Gentlemen,
As we come to the end of our unit on Jazz, I would like you to answer a few short reflection questions...
1. Which part of the course did you enjoy the most?
2. Which part did you enjoy the least?
3. Did you find using the blog helpful? If yes, how/if no, why not?
4. Out of the performance, composition and listening/aural strand of the course, which do you think you need the most help with?
5. Did you use the blog in preparation for the half yearly examination? If so, how?
6. Can you think of some other uses of the blog, or any other technology which may be useful in our class?
7. If we had to study the Jazz course again, what do you think we could have changed?
Thank you and I look forward to your responses!
Mr. M
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1. I definately enjoyed the piece 'salt peanuts' the most - no question about it.
ReplyDelete2. all the learning of the jazz techniques for the exam got a bit tideous in the end but they were important to i guess had to be done.
3. I found the blog very helpful. Its a much easier way of communicating with you than the barker network provider. Also, if i missed a lesson it was SOOO easy to find out what i missed and then catch up. So, yes the blog was a great help.
4. I think I need the most help with the composition part. I hadn't done much of it at all until this year. I think I need to become more creative and understand the typical chord progressions better - but i guess that will come with time :)
5. Yes I did use it. All those study notes and practice and example questions gave me a good taste of what I could expect in the actual exam.
6. A sound system that doesn't play up like in last lesson haha. Otherwise, no i cant sorry.
7. We could have been more constructive in the prac lessons but hey - we are yr 9 after all :). Again, otherwise i think the course was very well setout and i don't think it should be chaned. I thoroughly enjoyed the jazz, but i dont know about the classical and baroque to come haha..
1. I enjoyed the latin jazz piece we did in the prac lesson because it sounded so cool and different.
ReplyDelete2.The part I enjoyed the least was the jazz melody dictating, like hearing something and writing it down is really hard!
3. Yeh i found the blog helpful esspecially for when you have to listen to a song and list the charactoristics, it is easy because you can just download it stright off the blog.
4. I need the most help with the listening/aural strand of the course
5. Yes, I tried the train ear thing you put on the blog but it did nothing, it was sooooo confusing! But i did go through by exercise book to rivise and do some of the questions you put on the blog.
6. Maybey a recording system that lets people record with their own instruments for example something that can record a guitar or violin playing for people who aren't that good at keybourds.
7. Nothing except I think we needed to learn how to do aural dictation stuff better but more prac stuff as well.
Thanks for these comments so far boys! It is very interesting to read your thoughts on the course
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1. prac or the latin drum garage band thingo
ReplyDelete2. aural and textbook work
3. its kinda useful but i usually forget to go on it, even if you remind us.
4. the aural deffinitely
5. i went on the train ear thing like luke, which isnt really the blog but i used the link.
6. i dont know, maybe people like post songs they like ? like modern songs?
and we could get like an electirc drum kit for the room! maybe..
7. more emphasis on prac and actually having the opportunity to play each style instead of just a few of them. and also with prac maybe getting us students to occassionally choose jazz songs that we really like. but otherwise its good but i reckon it needs more student input.
1. i like latin jazz because of the comp i found that pretty fun.
ReplyDelete2.THEORY
3. Helpful but easy to forget.
4. listening/aural NO contest
5. Yes heaps because i was behind some of it really helped me you know.. not massively fail the test...
6.Yeah jacks idea is good with the recording...
7. Less theory.. i think maybe or make the theory less theorylike.
1. I enjoyed playing the latin jazz and fusion jazz in prac. Composition was really fun as well.
ReplyDelete2. Music notation, but I practiced it and it helped me heaps in the exam.
3. Yes, it was really useful because I could check what i missed when I was away and it helped preparing for exam. It was also easy to communicate with you outside of school for help.
4. listening/aural
5. Yes, i looked at the exercises I could do with score reading and listened do the different types of Jazz.
6. Not really sure. It was all pretty good.
7. More time to play some of the styles of Jazz.
1. I definately liked the composition lessons.
ReplyDelete2. Listening to free jazz was terrible.
3. The blog was very helpful, especially when it came closer to exams and we could use it for revision.
4. Aural, especially dictation
5. Yes, I looked over the older entries.
6. The blog was all good.
7. I think we covered everything well.
1. I think that I enjoyed the jazz compositions that we did.
ReplyDelete2. Textbook work. Yeah, thats about all i'm going to say about that.
3.I found the blog good mostly, but when the internet is playing up, or you have used up your monthly bandwidth, you can't access it which is annoying.
4.I think that I needed the most help with sibelius, as it was difficult to understand how to put in drum beats into the piece.
5. yes, i looked at the previous entries on the blog to help revise for the test.
6.The blog worked well, so theres nothing I could really suggest to improve on...
7.I dont think that we would need to change a thing as it was all pretty good.
1. I enjoyed th prac lessons most
ReplyDelete2. I least enjoyed the composition because I am not very good at it, but I would enjoy leaning how to compose better
3. The blog was quite helpful, but I had trouble posting
4. Composition definately
5. Yes, I looked at the notes, but didn't use the aural website
6. Fix the problems with posts
7. I am happy with the Jazz course; I found it interesting as well as fun. I don't think you could change much to make it better.
CT
I noticed my other comment didnt seem to work so here it is...... again
ReplyDelete1. Obviously prac, there would be no point to music if there wasnt any prac
2. homework, for some reason music homework seems to be very hard to remember
3. It was pretty good cause its an easy was to get stuff to do but its really hard to use sometimes
4. Ocomposition, its hard to grasp
5. yes, i looked at the page numbers you had written up :)
6. If we all got given iphones, or maybe if we had work from class actually photocopied and pout on the blog since people miss lessons and they could catch up easliy
7. More cool jazz and fusion, they were the best parts and they were really quick
Jeremy
Great comments guys. I will take everything you mentioned into consideration.
ReplyDeleteHave a great holiday, keep up the practise and I will see back next term
Mr. M