HEY GUYS.
finally we are at the very last lap of this bloody long race.
Pretty good effort coming tru from u guys, and we sounded REALLY very well.
I dont know whether we will get the gold, but lets keep the fingers cross yeah?

Just some few comments.

We might be able to play the notes now, but i think wad we really lack are the emotions and musicality.

For safari, think of urselves more like an animal rather than just urself. E.g flutes or clarinets must think of themselves as some kind of birds. Tubas, euphos and trombones should play out the low pedal notes - that is to provide the sound of the lions. Trumpets' elephant call is pretty good, just need more of the high C. :) soloists like sinyi and wz need more emotion like eugene.

Safari demands more of ur ability to play in tempo - those coming in from at 2 bars before 14 must be in tempo ; trumpets when playing at 29 shld memo the score and look at mr tan to keep urselves in tempo etc.

Dynamics shld be wide - when climbing a scale, express more on the high notes; cresondos before 15 shld be much much more.

For Escape, try and hold ur notes to full values for every SINGLE bar. e.g the 2/4 bar in the beginning of the piece shld be longg not short. if not the music will like kinda stop and start and stop many times.

Many a times, u need to feel the song moving and going somewhere. For this piece, the beginning is trying to illustrate someone escaping from the plato's cave. Winds need to control ur dynamics. Band not too loud in 18 bars onwards, or it will sound too mellow and bass-heavy. more balance will be good. Trumpets will biting notes in bar 40 something shld do a cresondo ba, that will sound better. :)

Then in the middle of piece is the most emotional part - each section must be damn in tune and the style shld be more expressive than plain. Tubas and trombones shld do 2bar-phrase in bar 75 to avoid sounding too choppy. 1st voices like flutes and 1st trumpets need to come out more in 83.

I love the accel, think that is the most exciting part of all. cresondos are great, just plain GOOD!

the other parts are quite ok, just need to noe ur dynamics like Fp and ur articulation.

other than these, i think u all need the damn stage presence.
Enjoy playing in a band ; playing in with ur sections, ur friends.
Bring out the joy and happiness and all the emotions - touched the judges, WOW the audiences, bring proud to our school.

This shall be the last and only chance for us Sec 4s and 3s to play in SYF as PHSSB le.
I hope that at the end of the competition, we can leave w/o any regrets.
It isnt worth it to cry or be sad if u noe that u did ur best, right?

Know that all ur seniors are behind u, cheering for u, rooting for u.
All the 3 teachers, mr tan, mr ng will always be there for u.
Have faith in us leaders and fret not,
even if we dont get wad we want, we will still be PHSSB. :)

With that in mind, i wish us all the best!

Joseph

10:49 AM
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