Updates!

Hiya! Welcome back to a new school year!! (and new trainings haha :S)

Just a quick update:

1) Auditions on 14th Jan for
- Pple who did not come for holiday trainings (or else instead of an 'excused' you get a 'zero attendance')
- Those who did not pass the december auditions (refer to post somewhere below)
- Those with group items (pls approach yongchuan if you have a solo/group item you want to perform!)

2) LESSONS with Mr Shi.
Fee: $45/month. 4 1hr-lessons
Venue: A300, A302
Time: Every monday 3-6pm. 1hour slots. (has not commenced)
What to expect: A Grade 1 guitar certification (official exam), much improved guitar skills, and getting to know Mr Shi better :D

3) Please bring $15 to pay for club tee!

4) Trainings are currently wednesday (3pm) & friday (4pm). But on 9th, we will start at 3.30pm.


Yup that's all :D

Expose! [+ new layout]

NUS Guitar Ensemble (GENUS) & Expose!
Singapore
13 Jan 08, Sun, 3pm,
Esplanade Concert Hall
Admission is FOC [free of charge!]

Have a Beautiful Sunday with soothing guitar music! Hailing from the National University of Singapore, the guitar ensembles Expose! and GENUS are proud to present a diverse repertoire accessible to all.

From J. Barnes’ lovely Impressions of Japan, to Joe Hisashi’s (film score composer for Spirited Away) inspiring Anime Medley, Tinsagunu Hana, Lecuona’s sensual Malaguena, Piazolla’s spirited Michelangelo 70, J. Garland’s In the Mood, and entertaining music from animated feature, The Prince of Eygpt, Expose! and GENUS promise an enjoyable afternoon of music and an unforgettable experience.

Founded in 1981 by Alex Abisheganaden, the NUS Guitar Ensemble (GENUS) is a 50-member strong ensemble comprising undergraduates and alumni. GENUS is the region's first Niibori guitar ensemble and the pioneer group in Singapore to use Niibori guitars. GENUS won first prize (ensemble) at the Singapore Guitar Festival and was fourth in the 2nd International Festival and Competition for Guitar Orchestra in Rheine, Germany. Formed in 2005, Expose! is a guitar ensemble mainly made up of alumni members from GENUS.

(60mins, no intermission)

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Well, it's really good to get some exposure and see how the pros play in an ensemble! Pretty much like us, except they use Niibori guitars too. It's free and it's at the esplanade! Maybe it'll serve as some inspiration for our upcoming concert currently untitled =) HCGC alumni member performing too!! Jiayou everyone! Practise hard, and see you when school reopens haha :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2oo8!!



P.S. Yay. New Layout. White and bright, to a sparkling new year 2oo8! Haha oh man sorry if the layout sucks DDD:

Lessons, Audtitions and Pieces to finish

Hi all,

We've talked to Mr Shi, Lessons will be counted at a cheaper price and by head so there is a chance that it'll be below $40+. We'll try to cap it at $40 though. So far the sec4s (3 of them have indicated interest) and about 3 of our batch people have indicated interest. If you're interested do let me/chen sin or vivien know asap cause lessons might commence next week.

Audition results are out. We tried to pass as many as possible, resulting in some people being required to come back to re-audition for 1-2 pieces and some for all. The 2nd audition will be in january so please take the time to practise. Treat the audition seriously because the consequences are serious.

Last of all, pieces to finish, Mr Shi will be coming down on the 17th and 19th and he wants us to finish till the first page of spring message for the training on the 17th and the whole thing by the 19th. Please work hard to meet the target. Once again like what he said, trainings are not for you to learn your pieces, they are for us to coordinate and brush up on dynamics. If you come to training without having practised, you might as well not come for training cause you'll just drag everyone down. We'll be much stricter on this now as requested by Mr Shi.


Details for guitar outing should be up soon.



okay. thats all. notice that i TRIED my best to use formal language and what not (ya im not irritated or wht la) so that ppl cant acuse me of being not serious xD haha. alrite enjoy ur holiday!

Audition groupings for Monday

Hello! Here are the audition groupings for Monday. The numbers in the brackets represent the part you are playing for (Samba Etude, 闪亮, Morenita) respectively. If there are any discrepancies, you can look for your MIs. Thank you and jiayou for auditions! :D

Group 1
Eileen (4,4,1)
Alicia (2,1,1)
Ryan (2,1,2)
Ong Shiyun (1,1,2)
Vivien (1,2,3)
Samuel (3,1,1)
Yikai (4,1,1)

Group 2
Denyse (1,4,3)
Matilda (3,2,3)
Huey Kia (1,1,2)
Catherine (2,1,1)
Honghui (4,2,2)
Jianan (2,3,3)
Chen Sin (4,3,1)

Group 3
Yingzhi (2,1,2)
Elise (1,1,1)
Veronica (4,2,2)
Yanting (3,1,3)
Nicholas (4,1,1)
Felicia (1,2,3)

Group 4
Zhu Ge (2,2,3)
Yujing (1,2,1)
Siying (3,3,3)
Leong Shiyun (1,2,2)
Zhiyong (4,2,1)
Xinyi (1,1,3)

International Guitar Fest, Audition and some updates

(WARNING : i just realise the post is v. long -.- slowly read ba but do read everything though. yupp thx. paiseh)

Hi everyone (: hope you guys are having a great holiday.



Anyway, just some updates regarding the things that i've alr talked abt during trainings.


