola |
In orchestra we basically learn how to play some notes. After we have those notes perfectly good, without any problems, we are given parts of songs to try to play, then we play all together to see how much we have practiced. All we usually do in a daily bases is do warm-ups, then we practice slurs or whatever she wants us to practice. After we have done that we usually play songs for classwork. We rarely get homework and if we do, it is probably on notes and what they look like, the work that we mostly do is filling a staff with notes, the tricky part is that we have to be able to play it.
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My Instrument
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I am learning how to play the viola and I am not doing so well. Right now we were learning the d major scale that is really easy for me except for the point we are to play songs because I am not a fast player. We are suppose to be able to play song with any of this letters (written above). We are also suppose to be able to distinguish all the letters in a song and be able to play each note separately pretty good.
I am a not so good player, but I think I have learned and grown to be a better player. One reason is because the teacher goes really fast, and we are suppose to be in beginning orchestra, but that is not what it seems. Also the teacher seems to less patience with kids like other teachers do but it is because there are kinds that just fool around. We also have to share violas and tha is not good because than we have less time than most people to practice since most people have full time. That is mostly why I am not so good, basically because we have to swich back and forth and sometimes I do not do anything.
I am a not so good player, but I think I have learned and grown to be a better player. One reason is because the teacher goes really fast, and we are suppose to be in beginning orchestra, but that is not what it seems. Also the teacher seems to less patience with kids like other teachers do but it is because there are kinds that just fool around. We also have to share violas and tha is not good because than we have less time than most people to practice since most people have full time. That is mostly why I am not so good, basically because we have to swich back and forth and sometimes I do not do anything.
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Our Music Pieces This quarter we have been focusing a lot in many of our songs. They are very hard and easy to play. The most important thing is that we are getting better at playing together in symphony. I learned how to play all these songs this quarter. Many of them had very cool rhythms. We learned different statistics and techniques for each song. We learned how to play these songs wIth the maJor they were of.
This reminds me of P.E because in P.E we learn how to do different things according to our ability. Here, we are beginners. So we are doing great things from the level we are at. Also because in P.E we learn different techniques for each of the activities. It is like this in orchestra because we learn different techniques for parts of the song. Hopefully we will play these songs in our Spring Concert that is coming up. |