March 14th

I got on Auralia on Wednesday. I did various rythym exercises. There were 3 different ones I tried. I did one where they would play a few meters and then ask you what the time signature was. I tried level 1. They gave me a choice between 2:4 and 3:4 for the first question. I got it wrong . I listened to it over and over, trying to figure out why it was 3:4 and not 2:4. I think I finally figured it out. I wrote down all of the beats, then tried to figure out what note values to give them. Then I moved on to a different set of rythym exercises. On these exercises I was asked to listen to a rythym with a metronome behind it. Then I was supposed to tap the rythym back on a space bar, with the metronome still beating on the backround. Afterwards I went on to another set of exercises where they had you listen to a rythym and then dictate the rythym on a staff that was provided. There were various notes, with there values at the bottom of the page to add to the staff. There were 4 measures. I got one note wrong on the second measure. I was pretty proud of myself. Of course, I had written the whole thing down on my staff paper first and listened to it about 7 times before I added the notes to the staff lines

Mar 5th.

Yesterday I practiced solfege for about 10 minutes. I found a random page in Krueger and tried to site read it. I did pretty well. I neglected to give my self a starting pitch at first, so that threw me off a little. I feel like I'm really getting solfege down, just from practicing it a little bit this week. Later in the night I went to the piano lab and got on Auralia. I was on it for an hour and 10 minutes. I was doing interval comparisons. They play an interval and ask you which one is smaller, or larger. You have to read the directions because they switch it up. In the end I got 47/ 57 right, which is good. I wrote down the notes and intervals of all of the pitches I got wrong. And I wrote down everytime I spaced off slightly. By the end I wasn't spacing off much at all, because I didn't want to deal with writing it down. I'd be like, no Rosie, stop spacing off. Anyways. I got some really good practie in!

Mar. !st

Last Friday I worked on some A.P. material. I worked on the intervals and scale differentiation. I also worked on some timing., Mostly I worked on solfege. I picked a random page in the book and tried to figure out the solfege in my head. I also tried to work on some solfege in my head during Williams class on Friday. I started spacing off about the Bach chorale writing, so I decided that working on something else would be more productive than spacing off. Yep, I feel like I 'm getting significantly better at solfege