Gernaine thinks lollerskates are cute.
I realised I'm getting lazier and lazier somewhat as the days go by.
Not that it is a bad thing or anything, just that I've always been used to getting homework finished on time and not having to rush at the last minute.
I didn't finish my Chemistry supplementary exercise questions yesterday because I decided to just finish it today. (I have a 50 minute free period till guitar practice after my final lesson anyway)
Well, yeah so it worked out. Still, I feel I ought stop procrastinating so much. :/
I shall finish homework tomorrow before the OG outing at 5pm and I shall blog before I go to sleep today. :D
Anyway, today wasn't so bad. I've signed up for the Temasek Idol with Farid on vocals, Jit Rui whacking out the beats and Leon on guitar.
While we originally intended to include Elliot and Benjamin so we could do blues-rock stuff, Jit Rui thinks 8 bar blues stuff is a little boring. :/
I agree that's true somewhat, but still good music is good music. :)
Well, to be honest I'm not really looking forward to it because I'm somewhat skeptical about the organisation of the event.
To begin, I was somehow led to believe that TI was purely a singing competition whether you're joining as a group or solo.
The SC people called me up to inform me that 'there isn't any promises' as to whether they can get the equipment. Although in my opinion they are most likely able to get it, who knows?
Not that I have anything against playing in school-based performances, but it tends to suck sometimes because of bad sound and bad organisation. :/
I still recall Talent Search when they miced Jit Rui's kick drum but the mic channel wasn't even turned on. :/
Pfft. Oh well.
Anyway in case you're wondering, I named the band Mytailisonfire. It was completely random, but in case you're wondering where I got the name, think Charizards and Alexisonfire.
We're intending to play The Donnas' "Take It Off" and Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss". We need two songs for the auditions anyway, so we're just settling with these two first.
Hm darn, now I hope Calvin and Emma decide on the songlist for the TalentQuest X finals soon.
So guitar practice today was pretty okay. The bunch of us who could play and sightread went outside of the InnoSpace room to practice playing "A Whole New World".
I had to play rhythm because I learned the rhythm parts accidentally. :/
Haha, joining guitar ensemble is pretty good because I feel like I can finally sightread for once. Not to mention it really exposes you to stuff you normally won't try playing or even listening to.
After some practice we had some interaction session with each other. Moon says I have a lack of coordinaton which probably explains why I was the only person who had to do forfeits twice. :/
Oh well, after guitar I met Cheng Ying in the canteen and it was pretty cool. We did some violin/guitar jams which I thought sounded pretty okay.
We played stuff like Stand By Me, Fly Me To The Moon and just a range of pop songs or whatever could pop into my head at that point of time.
Classically trained people are a strange lot indeed.
They range from being really bad to being nothing short of impressive.
Like this guy from String Ensemble who is the concert master, his hearing was top notch.
While to be fair I played really standard chord progressions for him to improvise over, I was impressed when he started improvising over my basslines. :O
Kudos to you all! -applause-
TJ has so many talented musicians that I think it's just amazing. I'm looking forward to practicing with the string ensemble people on Monday and Tuesday.
I'm helping them out with their cover of Chrono Cross's main title Time's Scar. I'm providing the bass part, Jit Rui is handling percussion and violins and piano will do the rest.
I think it'll sound pretty rad. :D
Gee, and I can't wait to try collaborating with Ryan too. His taste in music is really good too. He introduced me to this hour long track full of grooves and beats that will get stuck in your head for days.
Well that pretty much wraps up today. I'm off to blog on my class's blog.
Take care!
Not that it is a bad thing or anything, just that I've always been used to getting homework finished on time and not having to rush at the last minute.
I didn't finish my Chemistry supplementary exercise questions yesterday because I decided to just finish it today. (I have a 50 minute free period till guitar practice after my final lesson anyway)
Well, yeah so it worked out. Still, I feel I ought stop procrastinating so much. :/
I shall finish homework tomorrow before the OG outing at 5pm and I shall blog before I go to sleep today. :D
Anyway, today wasn't so bad. I've signed up for the Temasek Idol with Farid on vocals, Jit Rui whacking out the beats and Leon on guitar.
While we originally intended to include Elliot and Benjamin so we could do blues-rock stuff, Jit Rui thinks 8 bar blues stuff is a little boring. :/
I agree that's true somewhat, but still good music is good music. :)
Well, to be honest I'm not really looking forward to it because I'm somewhat skeptical about the organisation of the event.
To begin, I was somehow led to believe that TI was purely a singing competition whether you're joining as a group or solo.
The SC people called me up to inform me that 'there isn't any promises' as to whether they can get the equipment. Although in my opinion they are most likely able to get it, who knows?
Not that I have anything against playing in school-based performances, but it tends to suck sometimes because of bad sound and bad organisation. :/
I still recall Talent Search when they miced Jit Rui's kick drum but the mic channel wasn't even turned on. :/
Pfft. Oh well.
Anyway in case you're wondering, I named the band Mytailisonfire. It was completely random, but in case you're wondering where I got the name, think Charizards and Alexisonfire.
We're intending to play The Donnas' "Take It Off" and Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss". We need two songs for the auditions anyway, so we're just settling with these two first.
Hm darn, now I hope Calvin and Emma decide on the songlist for the TalentQuest X finals soon.
So guitar practice today was pretty okay. The bunch of us who could play and sightread went outside of the InnoSpace room to practice playing "A Whole New World".
I had to play rhythm because I learned the rhythm parts accidentally. :/
Haha, joining guitar ensemble is pretty good because I feel like I can finally sightread for once. Not to mention it really exposes you to stuff you normally won't try playing or even listening to.
After some practice we had some interaction session with each other. Moon says I have a lack of coordinaton which probably explains why I was the only person who had to do forfeits twice. :/
Oh well, after guitar I met Cheng Ying in the canteen and it was pretty cool. We did some violin/guitar jams which I thought sounded pretty okay.
We played stuff like Stand By Me, Fly Me To The Moon and just a range of pop songs or whatever could pop into my head at that point of time.
Classically trained people are a strange lot indeed.
They range from being really bad to being nothing short of impressive.
Like this guy from String Ensemble who is the concert master, his hearing was top notch.
While to be fair I played really standard chord progressions for him to improvise over, I was impressed when he started improvising over my basslines. :O
Kudos to you all! -applause-
TJ has so many talented musicians that I think it's just amazing. I'm looking forward to practicing with the string ensemble people on Monday and Tuesday.
I'm helping them out with their cover of Chrono Cross's main title Time's Scar. I'm providing the bass part, Jit Rui is handling percussion and violins and piano will do the rest.
I think it'll sound pretty rad. :D
Gee, and I can't wait to try collaborating with Ryan too. His taste in music is really good too. He introduced me to this hour long track full of grooves and beats that will get stuck in your head for days.
Well that pretty much wraps up today. I'm off to blog on my class's blog.
Take care!
posted by Bryan at Friday, January 26, 2007
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