how many more days left to SYF?

hello section, your SL Natalie here. SYF is coming (i am not really bothered on counting the days///) but yes it;s on the 8th april at 115pm and you and i that is not much time left, so you should know what to do. other sections are having section talks and blah and joanna is pushing me for a section talk but i cant talk face to face with yall because really i wont know how to phrase what i want to say at that instance (yes, my horrible english) and this blog post is really just a form of what i would like to tell the section if i were to have a section talk. just that this is in a form of a blog post and that it'd be more grammatically correct. i hope you guys know that our section isnt good anymore.... let me reiterate the point that our section used to be super pro and awesome (thanks to our seniors) and we used to be a section that the band kind of looks up to or however you put it but over the years, our standards just keeps dropping.. probably due to less people with flute experience joining nycb. and even people with no music experience joining experience which was rare in the past. when i told laoshi that other sections felt that our standards are dropping and that our tone sucks, i really mean it because it is not just one person saying it but a number of people. i dont know how guys feel, but it really does suck to know we are the ones who caused this downhill. to the SYF team (Joanna Yeju Chiyan KohMin): you guys really have to start practising and when i say that i mean by going through the passages you are unsure of, keep repeating the same passage over and over again (like what we did with jiaxin that day), and adhering to what mrlim/wanglaoshi/your own SL has told you and not say yes and note it down in your score but you didnt even follow instructions. sometimes i really do feel that you dont even take me for your SL so when i say PRAC LONG NOTES just prac lah still want play your own stuff. during sectionals i ask yall to hold the notes and tune to each other THEN HOLD THE NOTES LAH dont stop playing because seriously it happens all the time and it irkes me. the two things i really need yall to focus on is INTONATION and TONE. INTONATION--- LISTEN TO EACH OTHER (and tune with the band in general). dont be an ass and continue playing although you know you are seriously out. TONE--- idk why but everyone in the band knows how to distinct a good flute tone from a bad one. if you cant even have a decent tone then how are you expected to play anything? that;s why i said DO LONG NOTES and situps everyday if you dont follow my instruction i would be utterly disappointed im serious to Joanna: really really have to work playing softer for your high notes!! cuz it is really protuding now so please please go prac that. and you have a tendency to stop play stop play stop play and then finally produce the note we cant have that to happen because your register is so high so just try to keep a constant tone and adjust by turning in (cuz usually your notes are sharp) to Yeju: you have to learn to play with more emotions!! shaping + vibrato. like the diptyque bar 24 or 29 i cant remember aiya yknow where lah. the semplice part. to Chiyan: TONE!!!! people are saying that 'they dont trust people who are playing with those grey flutes because of the differing timbre' but hey as laoshi said, it;s still achievable in getting that flute tone okay so keep working on it! experiment with your embouchure if you have too okay to Kohmin: tone tooo!!!! idk if it;s your mouth shape or your braces but you have got to achieve a richer and louder tone! also, you tend to play stop play stop play then able to get the note like joanna. idk if it;s a habit but try to hit the note immediately when told to! to oboes: i dont play your instrument but somehow i feel that i have to say something. you guys have to learn to practise efficiently-- prac slowly and keep repeating, like the same bar over and over 20 times if you cant get it right the first time round. i know this may be a bit late to say but i hope you will heed my advice for future practices to end off to this part of my blog post i would like to say that i have been in a bad mood later cuz of the state of the section is in for syf. like seriously not only do i have to worry in band i go home and i get troubled at night when i eat when i study when i sleep. i dont see much drive in yall and i dont see yall taking my feedback seriously and at the end of it all truthfully this syf has been a really really emotionally and mentally draining journey and since syf is coming i want to know that mine and everyone;s efforts to be worth it. i dont even care if we get distinction but knowing that my section didnt perform to their optimal standard will just dampen my mood. because i really think that if yall listen to what i say (especially on my point on long notes and tone) i think we all can achieve much more!! at the end of this syf journey i want to feel proud of my section and for what we had accomplished together, really, i dont even care for the award we get (sorry to Joanna if that spoils the mission of the comm). so really, syf is not far away and all we can do is to make do with what little time we have in doing what we can okay! to the rest of the section (yiting yunwen and sec1s): yiting and yunwen: i know you guys arent in syf but that doesnt mean you can slack off because really i hope both of you are working your asses off equally hard as the rest of us are okay!!! i also need you guys to be of a certain standard to lead the secones, so really take the extra time you have now to pull your socks up! you two + kohmin will be leading flutes for the next syf and really at the pace and standard youre going it is not enough. for yiting, i feel that as long as you still have the passion for band and flute and will be committed to putting in my time and effort, your seniors and laoshi will always be there to help you so never give up! for yunwen, i really appreciate the time and effort and interest you have in flute, but you have got to listen and heed the advice of your seniors and laoshi, dont just rely on Youtube okay. sec1s: i hope yall are doing well in band and hope you enjoy playing the flute! because really, so many want to get into flutes but you guys are the lucky ones who got chosen to be in this unique and awesome section. if you dont like being in flute and band please do tell me, because it will cause lots of problems in the future and it is best to be known now. Also, i would like to bring up the point again of taking care of your instruments!!! because really. flutes aint so cheap as you think they may be, and really a slight hit against the floor or something can cause it to spoil so please really treat it with care okay!!! AND REMEMBER ABOUT THE SALIVA CLOTH AND POLISHING CLOTH I TOLD YALL. to the oboe junior i have not actually talked to you but i heard you like band and oboe alot so thats great and continue with that same amount of drive and passion okay Just want to end off and say that the 1 of the 2 existing reasons that i still like band is because of my dear section--- YOU GUYS. yes i do get depressed and disappointed with you guys and yes that has been happening alot recently but that is because i love you guys and i think yall really have the potential to do better. i hope yall will also respect me as your SL/senior more because it is really heartbreaking when yall dont listen to me. just would like to say jiayous to you guys, especially to the SYF team yes we will get through this together and at the end of this magical journey i really want all of you to leave that stage, knowing that you had put in your best and had played with no regrets all the best to everyone for blocks and band!! lots of love, Natalie, flutes SL 2013 (I am sorry seniors if i had let you down in any way. i will do better in leading the section and may flutes/fluboes become the most talented and exquisite section yet again!)

