Dear members! THIS IS A REMINDER FOR TMR'S SPEECH DAY.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF TOMORROW'S REPORTING TIME AND ATTIRE.
REPORTING IS: 1.45.(pls do not be late)
ATTIRE WILL BE YOUR BAND UNIFROM.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE FULL SET.

PLEASE REPORT TO THE BAND ROOM IN YOUR
BAND UNIFORM!

FOR THE GIRLS: WEAR YOUR WHITE LONG SLEEVE,BAND SKIRT, STOKINS AND CLOG SHOE.
FOR THE BOYS: WEAR YOUR WHITE LONG SLEEVE SHIRT, BLACK PANTS AND BLACK BOOTS.

If you're in doubt, please do contact myself or Shawn.
THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION.

Speech Day Next Week

Next week is your Speech Day,
Make sure that all of you are well prepared for it.
There will be a rehearsal again next week.
Hafiz, sufian, shawn and nicola , you can check with Mr Sky Phua.
On fri, make sure that all are in their full uniform,
Neat and smart.
Preferrably try to report to school by 2pm. (Double check with Mdm Chew Joke)
after the whole parade, packed up and get Mr Pan or Mr Ong to dismiss you all.

I hope to hear praises and not complaints regarding the Speech Day Rehearsals and Performance after i am back in school.

Ms Tan

OK guys,
this thursday's attire is changed to SCHOOL UNIFORM!
I REPEAT, SCHOOL UNIFORM!!!!

thank you.

ATTENTION!!!!

Dear Band members!
PLEASE TAKE NOTE!

THE ATTIRE FOR THE HOLIDAY PRACTICES:
MONDAY: SCHOOL UNIFORM
THURSDAY: BAND T-SHIRT AND JEANS.

please don't forget.
Next Thursday will be having music exchange with Siglap Secondary school band.
The music exchange on thursday is an exposure to some of you if you're going for music exchange for the first time. Also, when you're there at siglap on that day, be at your best behaviour at ALL TIMES. i'm not talking about that for just a day. as long as you're in band, please BEHAVE!! Don't let others have a bad impression about yishun band! and i mean it!!!! and it's also a basic courtesy to greet the teachers and students there. i'm sure i don't have to remind you guys about basic courtesy right? and please ah, i don't wanna hear any vulgarities ah! So ya, I MEAN WHAT I SAY!. And also enjoy yourselves on that day too. Learn as much as possible from them. It benefits YOU!:)

see ya guys! ((:

hello band ,
and yah , i miss Mr Tan .
i hope youre doing fine ya.
and remember we will always remember you
and you are still the best in our heart [:

okay ,band has been going on fine this few practices .
every senior band practice , we would warm up for pretty long .
and then , played marches ,shrek dance party
and a new piece to side read .
its pretty insteresting to side read new pieces such as ,
fairytale -tonghua .
and many more to come .

we practice and practice
till our sound has improved .good jobb (:
im impressed .

okay ,
now the sec 1 band practice .
well , mostly all of them came .
keep up the great attendance .
well , they will normally have sectionals .
and they will practice all the nursery ryhmes .
they were improving ,
not bad seyy .
ahah .
i hope u guys wont give up and
always continue (:
jiayou all the wayyy !
okay thats all .
takecare .




-heyati.

For those whom dislike Yishun Secondary Band.

Oh hello little juniors, been long since any of us ex-seniors. Apologies. :/

I was just gonna blog my own blog when I saw the Yishun Secondary School Symphonic Band blog on the very top. So I decided to click & see what's going on.

To my surprise, I saw some nasty or rather, not nice comments on the tagboard. Tsk. Kids nowdays.

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If you people, whoever you may be, dislike YSSB then why are you here in the first place? It's worst if you're a band member & you hate band. Aren't you just contradicting yourself? Or you don't have brains to differentiate what's good & bad, what's love & hate?

So what if the band isn't some gold award holder. If you can make it become a gold band, wouldn't it be better? If you think that the band practices are boring, can you make it interesting? If you think that mastering an instrument is chicken feet, can you kindly show me that you can play a grade 3 piece with just 10 practices? Can you?

