Tuesday, February 17, 2009
okay i originally wanted to be nice and helpful and post up every single detail, stuff like who needs to improve on what and etc. but i realised it could look quite mean unintentionally so i’m going to do a general one. note this may not apply to everybody.
stuff to improve on: [wrt to previous dazus+一个一个来]
-play louder. yeah. zhongruan especially. there’s 8 of you. [while poor pipa+liuqin where there are usually less than 5 people in total]
-play with more gan3jue2. if you want inspiration you can go watch dengqing playing molou [BAR 138] but warning, do not look at her WHILE she’s playing it in dazu cos if she sees you staring at her she is highly liable to smile weirdly at you or do weird funny actions [especially if she’s feeling high or in a funny mood] and you will lose all sense of gan3jue2 you ever had and burst out laughing.
-lun faster. therefore implying, improve on jibengong. relax your hands more. although i know it’s quite hard when you’re nervous.
-MOVE MORE! (: +lift up your hand after each phrase NICELY.
-make sure all your notes are correct [uh, by now they already should be all correct. technically.]
-make sure you know when to come in [jiahui’s molou is kind of helpful for this, just ignore the wrong notes.]
-LOOK.AT.LIU.LAO.SHI. especially our dear ruans who love to ganpai in chan-ge’s 3616. liuqin also should look at lls when it comes to the kuaiban’s high parts. DO.NOT.RUSH.
-improve on coordination [also related to looking at lls], especially the molou part where pipa+zhongruan does the string-plucking thing/the soundboard hitting thing, cos when it’s not together it’s really obvious.
for now i think that’s enough. the finer details we can work on later. provided we have the time. while i don't want to be pessimistic and say we are not up to the standard of even a silver/bronze [which a lot of rgco people seem to be saying nowadays and i know it seems really demoralizing] i can’t exactly say we should expect gold or gwh. okay i don’t mean to pull everyone down. i think i’m waffling. basically what i mean is that it’s not like rgco hasn’t got gold before. we can do it. we’ve been getting gold since 1999 i think. :P so it’s definitely doable! it’s not like this faraway thing that can’t be reached. though it can’t be reached now if we are not going to prac harder than usual.
okay i have explained myself.
attempt at encouragement: we haven’t got gwh before. so. do you want to break the “record”? (: *looks around expectantly*
this is the combined plot for molou we invented haha. you can try imagining this picture if you really have no idea what molou is about. if you have your own picture and it’s somewhat along these lines then good. ignore this. use your own picture. [you play better with your own self-invented pic] if you have 0 inspiration, you can read this and see if it helps.
[ideas courtesy of dengqing+jiahui+bonian+me. acknowledge the source XD]
front part:
-someone stepping into a ruined city and looking around [mysterious feeling?], imagining some woman or someone searching for water or her “long-lost love”[?]
middle part, aka bar 138: the someone starts to imagine people dancing. people wearing many scarves and etc.
-last part [8/5 PAI ROCKS :D]: umm. we didn’t exactly touch on this. i guess you could imagine like they went to war or something? [HAHA ok i don’t know] and that’s how the city got ruined.
-then at the end this person who’s like sightseeing or whatever steps out of the city, feeling quite reluctant to leave the place. he/she thinks about everything he/she saw and walks VERY SLOWLY out of the city. then he/she looks back. then finally he/she takes the final step out. [the last note. HAHA] but tanbo doesn’t play this part much except for pipa with 3 notes, so you can just ignore this rather lame interpretation of the final part.
ok i think you can guess who wrote this by now.
yay jiayou everyone.
BOOHOO MY LAST SYF. *CRIES* i don’t want the previous syf to have been better than this one okay. PLEASE prac hard and do try your best to come down for extra pracs.
and we last composed our song at10:54 PM