Hello fluboes C: okay how long has this blog been dead alrd!! so i am here to revive it (yay) anyway sorry for late post APPASSIONATA XIII on a minor scale took place on 11 may 2012. ie a few days ago. i have to say that indeed, APPASSIONATA XIII is probably the most memorable event of this year thank you section, for making this concert so exciting it was the process that counts. THOUGH WHY WE NEVER TAKE ANY PHOTOS!! ): thank you dear flutes SL, Hua Xian, for putting in your time and effort into preparing us for the concert thank you for making us play long notes even though you know i dont like to do so thank you for bonding alot with me and jo anna, we feel so loved <3 thank you DM, Wanlin, for being so funny and friendly all the time thank you for doing some ahahem cool body wave for the initial gimmicks for carribean thank you for enduring my spazz over tjx thank you oboe SL, for being so calm and collective all the time thank you for having such a nice friendly face such that i wouldnt be scared of you thank you for having such a cool oboe-- ps i like your solo-y parts in seventh night alot thank you He Xu, for sitting beside me during CSM, ie the event before appassionata thank you for letting me use your hotspot then hahaha thank you for making me laugh when you played simple gifts movement 4 bar 53 at twice the speed ---- thank you my only fluboes batchmate, jo anna, for being so gay and friendly thank you for having to endure all my weird crap thank you for playing such a beautiful totoro solo <3 ---- thank you korean girl, Ye Ju, for being so koreany thank you for writing korean words in my APPA letter which i obviously dont understand thank you for sharing score with me for simple gifts and totoro, when He Xu decides to use the other score to herself heee thank you SNSD fan, Chi Yan, for loving SNSD as much as me thank you for bonding with the sec ones thank you for being rebellious and decide not to go back to boarding school but have supper with the section instead thank you Claudia, for being Claudia thank you for letting me pull your hongzi prior to APPA thank you for the nice pretty APPA letter you wrote me ---- thank you JC (and beyond) seniors who came back to watch us perform Anne, Serene, Rachel, QiuLuan, and the others seniors whom idk (ooops), thank you for supporting us! ---- thank you secones for helping out in the concert thank you Yun Wen, Yi Ting, Koh Min, for helping me to buy my wrapping stuff thank you Sarah for agreeing to run while carrying the benches ---- okay i am saying a bunch of thank yous mainly because i felt guilty for not writing some letters (ooops) in all, APPASSIONATA XIII was great i had the time of my life our opening piece, HOBART CENTENNIAL, was a blast omg it was so exciting YORKSHIRE BALLAD was very beautiful, i had always loved it SIMPLE GIFTS was well idk super funny esp movement 4 but we pushed the tempo for movement 2 so it was super fun hahaha SEVENTH NIGHT OF JULY omg the adrenaline and pride that i felt when i played it PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE -- technology and into the new world. though we didnt play it, but i loved it all the same tjx's solo was super (Y) TOTORO!! super cute with jo anna's very totoro-y solo :D CARRIBEAN i love it but so sorry i screwed that part /; CARNAVAL IN SAO PAOLO was just plain fun and then we played the school song, i thought it sounded very school-y how do you say it like school pride yknow in all FLUBOES you made my memory of APPASSIONATA XIII ON A MINOR SCALE super vivid i love you guys thank you for making it awesome ps i hope yall dont mind the long post pps SECTION OUTING AND SECTION TEE lalala