Yeah, you may think what's this crazy girl speaking here for? I'm telling you, whatever you may think this band is, you may label it as a lousy band, a sucky band, I don't care. It's the people that matters. I once had great time inside band, as a band member. So what each year we came back empty handed? We manage to cling onto a Sliver & Bronze for SYF. It's improvements that matters, not that stupid piece of metal. If you don't love your band members, you will never have good teamwork. Band isn't about whose gonna be the star, whose gonna be the main lead, NO. It's about teamwork. (I know you people are gonna say it's bullshit or whatever. Anyway, I don't bother even if you're like gonna hate me or curse me. Do it for all I care. It's not like your curse is gonna work on me. Becareful that it backfires.)

Whatever the case is, seniors & juniors should respect each other. That's the way to be in a band. You don't like the idea of being in the band? Or should I say you don't like being in YSSB? Bye. (:

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More french horn juniors please! (:

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All the best, YSSB! (: & for Nicola's batch, I miss you people!

National Institute of Education Symphonic Band Presents

"...In music, Americana is a loose subset of American folk music, that is perhaps best defined as "classic American music" — ranging in style from roots-based bluegrass to alternative country, gospel, blues, zydeco, and other native forms. One of the main reasons Americana is used to describe such a wide variety of musical genres is because of the diverse range of cultural influences which we call American..."

OPUS 33.1 "Americana"
23 March 2008 (Sunday), 5.00pm
Victoria Concert Hall, S$10.00
conducted by A/P Ho Hwee Long


Repertoires

Stars and Stripes Forever	John Philip Sousa
Symphony No. 2 "The Big Apple" (A New York Symphony)	Johan de Meij
An Outdoor Overture	Aaron Copland
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" I. Scherzo II. Mambo III. Cha-cha IV. Cool (Fugue)	Leonard Bernstein
East Coast Pictures III. New York	Nigel Hess
Intermission
Concerto for 3 Trombones and Band Soloists: Ms Samantha Chong, Mr David Wong and Mr Wilson Ong	Walter S. Hartley
In the Miller Mood	arr. Warren Barker
Washington Post March	John Philip Sousa
Internal Combustion A Celebration of the American Automobile	David R. Gillingham

For tickets, you can contact me through MSN (sufian90@hotmail.com). Thanks. It will be a concert not to be miss! So do come and show us your support! :) Thank you.

hello band .
yesterday had sec 1 band practice .

clarinets - 2 players .
flutes - 2 players .
saxophone - 2 players .
french horn - 0 players.
trumpet - 2 players .
tuba - 1 player .
euphonium - 1 player .
trombone - 1 player .
percussion - 2 players .


yeah so thats all of the sec 1s that got into band .
its a small number .
but we'll try to fit in more.
so we first started with an interesting game .
and almost everybody played .
well , i could see that everyones happy and excited.
cause the game was very interesting ...
and so after that ,
mr pan came and the whole band sits in the concert plan .
then the seniors played chinese new year hits 1 .
for the juniors to hear , and know how band is actually like.

so after that .
we had to hand an instrument that they were assigned to ,
and teach them the basics of using the instrument .
then had sectionals.
the trainers had to teach the sec 1s to play twinkle twinkle little star .
well , it was hard but they were good.
and so , the whole band joined once again and played as a whole band .
and they sounded pretty good for a first time .

so , we congratulate them .
shawn gaved us 10 mins to pack up .
so seniors teach sec 1s how to keep the instrument .
and after that a slight debrief and everyone was dismissed.
it was a tiring day .

to the sec 1s.
you guys were great ! do keep up the good job ,
and i'll guarantee you will become a better player.
(:




and to ex seniors.
aww , its been long since i met you guys .
hope you guys are doing fine .
miss you all [:


-heyati.

congrats to all sec 4E and 5Ns who had passed your O levels with flying colours.
those who did not do well in your O's , good try okay (:

anyway .
just now had band as per normal .
it was the main band anyway .
today mr ong nor mr pan was coming,
so it was instructor shawn .

then we had our basics warm up .
low chromatic scales , Bb majors .
concert band clinic and
finally we practiced our chinese new year hits 1 and 2 .
its was okay .
kinda improving then the first few times we played.

Mr Ong and Mr Pan are actually good ,
they teach us to do more warm ups .
breathing exercises , and other techniques which are great .
so yeah ..


then band ended at around 5 plus .
haziqah , uniform master said a few words about new band tshirt .
and stuffs and ended .

so ,
im looking forward to the next practice .
(;





-heyati .

tomorow will be the result for sec 4es and 5ns....and i behalf of the band wish all the sec 4es and 5ns in our band last year a very good luck to you all....MAY YOUR RESULT PASS WITH SWIMMING COLOURS(: