Band practice today! :D 8am to 12pm. It was raining in the morning. I took a picture of the old school beside the new school because they look so different.
The stair case shutter wasn't open so the band waited around that area. 8am already and I still didn't see my seniors. I thought Darryl was late and Cheng Heng was maybe still sick, then I remembered Darryl doesn't come on Saturdays. I thought I'd be alone. Yesterday Liang Rong said he and Rebekah wouldn't be here today and neither would Cliff who's gone back to Indonesia for some matters. But he and Rebekah were here. Then he asked us to make rows of 3 (actually he said 3 rows) and took attendance. He said if he doesn't hear a loud 'yes' he won't mark our attendance. First name he called was Germaine, she said 'here', haha! Then when he called me I also said 'here' haha! We always say 'here'. I thought there'll be marching, but he said to use the 3rd stair case (which one?) so we did, and went to the room but it was locked. By the way, it's not a CO room I found out -.- Then he came and unlocked it. When I was inside the store room and almost done, Cheng Heng came. We warmed up with Total Training and after that had sectionals all the way.
Different sectional place today, it's on the left side of the room instead of the right. Yesterday I talked to Darryl so today I talk to Kevin, haha! We practised Singapura Medley first. He also made me play the high notes, haha! But he also made me play loud. He go stand at the end of the corridor and I play B flat scale and change note when he tells me to. Some notes he couldn't hear...which means not loud enough... Then continued with the music. He went to the room I forgot why then I was practising by myself when Ms Leong came.
When Kevin came back, she said she wanted to make sure our articulation is correct. So after that we kept doing Novena all the way. She also made us play the high notes, haha! I pitched high F!!! Yay! :D For the first time since I changed to this trombone, I actually pitched high F! Cool! :D When she was making us play the high notes, I rested on the trombone with my head down, then she said "Ok or not? Giddy already ah? Because you never take in enough oxygen, you're giving out more than you're taking. Take a break first, I don't want you to faint." Haha! Then after a while, Kevin also out of breath already and his actions showed it. Then Ms Leong was like "YOU also giddy already?" Haha! She told us where not to breathe and where to. She said "You're from the same family, so must breathe together...." One section is one family, haha! There's also one part where my score has slurs but his doesn't. Ms Leong asked why then I said Mr Yeo asked us to draw the slurs. About the breathing also, she made us draw breath marks. I drew a small comma then she said to Kevin "Instead of drawing one small comma like this, you should draw a big V" then after he drew the V she went "So small! Like this!" then she took his pencil and drew a big V, hahaha! Also at the bar with con moto, she said I shouldn't write so many words (I wrote 'watch conductor') because there are many other words on the score (eg con moto). And that "this one, 看, one word still can..." Kevin wrote that, haha! She said she would draw a pair of eyes then she drew on Kevin's score! Haha! Who ask him not to keep back in the file after drawing...
Kevin's scores for Novena (1st trombone-page 1)
Our sectional place with our things. Those on the left are his, those on the right are mine
Then we had 30min break at 10am. Those 2 pictures were taken during the break. After our break we continued with Novena. Then he said Liang Rong said we can clean our instruments, so he went to get the cleaning stuff. It's a tube with one end that has a small sponge and the other end has some round thing. It's supposed to be like this : Put the end with the round thing into the slide first, then push it out the other side. Then from the other side pull out the tube and the sponge will clean out the green stuff inside it. Every time he put in the tube, it got stuck at the bottom where the water key is and wouldn't go beyond that. He tried over and over again and finally it went through. He put it over the dustbin because the green stuff will come out...it looks disgusting, hahaha! Then he helped me clean my slide, this time didn't have to try so many times. I saw liquid come out of the slide, ew... I only saw solid come out from his slide, but I don't know. Maybe the green liquid is because he poured water on the sponge. I think so. And this slide gets rough more often than T3. I oiled it last week I think and today I did it again -.o
Then Ms Ong came and told us "Everyone can go in" then you know what he said? "No I'm not going Genting..." Haha! Then she said "No, everyone can go - in." We were the last few to go in so everyone sat down already and the door is on the right while we're sitting on the left so I suggested going by the other door. It's at the back on the left side, where the percussionists are. Rebekah's nearest to it. But the door was locked (to prevent the CO people from coming in) then Cheng Heng and I were knocking the door but I think it's soft, and it's painful. He called her name also but she didn't hear. We also pulled the handle (it makes more sound than knocking). Finally she opened the door, haha! Because percussion instruments are loud you see. Ms Ong talked about the Genting trip. About the cost, then she told us how much we have in our Edusave account. Brayton is rich! He has $1000+ and Chong Jin also, has $800+. 2 people have $1, haha! Last time I checked, I had $542.54 but now I have less... The 54 is cents, haha! Darryl's richer than me, haha!
Then she talked about the rooming. Someone said Xuan Lin has no roommate then I think Shenghao said "Xuan Lin and Ms Ong" then Kevin said "Xuan Lin and Mr Yeo" Hahahahaha!! :O Ms Ong said the rooming list is not fixed and we can tell her if we quarrel with our roommate then she'll change it. We won't want to sleep with someone we don't like right? Or else...(I didn't hear becuase they laughed so much) Hahaha! We burst out laughing :D After she was done talking about the trip she talked about the messy store room. She said she believes that if her students are not late, she has the right to scold other students from other schools who are late. Kevin started laughing and she said something about the Shenyang trip (school's exchange programme) She said "Cheng Heng and Liang Rong will know what I mean." The Band started laughing (the band's always laughing) then she said she doesn't mean it was them. So if we keep the room neat, she can feedback to the other CCAs. I think that's all, bye!
New hall. Taken before going home when I walked past
I brought back my mouthpiece today! :D
Labels: Band, Break, Competitions, Concerts/Performances, Events/Occassions, Overseas, Rain, Seniors, Slide oil, Trombone