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HUNTINGFIELD CAMPUS NEWS

Dr Drasko Dizdar

Dr Drasko Dizdar is a theologian with the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office. Drasko has lectured on theology throughout the world and he is an amazing communicator with a vast depth of knowledge. He recently came and spoke to students in 7 Red and 7 Blue as part of their study on Judaism. Drasko was able to explain the history of the Jewish faith and people. He spoke about the similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Drasko talked about the Holocaust and said that the Jewish people call this event shoah, which means complete and utter destruction. Drasko explained how Jesus Christ was a practising Jew and that around 25% of the Nobel Peace Prize winners have been Jewish. It was a fantastic learning opportunity for our students. We are very grateful for Drasko for visiting us. 

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Grade 10 Dinner

On Wednesday, 21st October the Grade 10 students came together to celebrate the end of their schooling at the College with their formal dinner. Students and their families met at the Huntingfield Campus for photos, then travelled to the Peppermint Bay Restaurant for dinner and presentations.

This year has been a challenging year for students, staff and their families and the evening was a wonderful opportunity for the students to celebrate all they have achieved.

We send our blessings to our Grade 10 students and wish them all the best for their last weeks at the College and their upcoming exams.

 

Lost Property

We have a large collection of lost property at the office.  Students and parents are encouraged to come and check for any missing items.

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Muso's Corner

In Muso’s Corner, we will be featuring the work of some of our Music students.

This week, two of our Grade 10 students, Axl Dumagat and Darcy Willis have contributed contrasting compositions. As part of the topic, Perfect Harmony, they were required to create a short piece based on a simple and repetitive chord pattern. Darcy chose a lo-fi approach to his recording, which is representative of the genre. Axl chose the recording studio as the place to create his smooth contribution. You can read about and hear their pieces below.

 
Darcy
This piece takes a lot of inspiration from the pop-punk genre and specifically bands like Green Day and Blink-182. The song uses a simple four chord structure, those chords being B5, G5, D5 and A5. These are all played for two beats of a bar is 4/4 time with a tempo of 200 bpm.
 
The drum rhythm in the piece is sampled from the Green Day song “Lazy Bones”, the main difference is that I sped the sample up by around 25 to 30 percent so that it would fit with the guitar that I had already decided on. For the guitar, I recorded the previously mentioned chord structure and then looped it five times. Then the next part is a change of chords to B5, D5, A5 and G5. This is played by having the B5 played for two bars, playing the D5 for one bar, then the A5 and G5 each played for half a bar. I added a note on the other E string that would match with the part of the chord played on the E string, so the notes are B,G,D and A, followed by B, D, A and G. I then added a melody using the high pitched E string playing the notes B, D, B and A. Finally, I added a bass line using one of the bass guitars at school, this was just playing one part of the power chords played on the guitar but on the bass. These notes were F, D, A and E, this was then changed to F, A, E and D during the chord change.
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Axl
This song is slow and features Latin percussion in the background. I got my inspiration from jazz music I had heard whilst surfing the web. The chords began as simple 3 note triads which I enriched by adding a few notes to the end of each giving them a much fuller and exciting sound.
 
I played the parts on a keyboard by using sampled sounds and software instruments.
 
The recording program I used is called Logic Pro. It allows me to build songs by recording different tracks and mixing them together. It also has powerful editing tools so that sections can be looped and cross-faded. After editing, I converted the tracks to a standard mp3 format, so that the song can be played on any media player.