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Reflection:                            Sune Hamilton

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Reflection:                            Sune Hamilton

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This project was interesting and fun. It's always cool to learn how to work together and get through work... especially since we had some pieces that we've never played before. I also personally had to get better at constructive criticism, because Miguel is very good at constructively criticizing. Overall, it was productive and a learning experience.

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This project and its overall process was fun. Working with my friends made figuring out and playing the pieces was a good experience. I do believe that I achieved my goals. Now when we play in class together again. I believe that I will be a better violist and member of the orchestra. I also think that preforming was a good experience too. Playing in front of some people that I do not know will help me not be as nervous during performances.

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My goal for this project is to improve with playing together in a group and to work independently. Sometimes in class I have trouble with keeping the tempo and not slowing down. I feel that playing in a smaller group will help me with this. The problem that I would like to work on independently is rhythms. I feel that if I work on my own to count and play those rhythms that give me trouble then I will be better in class.

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Progress Report (3/27 - 3/28): Nia Jackson

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Progress Report (3/27 - 3/28): Nia Jackson

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Most of the pieces are okay and getting better. In Star Wars we really need to work on staying together during the last measure. Our classical piece is actually really good but we do need work on playing e flats and not e natural. I think that with Spartacus if we run trough it a couple more times then we can get it really good. Finally, with Mantras, we need to work on the slow part starting at about 52. We all need to count because the time signature changes from 2/4 to 3/4 and 4/4 a lot.

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Progress Report:                    Stella Bilic

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Progress Report:                    Stella Bilic

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At the beginning of the project, I was able to sight read the picked pieces decently well, disregarding intonation and dynamics. Through the next week, my group and I were able to play our pieces with some intonation and dynamics but we were still working on being able to stay together. The next two weeks, the main problem we had was counting at the same tempo. Using the metronome we were able to fix that decently and continued working on it to make it performance ready. The last couple weeks before the performance, we were able to do the dynamics and intonations well, just the counting needed to be worked on. The rehearsal the day before the performance went smoothly, as we were able to stay together and play our music to the best of our ability.

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Reflection Statement:           Stella Bilic

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Reflection Statement:           Stella Bilic

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Admittedly, the project was fun, and pushed us out of our comfort zone. This project was very enlightening. Though it was challenging, I learned many things about working as a group on a couple pieces of music. The performance went well for the most part, even though our nerves sometimes got the best of us. As a group, I am quite proud of how my other members were able to pull through this and how I made closer friends in my class.

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For the duration of this project, a goal of mine was to learn how to be patient with working with other people in a group. In my learning abilities, I work better alone, but I wanted to be able to see how other people learn as well. Another goal was to try to teach myself how to play a piece without the help of a teacher, so to basically guide myself. Lastly, I wanted to progress as a beginner musician and having the experience of playing in a small chamber group with varying skill levels.

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My goal for this project is to work with different people and see how different leadership skills can come together to create a nice performance. Another goal is to challenge myself with learning new music. By working in a group, we are in charge of our own sound and our own improvement. We learn our new songs ourselves then see it all come together. This project will also teach us new skills and allow us to really listen to other parts.. since we have to count together and create one sound together. We learn each others parts and help each other improve and fix mistakes. The other members can help me if I have an issue within a piece and vise versa. At the end of the project, we will all have improved in one way or another. Whether its improving in leadership skills, reading music, hearing others, counting, or overall playing your instrument better.

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Goal Statement:                 Dylan Holzmeister

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Goal Statement:                 Dylan Holzmeister

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My goal for this project is to be able to prove to my self that I can learn a new piece of music on my own without a conductor. This project will help me and my group preform better when cite reading since we had to learn the music as we went. Another goal that I hope to reach during this project is to just improve my skill on the violin
overall. This project will also teach me new skills through listening to others to stay together and play in the right key

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My goal for this project is to be able to pick out music right for me. I want to be able to work with a group to create music together. Working together will help me in the future. This will also help me expand my capabilities with more music. Doing the project in a short period of time is a lot of work so it would help my skills in learning faster than what I am used to.

