♫♪I'm a happy 2nd Trombone!!♪♫
25 Nov 2009
Band practice 8-12pm! I forgot a lot already. Mr Yu asked why I change to bass trombone, I said I'll tell him later. I've changed for so long already. We played Irish Tune From County Derry, yay! I like this song! It's aka Danny Boy :) Last year when Band went to Genting, the instrument workshop instructors who are a brass quintet called B5, played the song. Er... it's very famous but I've never heard it before. If I hadn't remembered the title I wouln't find it familiar at all. Actually I don't find it familiar, I just know the title. Only until we played it then I can remember the tune. As in remember starting from now. Woohoo! Solo starts the song! Yeah! :D Fine, it's not trombone solo, it's trombone and eupho solo. ...the score put 'Solo' :( Wah, 3rd trombone no solo, rest a lot of bars eh. When not resting then playing accompaniment, but 1st and 2nd also accompaniment then. This is worse than earlier this year's SYF songs. One whole chunk of solo missed out on. That score comes with Shepherd's Hey where we rest about half the 100-bar song. Also, there's some parts where we rest then play a note or so then rest again. But we didn't play that song today. There was breakfast break again. Mavis gave me my belated present and card! :) Mr Yu asked why I changed to bass trombone, so I told him. Haha, I act so secretive, go look around to see if anyone's listening first, he said why top secret, lol. Josiah busybody go stand there, haha. We played Procession To Peace again. We played Ponyo! Nothing much la. Bye!
26 Nov 09
Band 1-5pm! Kevin didn't come. So I called him, but he didn't answer :( After a while at 2+ I sms him, and he replied. He overslept, into the afternoon -.- So he didn't come the whole day, which made things awkward for me during sectionals. Ding Cong's not back from Australia, Benjamin said he will be back on 3 Dec. We warmed up on our own and then went for sectionals since Mr Yu or Yeo were not here yet. Supposed to practise Mamma Mia! and Ponyo, but as usual la, didn't even finish Mamma Mia! once. How to each him?!?! I decided to get the metronome to give tempo since the beginning got rests and he's likely not gonna keep tempo, but then, it ran out of power -.- So I tuned using my ears. I said he's sharp, because it was sharper than mine, but I don't know if I'm in tune. I'm quite sure I'm right. So I lent him my handphone to play the song Dancing Queen since he can't get the rhythm no matter how I teach him. Then the conductors came, yay! So we went back in, separate into brasses and woodwinds. Haiz, sectionals was so awkward. I don't know what to do, then when he play wrongly which is most of the time, I also don't know how to teach. I think I made him very bored, haha, I'm also very bored ok. I should be more bored than him since I already know how to play. After that? I forgot everything, but it's nothing much. Eeeee... I realised without Kevin here, it's not fun :O Bye bye.
