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Life's Like Super Mario

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Hmmm...life's really fast and busy nowadays, and before I know it, I'm going off to Japan, Hokkaido for holiday on Monday night and I've not done a single homework yet. If anyone played Super Mario before, you might understand why the reference to it in the title of this entry...

So where should I start? Su Juen and Kelvin transcribed a percussion ensemble for the PRSS Percussion. I know I've said this before but this time they added in loads of those auxillary parts for Super Mario: Main Theme. It definitely sounds cool as I feel that the music has become more lively with all that different variety of instruments. They also did another Super Mario song which is called the "Underwater Theme". The marimba part for this song is really difficult as they are no patterns in the score at all and it's confusing by just memorising the first four bars of the difficult part.

As for Band, we're currenly learning up a new piece for the Viva La Concert which is called "The Calvarymen of the Prairie". One look at this score and the whole percussion knew, this is some fucked-up piece of music. It is not easy at all. The general speed of the music is like 164 beats in a minute. That is really fast. And with all that semiquavers and triplets, can you imagine?

We celebrated Kelvin's birthday the other day. Shaun and me were tempted to push his head into the birthday cake. By the way, Wei Jie has gone to USA...Hopefully he doesn't do a documentary show that has this opening "Hello. My name's Wei Jie and I come from Singapore...". Oh and Kelvin has gone to Hong Kong too, to visit his relatives and Su Juen is leaving the 12th to China. Don't use the mountain area's toilets!

All right..that's all for tonight. So good bye and good night! This is Lee, signing off...