i love you

Fluboes

thank you for yesterday
thank you for
Flight and Flyer
When you believe,

I really believe
There can be miracles, when You Believe.
♥

On top of everything
I Love You

band outing 2011

HEY WANLIN WANGHUA HEXU XINYU!!

thank you for band outing 2011 it was really well planned and then everything was so organised plus the games were so fun i am very impressed and proud of all of you :D

and we had so much fun!!

OUR SECTION PICNIC with the company of birds and ants and flies and ALOT OF FOOD yayy we havent had a picnic in a long timeee :)

i love you fluboes!

♥

SECTION OUTING 070611 (:

HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN MERI! (:

OHOHO wheee lets have section outing WHOOHOO yay hmmm lets go to some faraway islandand bring along our flutes and blast all our high notes out eh. okay kidding hmm but it is quite cool lol x)
EH BUT YESHYESHYESH SECTION OUTING FTWWWW <3
withlotsoflove,
NATALIEEEE

SHALL WE HAVE A SECTION OUTING TO SOMEWHERE COOL?? :D

Post SYF

HEY FLUBOES

The emotions dont run so much anymore i am learning.

i think we have all learnt to get over the results

and move on.

i think its really important to learn to move on so we shall all move on together okay and it'll all be fine, we'll have our section outings/breakfasts again we would still go for practices its all the same right :D

its fine i know we still love each other a lot! :D its what matters the most at the end of the day right (:

when i look at our section photos i am reminded of all that we have gone through together and then it would seem like everything else doesnt matter anymore sometimes i tear because i am touched by the extent of our closeness we are like family! <3

thank you all for the encouraging texts and the seniors for coming back it was so nice and warm and comforting to have you guys around :D it made everything okay like you guys were supporting us all the way.

and kayyun and rachel who kept reminding me to be strong regardless of whatever happened, lien and qiuluan who were around the whole time who were always around to give us support, meiqi who rushed back for results and comforted us. (:

I feel really lucky now for ALL OF YOU. <3

Serene!

SYF 2011

Hey Fluboes!

How have you all been these days? Hope you guys are walking around in smiles!!! Was sick yesterday [what a coincidence:)] and thus did not manage to come to school- did go today though and yes i'm feeling a little better already:)

today, when my friends asked me how was SYF, i told them straight in the face that "we got silver". some of their reactions were shocked, upset for me. but there was this girl who upon hearing me say that we got silver, she said "Oh! Congratulations!" and my other friend said "eh why are you being so sarcastic." but then she said "Really. Congratulations."

upon hearing this i felt incredibly comforted, that no matter what happened, my friends still stood by me, and congratulated our success.

i guess what i really want to say, is that no matter what guys, it really doesn't matter what we get:) what we get only reflects upon our peformance. it does not reflect on what we had put into this SYF 2011- the countless frustrations, lunch practices, going home late. We really have to ask ourselves, if we have put in enough for his SYF 2011, if yes, then you have really done the band proud, putting your 300% best into this SYF. So actually what medal the judges gave us doesn't really matter! So what if can't see this? what's most important is that WE know what we have done, what we have strived for, and what we have achieved, which is not the Silver Award, but the Gold with Honours spirit in everyone of our souls. please this is not that easy to get can:) and knowing that not only we ourselves know, but our friends, the school knows, it really heartens me:)

tomorrow will be the MOZAC exchange, i believe we will be playing SYF songs again. i hope to feel, once again, the spirit that i felt on stage that fateful 11.04.11

i love you all very much,

hua xian

HEY EVERYONE! Firstly I'll like to congratulate everyone on making this day a success! Yes! Today was a success cause we put in our 300%, we showed to everyone that we have infinite potential! The results are really secondary to me. I wouldn't really think about the medal we get at this point of time because I know everyone has put in their best effort to make this day even possible. We've always been working hard as an individual, working hard as a section, working hard as a band. We were in this all together, and that's what makes me really happy.

