Band practice yesterday. Kevin was so fun (funny)!! Since there were some Sec 1s at my usual spot, I sat at the table on the other side of the corridor, outside the sports hall door, to do my Chinese and Maths. Jaslyn came along. I just realised, that day there was Chinese Composition SA2 exam and I brought the E-dictionary, but I didn't use it when I was using Chinese homework -.- I forgot. Slightly past 2.30pm we went in. Kevin's lessons end at 2.30pm as usual, so during the warm ups it was just me and the juniors. Before the warm ups I tried playing, the first time after putting braces. B flat's normal, C... URGH! What kind of sound is that?! Yuck, it sounds worst than my first day playing Trombone in Sec 1 when Darryl Kor Kor taught me. It's got the "rrrr" sound but not like what I said I did in Genting last year, it's a LOT worse of course. And that's not the only not, of course... It sounded disgusting. Ms Leong came just as we were gonna start. We warmed up with Chromatic Low Tones only. I think it's obvious that I was playing yuckily. The embouchure is not the same, and for the first few minutes there was a lot of saliva in my mouthpiece, so I wiped it frequently. And it's painful on my mouth (not teeth) because the metals pressing my mouth. I almost cried (not because pain obviously), naturally. Just after we finished, Mr Yeo came. Haha, before and after.
Kevin came late. He and Chen Hua were the latest to come, they're supposed to be here latest by 3.15pm (45mins for lunch) , they came at... I forgot, but definitely 3+ before 3.55. Because that's when we started sectionals. Chong Jin gave out the originals of Big Bands Playing Folk Songs. There's no 3rd trombone, haha, too bad. So uneven la, 1 1st and 3 2nd -.- After that then Kevin came. I told him I can't play properly with braces and it's worse than when I was Sec 1. "Wth...?" was his reaction... Mr Yu shortly after Mr Yeo, yay! I thought he'd be coming today anyway. Mr Yeo wrote some rhythms from the song on the board and we count it. Haha! Kevin count out the tied notes when they're not supposed to be counted. E.g. "n 2 n" is all in one note so we only count n then he go count the 2. Once, Mr Yeo: Who was the one who counted (the number) so loudly? I thought Kevin wasn't gonna admit but he did :O He kept counting out those that shouldn't be counted out then "WHY I KEEP.....?!?!" Haha! Funny! :D After the rhythms, we tried playing the song. After playing the 2nd note G and mispitched, I stopped already. The song's easy. I pointed at my braces and shook my head to tell Kevin I can't play, then Tutor saw too. I think he told Ms Leong. Haiz. At 3.55pm Mr Yeo told us to go sectionals until 5.15 and Mr Yu and Ms Leong will go to everyone to help. I think that's when Mr Yeo left.
Tutor told Kevin to find a spot and lead his section. Can't go to our favourite spot because there's oral in the classroom block. We still couldn't find, so Tutor chose the spot beside our usual spot. Same part of the corridor, haha, but nobody went beyond us. Mr Yu said Kevin'll teach Ben and I teach DC, tall with tall, and short with short -.- Since he and Ms Leong has to help the whole band today, he didn't have so much time with us, so we didn't play scales, haha, HENG... I thought him the first page. I practiced the 1st page and "Careless Love" from the 2nd page. I didn't do Skip To My Lou. There are 4 songs in the music, in order, Little Brown Jug, Michael Row Your Boat Ashore (our melody throughout! Yes!), Careless Love and Skip To My Lou. In pri 2 Catechism class in school I heard Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, still remember the tune, haha. It's obviously not a folk song, it's a Christian song! How can religious songs be folk songs? Kevin only taught Ben till bar 4 NOT because he's teaching sucks (he taught me last year too, and my teaching can't be better than his) but because Ben's skills are such that he can only be taught 4 bars after 1h20min. I made DC repeat when he play wrongly. There's nothing difficult in the song, the notes and rhythms are easy. Dynamic are all f except Michael Row Your Boat Ashore is ff because it's our melody haha! Will we finally really get to play ff as it's written? Everytime we have it we can't play it, irritating la -.- Just because of other people we cannot play ff. (If I can) I will blast this part and make Kevin blast with me. Tutor came a few times to check on us. I heard him say Kevin cannot play. If one more time cannot then must ask me to help already, haha.
Before we went back in to combine. I teach both of them :O Kevin was slacking with Chen Hua and Jonathan for a few minutes. I follow what Darryl Kor Kor does. Stand in front of them and clap tempo. Ben's lagging behind DC and the whole band like crazy. I think he's not suitable for band. Mr Yu came and called us back in (by whistling??) At one part, we and the horny people have the same rhythm. Mr Yu asked then to play, they played wrong. Then he asked us to play, I played right rhythm one or two wrong notes. Ben wrong rhythm, don't know about Kevin and DC. Mr Yu told the horny people to show us what it's like. Then the whole section play same rhythm but it's WRONG and he didn't say anything. He thought it was correct, OMG! It's so obviously wrong la. 1 count, 1.5 count, 1 count, 1 count in that bar. Starts with n count from previous bar. They played 1.5 count, 1 count. 1 count, 1 count. -.-"' Hello, for goodness sake, it's (tie) n1 (tie) n2n, 3, 4. Yeah, so much for showing us what it's like, show us how wrong they can play, some more whole section. And I'm not pissed off by Mr Yu asking them to show us FYI. Ok, the funny part you've been reading so long for: I asked Kevin if he knows the songs (in the music) Then he read out, I only heard from here "...... Ashore?...... Careless Love?....... Skip My Lau?!" Me: (silently) wtf...wtf....HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! After I managed to reduce laughing silently (can't laugh out loud right?) I told him it's not Lau, it's pronounced as "l-o-o". HAHA! Steering back to the music, he asked us to play till the first ending which I thought is at the repeat sign in Michael Row Your Boat Ashore, then Kevin told me it's bar 33. I said it stops just before our melody, then he go "Awwwwwww..." SO CUTE! :D Haha! First time he like that, why ah?? Anyway, that's the bar with pick up to our melody, nothing indicates it's a first ending. But true enough we stopped there, because it was messed up. Again, but this time I was ready to play my melody and true enough Mr Yu looked at us, haha, yay! I think I was the only one playing, why they never play la! I played everything correct, even notes, haha, YES! Then we stopped at that first ending, I was right. After we thanked him and Ms Leong. Kevin ask me to show him my fingernails. (Suddenly ask this, puzzled me. I think he saw cos earlier he bend forward and staring at don't know what for quite long) Then he taught me some guitar stuff. Awwwwwwww..... haha. By the time he finished, I noticed everyone go in and keep instruments already. He had to stay back because he was late (punishment) and he's Section Leader. It was dark outside. It rained soon, but stopped before I had to walk home after alighting the bus. Bye :) His family go out for dinner, I ask then how he eat dinner. He said ask them buy back, and he play computer games in the mean time, lol. "You haven't started studying?" Haven't, because... "Because you clever" "-Where got clever?" "Clever. Cleverer than me" "Of course" lol. some subjects haven't finished teaching all the chapters, after finish covering all the chapters then he study.
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