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Friday, September 05, 2008

I can't read a thing on this blog because of the blogger toolbar!

- Aaron saxophonist MUSIC`

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

can't get in!! help!!

- 和椎 saxophonist MUSIC`

Thursday, March 22, 2007

*blows all the dust off this blog* Happy Birthday Samuel! *hugs*

- Aaron saxophonist MUSIC`

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

I think we all have to learn a little vibrato from jiawei... everytime Mr. oura figures a violin vibrato I get so irritated cos I still cannot do it properly... and probably the whole section muz be able to vibrato... I mean its the trademark of saxophones... if we cannot even vibrato properly how can we say we are saxophones from RIMB...

- 和椎 saxophonist MUSIC`

Sunday, December 31, 2006

You know, there used to be a time when I considered the members of this section to be among the closest friends I had. Now... what happened? Where did all the good times we had as a section go?

- Aaron saxophonist MUSIC`

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Hmm. I expected there to be more posts on this blog, considering it's supposed to have 8 times the number of contributors, and therefore 8 times the number of posts. Unless you factor in the extra Aaron(s), of course, in which case it becomes a whole lot more.

At any rate, I suppose I ought to talk about section stuff. We're doing pretty good, I suppose. Of course, we have to note that I'm (rather arbitrarily, might I add) defining "good" in relation to the general performance of the band. So in that sense "good" isn't really all that good. More like "marginally better than completely pathetic".

But lesson in the art of verbosity and definition aside, the section is improving quite a bit. I personally think we're showing some degree of passion for the music we're playing. Plus, we tend to listen and change whenever there's something wrong with our playing. And that's always a good thing.

There's still a whole lot of room for improvement, of course. I find us sounding more like a "collection of individuals playing to completely outshine, or hide behind, the other" rather than a "holistic entity of individuals playing to complement each other, and therefore play proper music". Quite clearly, we don't seem to sound very much like a saxophone section. Much of that has to do with the fact that we don't have a baritone saxophone, and have some inexperienced dudes. But that still doesn't excuse us. I've heard 4 man sections with a tenor doubling as a baritone play better than us. Ok, so I'm lying. But so what? I'm sure there are 4 man sections with a tenor doubling as a baritone somewhere out there.

The point is that we have to keep on improving ourselves, both individually and as a section. Yes, it sounds hypocritical given it's coming from someone whose skills have been in gradual atrophy for some time now. But that's not the point. The fact of the matter is that all of us have to learn to play properly and play together. That's the key to impressing people.

I remember David once came over to the section area to watch our section practice. That was when Lester and Jermyn and company were still in action. David, of course, was impressed by our brilliance. I'm thinking that, if we put our hearts to it, he can come over to the section area again, before SYF, and tell me that our section quite literally blew him away.

Oh, and another thing. Abtzy, you owe me a dollar.

- Jumbiez saxophonist MUSIC`

Thursday, November 02, 2006

does any1 realise that the tagboard is not working? mayb it does but now it asks me for a password and sumhow I juz cannot get in... so then we go on to our usual post... i guess ill start by suaning Sam... wat happaned to that solo... oh ya we juz had holdae break the week b4... :) ok that was mean... ill stop... next... abt how pro I am... not exactly but ill start anyway... *Bryan u r soo pro* great... evry1 nids an ego boost sumtimes... im done yay!!! the blog is not soo dead... <3

- 和椎 saxophonist MUSIC`