Band practice today! :D From 1-6pm. I cannot find my section's Total Training file. My row got 2 extra chairs. Then actually I sat at the correct place, but then the euphonium section go leave one space between then and trumpet section, then already moved one place, but then someone go take Cheng Heng's chair then I move again until the last chair -.- I sit so far how to see the conductor? Anyway, before that, Assiddiq (he's in charge yesterday and today because Rebekah and Liang Rong went NCO camp) realised we don't have the originals because it's being photocopied, so we did Chromatic Low Tones. After that then Darryl and Cheng Heng came, and take our Total Training -.- Where in the world did they put it? Or rather, where in the store room did they put it? Haha. Then Mr Yeo came. We practised Novena. Er...I forgot some things that happened already... Practised until 3.20pm then had 30min break until 3.50pm. I took pictures! :D
Our practice room :D Mavis & Sherina (both percussion) came in just when I took this, but I knew they were coming so I didn't get the door in. Those 3 chairs are my section's :D I'm sitting on the left, Darryl in the middle and Kevin on the right. The blue file on the floor is Total Training, the red bottle belongs to Kevin and the small bottle beside it is our section's slide oil :D
My Singapura Medley score-Singapura Medley Part 1 Chan Mali Chan trombone 2
Darryl's trombone! :D I was chatting with him on MSN then I asked him if he knew whose trombone this is. Then I send the picture but I forgot that the name will also be shown. Shucks, I shouldn't have renamed the photo yet
My trombone! :D
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I oiled my slide again. I just oiled it on Monday... Then after our break, we had sectionals! :D Yay, I help them hold the door! Helping people makes me happy. We were facing outside as usual, but then the wind kept blowing so we faced left. I could use more common sense, haha. The wind blew and my pages kept flipping then Darryl take the pencil that I clipped on the file, put it at that page, and done! :D Then 3 people there in one line and we block the way, hahaha! Then Brayton came and "teach" us. He was teaching another section before that, euphonium I think. Then he played his parts while we played our part but then he and Darryl took so much time figuring out the speed for one part -.- And then after that Brayton sat on the floor and slept. I cannot pitch high notes... -.- Why can't it be like last Saturday, I managed to pitch the high F more than once.
And there's once Darryl was teaching Cheng Heng for quite a while, then I locked my slide. Then when I was supposed to play, it's rest F high B high C (the first bar of our melody) I played: rest F Bb - Suddenly stopped because I pushed the slide to position 3 but the slide was locked, I forgot to unlock it, hahaha! Also, when we weren't playing, a cleaner with a broom and dustpan walked past, and I found that funny, haha! Kevin's paper kept flying away and almost flew downstairs. It even went under the railings but he caught it in time! :O Kevin is seriously...nothing better to do, haha! He wanted to blast at Brayton when he was sleeping, luckily Darryl didn't allow. Then when Assiddiq walked past, he said "Excuse me Mr..." then he go and block -.- Then Assiddiq was like "Mr Kevin...Mr Cheng Heng...what's his surname?" (Darryl) "Chuang" "Mr Chuang...Cheng Heng..." hahaha! Darryl say "Assiddiq! Camouflage!" Then Brayton said "...Obvious...it's a white wall..." Then Darryl say "...The railings la" Haha, the railings are brown. Brayton woke up to tell us when we play that part (the melody where I locked the slide) we shouldn't use tu to tongue, we should use either D or L, du or lu because it's a slur. D or L, later become DL, haha. Then we went back in, but Brayton went toilet, so we just left his things there. The percussionist (Sherina, Mavis & Azra) went to 3rd level to walk -.- haha. Mr Yeo said might as well go to Tampines Mart and Brendan (percussion) went "Ya la..."
Then we went back in later and went through the whole song of Novena and Singapura Medley. During Singapura Medley my hands were aching! Because we usually play parts of the song only and not the whole song, so I didn't know my arms would ache :( Better get used to gold trombone soon. Mr Yeo also gave us a paper which we're supposed to refer to so we can play better. Chong Jin passed me 3 for my section then I didn't take and passed to them. Then Serene asked to pass her 1, then I don't have, haha! I thought one for each section -.- Mr Yeo went through every point. There's one that says always follow the section leader and when Mr Yeo read it out, I knew Kevin would look at Darryl. So to make it more dramatic, I also looked at him. Then we both look at him at the same time, one left one right, then he look away, hahaha! At the end of practice, we got the parents' letter for the Genting trip and the Edusave deduction from... Then dismissed. I couldn't lift the trombone high enough to put back in the cupboard, haha. Usually after trying a few times can already, but since Darryl was there, he helped me, haha! Thank you :) Bye!
Labels: Band, Break, Competitions, Concerts/Performances, Events/Occassions, Overseas, Seniors, Slide oil, Trombone