Won't you take me to Funky Town??

Hello bloggers!

I am going to going to tell you about the playing test for music class, that was a while ago: before the christmas break. So, during the first and part of the second term, we had to play the song Funky Town by Lipps Inc. I was in a group with Andrew, Nold, Jelle, Joran and Coen. We all, except for Nold, play an instrument so we thought it would be easy. Well, that was not the case. We tried very hard but there is just a lot going on in that song. All sorts of small melodies, loose from the others. This meant that we had to practise a lot and very hard, so that is what we did. For at least four lessons we worked on this song and eventually is went quiet well. Nold had some difficulties with the rythm sometimes, but we helped him out and he did great. We got three shots
and we were being assessed on the best performance. But on base of what were we assessed?

The week before the playing test our class had to write a rubric for ourselves. That was actually a very fun thing to do, because you could choose yourself on what you wanted to be graded. It was also very interesting to show others what you think is important during such a playing test. It was difficult as well because you had to keep into account that not everyone can play an instrument or is at a similar level. Eventually everybody agreed that the input of a group was the most important thing. If you try it is always good because there can always happen something which makes the performance bad, for example when somebody is sick or the piano is not in tone etc.

Our group got the highest grade, so we were very happy with it and I think we earned it because we tried our best. Sometimes somebody got stuck or something like that and we would all try to help, so our group work was also very good.

Well, that's kind of it about the playing test. I really enjoyed it but cannot hear that song ever again. There is a little tune that keeps repeting and that really freaks me out right now, I heard it to many times, haha!

xoxo,

Stellaaaaaaaaaaa