Tuesday, May 31, 2011
How Did we started?
It began like this....Our music teacher,Teacher Chu,he said to us:"We will be having an audition!" Ok,that's fine...Next day,the audition in school hall began..we have to blow a song....!! They were 4 teachers judging...Teacher Chu Kai Seng,Teacher Lau Ming Hue,Teacher Lee Kim Kha and Teacher Wong Fui Chu.After hours,audition was finally over! Great! In Fact,the audition went smooth actually....After weeks and weeks,the result were finally release!! Arh!! So nervous that time..Then,some of us are picked and some are'nt!!But Don't be sad!Look at the bright side,there's a group B!! hehe :) Smile!Then our practice classes started after a few weeks...We practice almost like everyday...Even night times..that don't really matters!We work really hard,the nights and the days....Recently,we had a competition...We felt really really happy!! Woohoo! We got Num 1! That means....PUTRAJAYA we are COMING!! haha :) That was good news..!!June 30 to July 4 there will be Taiwan Students from Tan Yang Elementary School are coming !! Yay! Can't wait!We must do our best!Below are some audition pictures..there not really that much but Enjoy!! <3
Events
Recoder Practice
On 8th June To 10th June
From 2pm to 5pm
台中潭阳国小直笛团到访启文小学和中华小
On 1st July ♥
Recoder National Level Competition
12th to 14th July at KLI HOTEL
About Our Dicipline
Our Dicipline when going to performance and competition is really bad.
I'm begging you all not to do it again because it is going to ruin our school reputation.
You all have to remember when you all have no dicipline,not just ruin our school reputation but also our teachers will be embarassed.
Just think,
Who is teaching us how to play the recoder?
Who help us to make up and tie hair when we have performance and competition?
Who give us support and advice before we going on stage?
Teacher right? We should make teacher proud and not embarasse teacher.
Some students kept saying "Why should we care for school reputation?"
I'm not meaning all,just some students.
Why? Well,
Where did we all practice?
Where the money for our transport and food come from?
The electric bill who pay?
Is all school right?
So,please look after your behaviour when going to events especially big ones.
1st,please don't keep going out of the venue except if you really want to go to the toilet.
2nd,when we're waiting for our turn,please respect others and do not make noises or play your phones. Don't be so selfish.
3rd,when we all are already back stage or warming up,please do not be so noisy by practicing by yourself.
4th.listen to teacher and Eleanor. When Eleanor conduct,just follow,don't play by your own tempo because this will spoil the song.
5th,when teacher ask us 小组练,please do not play. So that we can learn finish the song faster and teacher can see which part need to polish.
Not that I'm saying I never do all these things,its because I've done before then I ask you all to behave well and I will too. Behaving well show that we love teacher.
So,hope you all will behave well. Seriously.
Let Us Make Teacher Proud Of Us! Care For Recoder
The first and foremost rule in looking after your recorder is never to touch the labium. This is the sharp edge that produces the sound. It is very delicate. If it is damaged, the whole instrument is useless.
If the windway gets blocked with moisture, don't poke anything into it. Cover the window without touching the labium and blow hard. This should clear it. If the windway is seriously blocked, take off the head joint, put your hand over the end where it joins onto the body of the recorder, put your mouth over the window and blow. If even this doesn't work, poke a feather into the windway. This will not damage the labium if it touches it accidentally.
When putting your recorder together or taking it apart, use a gentle twisting action. This prevents the joints from being damaged.
When you are playing, moisture usually condenses inside the recorder. You should dry the recorder after use. Doing this is good practice for plastic recorders and essential for wooden ones.
You should occasionally oil the inside of wooden recorders (but not the labium or the windway) with linseed oil. If the joints are cork, then you should apply a little cork grease to keep them supple. Suitable oil and grease is available in music shops.
On Playing The Bass Recoder
Actually, the bass recorder is quite a lot more than a 'big alto'. Its place in a recorder consert, as the bottom line, gives it a role seldom played by a treble and its quirky performance in the upper register makes it quite different when one wants to play musically throughout the full two octaves plus range.
Recorder players get used to the fact that there is a significant delay between tonguing the bass and getting the instrument to speak. This delay is absent on smaller instruments. A good bass player anticipates when bar lines are to be reached or when lines start and we all develop this 'blowing just in front of everybody else' technique to avoid being heard behind the beat, barline or whatever. This is best done by ear but intimate knowledge of the instrument helps one to judge this 'just right'. Experienced bass players know about the problem and compensate as though it were second nature. Infrequent players may not even know what I am talking about!!!
The second problem with the bass is getting a sweet tone throughout the range. Most basses have a weak bottom or thin top - only the very best have both a rich bass and a full top. Here, a good player favours the tone using a slight vibrato at the bottom to fill out the tone (although this vibrato should be hidden from the listener by being very discrete) and carefully matches their tonguing stroke to the instrument's response characteristic to get the best and most pleasant sound throughout the range. While players of smaller instruments have, to some extent, to do the same, for the bass recorder player the problem is greater and the skill required more important.
I have been a bass recorder player for over thirty years and it always surprises me when people talk of the bass as though it were just a large alto or tenor.
The greatest difference comes from how a bass line is played in a consort. The bass player lies at the bottom of chords, so a very secure sense of pitch and interval is vital. Chords are tuned from the bottom up (i.e. from the bass line upwards) and if the bass recorder player does not play in tune the rest of the consort will be 'at sea'. The bass recorder player should keep the bass line rhythmically secure, light and when necessary, bouncy and precise. Here, being late or early is death to the whole consort's rhythm. Similarly, heavy over-legato bass line playing kills all the spring in the rhythm of the piece as a whole. There are many other important rhythmic matters that stem from the bass line but maybe I have gone on enough already.
I hope at least I have given the lie to the statement that a bass recorder is just a large alto - that it is certainly not!!!
Recorder players get used to the fact that there is a significant delay between tonguing the bass and getting the instrument to speak. This delay is absent on smaller instruments. A good bass player anticipates when bar lines are to be reached or when lines start and we all develop this 'blowing just in front of everybody else' technique to avoid being heard behind the beat, barline or whatever. This is best done by ear but intimate knowledge of the instrument helps one to judge this 'just right'. Experienced bass players know about the problem and compensate as though it were second nature. Infrequent players may not even know what I am talking about!!!
The second problem with the bass is getting a sweet tone throughout the range. Most basses have a weak bottom or thin top - only the very best have both a rich bass and a full top. Here, a good player favours the tone using a slight vibrato at the bottom to fill out the tone (although this vibrato should be hidden from the listener by being very discrete) and carefully matches their tonguing stroke to the instrument's response characteristic to get the best and most pleasant sound throughout the range. While players of smaller instruments have, to some extent, to do the same, for the bass recorder player the problem is greater and the skill required more important.
I have been a bass recorder player for over thirty years and it always surprises me when people talk of the bass as though it were just a large alto or tenor.
The greatest difference comes from how a bass line is played in a consort. The bass player lies at the bottom of chords, so a very secure sense of pitch and interval is vital. Chords are tuned from the bottom up (i.e. from the bass line upwards) and if the bass recorder player does not play in tune the rest of the consort will be 'at sea'. The bass recorder player should keep the bass line rhythmically secure, light and when necessary, bouncy and precise. Here, being late or early is death to the whole consort's rhythm. Similarly, heavy over-legato bass line playing kills all the spring in the rhythm of the piece as a whole. There are many other important rhythmic matters that stem from the bass line but maybe I have gone on enough already.
I hope at least I have given the lie to the statement that a bass recorder is just a large alto - that it is certainly not!!!
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