♫♪I'm a happy 1st Trombone!!♪♫
Hello! Band today, no marching. We were just about to get started when Mr Yeo and Mr Yu came together and said it was raining. Actually, it was stopping, drizzling very slightly only. So we went up and practiced. I think I was happy to see them again! :) How long have we had the exam break? This time I didn't count... so I'll do it now... 3 weeks no practice, 1 Aug till 19 Aug. Today NO alumni came, even Taufiq... Jonathan didn't come :( Suky of course didn't also, she's on holiday in China! I want to go to China again... well HK's part of China and we're going this year :) Mr Yeo started off with some dynamic and tempo training. At first our dynamic range was very small, then after he tell us, it got better, but still not his range of 1 to 10. I cannot cover that range now... :( Then later got one rhythm with semiquavers, I mixed up the rhythm :s
We had a new piece today, Mamma Mia. It's different from the one we had before, those were "Highlights from the musical Mamma Mia!" this is just Mamma Mia, but the special thing is it's arranged by Mr Yeo for us I suppose. Quite easy but one part with high D, no energy. So irritating, so easy yet I can't play. ARGH...!!! My braces 11 months already, grr! Who knows, I might have deproved until even after I take it off, I'll still sound like a Sec 1. And another thing I'm not happy is Ding Cong hasn't surpassed me yet. At this rate I'm going, I'm maybe never gonna be as good as Kevin next year! -.- Anyway, Mamma Mia has trombone melody :) Our next performance is on 2 Sep, actually was supposed to be 22 Sep (which is Mid-Autumn Festival) but I don't know why it changed, maybe because of the festival. The Music In The City performance is same as last year, at Ngee Ann City but this time we'll only have to play one time, and we'll be wearing school uniform with tie, because our new uniform won't be done yet. After playing Mamma Mia, we played Nobody. Then we had a break from 9.30-10am. I heard my juniors playing some other song which is obviously not a band piece, if not they won't play it. It's probably some... really a song, not a piece, like those kind of pop song or whatever. It's good to see that they're playing by ear :) I did that with Jay Chou's 菊花台 in Sec 1 too :) It's good for them :)
After break, we split into woodwinds with Mr Yeo and brass & percussion with Mr Yu! :) Mr Yu went through the same 2 songs with us. Nobody was lousy, I mean the song, haha. People cannot count... anyhow come in, all not together, sounds yucky. Haiz... But! One thing I'm happy about again, my section reads the rhythm carefully! ^_^ trumpets played one part of Nobody wrongly, 2 notes only but obvious already. it's 1, half count, they played half, 1 count. Then before that we played that melody (chorus) correctly so Mr Yu said he's proud of his Trombones and ask us play again! ^_^ but the sound not nice :x my sound not nice also... :( and he also said that... At 11+ we combined the whole band on the 2 pieces and Procession to Peace. Not enough time for all new pieces, so use PTP again. We'll also be playing Tequila and Rockin' To The Rhymes, the grade 1 song which is a medley of children songs, haha. It's been a long time since I took attendance... Bye! :)
