Wednesday was another free and easy day, so most of the time was spent on uploading the videos for the rehearsals on Monday and trying to upload the performance on Tuesday though I know it would be pretty much impossible to do in a day. Now that youtube has this function that enables you to pause and resume uploading when you leave and return to a wifi area. That means that if you have like a maximum of 20GB of videos, you can upload half of that in one day, turn off your computer and resume uploading the rest of it as one entire video, pretty cool.
Well, yes so most of the days was mainly spent on that and mixing and eating, not forgetting I had wasted one entire morning still snoozing comfortably in bed. Seriously, nothing beats the warmth that the heated room brings after a long hard day in the cold.
And yes it is drastically colder now that the weather’s back to 13 degree celcius, I guess the Singapore weather came and now wants to bring us back to Singapore.
Well, that evening we spent quite some time over dinner hearing about Michael’s life story, about how he first started to learn about synthesizer programming at the age of 17 where he heard a distinct timbre which he liked and found out that it was the mini moog.
Then how he went to university after that to get a degree in composition and as playing as a session musician in a pub and later in his first original band called FX and then later as a third-class rock-star in Redgum as a keyboardist and flautist at the age of 23. Well, I forgot how long h toured with them but what I do know is that he was partially the cause of Redgum’s hiatus till now. Apparently the band was going to reform after 1-2 years, after his visit to Singapore. But that ‘1-2 years’ turned out to be like I think 8 years till now, and it has still not reformed. That’s bad news for Redgum fans..
Well, but it was thanks to his Redgum days that he was well-aquainted to Irish tunes. That pretty much led to a session of Tin whistle tunes in Valarie’s room, where we basically followed the John Walsh Session Tunes score and played all the Irish folk tunes together. Well, being a poor sight reader and a amateur tin whistle player, I was of course not able to catch up with them, so basically, I had to listen and learn by ear and practice it on my own before playing with them again. It was a fun time learning to play the whistle, I can tell that Valarie probably practiced the whistle harder than me cus she on the way of becoming an Irish musician.
Well, at least I got to know one more Irish folk song on the tin whistle, but I will definitely need more practice on the whistle before I can play a piece fluently on it. Apparently you are not allowed to use tonguing in Irish folk music on tin whistles, you might get executed for that.. You were suppose to play every phrase within on breath smoothly and add ornamentation to two of the same notes played to distinguish the notes, now that’s tough.
But who knows maybe the tin whistle can be incorporated in our church worship band, I have one in Bb key now, maybe with a D major one, it will be much easier to play.
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