Sunday, June 28, 2009
Guitar Practice
Yesterday, went guitar practice with clique as usual. Meet shawn at Yishun Interchange, go ACCESS together. Then halfway, Yuan Ping called me say going rain liao, ask me faster and also to be careful. Thanks for concern, YP.
Reached ACCESS, saw inspiration, among others. We prepared for the lesson, then Daniel taught us abit of the Cannn In D theory, where each part was to come in at which appropriate timings. I thought tt that was quite important as they know well when to come in and when to rest, while others play their parts.
After the "lecture", the team warmed up for practice by getting used to the notes of each. When they were ready, I initiated the playing of the Cannon In D, with my bass, while others slowly came in. I felt that the team did very very well instead as we managed to complete the song to where we stopped, to such an extent that the timing was good, Daniel also was like clapping and encouraging us. I feel that it was a good start to the practice session. I think that with more practices, we can be ready for the actual performance liao.
After which, the team split into difernt groups to practice on their particular roles for about 15-20 mins, when theother teachers walked round and guided us. At the other end, bestie Amanda was like playing the Cnnon In D mp3 file from her handphone, loud enough for me to have the temptation to follow the mp3 file and play my bass 1 HAHA. We then came back together as a team again to play the song again, for the last minutes prior to the end of yesterday's session. And yes, We dd well again, without really much stumbling.
After the lesson, clique, along with peter and sharman went for lunch, before we headed for extra guitar practice again, at the nearby void deck. But yesterday was "special" or can say is a shocker, bcoz of 2 shocking incidents.
Firstly, while we were practicing our Cannon in D, a man who walked past us at the void deck there, suddenly stopped and listened to us play. When we played our song finish, he was just standing there clapping!! I wasnt attentive enough to know of the man in the first place coz i was like concentrating hard on playing. But Amanda was attentive enough to realise that the man was there applauding. Then shockingly, he ask us play again zzz. So we played for him. While we were playing, i dunno what he is trying to do, walking around lifting his handphone dunno what he want to do..?? Best friend Amanda was claiming that he was taking a video of our "performance"???. Then, he suddenly ask where we from(AWWA), how to contact AWWA, say that he is school teacher or something, then he was like impressed by the look on his face, that he actually asked whether we interested to appear in his dunno-what-school performance?? Quite a shock for me though haha. Quite a shocking experience for me, but i tink this will make our team stronger as we go forward as a team for Special Awards 2009.
Then second incident is when we play halfway, got 2 policemen walk towards us. I thought we gonna get police warning for playing guitar at void deck?? My first thought was that man previously, thought he video-ed us playing as evidence and called the police. I was like telling Amanda, faster go awa from here HAHA. But in the end, the police was like so friendly, doing some random check only. haha
We then conntinued to practice until 6.15pm, then went Mac for dinner. We accompanied amanda to wait for her mother fetch her home, before we all went home separately, to end a shocking, but fun-filled day with clique and Guitar Ensemble team.
My Inspiration
Sunday, June 28, 2009