First, this is a poster of the 7th international guitar festival. try to join, 60% subsidy provided by national arts council. If you're interested call me or wht. cant really rmb all the details (esp the monetary ones =/ off my mind, but i think a day's seminar is 120, 2 days 220 and 3 days dno wht. masterclass observer think is 10bucks? or smthing lidat. competition is 45, concert and recital depends on ur cat, ranging from 20 - 40 or smthing lidat. yupp)





So if you're interested you just uh. pay in full first, get the receipt and pass to alicia to claim ur 60%. applies for both the festival and the competition so in case any of you joined the competition take note that it can be claimed too. yupp :D

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Mock audtition was carried out last training. so for those who came you shd roughly noe how it wld be. not the toughest of auditions so dun get too stress up k :D anw. Do take note tht the audition is crucial. First audition is on the 10th. 2nd audition for those who failed and who cant make it when sch reopen. if u cant make it for both come and find me or else i'll just take it that you don't wan to join guitar next yr.

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Tuners,

For those who wants to purchase a tuner at $15 let any of the exco members know. we're buying in bulk accessories and guitar for our next year batch so if u wan to buy anything u can buy w us? cos it'll be much cheaper. ok i've sidetracked, but anyway,

its a clip on tuner, with a mic fn too so can be used in ur conventional way, has led display that turns red when wrong pitch and green when correct, can change tuning fom A=435 to 445 i think, main think is can be changed la. can tune in diff keys. and uh. is super cheap. so ya if u wan 1 let us know asap.

And for other things too. like guitar. there are already a few people buying guitars together with us le so ya xD join in the fun la. (if ur parents wont kill u that is)

other things u may want to buy include strings etc.

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Attendance.

probably the worst thing to talk abt but also the most impt. so lyk wht i've said during training, but with some clarification. and this 1 will hold and its in black and white so yupp. when in doubt come to refer to this.

only 11 person will not hit the 80% mark if we only take term 3,4 + holiday training. so we're taking that. as for the 11 person, most of them they reallyreally don't appear at all and you wont even know them. so we really got no choice cos the sch needs 80% attendance.

HOWEVER, do take note that the 11person is calculated base on the fact that u attended ALL holiday trainings. so if u happily pon-ed (which quite alot seemed to O.o) most of the training, im not sure whether i'll be still 11. this is really the best that we can do alr. we've quarrelled/fight/poked/strangled/discussed/negotiated with each other for a supppper long time so ya. i really really think this is the max we can go alr. so try not to pon training alrite, its ur cca after all.

2nd thing. and the thing that needs to be clarified. What is considered as a valid excuse.

Rmb me saying that everything is considered as a valid excuse? that was said with the assumption that plain weird O.o ideas like pon training purposely isnt even within the scope of discussion. so let me clarify myself.

Activities such as School activity, Chalet, Family holiday, work attachment will be considered as valid excuse. for holiday trainings at least which seem to have alot of controversy over it. During normal training nothing shd take priority over ur cca unless u have got valid excuse lyk having make-up lesson etc. when in doubt go to cheryl.

BUT. theres a catch to it. rmb i also said that u must find out wht we did and learn them by the next training? yupp. so after having ur valid excuse (yayye). you're suppose to 1) find out wht u missed. 2) learn them. 3) find me for ur "mini audition"

so the whole process will go like that

1) Find cheryl at least 1 week in advance if you know that you're gonna miss training for a valid excuse with evidance and stuff. Cheryl will note down the relevant details after verifying it.

2) Find out for urself wht u missed, don't expect MIs to give u private 1-on-1 tuition, its not in their job scope but if they're nice enuff. ohwells. so you're probably get like a summarize version of wht u nid to do and everything go do it urself.

3) Find me latest 1 week after (i.e. the next training when you're suppose to come back). arrange a time for ur mini audition to check that you've learnt all that you're suppose to learn.

4) If you pass, i'll let cheryl noe. den she'll cancel out those training (i.e not to be counted)

so,

scenario 1 : if u pass, training not counted.

scenario 2: if u fail, i'll let cheryl noe, taken as didnt come for training.

scenario 3: didnt tell cheryl in time, counted as miss training

scenario 4: told cheryl but didnt find me 1 week after, i wont tell cheryl anything and after 1 week she'll still take it as missed training

yupp. so pls be responsible in doing wht you're suppose to if u have to miss training. thx :D

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Pieces to play.

by 3rd dec - Finish lambada (or minimum bar 40), spring msg bar 21 (or isit 25?) the part where i played to last training la.

by 5th dec - finish lambada, spring msg bar (?) to be comfirmed, juniors coming

10th - audtition, spring msg (?), Mr shi coming - bush up all pieces till samba

12th - spring msg

17th - finish spring msg, Mr shi coming - brush up all pieces

19th - Mr Shi coming - brush up all pieces

So by 19th dec, we'll be able to play shan liang, shi jie, Morenita, Samba, Lambada, Spring Msg

Next year first combined piece with junior : Cant help falling in love

In between we might have more piece from Mr Shi, and the piece that i'll arrange? (if i can find some time la ><) but lyk we agreed, if i arrange we have to learn super fast. yupp.

ok thats all! thanks for ur patience xD

Training dates

19th Nov (Mon), 26th Nov (Mon)

December:
3rd (Mon), 5th (Wed),
10th (Mon), 12th (Wed),
17th (Mon), 19th (Wed)

9am-1pm