Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Suteki worked out pretty well during the SG practice, though initially the balance was terrible. Probably due to everyone reading through the scores and not listening much. Shuhann hissed about his part being on Bass and all, so he'll get his part transposed onto a Prime then. Michelle and Hansen were quite contented with their parts, no hideously unplayable portions written I suppose. Alex plays really well on the Alto but when it comes to the guitaron, he sorta suddenly transforms into a junior, playing funny notes and counting bars faster and slower than us... Then again, on the contrabass, he's fine. *puzzled*

I find that the quintet seems to be a lot more balanced in pieces with 2 Alto parts, e.g. Au Bond, Triste, clayderman pieces and the likes... perhaps an arrangment issue. Suteki sort of falls into the same category as Reasons, with a single Alto part against 3 lower voices and a continuous voice. Well, it's quite a different ball game altogether.

Jamming Farandole was fun! We sounded quite good actually!

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