djembe 401 - 4.03 Give Thanks





another New Old Song, don moen's give thanks. originally in 4/4, we changed the time signature to 6/8 (the rhythm of its melody as well) to give it a face lift. it's now a refreshing new song to sing! (we think) (:

once again, a big thank you to JR who helped with the guitar.

any qns pls email, i will try my best to answer. God bless!

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djembe 401 - 4.02 Lord i lift Your name on high




welcome to djembe 401! it's been almost a year since the last djembe material, this time we will narrow in on New Old Songs (not a new idea, actually) with fortnightly videos starting with this. special thanks to my friend JR for taking the time to help strum.

it's a classic worship chorus done so many times over the years so we figured we'd put it through the reggae filter and make it into a new song. any questions regarding this instruction feel free to email me.

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teaching percussion @ YISS




thanks to my long time church friend's recommendation,
i have my first percussion school assignment.

the NTs play by ear and feed off peer performance more than the more academic students. they take 10mins to sightread, but 10 seconds to mimic. they have very very short attention span, so it's a learning curve for me.

will be selecting 10 from 3 classes to perform for the school's ndp celebration, woot!

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allow me, just for once, to introduce to you,

my daughter, Keara Kok.


7 weeks.



42 days old.









16 days old.




12 days old.



videos

at 6 wks




at 5 wks




12 days old

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boon pin & marina, four seasons 16 jan


coincidentally, 2 ALD bands were playing beside each other unarranged. it's a first for me! and so, we rendezvous-ed (via the waiters' back alley) and talkoksingsongtakepicture.

and ALD's writeup by bevlyn.

gamsia ALD!



daniel, bevlyn, qiuyun, me, melvin, nig osman and james


qiuyan, bevlyn, me, fabian and melvin

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Sam & Wei Wei, Marina Mandarin 3 jan 2010



alfred, august, sam, weiwei, renhui, pat, me


3 weddings and....a live band.

sam's my age, a professional tennis coach and a very humble groom. even after several rehearsals (and weddings actually...there was one in aussie and another elsewhere before this) he was still so afraid he would ganjiong out of tune for his 2nd march in song.

alfred and renhui = powerhouse la. when renhui belted out "a moment like this" she shook the ballroom of guests and made the crispy duck wait. personal fav is alfred's "what a wonderful world"...he's 90% louis armstrong, and even after hearing it a few times i'm still amazed at how he does it. he would enter the song as louis, turn the heads, slip into his own voice in the chorus, and go louis again at the end, every single time commanding a standing ovation.

august on keys, myself on djembe and guitar, alfred and renhui on vocals.

thanks pat! (and keith)








august rush. he was settling the songlist while we were chatting and having fun.






alfred's songbook is a laptop...pro leh





getting ready for their 1st march in

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Marine Cove Countdown AFTERMATH

clarence, serene and james came in a different attire as what we discussed. "is this what you're wearing for later?" i asked, thrice. and all three times the reply was "oh, i'll change later. this one's for soundcheck. warm la."

even musicians are vain these days.

ANYWAY. of good food, company, music and an easy audience!
some videos for now. more to come!







clarence, serene, myself, james


live high (mraz cover, shuffle edition)




put your records on (corrine cover, funk edition)




the fear (cover, disco edition)




mercy (duffy cover, ganjiong edition)




sunday morning (maroon 5 cover, easy edition)

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