Saturday, April 4, 2009
Hi tanbo here is the prac schedule for this week:
Mon 3.30-5.30 Classroom Xiaozu
Tue 3.30-(nunconfirmed) KS Chee Dazu
Thur 3.30-6 KS Chee Dazu
Fri (no prac cos of Good Friday)
Sat 9.30-11.30 Classroom Xiaozu
11.30 Lunch then go to DHS
5-6+ Concert
The schedule is generally correct except for sat's schedule and the time that prac ends for some days. I will confirm it with wenyun asap and inform you people again. For monday and tuesday practice please try your best to come unless you really have something on. I will check if you need excuse letter for tue if you can't make it. If you are groaning that there is a lot of prac be glad that I didn't add prac on wednesday as well. We've only got 6 days to the dhs thing and 16 days to SYF!
And some of the stuff to take note of after this week's prac:
蝉歌 慢板
-Must remember to count in your head (but not with your foot) cos wang ls doesn't give the beat so obviously
-Breathe before each time you come in! It helps you with controlling the tempo and it looks good when we do it together. :)
-The part with liuqin and zhongruan alternating liuqin please play louder ad zhongruan play a bit softer. Currently quite off-balance.
-I must commend all of us for the improvement that we made this week as to this part cos there is better 感觉 and we are kind of 齐 even though we are counting on our own. But yeah must continue to improve! :)
蝉歌 快板
-Better also with the 赶拍 part, continue to work on it
-But must also work on remembering to play the 扫弦 parts loudly and 集中ly
-Must be 激动! :)
漠楼
-Changes to the 拉弦 渐慢 parts
-Changes to liuqin/pipa 极限音 parts (pipa remember to remind me that we have to discuss about this part)
-G diao need to work on expression. SERIOUSLY.
-拍板 part need to er have happy 台风 :) (pipa let's practise this part too...)
Here are links to some videos that you may want to take a look at for inspiration for molou. Parts that I recommend you to take a look at are in brackets but you can watch the rest also if you want. Oh and when you watch the videos you can take note of the background music cos some parts have interesting music that you may find "inspired" by. :)
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/tSRx02RhrdQ/ (1.15-1.50, 3.02-4.15, 13.32-13.44, 14.08-14.40) This link was provided by kexin and it's actually about animals in African deserts. I have picked out the parts that show the desert and stuff, but you can watch the animal parts too if you want!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcWN1o_vFv8 (0.00-1.15) Some documentary about Marco Polo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeyYWg5M0a4&feature=related (0.00-4.00) This is about a lost "empire" in the desert but er if you don't really get it it's ok.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RK8EKOtjg8 This is erm a video of people dancing around it may be slightly useful for the G diao part? The video quality is quite bad but there is an interesting-looking tanbo instrument somewhere. Haha.
As for what happened this week, I do hope that you people won't be too affected by the change in conductors. Please bear in mind that although not everyone would be happy with the arrangements no one is to blame for it, and what we have to do now is to cooperate as best as we can with wang ls and work hard for SYF. Doubtlessly liu ls has put a lot of effort into working with us over the past few months and we are all very grateful towards her for what she has done for us. And thus some of us may be upset over what has happened, but please do not transfer that into negative feelings towards wang ls. I do NOT want to hear anyone making negative comments about the change in conductors or wang ls herself. As for concerns over her being "biased" against tanbo, if you were there on Sat you should know that that is definitely not true. She is trying very hard to make the best out of this situation, so we ourselves should put in effort too.
And with that said, let us all work even harder in the few days left before SYF. This is not only for liu ls, wang ls, or any of the other instructors and teacher i/cs, but most of all for OURSELVES. To fulfil our personal goals, and to get recognition for our hard work over the years in CO. But of course, it is not only about the results, and even if we don't get what we'd hoped for, all of us would still have gained a lot from this process by working together as a CCA and really bonding through this experience.
So yes jiayou everyone. Let's make the best out of this last few days and leave no regrets of this experience together as RGCO'09. :)
<3 dengqing
6 days to dhs concert
16 days to syf
and we last composed our song at12:40 AM
