There will be additional after practice on Wednesday afternoon for Sec 2s and 3s from 1.30 – 4. The additional practice is for full band with JC. Please work out your lion king score before Wednesday. However, please note that Band Practice on Wednesday morning, 9-12.30 still continues.

Additional sectionals may be held up to your Section leader’s discretion. Please reschedule any other commitments on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon in other to have sectionals. Please get your notes and rhythm for the pieces before Tuesday!

Also, tickets for the year end concert will be distributed soon! Try to sell as many tickets as possible! Ask all your friends and family members to come!

The details for the concert are:

Date: 3 Dec 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Cheng Yi Auditorium
Price: $8, Free Seating

Lastly, future notices will be posted here so please check regularly!

Thanks!

-Cong Yang

Here is the band practice schedule for June holiday week 3 and week 4 (main band + sec 1s):

Main band will be preparing for NDP, while sec 1s will be having full band with Mr Kiang.

14/6 Tuesday 8 am to 12 pm

15/6 Wednesday 8 am to 12 pm

17/6 Friday 8 am to 12 pm

21/6 Tuesday 8 am to 12 pm

22/6 Wednesday 8 am to 12 pm

24/6 Friday 8 am to 12 pm

Things to bring: accessories for your instruments(mouthpiece, reed, etc), water bottle

Attire: PE attire

Please also memorise Singapore Flyer by next Tuesday. (If we ask you to play  bar x of y, you should know too)

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I hope that after two weeks of break from band, we all had enough rest (and enough time to finish our homework), so please come back next tuesday with a serious mindset, ready to start preparing for NDP. If you do a simple countdown now, we have only 1+ months left to NDP, which is really short to prepare a band for outdoors from nothing.

Hence, in order to be fully prepared by NDP, we need to make full use of every minute of band practice, which means to say that all of us have to come for EVERY band practice until NDP. This is even more crucial when we start practising for formation, so make your necessary arrangements before band practice starts, and let’s make the last event we do together as a band an awesome one! :)

Po En

Here’s the schedule for the Band Practices this week:

Tuesday
0800-1300 Sectionals
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1600 Combined Practice
1600-1800 Outdoors Practice

Thursday
0800-1000 Outdoors Practice
1000-1300 Combined
1300-1400 Lunch
1400-1600 Sectionals
1600-1800 Outdoors

Friday
SEC 4 FAREWELL! :D (details under this post)

Scores Needed:
National Anthem + School Song (revise individually, aka optional)
Anchors Aweigh
Singapore Flyer
Dynamica
Deep Purple Medley

Please be in PE attire for both practices, and confirm your attendance with your SLs for Sec 4 Farewell :)

PRACTICE SCHEDULES

Here’s the schedule for the next few days:

Wednesday
0900-1000 High School Combined Practice (E Flat Suite)
1000-1200 Combined Practice + JC Clarinets (E Flat Suite)
1200-1300 Sec 1s and Sec 2s Combined Practice (Silvercrest) / Sec 3s Lunch
1300-1700 Sec 1s and Sec 2s Individuals / Sec 3s JC Practice (Winter Wonderland, Christmas Carol Fantasy)

Thursday
0800-1200 Sectionals (E Flat Suite+Silvercrest)
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1600 Combined Practice (E Flat Suite+Silvercrest)

Friday
0900-1300 Sectionals (Everything!)
1300-1400 Sec 2s+Sec 3s JC Practice (Deep Purple Medley, with gimmicks!)

4 more days, 3 more practices. Let’s work on it! :D

CONCERT ATTIRE

Our concert attire consists of:

• black long sleeved collared shirt
• black long pants
• black socks (above ankles)
• black leather shoes
• SOLID coloured tie
• black belt (optional)

If you do not  have any of the above items, please purchase them soon.

There will be a uniform check on 9/12 Thursday, so please bring your complete set of uniform.

Kang Ming.

In case you have not read the EMB message posted by Ms Choo, here is the September Holiday Band Practice Schedule:

Tuesday: 9am to 1pm

Band Practice

Wednesday: 8.30 am to 5 pm (expect some delays)

An exchange with 3 bands: Balestier Secondary School, Bartley Secondary School and Northview Secondary School

The schools will arrive at about 9.30 am. Plans include full band, sectionals and other activities (to be confirmed later) Lunch will be catered so please check whether you can make it for the practice on Wednesday and tell your SLs by this Friday. The bands will leave at about 4:30 pm and if nothing goes wrong you will be dismissed at about 5pm.

Also, please polish up your instrument playing skills and put on your best behaviour on that day. Be helpful and take innitiatives.

