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Instructors: Mr Tan Thiam Hee & Mr Yea Guoming
Teachers IC: Mr Ramasamy, Ms Adeline Ng, Mr Mark Chan ex DM/BM: Mayble,Devon[06-07]; Muighern,Melodi[07-08]; Elysia,Clare[08-09] DM/BM: Siew Kim, Valerie [09-10] Committee [09-10]: 2nd Vice : Marie Quarter Mistress - Tessa Recruit Officer - Adeline, Elizabeth Welfare Officer - Dai Ling Chief Librarian - Denise Main Sectional Leaders [09-10]:
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10:22 PM | Tuesday, February 26, 2008
On mundae! Mr Tan was so cool, He told us to go fer sectionals. Want us to practice BRS, though some of us got abit bored of it and went to practice other songs. ahem. He went around brass section and taught them. Then like 5 oclock or so, combine band. Told us to take out our QPM, then we are like eh practicing BRS just then but why we are playing QPM now. But who cares, we did practice, did we? We sounded better than last time, but still not good enough. Mr Tan was lenient. He said I dont care how horrible you play but I want to play this song! Aw. So not to embarrass ouselves, we must try hard. But dont play for the sake of playing it of course. Then came came along BRS. Time was not long, so He just stopped right before the 6/8 time signature there. He was like asking everybody who likes BRS and wants BRS to be SYF09 choice piece. Surprisingly, some of us didnt want it to be. Told us to practice songs on Wed. cant wait. YAY BAND. Hay. 9:35 PM | Saturday, February 23, 2008
SATURDAY in the morning: all of us were sitting in a huge huge huge 'rectangle' like having a grand feast cos none of the teachers came to open the door for us. haha! with DM mui ghern and venisa on the two sides... then as the people arrive for band practice, the 'table' becomes longer, longer and longer. so funny. Practice: had to do sectionals as Mr Yea want to coach the new sec 1 juniors. so we practiced Tumaco and Queen's Park Melody. then the SLs had to let juniors try out the instruments again. finally, the placement of the juniors in the sections have been settled. so the whole day was just practicing for us. but it was fun. :)anyway, towards the end of the practice, the neighbours actually complained that we were too noisy and came to school to look for ms ng. like, what can we do if its too loud. that is naturally expected from a band. so we had to pack up early and so band ended on the dot at 12. brick 9:06 PM | Thursday, February 21, 2008
juniors sec 1. Band started at 2.45pm on wed, the juniors were supposed to come that day. Cause there was remedial for some of us and the juniors, Committtee ans SLs tried to entertain the new juniors until all can start at 3.45, while the rest had sectionals. Practiced Tumaco and Queen's Park. All the juniors finally came and we started. The SLs and Committee introduced themselves to them, played something on their instruments to show them how the sound was like. We gave them each our welcome gift and splitted them into groups of fours or fives and visit the sections. Some were active, (those who put band as 1st, 2nd, 3rd choice) and werent even interested in trying them out. They a bit anti-social... like " why am i here in the first place, its wasting my time". With all the people going around in the band room... some of us took the chance to try out other people's instruments and after that got punished. Learn from mistakes bah, cannot repeat the same thing like what we did 2 times this year liao. So we got them to move from one section to another. Its was fun trying to introduce to them the different kinds of instruments(to those hyper ones)but the others like dont want to try, or looking at other sections wanna try other instruments. Its was okay, until the fact that DM scolded us infront of the juniors for our noise level and the fact that we took a long time to fall in. Can try better one!!! Dont keep on talking uneccessarily, after band you can talk as much as you want. I am happy at the fact that you guys are listening to band songs and being devoted... Its just that talk to much about band. I no time to blog, might wanna edit and add something to this next time. Byebye HAY 9:41 PM | Monday, February 18, 2008
