HELLO PEOPLE

just feeling random, but i think we should learn how to do 4-mallet grip! like properly, and without injuring our hands or arms or something!! after all, for cadenza, y'all may need to play 4 mallet stuff. i used 4 mallets in sec one for cadenza before, but looking back, i realise i was playing... wrongly. and i haven't been playing 4 mallets ever since T.T which is NOT GOOD!

so, there are quite a number of different grips (for holding 2 mallets in one hand), like for example the burton grip or stevens grip. y'all know kenneth, one of the percussionists at rwinds? yeah i think he used the stevens grip for coda, if i'm not wrong. (so i may be wrong.)

(well basically all the rwinds perc people are really quite pro, so next time after you graduate from RG - not too far away! - join rwinds at least once, cos the experience is really good, and you'll really learn alot, and make great friends too.)

so here are a few websites you can explore to learn more!

burton grip http://www.bknights.org/ensembles/bkpe/pdf/BurtonGrip.pdf
stevens grip http://www.vicfirth.com/education/articles/howarth.html

maybe y'all can try burton grip first? it seems more familiar, in terms of holding the mallets i guess. of course if you want to try stevens there isn't any problem. but anyway the 4-mallet grip is really quite important, and i read on a percussion website before that actually, we should learn the 4-mallet grip once we start learning mallets, cos it's just as important as the usual 1 mallet per hand grip. :D yup!

do take time to try it out okay! and maybe we'll make a trip back after the new sec ones join yall - eh must tell us when they join ok! :)

love,aliza. (IMISSYALL BOOHOOO T.T)

you guys still so free should post more! anyway i just visited today cause apparently one of us requested for password reminder so i got sent the email as well ._.

happy new year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR SECTION!! ♥ ♥

We should resolve to post more.

xx

Hi friends!

So there's going to be a 100-word write-up for every section during CCAO. Sharon's not here, so Fang Fang told me to write it, and I think I may have oversold our section heh. It's just hard to put the awesomeness of our section into words, and once you start you tend to go overboard! But it's relatively accurate. Anyway here it is, so in case you have violent objections you can still voice them out heh!

During a particularly memorable band camp, while the rest of the band were having dinner, the percussion section decided instead to climb over the wooden railing to the beach where they took photos, skipped stones and watched the sunset together. This episode reflects the spontaneity and open mind of all our members, our fun-loving and bubbly personalities earning us the nickname Perky Percs. It also shows how close-knit we are, bonded by numerous section outings we have to buy drumsticks, celebrate birthdays or just to have fun together. The unique experiences of being a percussionist that no other section can understand also bind us together, from training your arm muscles by playing cymbals to moving the timpani for the first time to sleeping in the section area in the band room, a privilege no other section has. We also have immense love and passion for our instruments and making music, protecting our drums and mallets with our lives and always pushing our limits by finding our own scores to try. Many may think that percussion is unimportant, but there is no denying that every part in a band piece contributes to the music – the bass drum may be soft, but it keeps the tempo; the crash cymbals may only come in twice in an entire piece, but the grandeur of the crash will lend a huge emphasis to the music. If you still think that percussion is way too easy, come try it out yourself, and even if your sticking and subdivision are perfect, challenge yourself with new rhythms. On the contrary, if you think that percussion is way too difficult, don’t worry, you’ll find in us a new family to support and guide you throughout your journey in RGSSB. <3

Quite true luh hor.

(And yeah it's nearly 300 words because there's really a lot to write teehee.)

Hello everyone! 8)

Ooops the blog hasn't been updated since 3 months ago D:

Anyway, yesterday was Inunion '11, our very last Inunion! ): The songs were okay I guess! And the Sec 1s played surprisingly well eh! Good job! :D I'm so jealous they got to play Phantom of the Opera omg we didn't even get to play a batch song for our Inunion !@#$%^&* On the other hand though, batch dance was quite ahem ahem embarrassing, at least for me, especially since almost everyone videoed us dancing oh gosh, including my mother (!!!!!!) And EVERYONE (I think) laughed when we started the dance with the NA NA NA NA part -hides face- There was this part where we were supposed take our partner's hand and twirl (?) underneath it, like the typical couple dance. But I couldn't reach my partner's hand, so in the end I ended up looking like some retard twirling under my own arm T_T But overall it was still very fun lah!!! 8D

After that we had section dinner/supper but quite fail LOL only Aliza, Xin Hui, Hwi Soo and I went. The sec 1s couldn't make it and Lei Chen went home and Xing Ern didn't come and ahem Deborah pangseh-ed us so... ): When's the next chance for us to have section dinner/supper again ah? Cadenza XIII?? SO FAR AWAY D8

And right just in case AXE miraculously comes here tonight... ('comes' and not 'come' cause AXE is a couple :D)

GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR 'O' LEVELS TOMORROW!!! :D

Ok byebye!

