Hey yall... its day 8 already! Ain't that quick!! Hah i guess time flies quickly when ur free from excessive stress... Anway, lets talk about today...
We woke up early today to go for class at 8am in the morning, felt a little embarrased that we needed Dr Tan to knock on our door to wake us up. If not we probably would have been late for class. Thanks Dr Tan.
Anywan, today's lessons started with China History which brought us to the topic of how traditional chinese instruments like the Zhong (gong) and Di Zi(flute) were found. Accodring to the video that the professor showed us. It was dug up from a grave 2000 years ago! Amazing heh! furthermore, they are still using these type of instruments! WOW! There was this special Zhong found that could play 5 octaves worth of notes! Its like my french horn! I also learnt today that chinese instruments do not have the dominant and the leading note of a scale in thier playing. When the professor sung out a song in sulfage for us. I was really suprised! Something I never really took notice about.
Next lesson was music lesson. On types of singing methods. Next came lunch where we went to the dumpling shop near the hostel. It was good as usual. Eating my favourite Bo Bao Rou (sweet and sour pork). Its really tasty...
Last lesson of the day was a lesson on chinese musical instruments. So far the professor had covered with us Pi Pa and Er Hu. So today we moved on to Gu Zheng. She showed us a number for videos of profesional Gu Zheng players playing classical chinese pieces. It was pretty nice but after awhile it started to get a little dull. But we persevered and the class ended with me still wide awake! AHAHAH!
Thats about it for the days activities. The other stuff I did i felt was not significant enough for it to find its way here on my blog haha!
AvengingSoul Singing Off...
Over and Out...