Tuesday, November 7
Back to the familiarAfter so long, I finally attend band prac. I slept at 5 and woke up at 7. Was waiting for Ang Li Ting to reply my message cause she messaged me at around 3 plus then she fell asleep. I thought SimAi would be late so I took my own sweet time to walk in and I didn’t even being anything except my handphone, wallet and ipod. Everyone brought a bag except me. Very zai hor! (: The first hour was practically stoning when they were doing their warm ups, tuning and all. I was actually paying attention cause I was bored. Remembering sir taught us about tightening of embouchure, clear tonguing, rhythm, fast fingerings and all. It was all repeated stuffs. The feeling going back was quite weird. But it was comfortable. It seems like I didn’t even leave band for that period of time. Everything seems so clear, so yesterday kind of thing. I played back alto, tenor was being passed down to a new junior. (((: The new junior is weird. Ask her to play then she just laugh laugh laugh. Band is going to play: High School musical songs (breaking free, the start of something new, we’re all in this together) and SpongeBob SquarePants and Looney tunes. All are nice. And some parts are saxophone solo. (: Warm up became quite a problem, I used to play tenor which tuning note is C but now alto is G. Trumpets’ part was nice, they were doing most of the melody for those songs.
My lips are being cut by the reed. After playing every single time, I will cut my lips for god knows how. I remember at the beginning of the year we were supposed to play for Sec 1 CCA fair and my lips bled very seriously during the performance when playing 'That Thing You Do'. And my whole mouthpiece and reed is like stained with blood. It is GROSS. I need to train my stamina. And playing the instruments makes your stomach damn flat. Lol. #*%^&$@(