31 October 2008 Friday
Band practice today! :D From 12-3pm. We warmed up with Chromatic Low Tones and then practised Singapura Medley (only the first part). I think getting the right position for trombone isn't easy. Just up a few mm or down a few mm and it'll be different, different until people can hear the difference. Mr Yeo was saying "Can I have 3rd trombone...only" then when I played (I think I play louder now) he asked me to move the slide up a bit. Then too high...down a bit...up a bit...ok. Recently it's always like that. We only did Singapura Medley for a very short while, after that was Novena. Sec 3s came at 1.30+pm and Darryl and Karl were the latest(1.45pm+ I think), but Darryl took longer to set up his instrument and everything, after Karl came out he was still in there for so long! Actually I thought Cheng Heng would come, then before Darryl comes I can talk to him, but in the end it's the opposite. Cheng Heng didn't come, Darryl said he's sick. A while after Darryl came out, he was still doing some things then Mr Yeo asked Trombones to play the phrase at bar 45. And Darryl wasn't ready yet so only I played. Mr Yeo was looking down at his conductor score when I started but half way he looked up, then when I finished he said "Darryl, I thought that was you." And Darryl's reaction : "Huh?........ Oh." Haha!...Cute...or what??? Then we played again. Shortly after, we had sectionals :D
For the Genting competition, we're only playing Novena and Singapura Medley. At first Darryl didn't say anything at all, then I thought he's angry at me or something, so we just practised our own at first. Then later he taught me the high notes. His teaching reminds me of Cai Yan's. He kept training me at bar 80, our melody, which has high D, E and F. But he doesn't really want me to play F because 'it's too high' so we kept doing high D. I play so many times until I cannot reach already... Last time Cai Yan kept making me play the first bar of Majulah Singapura (with high C & D) until my lips turned purple :O Anyway, 1h almost entirely on bar 80 melody... He must be quite irritated... sorry Senior.
Also, during sectionals he said "You can't stick to T T3 for your 4 years in here right?!" Haha! He thinks 1 month is enough for me to get used to the new trombone and that if he lets me use T3, next year's SYF will....... Then I asked "What?" and he don't know how to say already, haha! I get what he's trying to tell me anyway. I asked him to call Samuel and he said he told him "Hello...You better come for practice tomorrow ah?" Then Samuel said ok ok but the next day you see he didn't come... Well then maybe he should go to Samuel's house and drag him to school, haha! Cheng Heng's going to Taiwan on 24 November! The day we go to Genting, wow. There's one bar with p below it. Then Darryl wanted to ask me to play soft, he said play piano and I thought of the instrument piano haha! He played high F and with the same embouchure and everything, buzzed on the mouthpiece and it's so high on the mouthpiece alone. I should bring my mouthpiece back and try to get that pitch so 'it'll be very easy' when I play on the instrument.
After sectionals we went back into the room. I asked him whether he's going overseas. He said he's staying in Singapore. Financial crisis, recession...the world is not safe now, so stay in Singapore. Haha! I said I'm going to Taiwan then he point at Terence who's sitting at Cheng Heng's place and I thought he meant Terence and I was like "What?" haha! Cheng Heng. I don't know what to say already, haha! Then we're dismissed and I forgot to bring back my mouthpiece. Bye!
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