Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Education in LASALLE
what do i really think about it?
What can you learn from "teachers" who just don't really have the capabilities of teaching certain things..
Disclaimer : Everything up here May and May NOT be accurate but so far what i see it as.. they are pretty accurate to me..
What do we learn from Creative Workshop?.. Working in a group making good noise and complicated noise gives good grades.. I mean seriously, it is seen as a performance module on a stage as big as something you can find in a bar. The end of the day, you will be "Critically Commented" on about your performance and song.. HOWEVER.. the most shocking(not really, was totally expected) thing is.. your teacher asks you to comment about your friends and later on says you're all not giving good enough criticism to help them improve.. lets start with this.. Can the teacher do the same? for some reason i seem to hear this from the teacher most of the time. "That was a nice song/piece", "Good playing", "Good Rhythm", "I feel this was unrehearsed", "Maybe you could make the song longer, it was too short".. Do you really find this critical at all?
In order to allow students to squeeze their creative juices again.. we were reshuffled into new sets of groups and generally I didn't want to work with my new one neither.. but that not being the point.. we were made to create pieces without using any instrument but just ourselves.. and instead of doing the theme Multiplication? we had to do Concepts of Multiplication like rhythm, harmony, texture etc etc etc.. what do i think about it? How much can you do with human bodies for multiplication.. get the students to stand in 1 straight line and they start spreading out? (an image of multiplication without music)... which made me think that maybe something creative for Revolution would be to hang a G-String on a line wire and use a Hair-dryer or literally your breath to blow at it.. The Revolutionized version of Air on the G String.. You're not exactly wrong, you just made it more contemporary and isn't that what the school is?
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I had recently gotten an advise to consider continuing the Music course and graduate with the Degree in Music with Pipa.. well, seriously.. if i really wanted to do that? I would got myself into NAFA... Why would I want to pay so much money on a school that can't provide me PROPER guidelines as to what the school expects of me.. Well my 1 semester in LASALLE has told me.. NEVER even dream of doing classical music here.. I am just horribly ostracized in learning, my mainstudy has no aims no purpose.. just something to follow what everyone else does just a bit more free willed.. there is nothing i need to accomplish other than to prepare for a recital (that i HAVE no guidelines for yet again). What difference will it be in Levels 1, 2 and 3.. and do i want to really keep hearing from the same teacher everyweek.. "Good pipa playing" (even though i didn't even rehearse or even BOTHERED thinking what to play and just played whatever i felt like playing at that moment).. nope i can't even imagine.. i believe my passion for music would have died there and then.. and it'll be my biggest regret to have taken music in LASALLE...
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I just really can't help but wonder where does all the money go to... students pay a LOT of money to study in this school yet everything is being cut down.. Classes have been cut down because of a budget.. so what? does that mean more money to make sure LASALLE gets the Building of Year 2010 also? or more money to maybe try putting some flowers in the "Grass".. or have they finally decided to build Block A and B already.. maybe the money was used to pay the staff? perhaps even used to GROOM the "Grass".. really where does all that money go? hiring more "teachers"?.. A mystery we have yet to solve..
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wJ
dozing off..
Posted by wJ at 8:31 PM