hmmm...spent the last few days having rehearsals for RISE...getting owned by aldwyn tan...haha...though jerald said that music isnt abt who owns who, i still feel that the competition is pretty vital in the development of music given that you will be motivated to play better, improve and try to beat that guy who once beat you in his playing...when i first saw aldwyn, i thought of him as some funky hair style guy...just got the looks, not the substance, cant be that imba one that got promoted in SNYO just half a year after a stint in SNYTO...but hey, after playing Prince Igor with him, i realized wads the fuss abt him...he is THAT good...i mean, i found out that he plays the bass trombone, but his high notes certainly dunt make him sound like a bass trombonist...i thought i was like one of the best in perhaps school bands for high notes trombonists, but since i heard him, i started having doubts abt myself...i idolize (?) matthew, charles, quan hui, michael, ziluo for their trombone skills, but to be honest, i feel that aldwyn is the standard that i must reach bfore i move on in my music "career"...hmmm...shld start practising harder...it wunt be that easy, but since he started playing only when he was 12, and hes like maybe 2 years older than me, i would say that it can be done...JIAYOU!
ok...going on the RISE...i must say it feels more like SNYO then RISE..given that we have wad? 25 guest players????....and some of the ppl there ARE SNYO...its been a really great experience...forget wad jerald said abt orchestral songs being boring...i really love those songs...because these songs really kinda force me to play better, to improve...rather than the songs that i get in RIMB...granted, its still not perfected yet...but HEY, if you can sightread some of the songs, whats the fun in it???...ok, resting for 100 bars isnt really sth that i have experienced, but it forces you to concentrate, to listen out for the music...that is wad orchestral music is all about, and i do think that this stint in RISE really makes me remember my dream of getting in SNYO, rather than something like philyouth winds...if RISE asks me to play for them again, i would do so, not because im a rafflesian and im obliged to do it, but because i really love the orchestral atmosphere...
That part was abt orchestral music, now its abt RISE...i have played for RIMB, and i have really fallen in love with the music, with the band etc...so much so that i have feelings when i play for them...these feelings are not frm the scores, or abt the scores, but they just flow out bcuz of my love for RIMB...HOWEVER, when i played for RISE, my only joy for playing for them, or rather my only feelings, were, as forementioned, for the music itself...i do not have any feelings for this "ensemble", which actually means that im not giving my all...hmmmm, maybe its the time problem...too little time with them, the animosity of everyone..."im like the only sec school wind player"...but hmmmmm, it really wasnt that enjoyable, and if it wasnt for the orchestral pieces, i would have walked out...
