okay people, i know im nothing near a professional, but after this practice i feel that im obliged to post something, as teh imba honorary 5th-year member of hciso.

(only gna comment on williams though, was *ahem* somewhat distracted during teh other piece)

1. if you people keep this kinda standard up you all are SCREWED. srsly.

2. your bowings should be slightly in sync more. as in, when (e.g.) steven plays a note, after a short while theres a "echo" from somewhere else.

3. intonation!! even if you're too damm tone deaf like me you should still try to be in tune. and tune your instruments too

4. in williams, about 1 line before your solo part in page 2, (dont have the practice score with me so cant exactly tell whr) when you have the tremelos (or whatever they're called) with the accents every 2 notes, you are soft. as in, when the violins spam you can't be heard. i forgot if you are supposed to be pp or ff or whatever, but the point is that YOU CANT BE HEARD. at least from where i am.

5. later in the 2nd page when you have the tango-like part, remember the ritard? (RITard, not RETard) before and after that you people were messing up your timings. as in some were slightly faster and some were slightly slower, sth lidat.

6. for certain individuals (which i kindly not name here), if you cant play, at least fake decently well. such as having your bowing in the same direction, correct posture, playing at the frog or anywhere else WITH EVERYONE ELSE. yea i think you get the general idea.

7. cellos are hesitant. as in, when your solo parts come, even steven lags abit. and the starting sound is abit shaky.

8. i know sectionals and practising at home suck but do you want to:

a) slack through the whole thing and get screwed by mr chan every practice, stay back for separate sectionals like certain unfortunate sections, screw up during SYF, lose the GwH we've been after for so long (hell, maybe we wont even get a damm cert of participation), lose/get less LEAPS points than expected, and in the long run probably screw up your portfolio, or

b) spend, say, maybe 15min at home/at school once every few days (can be before or after practice) to practice? of course don't mug as much as wilfred ngia (if you knew how he mugged), just mug the main few parts where either you suck balls at or the important solo parts of cello section, and maybe not die as badly? or even be so damm good at cello you even go teach cello when you grow up (LOL).

point is, mugging a while wont kill you, but not mugging most probably will, in one way or another.

(even though if i were to play for SYF i woulda dao-ed the points i made myself, but im a different case from all of you. im teh kind of impossible-to-save guy alr)




btw, the wilfred ngia kinda mugging can roughly be understood as claiming to "mug for awhile" and then practice the 2-3 bars you have problems in for 4-5 straight hours.

(disclaimer: above description is, in any way, not an accurate way of gauging the wilfred ngia way of mugging)



even though i suck like nobody else does, i dont play for syf. so you people playing for syf go curse your bad fate or something and try to - whats that word? - incorporate (??) my suggestions/observations

--aaron