MusICian

i should really go learn how to speak loudly without hurting my throat! today i had such a hard time teaching theory, almost needing to yell across the room at times. now i come back home and my bro forced me to yell at him. my throat hurts. and no amount of mint can help it cos i guess it’s a technique problem. but then again, sometimes i yell a lot, but my throat doesn’t hurt. maybe i just have a sore throat. oh well. i’m going around in circles.

my bro just got on my nerves yet again. for a very simple thing that he refused to do right and tried to argue his way out of it. just because i knew that he’s trying to be lazy and is practising the piano in the wrong way. but he’s smart; he knows that kinda impresses my mom who doesn’t know too much about classical music. but well, i know enough to see right through it and now he’s resorting to another tactic to avoid doing the hard work: being angry with me for saying things out. now he’s wasting time sitting at the piano and inspecting some speck of dust in greater detail.

seeing this, i just wonder how many of the band members i taught like music, but don’t want to put in effort to train up their fundamentals. these people normally wanna play difficult pieces but don’t wanna work on simpler things like scales, arppeggios and thirds. they normally try to avoid all the theory lessons and tests, and they also try to avoid playing scales and all. i was once like them… until i realised that without basic theory and the fundamental scale training, i couldn’t play many things as fast as those people who had taken these things seriously. under the tutelage of mr png, i started to realise how important these fundamentals are. i worked hard on them, and now i can play many many things with relative ease. such is the importance of basics.

still, i am not as skillful a player than some of my counterparts because my fundamentals are not as good as theirs. it all boils down to the basics. i’m already glad i took quite some effort to train my basics; because they brought me this far in my playing. and i’m glad that i learnt some theory, although i’d wish to further my theory grades (but i’m too busy these days!).

learning never stops until you decide to put an end to your interest. i wish that those members who take these basics lightly could just see the big picture with an open mind, and understand that whatever mr png implements, it is definitely not a waste of time, because we definitely do not have time to waste. once these fundamentals are there, the SYF pieces will come, the concert pieces will come. and we will be able to play difficult stuff with relative ease. only then can we have more work done, and really really pull up the standard of the band for that much desired SYF gold medal.

work hard, my band members. as long as you guys put in the effort, rest assured that mr png and i will be there to help you out. and we WILL achieve greater success in our performances and SYF.

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