15 more days.

This is madness.

it takes a lot for me to hold back the tears.

i understand i know its really really stressful for all of us now

since we're having block tests now

i am having a very tough time

revising through all my work

and making up for all the random lessons when i have stupidly decided to sleep/zone out/do weird and random things

okay basically not listening.

:/

i hope all of you are doing well now

i hope you guys are revising and working hard for tests

im sure we can all do this

we are a smart section with smart people ;)

and hey

if you think about it,

after blocks

you say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

it'll be the eleventh.

it'll be the day that we have been waiting for/dreading whatever you have been feeling

yes it'll be the day.

ah i refuse to think about it so much now

i get all emotional and stuff.

anyway the point of this post really was to encourage all of you

i think we've all been trying reallyreally hard to be in tune

yes we still have this problem

but we are already trying

i see our efforts.

(:

working on our runs and our tone

i know its not easy right

okay meri would say otherwise

whatever it is

at the end of the day

just make sure we all play properly

KAY EVERYONE ADD A LOT OF OIL

FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

Love,

Serene! <3

Sectionals with Meri!

I would like to say that today's sectionals with Meri was nice :D Maybe we should do this all the time. Our tutor also go through with us the running notes, but different style from Meri (and much lower expectations lol) I hope to play my running notes as well as her! :D I hope it's not too late to improve...we've been hiding in the background for too long.

I HOPE TO BREAK OUT OF THE BOX WITH MY PASSION! And bring the band to greater heights.

Btw, go to the saxes blog here, they have the recordings of us at SCH, professionally recorded by Mr Matthew Lim. I think we sound quite okay, quite grand and all. And yes, lack of passion. But passion is easy to put in, I think. What's so hard about putting feelings into music? Very hard, as you can see, but I personally find it nonsensical to put in so much time into building passion when it can be done so easily. We people just to need to sing out the song more. That's all. Very easy.

Furthermore, intonation problem... Oh well, we can't really prevent it totally, every band has intonation problem, and we must have some slight variation to the actual tune or else it will sound robotic. But of course varying too much isn't good. What am I talking about? Just make sure you're in tune.

And you don't stand out. Yes. All my sec one and two life when I had been really sucky at oboe was spent on trying to not stand out because I don't want people to hear my sucky sound. :) Hehe blending in is important!

AHHH I'M LISTENING TO OUR RECORDING NOW AND OUR INTONATION SUCKS AHHH!

AND I SOUND SO SOFT DURING MY *&^#!$#%&^%* SOLO!!!

Okay adieus! Good luck studying for blk tests! :D

HEY FLUBOESSS :D

we're having our soundcheck tmr, at SCH!

its going to be our one and only chance before SYF to be at the place itself to listen to ourselves and possibly change the way we play certain parts to suit the acoustics over there.

If you actually think about it, the only chances we ever get to play at SCH are soundchecks and SYF itself. So please treasure the time spent there, we are only going to be there for slightly more than one hour which is VERY short so every single second matters a lot.

Think of what you wrote in your cranes, think of what NYCB means to you and think of SYF as an event on its own.

Focus I REALLY MEAN FOCUS! in order to make full use of the time at SCH or any prac now, you really need to focus. when you focus, you dont talk you dont play around with people around you cause if you talk then you wont be conscious of your surroundings and what other people are playing.

We need to LISTEN to ourselves and people around us, how the different parts sound so different yet they sound like layers on top of each other and together its this huge big sound which impacts so many, evokes so much emotions within.

i think we just need PASSION, OUR EYES TO WATCH, OUR EARS TO LISTEN, AND TO FOCUS. Think of yourselves as individuals who can make a difference, yet we can only be powerful as a group, as a band :D

SEE YOU TMR okay actually you might not read this in time HEH

but it applies to all practices (:

PENCIL, FULL BAND U tmr.

Lots of love,

Serene! (:

20 more days.