Last practice (again)

Well today was once again my last practice with RJCSB (hopefully I'll have a few more though). I really enjoyed the past couple of months playing under Mr Oura again, and alongside some great friends, some who I've known for the past 5 or 6 years, others who I got to know through RWinds last year and still others who I've just got to know, but all are really great people.

If I said the past couple of months have been going smoothly for the band, I'd be lying. Of course, there have been many problems to overcome and many hard times to pull through, but pull through they did. The last couple of pracs I went for showed marked improvement, and I've also grown to like the repertoire quite a lot. Army of the Nile and Takarajima are old favourites, Shichi-Go-San is reminiscent of the beauty that is 7th Night, Poppo-Poppo reminds me of PDQ Bach, and of course, Hymn of the Highlands, which was love at first hear.

I can't say that Limelight will be a very significant concert for me (to the level of Coda IV or Prometheum XI), which is probably a given since I'm a guest player. However, I can say that this has been one of the most enjoyable practice seasons I've had, and besides being the first concert I'm guest playing in, I think this will also be one of the more enjoyable performances.

The band has been really great, and I enjoyed playing alongside my juniors in the J1 and J2 batch again, such as Benni and Alastair. But the people who made this one really special for me were my section, who welcomed me with open arms and never failed to make practices fun and meaningful. Huijun and Zhenyi I barely knew of course, save for Coda pracs and crashing Jinjun's various outings with Huijun, but they've been really nice and fun to be around. Samuel and Jiawei, two of my old sectionmates from RIMB, were always around providing free entertainment trying to outdo each other.






Tomorrow's the concert, so let's do this thing.