<3 Sharon

P.S. Paiseh I don't have a lot of stuff to post about this is just to make Deborah less sad LOL.

HEY SECTION!

Heh I don't have photos to post. OH WAIT ACTUALLY I DO! I forgot that I brought my camera to the June band camp and SOME PEOPLE went to fiddle with it, thinking it was xinhui's or something like that -.-



Sec 1's SBM photo! I think this one's the nicest, the rest of the photos i took were of them stoning =.=

another one of them, with their (lame) direct!

(By the way, did you know that there's actually a term "lame duck"? Haha google it lol.)

I don't really have alot of section photos, cos ernie was taking all the photos during section interaction with her awesome DSLR. D: I want one too!

Oh and I was going through super old posts, like from when ernie and i were sec 1, just for the fun of it. Juniors! Yall can go through the old posts too and see how we looked like in sec 1 (2008), all toot and everything. And have a look at your great-grand directs (a.k.a our (ernie and i) sec 4 seniors when we were sec 1, gosh how many times have i said this already ._.)

Yes and there are really cool videos hidden somewhere in the archives! Perc videos, mainly, that are beneficial for honing your percussion skills :) There're so many links to the archives, just pick one and start looking from there :D

Lastly DON'T FORGET XING ERN AND ME OKAY i hope this isn't gonna be my last post, and i hope that i do come back to visit the blog regularly after going to JC. :( I'm pretty sure that ernie and i will come back together to visit yall, even this year, so watch your backs ah (haha btw i posted sth along these lines ages ago on this blog).

Time flies. My sec 4 seniors when i was in sec 1 have already entered university. Helen and Talia, when y'all become sec 4s, xing ern and i will be entering uni too. So treasure the time yall have here in RGSSB (mainly for the current sec 3s and hwi soo) and for the sec 1s, your journey with RGSSB has just begun. There's no looking back from here.

And so, the end of a lengthy post (the sec 3s' posts when they were in sec 1 were wayyyy longer than this one! and much more luo suo.).

And also, the end of another's journey with RGSSB.

HELLO SECTION!!! 8)

Yesterday's section outing was awesome omg! Almost the whole operation was a success! Both Talia and Xing Ern didn't suspect much whoooooo~

Talia didn't really suspect though I kept trying to waste time by eating 'lor mai gai' super slowly and refilling water bottle etc in school, and even at Tampines 1 when I 'needed' to go toilet and took super long cause I was secretly sms-ing Xinhui!!! Just that uh the last part a bit fail cause I didn't know where Kopitiam was so we walked in the wrong direction after going up the escalator and Talia spotted Xinhui at the balcony .___.

As for Xing Ern's, at first it was very successful cause Aliza and Xing Ern are a perfect couple so having a candle-lit dinner together isn't very suspicious. So while Aliza went to fetch Xing Ern from Tampines MRT, Xinhui, Hwi Soo, Lei-Chen and me prepared the cake at Kopitiam. We borrowed a lighter from one of the stallholders and lighted up all the candles very nicely! 8) And we waited, and waited... super excited!!!

A while later, Aliza called:

Aliza: Eh can y'all hurry we're at Kopitiam already!

Me: !!!!!! Really?! D: *panick* (because we were waiting outside Kopitiam) -turned to check if they're at our table already and apparently they weren't there-

Aliza: Yeah!!

Me: Huh where got y'all not here yet what!!

Aliza: Huh we are!!

Me: You're not!!!

Aliza: ...Are you sure you're at the right place? We're at Tampines Mall Kopitiam!

Me: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUH Tampines Mall?? OMG not Tampines One's Kopitiam?!! -faints-

Aliza: .........

So we quickly blew off all the candles, packed up and hurried to Tampines Mall holding half (the other half was gone because it was for Talia) the cake out openly, and getting quite a number of stares hm ~_~ And by then half the length of all the candles have already melted!!!

But after that it was quite funny cause we spotted Aliza and Xing Ern at the crowded Kopitiam and we were like, 'OMG I see them I see them!!!!!!' as though we saw some giant dinosaur and quickly hid behind the Long John Silver poster LOL!! And thanks to Hwi Soo's awesome idea, we went through the back door of the foor court and crept up on Xing Ern from behind!!! Better still, we were holding the cake, singing 'Happy Birthday' softly, until she finally turned around with the most epic expression on Planet Earth and her whole face turning apple red!!! And yes, she was being filmed heehee 8)

For everyone's entertainment:

EPIC VIDEO WITH EPIC FACES LOL.

I WONDER HOW MANY STARES WE GOT O.O

There're more photos!!! But the formatting's so screwed zzz I'll post them in another post!!

To be continued...

Love,

Sharon

Percs '11 <3