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We are a group of carefree students who have gathered together,
regardless of bawahs, normals, atas, kulintang and percussions
to create music like none other with our conductor, Mr Dzul. :D
Teacher i/cs: Mr Tan Chor Yean, Ms Sun

Hello people...the following post is taken from my blog, i thought i post it here as well, u guys hv worked so hard, its time to sell some 'koyok' like hell. Hope that the following ppost will do justice on wat u hv put urself into

20 to 30 years ago the angklung was regarded as 'lembek' (soft n weak) and definitely not for a guy who wants to look macho and rugged, that was the mindset that youngsters hv during my time. Even now, theres this stigma still looming around but no as much as before. I too hv the same mindset when i picked up the instrument back then, but the urge to know and to try overcame all that thoughts. In fact if i passed that opportunity to learn, i wouldnt be doing wat i'm doing rite now! Moral of the story is, treat all opportunities as important as ur life and give it a try, u'll never know that it'll be ur bread n butter sooner or later.
Now back to that mindset of angklung being weak n 'lembek'. U'll never know till u try it....seriously. The level and standard of angklung playing has risen up tremendously, music arrangement are more complex now, players are now more exposed to challenging pieces which are meant for other musical instruments/ensemble. Angklung score used to be simple straightforward single layered... playing only the melody line, even with this simple arrgt it can be quite challenging as each player can only play one single note unlike other instruments. Now, the arrgt has developed...even for myself, i will add more harmonies and layers in my music arrgt for angklung, experimenting and creating new techniques and push the competency level of players to the very limit, and walla! u hv the new vibrant sound of angklung. That's the reason i feel very proud for my students (who are mostly girls)....i know its not easy, physically and mentally and i bet some boys wouldnt hv the stamina to last the whole song.... and i purposely arrange the songs in such a way, physically and mentally demanding, to prove that angklung is not a 'lembek' instrument meant for the soft heart.
To the rest of the readers out there, u can see and hear for urself and be surprise...my NJC's angklung ensemble will be having their first solo concert at the esplanade recital studio on thurs 10th Apr, and most of the songs that they'll be playing are songs which hv not been scored to n played on angklung before, eg Gun N Roses' Sweet Child 'O Mine and Gypsy King's version of My Way. Let me knoe early if u need the tix...its selling fast!

posted by Dzul at 1:54 PM

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