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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
11:21 AM
random post
7.21 pm
school starts tmr and i dun think i'll have the heart to drag myself out of bed to school at 5 am in the morning. dno how i'm going to do it anyway. woke up at 11 am today despite my efforts to revert back to the old schooling lifestyle. slept at abt 3+ am, woke up at 8 am due to the random malay hippie who sms-ed me back oh haha ya wrong number sorry ARGH!!! went back to sleep till 10 am. how to wake up at 5am tmr???
anyway didn't do much today either, dad said today cannot go out, today a day of ~REST~ wadever that is, and yes, he can let me go out, but he can't let me come in again. so i had to turn down offers to go watch movie - night @ museum (again) - frm yiren and yiyin and co. and another offer from ernest to go darrell's house to eat dinner cooked by a great chef (ah ma). instead today i lagged at home listened to band recordings (AGAIN ARGH!!!) AND MENTALLY PREPARED MYSELF FOR SCHOOL TMR BY SLEEPING SOME MORE. argh so dumb.
i woke up when high school recordings started playing though. i wonder why i loaded them into my nano anyway, destroys my brain cells and my hearing powers. everytime i hear a wrong note from flutes i want to kill yong zhi by wrenching his head off his neck (if any). he was so enthu about band he came for about 2 practices. so terrible yarrr?
hearing both high school and jc recordings together made me realise that the difference about the high school and jc band is that the high school side is more individualistic, whereas the jc side listens to other playing members much much more. the fact tt the jc band has a much much much better conductor than the high school one doesn't count though.
i rmb in high school as long as i could smoke my way through and tycotyco nv get caught i'd be happy like siao. playing tt time just happily blast my way through dun give a shit about others. as long as one can play most of his notes (50%) right then one is considered good enough.
whereas in the jc side band one really has to listen out for others, whether the person beside you or the fat tuba guy (i shall not name names for fear of being prosecuted) right at the other end. maybe its because mr leng is so meticulous. or maybe its because of his I HEAR BEATS. FIX IT!. or maybe its just because everyone down there is doing it so to dao everyone would be akin to commiting mass murder. even if you could play all notes correctly you could still be in deep shit. think ave maria. i rmb when we (sec 4s) first went to jc band prac everytime it'd turn out to be ave disaster. and derrence leng would stop the whole band and slowly tune everyone till every note played was green on the tuner, often taking up to 3 hours or more. then he'd start all over. he once told us abt the 5 aspects we had to deal with: balance intonation tuning and blah and blah and he really means it. if we didn't do anything abt it, which is more often than not, he'd just stop everything and let you fix while the whole band looks on.
ok i take it back. the fact tt high school side has the most entertaining and kickass conductor in mr lim lip hua does matter. derrence leng makes every member acutely aware that he/she is a terribly impt member of the band, and if he/she screws up then the whole band sounds crappy. hence every member would then be inclined to follow all instructions at all costs, or face being the cause of the destruction and downfall of the entire band. whereas mr lim just goes through the motions of being a conductor, literally. one two three four one two three four oh opps one two three one two three. and so on and so forth, with no reference to tempo balance or dynamics. maybe tt's the difference.
all in all i think working with derrence leng has made me more aware of other players around me and made me a better band member.
my dad's going to blow my head off when he finds me on the com again. whoops. heh
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