The Show

Okay, finally our weeks of effort turned into pride. It is started when our art teacher told us about the music practicum test for our certificate. She said that we should make a group consists of seven students and perform a dance or an ensemble. 

And soon some of my friends asked whether they could be in the same group with me or not. Sure, they're welcomed, I'm happy that they wanted to work with me, that means I'm not really bad in music, am I? B-)

And not long after that we decided to perform an ensemble (of course we did, as nobody in my class would like to perform a dance. They, we, thought that modern dance is kinda disgusting). I suggested to play "Andaikan Aku Punya Sayap" song, and gratefully, they're all agreed. Coincide I played that song when I had a concert several months ago, I didn't need to find the accompany voice for the violin. Anyway there are five groups in my class. The two groups consist of boys, the other consists of girls and another one consists of boys and girls. My group consists of girls, and they are good.

I started searching the second voice for recorder. I don't know how it happened, but that night I easily found the notes. I also searched matching piano accompaniment for my friend to play.

We'd been practicing for about a month or two, but never had we practiced fully together. There must be someone who couldn't attend the practice. Eventually we all can gather only in the last two practices. And it wasn't an easy practice, we sometimes argued for a useless thing. But fortunately it didn't last for a long time.

Honestly, I felt unconfident a little, because I supposed that my friend's group would be better as the leader is a goddamn creative talented pianist. Yet their song is good. And so is the other one. Their song is fun, and I really enjoy hearing them. But well, we kept practicing and I was impressed by my friends' will of being the best.

The day before the test we had a quite fun practice. But then I got that havoc. My violin's D string's voice suddenly dropped down. I tuned it but the D peg kept turning back. We were almost worried until my violin teacher texted me and told me how to tune it correctly. She said that not only turning the peg, I also have to push it a little deeper. And it worked!

I was so free of worry, we all were.

We actually discussed about what costume should we wear, but my teacher said that it's not necessary. That's why we didn't worry about it anymore. But today, in the imminent time of the show, our confident dropped as the two groups I was worried about wore kind of costume. But we had decided that we're not going down, so all we had to do is perform the best musically and proved that without costume, we're not worse than them, even we could be better, we've got to believe it. 

And.. finally the time of us to show what we've got came. I played my violin in trepidation as some of my friends watched me playing violin, for the first time. They knew I could play a violin since I was an eighth grader, and I bring it to school as sometimes I'm asked by teachers to play it in front of guests or somewhat like that. But this was their first time watching me play it, how couldn't I be nervous then?

I even realized the tremor in my hand and the voice resulted by it, especially in the overtune part, the part where I played the solo violin. But I consider that as one of the best parts of whole song, so I must be confident and play it deliberately.

 

There was no worth mistake, just some little mistakes made by each that nobody would realize the nuance, but overally, it's pretty astonishing. I was so relieved after my friends clapped their hands and my teachers praised us. My teacher also said that I've improved my violin playing and I was so grateful of that. I also proud of my friends who had tried so hard passing this.

And it's over. Once again, good or bad, it's all our own hardwork. =)