Flight of the piasa

Hey FLUBOES! Yay I shall post here since it's fluboes haha. Lalalala I love blogging. Now I officially have like five blogs. My own blog, batch blog, class blog, a combined blog with my friends and this blog! Yay! But most of them are dead anyway. But I shant let this blog get dead haha!

Okay since we have finalised our SYF piece, we should totally work on it right now! Yay! So let's hear different versions of flight and comment on it, and take all their good points into considerations! Yay! (I can't find Singapore flyer -.-)

This is a version of flight. It's nice, the brasses and basses are great, oh my god I love how the horns sound like, so brassy and strong! But I don't really think the woodwinds are that great. They're so soft and so gentle. But of course we (fluboes) will sound better than this right? xD Haha and I can't stand how slow the slow part is. Hmm. Different conductors got different interpretations :)

This another version of flight. I like the fast tempo! It's so exciting :D The sound quality isn't as good (it's videod, can't help it...) But towards the end, the fast tempo sounded a bit rushed... And when they slowed down, it seems so unnatural... Oh well, but it was exciting... when the oboe solo came, IT'S NOT THE OBOE! I was so upset, I thought they didn't have oboe, but later on, I heard the oboe. God the oboe must have been so lousy the conductor didn't let him play or sth. Damn it lah. And the saxophone solo sucks too... And their intonation sucks too. -.- But in our last recording, I think we sounded worse than this, so we can't really scold them till we get better. (And the trumpet sound so horrible when playing the high notes! Argh!)

Oh well, the first video was so much better right? Let us all learn from the first video :) The third video, so much better than the second:

Though I think the trombones sound awful...Haha our Tay is so much better lol. The flutes aren't really good either. The oboe a bit too loud too (and I can't stand how the video focus on the bassoon when the solo is played...argh!) but it's nice i think. (I believe I can do better than that humph!) The saxophone solo and euphonium solo were great too! But the band's intonation sucks. But we aren't much better...so can't complain...

But it's still kinda nice sooooo...

Okay hope you guys know what it is like to sound great/horrible. If you want to know, I think currently we sound worse than all of them. But I believe we can/will improve! :D Just listen to other bands, and critique them, then we will improve :)

yay!

liwei

hellohello!(:
lol this is my first time posting on this blog! first time posting on a blog, in fact. Hahaha i am not into blogging (heh like Meri).
Anyway, i am also quite relieved that we have finalised our syf pieces. Woohoo now we know which pieces to work and concentrate on (:
Hehheh in my opinion, i like flight alot(: And i personally feel that it is a better choice piece than choreography (: since we have been playing it for a long timee(:
GAHH ohmygosh SYF is coming soon and i feel that i should be practising harder, especially since i am not up to par with all of you D:
hehh anyway yay jiayous! 71 days to SYF! ( i think (: )
love,
Natalieee (:

heyy section :D

haha oops I think I'm like the most inactive SL here ever heehee (I'm not that rly into blogging) =/ Anyways, since we've already (finally) chosen our pieces we can now put all our attention on these two pieces! :) I kinda know that all of us now have much more homework and lessons to prepare for and stuff now that the school year has officially begun. But we must all work hard tgt k? :) When you hear the music, feel it with the section & band and we'll all sound as one nice big family! :D
I guess lately our brasses have really sounded much better with the brasses, woodwinds sectionals. So we must also jiayou and work hard with our intonation (Prac with a tuner so you know when to turn in/ out esp if you don't trust your ears)! :) Basically that's the most important aspect we must work on now because being high-pitched instruments bad intonation is one of the worse things that could happen. The others being tone and coordination. haha I sound like i'm giving internet sectionals xD but seriously, I think we must all work on improving our tone and intonation k! (And when you're playing please LOOK UP AT MS CHONG and keep a consistent pulse - like your heartbeat, mustn't go erratic/ rush/ slow down else you'll get heart-attack! xD)
Oh, and just a reminder, please bring $10 section fund on Tues! :) Thanks

Cheerios,
Meri :)

For a while i freaked out a lot a lot,
and i could die
and kill myself.

because suddenly everyone around forgot the username and password to section blog.
D:
luckily luckily meiqi remembered ah,
I FEEL SO RELIEVED NOW.
(:

EVERYONE KEEP POSTING KEEP POSTING! :D

Serene! (:

HELLO EVERYONE!!!!

I shall do my part to relive this blog! We shan't let it die! =D *Performs CPR*

Anyway! In reply to serene's "crying while playing the music", i sometimes feel that too!!! =D And i think so long as we willingly work hard and do our best, we will definitely achieve what we want!! JIAYOUS EVERYONE!!! LET'S DO ALL THIS TOGETHER AS A SECTION! =DD

300% of infinite potential! (That's alot alot alot alot alot of unknown potential! So we can do this right? ^^)

<3,
Wanlin =DDDDD

FLUBOES ! :D

this post is just to RELIVE OUR BLOG HAHA. :D

okay anyway,

i would like to get everyone to work really really really hard for SYF, because i know it means everything to all of us right? (:

I AM SURE ALL OF US WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY FOR SYF, INCLUDING OBOES all of us must must play for SYF together as a SECTION alright!

i know that lunch practices and after school practices(optional) and band itself

is very tiring and stressful for all of us.

we have 9 weeks left,

we will go through this together

and become stronger at the end of it! :D

we will be playing Flight of the Piasa and Singapore Flyer,

and they are exactly what st margs will be playing!

ah i was really feeling very stressed because ms chong couldnt confirm our pieces.

They were only confirmed yesterday,

i feel like there isnt enough time. :/

and personally i prefer choreography cause i think it feels more

SYF-ish!

i just dont feel the same for flight alrd, after playing it for so many times.

I AM TRYING TO GET BACK THE FEELING,

but our basses are improving alrd,

i feel it i feel it. (:

sometimes when i play during band

i will have this sudden urge to cry and then my eyes would tear.

im not sure if you guys feel this way,

because if you do then its good! :D

YOU ARE FEELING FOR NYCB, SYF AND THE MUSIC.

but then i would suck the tears back in HAHA

because now is really not the time to cry -.-

Thank you entire section for helping me clean my flute ALL THE TIME

i am serious,

and waiting for anne and i after band every single practice to walk to the busstop together.

YOU GUYS ARE REALLY SWEET

i love all of you! <3

Serene!