Practice report 16/2 & 17/2

Posted on February 18, 2024

Date: 16 February 2024 & 17 February 2024

Time:

16 February 2024: 8.00am-4.00pm

17 February 2024 :8.00am-12.00pm

Venue: Auditorium

These two practice sessions were for our annual and combined concert. Everything went according to plan. Furthermore, they served as a countdown for the final three practice sessions leading up to the concert and as a countdown for the remaining 13 days until our annual and combined concert, ‘Echoes of Time.’ All members had put forth their best effort during the drills.

Members were practicing their songs.

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Practice Report 3/2

Posted on February 4, 2024

Date:3 February 2024

Time:8.00am-4.00pm

Venue:D2,D3

Last Saturday was the practice for our annual combined concert. This practice is the last Saturday practice before the Lunar New Year. Additionally, it served as a countdown to the final five practices leading up to the concert. Everything goes well according to the plan. All members had put forth their best effort in the drill.

Members were practicing their ensemble songs.

Members were peforming their small group song.

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Practice report 27/1

Posted on January 27, 2024

Date: 27 January 2024

Time: 8.00am- 4.00pm

Venue: D2 , D3

This Saturday was the practice for our annual combined concert. This practice was also the second time of drill in 2024. In practice, everyone has tried their best to make an all-out effort. Everything goes well according to the plan. Every member was getting to improving their harmonica skills.

Members were practicing ensemble songs for the concert .

Members were practicing their small group songs for the concert.

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Practice Report 19/12

Posted on December 21, 2023

Date:19 December 2023

Time:8.00am-4.00pm

Venue:School Hall

Last Tuesday was the practice for our annual and combined concert. Everything went according to plan. Members of the PCGHS Harmonica Band had practiced concert ensemble songs with members of the CLHS Harmonica Band. Everyone did their best in the practice.

Section leaders led their members and taught them some techniques to play in the song.

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Practice report 2/12

Posted on December 3, 2023

Date: 2 December 2023

Time: 8.00am-12.00pm

Venue: C1

We started our practice physically in 2022 after the pandemic.
Last Saturday was the practice for our annual and combined concert. Everything went according to plan. F3s did their best to lead and guide their juniors as F4s were having their year-end exams and F5s were preparing for their SPM exams. Conductors of the songs and section leaders led their members to play songs well. Every member learnt more harmonica playing skills in the practice.

Conductor , Soon Yu Qian , conducting ” Selection from Phantom of the opera “

Section leaders were leading their member.

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Song Cover Competition

Posted on September 19, 2021

Date: 18 September 2021

Time: 8:00 am – 12:00 am

Venue: Microsoft Teams

The PCGHS Harmonica Band have been practicing concert ensemble songs for the past few months, and it’s time to welcome something new. Yesterday, our form 3 students announced that they hold a harmonica song cover competition for all form 1 and form 2 members.

After familiarising the rules, everyone met with group members in their respective rooms to choose a song for the cover and discuss the section list. Meanwhile, the other form 3, form 4s were there to guide them throughout the whole session as the form 5 students had to stop attending our harmonica practice since August to prepare for their SPM exams.

This group project benefits them very much as they learn to collab with different people. We look forward to their final product.

Everyone talks about today’s progress after leaving their rooms as usual.

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Training Camp

Posted on May 29, 2021

Date: 22 May 2021

Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Venue: Microsoft Teams

After resuming our practice for two weeks, the PCGHS Harmonica Band had organized a training camp with the CLHS Harmonica Band as our guest to let both harmonica band members get to know each other. The object of this training camp was to enhance the relationship among members and at the same time to relax our members from some upcoming exams.

We played a variety of station games to earn marks and clues for the following link race. Meantime, the mafias hiding in each group did their missions to gain points for the mafias group. The stationers did a great job conducting the game session. Hence, everyone had a fun time playing the station games. After our lunch break, all the members then proceed to stations that required playing with their harmonica. In these stations, members will compete with other groups on harmonica scales, sight-read, and converting staff into numbered musical notation skills.

We went to respective rooms for link race discussions with group members after playing all the station games. The link race was fascinating. It requires group members to work together and proceed from one stage to another. However, groups that faced obstacles can use their marks accumulated for the exchange of more clues. Those that found out the final google meet link then told the correct keywords to the game organizers earned for their total score.

In the end, the mafias group that gained the most points won. All members that participated in this training camp won points for their leaderboard ranking. This training camp was a great success as everyone had a lot of fun time joining the whole day program.

The start of Training Camp 2021.

Members are competing sight reading.

Group photo of PCGHS Harmonica Band and CLHS Harmonica Band.

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Exam Hiatus ( April-May 2021 )

Posted on April 17, 2021

Due to upcoming school’s mid-year exam, our practice will be on hiatus for a few weeks.

Starting date for all members: 17 April 2021

For more information, please contact Ooi Kai Yuan from S5C 0r Anisha Ng Fui Ying from S4A. Thank you.

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Orientation Day 2021

Posted on April 4, 2021

Date: 27 February 2021

Time: 8.00 am – 12.00 pm

Venue: Microsoft Teams

Our Orientation Day was held on the 27th of February (Saturday). The purpose of this activity was to welcome the new members of the PCGHS Harmonica Band to our big family. Firstly, the vice president introduces us to this Orientation Day and then followed by the explanation for the leaderboard system by the vice secretary, Tan Shin Yee.

After that, we played some ice-breaking games which required playing in groups with senior members and newbies to earn clues regarding the Who’s The Murderer’s story. The orientation went well and groups that figure out who’s the murderer won points for their leaderboard ranking.

The newbies and seniors had a fun time playing games together.

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Practice report 18/2: The start of skills camp!!

Posted on February 21, 2021

Date: 18 February 2021

Time: 8.00 pm – 10.00 pm

Venue: Microsoft Teams

This Thursday was the first practice day of skills camp. Before we start practice, our vice-secretary, Tan Shin Yee announced that there will be a leaderboard system for members to accumulate marks base on individual performance such as harmonica skills completion, discipline during practices, and also achievements when competing with members. After that, members join different rooms according to the sub-group name list to learn music articulation skills such as legato, tenuto, staccato, loud-soft, and accent. At the end of practice, the seniors of individual sub-groups wrote a short note about their member’s current status on skills, and members are advised to practice more at home.