Lol looks like my posts are coming monthly now.

Life's been really busy D: Especially with music. It's the most taxing, most time consuming, but also the most fun and rewarding subject in the entire JC syllabus.

I think Mr. Yu is a super unique teacher. Sometimes he's whacky, sometimes he's strict. When he first took over Mrs Chee and did his first lecture with us, I think everyone just kind of hated him because of his overly stringent schedule and pickiness with punctuality, while being inefficient at the same time :P Then he tried to show off a bit by trying to improvise based on 4 notes, and everyone was like "huh o.O jon shin can do better"

But i'm quite sure he was a little nervous on his first lecture and things didn't go as well as he planned.

Then harmony lesson using games (the hilarious guys vs girls showdown) portrayed him in a totally new light and then impressions started to change. Thereafter, during lectures, he still continued his strictness with time, but this time we're starting to conform into his schedules, which are actually pretty realistic in retrospect.

What impresses me the most is his imagination and the way he play with chords as if they are like toys. After his first failed attempt at improvising on his debut lecture, the rest of his improvisations and on-the-spot compositions in class were just like wow :O And he can always link it to some movie/show/random context. He's creativity and imagination is just super super wild. I thought I was crazy enough already, but he just owns me hands down.

And today I just had like a half an hour session with him where he reviewed my awesome compo :) First two movements were okay, when we came to the elegy, the third movement, he showed me how to manipulate the cello melody into something super dramatic. And to show the effect, he actually sung the revised melody. It's really crazy, he hit the high E ten notes above the middle C, and his voice was really powerful (i thought usually falsetto notes will be like softer or less resounding). Not only that, the note had VIBRATO. subtle, but evident. And it's one of the purest vibratos I've heard in a male voice, much better than Ben low.

Yeah basically he's just a super crazy teacher with a lot of hidden skills that we still don't know (such as knowledge of Chinese history and literature ><) And anw, compo has been a fun experience, and I think I'm more or less going to do compo major for A-levels :)

Okay i shall stop now, maybe the next time i blog will be next month...


And here's an apology to Charlotte for banging into her during PE yesterday and bruising her entire right kneecap. Sorry! :P