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During each day, we played every piece to see what we really needed to work on. After we found the one that was the hardest for us, we worked on it the most. The song that was the hardest was Mantras. We got better each day and I feel that we did really good. We changed Reflection to Sparticus  we felt that we didn't do so great with it. I feel that everyone really contributed well into the group and it made it really easy to work with each other. I needed to work on Mantras the most and I felt that I was good at the other pieces. I got better and I am happy with my progress each day.

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This project was fun to do. I got to work with great players and we worked well together. Our music helped us all get better in playing. We practiced well and that helped us learn how to manage our time. Everyone worked hard to better our group and we got good results because of it. Even though we had a lot to do, we thought that it was fun. At first we thought that the pieces were difficult, but we found a way to get things in order fast

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Goal Statement:                                Miguel Quiroz

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Goal Statement:                                Miguel Quiroz

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One of my main goals for this project is to improve my skills and technique on the cello. I've been playing the cello for almost two years now mostly for fun and on my own time. I saw this project as the perfect opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and learn more about the role of the cello in an ensemble. I hope to improve my ability to read music in bass clef. I feel like being able to read more clefs than just your own is a useful skill to have. I also hope to improve overall as a musician. Chamber groups demand a higher level of attention than a large ensemble. This means you have to really focus on your intonation, dynamics, and keeping a steady tempo. Hopefully I can apply the things I learn from this to regular class

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Progress Report:                                                 Miguel Quiroz

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Progress Report:                                                 Miguel Quiroz

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Following some debate about which pieces to play, we settled on what to play and began practicing. At first, we were admittedly not very productive. We certainly did some work but not as much as we could’ve done. Determined not to make the same mistakes as last year, I began practicing all of our pieces every day once we got them. After about a week or two, I was comfortable with reading bass clef again and with all of the pieces. There was still much to do but I was at least able to play through them all. As we neared spring break, we started to get more serious and actually worked together to fix various issues. One of our pieces was not coming together no matter how hard we tried so we were forced to make a last minute swap. The last few days before spring break we really worked hard and ironed out most of our major problems. Although we had a slow start, we  really pulled it together towards the end.

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Practice Video:                                        Miguel Quiroz

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Practice Video:                                        Miguel Quiroz

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Progress Report:                            Dylan Holzmeister

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Progress Report:                            Dylan Holzmeister

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After picking the pieces and practicing some we have been able play through the pieces mantras and star wars. One of our pieces named Reflection has been causing us some problems with staying together which is making it hard to learn the piece. After discussing this problem we have come to the conclusion that we needed to switch Reflection for Spartacus. After dealing with this problem we were able to get the pieces solid all the way through.

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Progress Report:                  Sune Hamilton

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Progress Report:                  Sune Hamilton

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In the beginning, we all had input on which pieces to play and how we wanted to sound overall. Then we got to work and started focusing on discovering how each piece will come together. I was personally most excited about playing Star Wars and Reflection... even though we later decided to cut Reflection and replace it with another piece. In the beginning of the project it was hard to stay together and actually make our way through the pieces, but it quickly became easier to do so... and soon we were able to play each piece all the way through.

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Reflection Statement:                                        Miguel Quiroz 

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Reflection Statement:                                        Miguel Quiroz 

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Overall, this project was a good experience. I learned from the  mistakes I made last year and actually practiced and communicated with my group to work out issues. I definitely feel like i grew not only as a cellist, but also as a musician. Last year after this project, i regretted my decision of playing the cello. This year, however, I'm glad that i did it. It was a great opportunity to grow as a musician and i would definitely do it again if the opportunity presented itself

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This project was tough to get through but we were able to get through and play great pieces to show for it. After preforming it felt good to be done with the pieces. Since the group was kind of rushed to get the pieces down. Even though the project was difficult at times it was really fun to learn on our own and break out of our comfort zone and play as best as you can with others.