We were on stage today just not long ago. I can still feel my heart beating really fast, just like how it was on stage. I can feel the music flowing through me, just like how it was on stage.

I know we may feel disappointed, and we may feel that we could have done better to get a better medal. BUT NO! We cannot turn back the clock right now. We have to stay strong and keep walking forward, keep improving ourselves so that we can do much better in other occasions, right? =D Let's be proud of what we've got, because we have really done our best and we do not have any regrets.

If the clock really does turn back, I want to make everything the same, so I can have another once-in-a-lifetime journey with each and everyone of you here. I'll really treasure and cherish every single wonderful memory of this whole SYF journey, so I hope that everyone will too. =D

The reward I got back from this whole experience: memories, fun, laughter, love. (and well tears of joy too! XD)

Less than 3 [<3],
Wanlin

FLUBOES FLUBOES.

SYF`2011 IS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS.

are you guys nervous are you guys worried! :/

all the best kayy we have worked so hard on our runs and intonation and tone and meri had been packing lunch everyday to listen to us. the sacrifices we make ah. THANK YOU MERI. (:

anyway everything will be worth it, we will touch the hearts of our audience tmr because we are NYCB! :D

rest well for the rest of today and make sure you're mentally prepared for tmr!

see you guys tmr,

I LOVE ALL OF YOU. <3

Serene!

4 more days

HELLO EVERYONE! =DDDD now that blocks are over, i guess we can all concentrate on band! =D It's the last lap to chiong, so let's do it together!!! We're almost there! ^^

Anyway, I've got some stuff that the badminton coach said that day. ^.^

Peak Performance --> Be at your very best.
HAVE LOTS OF SELF-CONFIDENCE! Be proud that we are part of NYCB =D
FOCUS, GIVE YOUR VERY BEST! We need to always focus and give your very best everytime we play, and this includes band practices too!
STAY HEALTHY! Before you can go to peak performance, we must must must be healthy. So take care of yourself and look after yourself! Act responsibly! Rest well, and take loads of Vitamin C! XDXD

Mental Skills Training:
Learn, Acquire & Practice
Under the pressures of competitions/preformances, we will notice our most dominant and automatic response. We have to practice until the reaction becomes really automatic, we do what we have to do without our realisation. [oh my gosh i'm suddenly reminded of that instant when he wanted to hit me... >.<]
Multitask. This is really really important! We need to play our notes correctly, be in tune, and watch Ms Chong at the same time! It's as though our whole body is working. Eyes, ears, fingers, mouth, lungs, body.
POSTIVE THOUGHTSWe need to think positively! Usually people know what they need to do, they are just doubting themselves. POSITIVE THINKING IS THE KEY TO THE HOLE TO SUCCESS! =D Deep personal beliefs in your ability is extrememly important, at the same time realistic expectations is necessary. But i think, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO IT! =D
Create positive affirmation. Usethe statement I: I will give MY best today. Do your best.
Psychological barriers to success. The fear of failing and falling short of other people's (sometimes your own) epectations is what hinders us to success. These are self-limiting beliefs. This CANNOT. CANNOT. CANNOT. CANNOT. happen! Believe in yourself and everyone around you. [Refer to the point above. =D]

The difficult we do first, the impossible takes time. Even though we may not feel 100% today, it's okay. We will still give it our all and see what happens.
DARE TO TRY, DARE TO FAIL, DARE TO ACHIEVE. I think this is really really really important. There is nothing wrong with trying, and even more so in making mistakes. Everyone knows what will happen if we don't try, Nothing. But who knows what will happen when we try? The possibilities are infinite.
Don't be afraid to try and fail, be only afraid of failing to try. I like this sentence a lot! =D What's wrong with failing? We just have to adopt a 'dare to try' and 'dare to fail' attitude. Think: I can accept failure -- Everybody fails at something at sometimes. (No one is perfect.) But I cannot accept not trying.
I think trying and making a mistake is not failing. It's more of not trying, that's the real failure.
SO! WE JUST NEED TO TRY AND GIVE IT ALL WE GOT! =D



Hard work, commitment, perseverance is the key. =D

WOOTS~ WE CAN DO THIS! =DD LET'S CONTINUE OUR FIGHT AND FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT ALL THE WAY! Can we achieve GWH? YES OF COURSE! ^^

JIAYOU!

