Tuesday, August 15, 2006
bad fusion, feeling inferior...
yesterday and today, so much has happened.
okay, this is gonna be a long post.
shall start it from the beginning.
i've been meeting jerrel up, since the 3rd day of school,
he was my first friend in lasalle.
yupp, then, we were informed to do this Fusion Project.
i guess i didnt tell you guys bout it?
or maybe i did. 72 students, grouped in sixes.
total of 12 groups, supposed to perform song.
yupp. my performance was yesterday.
it was TOTALLY screwed... its the drummer again larh..
Aaron. till today, u really make me dislike so much.
yesterday, 2 factors cocked up.
my electric guitarist got nervous and played his solo wrong,
my drummer forgot what we rehearsed and played wrong too.
so basically it was very crapp...
i wanted to make it the best.
YES it was one of the best, because it was totally different from the rest.
the other 5 groups, either did recording of their own originals,
or perform a song in their own way.
or the worst, recorded something which is like repetitions...
yupp. mine was YES indeed one of the best,
cos of the arrangement.
i arranged
A Whole New World,to NOT only be a ballad, but also ROCK.
i sang and played intro, interlude, ending.
juliany on the piano.
issyah on the e. guitar.
joseph on the bass guitar.
yong lin on the trumpet
aaron on the drum kit.
i played very little actually.
i really tried my best to be a good leader.
becos juliany is ONLY exposed to classical,
although she's a grade 7 pianist,
she NEEDS a score to play.
so no choice, so little time, only 13days.
she found the score, and i got her to transpose,
and let her play the verses.
while i did the singing.
i could have played better for this genre.
but becos if i played the piano,
what will she play?
yarrr.. soo.. i LET her play,
while i only play intro,interlude and ending,
and did the singing..
i even composed the trumpet part,
as a harmonising melody to my singing.
electric guitar, i composed solos for him.
and tada, the drummer's the most problematic.
i even WROTE A DRUMSET score.
cos he say "u can write score right? write for me den i play lor"
so i WROTE for him. in de end, he cant read for nuts.
i knew he cant read although he din admit it.
cos he probably look at the score, and play rubbish.
so i had to teach him by singing out the drum beat for him.
yet in the end,
he played his own rhythm.
irritating. I AM THE ARRANGER,
why cant u play the part i gave you?
whats worst, he ALWAYS have so many opinions.
its really hard working with him.
so yeah..
yesterday's performance was crappp..
although there're a few people came to me and say it was great,
and tell me my singing's not bad. ^_^
but yar. its crap larrr...
jamming session was even better back then.
i was leader for this first performance.
all i wanted was an OUTSTANDING performance...
looks like my group... din gave me one...
SIGH.
ANYWAY.
he msged us today,
and tell us he's leaving our group.
i felt sooooo...... arhhhhh.
luckily i have joseph, who's another drummer.
otherwise i'd feel so fffff up. lol.
great laaaa. leave lar!
problematicc...
oh damn.
why am i going so far from the topic.
yup yup.
i was saying, i've been with Jarrel since day3.
yuppp. den got to know his group members and so.
and also today, got to know his group members' friends.
in lasalle, everyone's so nice and friendly.
yupp. got to know this girl called
Iris today.
she's really nice, quite a cute girl.
outgoing and really friendly.
she never fails to smile one.
really a very sweet girl.
however...... music wise....
i've not felt so INFERIOR for some timeeeeee.
Iris...
she's 17 this year,
taking Diploma from London College Music i think.
she's a classical student too.
i still remember yesterday,
after Fusion Workshop, i was with Jarrel and his group,
telling them this bout Juliany my pianist,
and making a very GENERAL remark,
"Classical Students are very SI BAN (dead). They would always need a score to play, and cannot improvise well at all. Only a SMALL percentage are outstanding and exceptionally good"
True enough.
Iris is one of the exceptionally good ones.
went to her studio with Jarrel's friends to watch her practise.
and we started conversing. she's really goodddddd.
classical music, she really plays with feel,
and her techniques..
its really awesome when u watch someone playing classical with feel.
most people play classical, and sit like a dead log.
but if THAT's only the case.
i wouldnt feel inferior at all..
the thing is, when i started playing the piano,
playing and improvising like how i usually do,
she could actually guess my chords, and play a melody line,
together and improvise too!
geeeee.....
looks like she has really done her homework.
she really does exposes herself to pop and ballads too.
and she can be on a par with me on improvising.
oh yes, and she also learns classical violin, and plays the flute.
although i've never attempted to test her chord knowledge,
like Cm7, of CMaj7, C7, C7sus4, CmMaj7, Caug, Cdim.
although i've never tested her on all these,
but her improvising can blend well with my chords,
already means her BASIC chord chord foundation,
are damn good already.
she has Perfect Pitch too.
u guys know the Lin Jun Jie's song? Cao Cao?
she said she listen to the MP3, and could play already.
same, i can do that too, because pop music is my forte,
but she can do that tooooo.....
so its like.. what i can do,
she can do toooooo.....
sighhhh. other than that,
she plays classical so well with feel,
her techniques everything are so good for a girl her age.
i've always 'comforted' myself,
on the fact that i can do something which classical students cant.
which is listening and figuring pop songs really fast,
improvising and playing freely.
i've always felt better that im no piano newbie,
cos what classical students can do, i cant,
but what i can, they cant too.
because i play self-taught piano,
and play piano in my own unique style.
but right nowww...
its the case when, what she can do, i cant,
what i can do, she also can do...
and she's only 17.
geeeeee...
she's really gifted.
christians are always gifted. =]
sighhh..
cant help but to feel really inferior...
just kept really quiet when listening to her play.
remained really quiet after that.
today when going home,
i took bus with Kelvin, Jarrel's friend,
who also know Iris.
uh huh..
Iris probably started around 4 years old.
thats what we both guessed.
so i told Kelvin, i started Music at 11,
and started self learning piano at 14.
so he says, im really fast. yup that did comfort me abit.
so i asked him, if i were to take classical music when i started at 11,
what grade would i possibly be? would i have been at grade 5 or 6?
he judged larh, he judged that i could even be at 7 or 8, if i took classical piano.
man man.....
if only i took classical piano back then.
classical has so much techniques which i dont have.
i really wanna improve, but is not easy....
seeing
Iris play today, made me really inferior..
abit sad for myself...
sighhhh.
i need encouragement.
guys encourage me pls,
those who know what i can do,
pls adviseeeee.
Iris,YOU ARE GREAT.
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