The event in mentioned

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1696147

Only 10min slots... 2 songs? Suggest we play something within our song set except for Bad Apples... that one we have to play

How you supposed to play Bad Apples without a vocal?


Replace with..... violin?

Ooh nice version. *save*

Song.

Tried the electric violin with Boss ME-50 guitar effector was quite amusing

Tomorrow night meeting at http://www.secretoflouisiana.com/ to discuss with the organizer. 8 pm.

A little bit of explanation regarding the performance night thing. I was being asked by a dear friend who apparently an organizer of some event that he is finding someone or something to do some performance on a stage. A stage that being used for award ceremony of something I am not clearly understand although fortunately we can find that out soon. As of last week, I did not know the whereabout of the said stage (not gonna use event as you guys might confuse it with another thing). Because of that, I was using The Curve as the stage of performance area as that's what I thought where the performance would be gonna happen in relation with the event on the next day. Apparently, I just got to know a moment ago about the said stage would be at Secret of Louisiana for the award ceremony. I knew some guys might have different understanding about this performance thing. So let me put down some inputs here.

So what kind of performance do they want? Anything. Singing, dancing, play, as long as it's nice. It's a performance to fill up the gap between award giving ceremony slots. For the whole ceremony. There might be a single 10 minutes gap where some performance can be filled in, and there might be another 10 minutes or so with another skit.

When and where? The place is Secret of Louisiana which I mentioned just now and the performance will gonna be on Saturday night. Tentatively, I do not know the details (which we will find it out soon).

What do we get in return? Dinner, of course. Nothing more than that though.

To find out more about the stage performance, some guys needed to go there on Wednesday night (relatively tonight) at 8 pm to get more knowledge about the ceremony.

I have to go since I am the middle person for matter. Now who wants to go with me?

P/S: I don't really mind if you guys want to do a full performance with drums and everything but please consider if we only have 10 minutes to perform.

3 people could fit in ultiman's room. No drums I guess, but can still use beat machine.

Suggest we use Double M-Audio setup. Equipment:
a) Keyboard
b) M-Audio ADC
c) each of the above has a line in for guitar & bass or guitar & guitar
d) Bring our own mics just in case
e) Steno's amp
f) My PC speaker set as backup

We have some drumbeats from Chiaki's recording - Meguriai, Yokan, Pure Pure Heart, Shine days (but I won't recommend After Dark's - it's too off tempo).

Open to song list, but needs most to be acoustic. Also I don't think we need to go jamming studio to practice for this. My room is empty now without the drum.

Organizer suggestion for us to perform during opening ceremony before VIP speeches. What say you?

Thanks for inviting me to perform with you guys. Seems to improved from the last time but sadly still not good enough i think... sorry but i'll comment indiscriminately here.

brian - since myc is not gonna stick any longer, dunno if you change to bassist. But as a rhythm, learn more about body language to express yourself. i recommend you to provide a vocal support(harmony) also for the band, your singing was good. And teach steno to be a singing guitarist if you have the time.

Myc - should i comment?

Steno - still lacking in vibrato and pitch, hopefully your enthusiasm to play music intrument will let you learn more about those especially vibrato. also dont close your eyes while singing and notice any sign from bandmates for anything.

Chiaki - has conquered your anxiety when facing a crowd, good. I suggest you follow singer's lead when playing, do take notice if it's a bit too fast or slow. and pay attention to any sign from your bandmates telling you to slow/fast a bit during playing(check them out regularly, i believe you dont need to see where you are hitting). electronic drumkit is highly recommended.

Noir - Hold your keyboard properly, it can kill a person if misused.

Alice - Sing close to mic.

Overall bad apples member, choosing hard songs to play could take up a lot of jamming session for perfection. especially like shine days. you guys could learn 3-5 easy songs to play if you didn't even learn that.

In the end a band main power is the vocalist, so steno/alice/ms wei need to train harder to improve the band. singer isnt just about singing, it's interaction and body language. so smile and learn to impose the songs' impression. i really recommend steno to sing while playing rhythm since brian might convert to bassist when myc is busy making offsprings. singing+playing guitar require less of body language to the COOL effect of it.

Again, thanks for inviting me. Been a while since I pickup the guitar seriously.

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Added on January 24, 2011, 2:41 amAnd one more thing, the more person in a band, the more person you need to trouble. imagine ZC coming for all the practice session but couldnt perform . not to say many vocalist, many bassist, many drummer but only one of them got to go on stage...  again... a wasted effort for those who attended the practice. 4 person can make a good band dy, 8-9 person is hard to manage, and i should say it'll waste more time. besides, if you're registering for event and say you got like 10 members, it's a scary story enough for the organizer.

Chiaki, we have no singer for that kind of music.

Let's do this. PM or post here who's interested in this Feb 19.

Mission is a go if we have 1 guitarist, 1 bass, 1 drum and vocal.

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Added on January 25, 2011, 10:33 amIf ye say yes, you are committing min 2 practice sessions

Gonna assume Brian playing bass this time. How about our guitarist?

double bass.

double drums.

I am not joining~
19/2 impossible for me neway~

MSNed with ZC. Both guitarist not in... so Feb 19 is a no go?