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I think it's time to let OPWO know about my SAYOWE trip so that they will know how not hardworking they are.

When we reached Baan Phu Waan.
We had ourselves registered and had our stuff dump into our respective allocated rooms.
When we were unpacking, we were already hearing the other musicians from other ASEANS country practicing.
They were so hard working...
It seems like the first thing is to practice first before unpacking their stuff...
I was really amazed by them.
The spirit that they had makes me even motivated to practice even harder.

Every single morning when i woke up, the people are already practicing way early before we even wake up. They just practice their fundamentals...The scales...But in different variation. It's nice to hear and I learn alot of ways to do scales.
It doesnt have to be the typical scales that we are playing.
Even WU101 is not even enough to make us good.
Every night I could hear the boys' school band practicing till 2000-2100 at night.

Everyday i hear different kinda scales and ways to warm-up.
It is really fun. There are also different techniques to be learnt.
They even group together to play scales...in different major/minor forming arpeggios.

we had 10.5 hrs of rehearsal a day. But we always over shot our prac time till late night and early morning.
For me I spend at least an hour doing scales. Whereas they spend much more time than me I guess.
It is always important to be fully warmed-up on the scales before doing any piece.
The warm ups doesnt just include playing it. But doing the scales by making sure the intonation is right. The tone, the sound, the dynamics, the balance...etc
And also doing scales with M.A.S.T
there are so many ways in doing just scales but I don see why OPWO is not doing any of it.
WU101 is not everything though it covers all scales...
what i felt is that WU101 is nothing to OPWO i guess. They are doing it coz it is a must to do it. They are not doing it coz they love it. I do not even see the seriousness in doing the warm up even.
Memers quit as they like...well...those people are really a waste of peoples time.
Why join when you wanna quit.
I cant even stand members not even playing the repertoires properly.

Just take for example. March Bou-Shu
The easiest repertoire for OP now.
The details is not even there.
Playing through is nothing.
It's about the details...

I am not trying to say that we must be like the ASEAN people. But what i wanna say is that we must have the musician integrity and discipline to make ourselves improve individually.
Sectionals doesnt revolves in a section only. But it should also be done individually.
Sectionals does not revolves only getting the note right and playing through.
It is the details that is the important ones.
Some people are already pssing me off in Op.
Not doing anything to improve. I don want people to start practicing hard just coz mr tan wanna leave the band or something. Don do things when you have a goal.
But do things constantly to achieve the goal. Don start to do it when you are gonna lose something.
What's the point...
Don forget what we have to maintain. We we don maintain. The cycle is gonna repeat itself.

Demonic Sebastian

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