On Monday It was fun, maybe cause i like lesser people. :) Mr Tan before practice went somewhere so he wasnt as punctual as usual. But he still got here on time. We did our own warm ups and Mr Tan ask us practice Queen's Park Melody. Some were trying thier best, but some *ahem* was just sitting there observing the scenery or something. Waste your time. We played through with Mr Tan. Oh yeah, I notice you guys actually make the effort to concentrate during Mr Tan's lessons, then play better hor, Then Mr Yea lesson heck care then pwn band, nv play seriously. Eh, where got like that, like that how the band can improve? Dont bias la, later fail your history then you know. Band ended at 4.30pm TT.TT cause most of us have to study for exams the next day. But some of us dont have exams eh Mr Tan. *hint hint* Mr Tan said that he wouldnt stay in a band that doeant wake up or improve and become hardworking within 5 years. So 2 years passed since he came and 3 years left for us to practice hard. Dont think 3 years is alot of time okay!! So grab your instruments and start to practise everything now. *HAY 3:18 PM | Sunday, February 17, 2008
On Sat was a disaster. The sec ones somehow didnt come cause they went on the wrong day everytime they sort of gave up..and its Sat morn everybody wants to sleep..and probably wont come tommorow. Exams. Mr Yea ran through Tumaco with us and we played horribly cause there wasnt sectionals and most of just just dont bother to bring back our instruments and mouth pieces. Many seniors didnt turn up as they want to study... But most of them its just an excuse to not turn up, those who are not good in studies. As if you gonna wake up early on the morn to study in your pjs and nothing goes into your head. Band is only until twelve oclock please la, and stop following your friends if they dont wanna come. And come of you guys after I tell you then regret why come hor... BRS wasnt good enough and Mr Yea said we are so not there yet man. And like so many impurities. So yeah, Mr Yea gave up and gather us at the carpark for a quick drill. Taught us how to bang and march properly and more practices. Said with this we can be better if we practice and are harworking.. So next sat morning we might have drills... yay~ Our stamina will be better and play better. and pass Napfa test. Who dont have recording of whatever song add me on Msn and ask. Or ask your friends. GOGO BAND. *hay. 10:30 PM | Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Get your gears into place. Firstly, tomorrow's a short day of celebration for the New Year, which you can take as a prelude to the real festivities that's going to hit you like a one tonne truck. If you're going to enjoy it, then good, so Happy New Year in advance. Personally I hate New Years. It gets so damned noisy, and I can lose count of the number of Lion Dance troupes passing through the area/ performing all around Singapore. And the shops are closed. That's a good enough reason to be discontented. Right. Back on to Band stuffs. Band, we're going to slam on those accelerators and shift our gears into place because we're not going to play a Grade 3/4 piece properly anytime soon if we don't move our asses. We've only got 15 recruits this year, and that's not counting the fact that amongst these 15, some might quit Band. Knock them out, brainwash them, get them to love band. Then they won't quit. Facts haven't been simpler than that, and you won't get any else if you search underneath a rock. Anyway, Happy New Year in advance. Stuff yourselves on the supply of red packets coming your direction. I know I won't be getting any good ones. -Material Supplier. 4:48 PM | Friday, February 1, 2008
practice on Mon Which i forgot what happened on Mon...Only know Mr Tan wore a navy blue shirt that day. Yay his favourite color~! fine. Mr Tan did some warm ups with us. Concert Band Clinic was new to him though, but we didnt sing. Then here comes the Blue Ridge. Mr Tan ask who dont like then raise the hand. He said cannot da ying everybody that that may be the song everyone likes.. cause there are some people in the band who hates the song. So our Blue Ridge was horrible and he sorta gave up on the way or sumthing, cause never play the second part of the song. Practice Practice moremoremoremore!! Took some scores and pass to the SLs, songs are Tempest Rising and Queen's Park Melody. The Percussion section got some missing scores, have to find their senior's ones. (Which they sort of threw away during the cleaning of the storeroom, i think.) Tempest Rising was a nice song, like so cool loh, though some people play the slow part so wanna sleep, say very boring. Eh, Its nice song okay!! Just that we played terribly. Queen's park was nice tune ah. Gave us some time to practice again, while Mr Tan go bo liao bo liao walk around. So we played. (: Said British is Grade 3, American is Grade 4. Actually i wasnt really happy when he said that, wonder why. Ehya, u make me wanna poop. byebye. HEI. |
Our Poll
To everyone: I am closing the poll as some in this band just cant understand simple instructions after constant reminders. 2008 poll results:
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