Thursday: 9 am to 1 pm

Band Practice + instruments and rooms cleaning. Please bring the accessories needed to clean your instruments(brass soap, slide grease, etc) on that day. If you are unsure what you need to clean your instruments, approach the QM. Everyone also needs to bring along a rag on that day to clean up OBR, main hall, side rooms and sectional rooms.

*All band practices during September Holiday are compulsory. If you have any official reasons such as official make-up lessons(not tuition)/tests/remedials/compulsory school events that you can’t run away from, please notify your SLs in advance. Thank you.

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There will not be anymore official band practices after the September Holiday. Before wishing all of you all the best for your EOY examinations, I would also like to remind you that we have only a few weeks after the examinations to the concert which will be held in early December. Thus, to avoid being suffocated by MORE stress before the concert, worse than that you get before exams, please continue to come for individuals during the exam period. 3 hours of (focused) practice a week should be the minimum and that is hardly enough to prevent your standard from dropping.

Also, before the examinations get closer, please start working on Eb Suite and Silvercrest. Notes and (accurate) Rhythm should be completed before the end of September Holidays. I believe you guys have the ability to multi-task and will not neglect your instrument playing even under the tremendous stress of EOY exams.

Last but not least, ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR EXAMS!!! :D

Po En

In view of the “Journey of the Flame” event going on on Wednesday, 11th August 2010, here are some details about the day.

Flag-Raising

Flag-raising shall go on as usual. Please try to rush back to OBR as soon as possible, and change into your PE attire. We will try to cut short the announcements as short as possible. After that, go assemble with your class at the designated areas for you. DO NOT slack about at OBR.

Band Practice

Seeing most of you all are already bringing your PE, remember to bring your PE pants as well! Wednesday Band Prac next week will be outdoors practice once again at 2.30pm, so please don’t be late and hydrate yourselves!

Happy National Day, and have a good 4.5 days of rest (or mugging. heh.)

Please take note of the changes in our band practices, starting effectively from this week.

Wednesday – 3pm to 6pm [JC Band Prac]
Friday – 2.30 – 6pm [High School Band Prac]

Attendance will be taken till we have stepped down, some when about 3 weeks later. Do come.

Regards
Joseph

Starting from next week onwards, Mr Leng will require us to join the JC for their band practices. As such, the practice timings are us follow:

Wednesday: 3pm to 6pm
Friday: 5pm to 8pm

Please attend the practices. Should you have any queries, please approach Mr Leng himself.

Thanks.

Regards
Joseph

Hi everyone, this is the very first post by ExCo 10/11 on band blog.(YAY!)  On behalf of the ExCo members, we thank you for your support and we will try more than our best to serve the band. Feedback is very much welcomed. If you have any suggestions on ways to improve the band, please email to: exco1011hciband@gmail.com, or feedback to the majors directly.

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Just a reminder, for those who are playing for flag raising(sec 2s to 4s), please be in obr punctually at 6.55am on Monday. We really need your co-operation to ensure that things proceed smoothly.

Now, let’s get down to the business at hand: NBC

The band practices for the next two weeks are as follow:

29/6 Tue: 2.30pm to 6pm

30/6 Wed: 2.30pm to 6pm

2/7 Fri: 2.30pm to 6pm

3/7 Sat: 8am to 12pm

6/7 Tue: 2.30pm to 6pm

7/7 Wed: 2.30pm to 6pm

9/7 Fri: 2.30pm to 6pm

10/7 Sat: NBC!!!(details to be posted up later)

As you can see, we have less than two weeks(7 official band practices) to NBC. Like the last 1km of a marathon race, the last stretch before a competition is always the toughest, and the part where most people want to give up. But no, we will never give up. We all believe that the band will improve drastically before the competition, but the sudden curve before the competition does not just happen by itself. To make it happen, we need YOU, and every single one of you, to put in 120% of your effot to practise really hard for NBC. If you have been practising hard, practice harder. If you haven’t been practising hard, this very moment is the time you start putting in double, or even triple, the effort.

All in all, practise hard, for the band, for your friends, and for yourself. When we achieve the results we have been aiming for, it will be worth all the hardship. And the honour and joy belongs to the band, our band. I believe that we will make it.

GO HCIBAND!!!

Just a reminder, elections will be held this coming Friday. All band members MUST attend this Friday’s session. We need your vote.

Band practice on Friday is as such: 1pm to 6pm

The schedule on Friday is as follow:

1pm – Major Elections
2pm – Rest of band full band, Sec 1s go for sectionals
4pm – Rest of band join Sec 1s for sectionals, Sec 3s gather to decide remaining exco posts
5pm -  Announcement of EXCO 2010-2011 results
5.30pm – Flag Raising sound check
6pm – Dismissal.

Thanks.

Good luck to all candidates!

Regards
Joseph