18/4/2011

Today started with the usual attendance as usual. Then Mr. John reminded us about the solo instrument playing assessment which is just a few weeks away somewhere in May. The he taught us about the chords which made a a little confused. Then he said that we need to base our own composition with specific chords which made me even more confused. Then he began to explain about the chords. He told us about the tonic, sub-dominant and dominant seventh chords. Tonic is basically the first note that is chosen. Then sub-dominant is the fourth note from the tonic. Then dominant seventh is the seventh note from the tonic so it was quite simple but what confuses me is that we have to base our melody on chords so in instrument class I asked Mr. Sadrakh about it and he just told us to ignore it and just focus on our melody at hand.