Love,
Wanlin

HEY FLUBOESSS <3

JIAYOU FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS

i know we can

i have faith

we will do awesome alrighttt :D

Take good care of yourselves

be at your best on 11th April

<3

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.

Fluboes HUGA!

YOZ PPL

yes yes its me WANG HUA XIAN here to post for the first time HAHAHS. aww man recording today sucked for me because i found out from ANNE that i was too sharp so please don't be shocked when you hear the recording with an out of tune instrument- yeah that's me:(:(:(

i think the band is... KIND OF improving la but super slow:( the trumpets can't really hit high notes and when i asked the Horns right, they say they can't exactly tell whether they're in tune as they can't hear themselves. BUT I REALLY THINK WE CAN DO IT BECAUSE our BRASSES are becoming awesomer by the DAY MANZ.

i just hope it'll be faster you know, i get really sad whenever I see ms chong who looks like she's about to cry:( LIKE TODAY OH MANZ. and i really need to practice MORE!

everyone JIAYOUS for SYF alrightos we're good but we can be BETTER!

LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO!!!

<3 HUAXIAN!!

JIAYOU FOR SYF,

6 MORE WEEKS

<3

In response to Li Wei's posts

Hi all, I guess that while ya'll may be listening to the different versions of flight and getting a vague idea of what we can improve on, here's some suggestions that we can consider:

For the 1st (top) video:
Basically this is the best version of the three, coordination is not too bad, although the tempo is a little unsteady at places. The running notes in the woodwinds are very clear, every note has equal note length and is very well-coordinated within the different sections. This is what we must be okay! =) Also, we must listen to the intonation of yourself, the section, other sections and the band! While this may seem difficult, you just need to hear yourself and everyone else. If you feel comfortable, you're okay, if you feel like you're a little out-of-sync with the rest, adjust! Simple as that. :) This is really important because it shows the different between an excellent band, a good band, an okay band and a lousy band. It's really significant because that affects how the listener responds to the music whether in relaxation and awe or in shock and cringes everytime the music blares. yup, so basically this band is in tune, in coordination and sounds majestic and cultured that's why it is the best! (Note that we should NOT follow the tempo here as it is slightly unsteady and distracts the listener from the music!)

For the 2nd video:
Okay, the tempo fluctuations here are even worse, I'm sure you can all hear it as well... Basically, just keep thinking about the pulse. It's like the heartbeat of the music, you must keep it steady else you'll get heartattack! Also, the tuning was quite bad, making the music quite jarring. In addition to what I mentioned earlier about the tuning within yourself and band right, you must make sure that when you enter with the same note as the other person playing it before right, make sure that you do NOT play a different pitch!!! This was like so extremely obvious when the saxophone entered after the flutes and it was like omg that's nearly a semitone off... >.<

For the 3rd video:
It's basically quite similar to the 2nd video... oh! erm 1 more thing, please try to emphasize the first three beats of the first section the semiquavers part. Because the last beat is very projective and in the 2nd and 3rd videos it was the only thing that I could hear. So, make sure that you bring out the first three beats to make this section more consistent and smooth. Also, when holding long notes, please do NOT go flat!!! :( Esp when the trumpet played the solo, the last note went horribly flat and was extremely D= yup so please watch out for the tuning! (if you run out of breath, please - either take another breath or just stop playing esp when it's the last ntoe of a quiet phrase) Here, the main problem is tuning and so it is the 2nd best video - the 2nd video was out of tune AND the tempo very obviously fluctuating so it's the worst of the three.


In conclusion, just make sure that you have
- Tuning! (yourself, section, other sections around you, the band)
- Coordination! (esp when the tempo is changing, please please please look at Ms Chong)
- Balance! (we're often not the melody instruments so please just hover in the background, our part is not really meant to make the listener stressed up so just add a LITTLE excitement to the music...) (This also includes bringing out the lower notes and controlling the high register)
- Clear and even running notes! (the 1st video sounded very controlled and articulate in the running notes, be like them!)

Okay, i think that's all for now. Just take note of what I wrote in the conclusion it's to sum everything I wrote above. :) Happy chinese new year!

- Meri

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