Camp Photos

Hey GEMmers!
Hope you guys had fun during the GEM camp like ZhiYong. Haha.. To see the photos taken during our camp, go to this web: http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x43/thegemmerz/
Enjoy!

The Third Man Theme

The Third Man is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era. It was voted the #1 British Film of the 20th Century by the esteemed British Film Institute (BFI). (http://www.filmsite.org/thir.html). It won an Oscar too!! This movie's released in 1949... Quite old, eh? Oh yea, and "The Third Man Theme", released in 1950 became a best-seller, and later an LP (gramophone record >> basically the very big black CD thing ) was released (wikipedia).

So.. this is our new song.... Enjoy!! (but dun forget.. must practice also ah) ;-)


And here is an old band performing the song... See, they so enthu!!

Packing list

Things to bring:

-Dark colored shirt : 1
-School Based Shirt : min. 3
-Dark colored /School based short: min. 3
-Shoes : 2
-Socks : 3
-Slippers/ sandals : 1
-Torchlight : 1
-Sleeping Bag :Optional
-Toiletries : -
-Towel : 2
-Personal medication : -
-Mosquito Repellent : 1
-Guitar : 1
-Guitar File :1
-Ez- Link : -
+ anything else tht u think u need to bring

Guitar festival 2007

Ushering
Slots going out fast!!! Slots for 3rd n 4th Dec have been taken, only 1 place left for the 5th, but we still have places on 6th onward. C'mon quickly sign up!! By doing ushering, u get CIP points and get to watch the concert for free, good deal eh?

Tickets for concert
This is the list of concert ticket buyers. If u wanted to buy ticket but your name is not on the list, pls contact Darren.
Buying Tickets:
-Jin Jia
-Joshua
-Nicholas
-Aiman
-Eugene
-Darren
-Junhe
-Danny
-Eunice
-Shimin
-Sherry
-Zhi Ling
-Jia Yi

For the rest, c'mon dun hesitate, just buy your tickets ASAP!! The guitar players in this festival's world class, definitely worth watching!!

Directions
Here's how to go to your various venues:

-3rd, 4th, 5th (10am to 4pm) December – Cairnhill CC
Take to Newton MRT and walk. (RED line)

-5th(7pm), 6th, 7th December – DBS auditorium
Take to Tanjong Pagar MRT and walk

-8th December – NTUC auditorium
Take to Raffles Place MRT

Visit Streetdirectory for more detailed info

Guitar Festival and CIP!!!

Yeap, as Mr.Darren has told us todae, there will be the '7th International Guitar Festival 2007' from 3-9 December 2007 at various venues. Check out the posters here, n tickets can be bought from sistic.

Other than that, there will be CIP programme. Details below:

Do CIP, Get CIP Points, Watch concert for free....

Here is the video of Flavio Cucchi, one of the guitar players tht will be playing

practise on this coming fri...9 of Nov...from 1 to 4...important briefing will be carried out that day..

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

One of the songs that u all should know

Here's the link to the ultimateguitar page
Try to learn this song, it's quite manageable

Kotaro Oshio - Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence

Cool musical piece, played with various cool techniques

Don Alder - Harp Guitar Acoustic Guitar

Look at this sick thing!!!

Paul Gilbert - Scarified

This guy is good.....
n he have lotsa lessons in youtube too ;) go check them ot yourself, he's a good teacher (i think)

Green Eyes- Coldplay

Quite an old song, but it's nice and quite easy to play too...


Chords:

A E Bm A E Bm
Honey you are a rock, upon which I stand,
A E Bm A E Bm
And I come here to talk, I hope you understand,
Bm D A E
The green eyes, yeah the spotlight, shines upon you.
Bm D A E
And how could anybody deny you.
Bm D A G Bm
I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter now I met you.
Bm D A G Bm
And honey you should know that I could never go on without you.
Bm D
Green Eyes.......
A E Bm A E Bm
Honey you are the sea, upon which I float.
A E Bm A E Bm
And I came here to talk, I think you should know.
Bm D A E
The green eyes you're the one that I wanted to find.
Bm D A E
And anyone who tried to deny you must be out of their mind.
Bm D A G Bm
coz I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter now I met you.
Bm D A G Bm
And honey you should know that I could never go on without you.
Bm A Bm
Green Eyes...green eyes uh oh oh oh, uh oh oh oh..........
A E Bm A E Bm
Honey you are a rock, upon which I stand.

(Click Here for the link to the chord website)

Umbrella (Acoustic Version)

ela..ela..ela.. eh..eh..


Here's the chords for this version, taken from http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/marie_digby/umbrella_ver2_crd.htm

Standard Tuning


Verse:

e --------------------|
B -------6-------2----|
G ---3---6---2---3----|
D ---4---6---3---3----| x2
A ---4---4---3---1----|
E ---2-------1--------|

Chorus
e --------------------|
B -------6-------2----|
G ---3---6---5---3----|
D ---4---6---6---3----| x2
A ---4---4---6---1----|
E ---2-------4--------|


e --------------------|
B -------6-------2----|
G ---3---6---2---3----|
D ---4---6---3---3----| x2
A ---4---4---3---1----|
E ---2-------1--------|


Song lyrics | Umbrella lyrics

You can also view another acoustic version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5paQ9BwFAgI&mode=related&search=

Funny Videos

I think he is really talented...


AND

funny,funny kid

Tommy Emmanuel, Mr.Bean

Tommy Emmanuel playin 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'


AND

mR.bEAN 'Taking Exam'(don't do this for promo!!)


'Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.'- Henry Ford

Funny show

' I dunno what to put.... '



IMPORTANT: Don't forget to learn 'sway' for OPEN HOUSE!!

Quien Sera

The video Darren was talking about

Sway: The complete collection

Hi ppl..Here's another E lessons for all of you.... Please practise the song as we have to play it well. Open House is important!Also, we were told that the guitar ensemble is one of the favourites among the Sec Sch students, don't let them down.. Let's give them a good performance!! yeah!!

-INTRO


Guitar parts: pls note tht we did not record the repeat of the song.
-Guitar 1


-Guitar 2


-Guitar 3


-End/ Conclusion


So.. play hard,practise harder, study even harder

Tuning Your Guitar With Paul Gilbert

One of the best guitarists showing you how to tune a guitar in his style..

visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gilbert for more info

Sway!!!

One of the songs for open house. Enjoy ;)

JerryC: Alien Walker

U can watch other videos of him here: http://www.jerrycfan.net/

Cannon rock(s)

JerryC vs. FunTwo



Another cannon war 1v1v1v1

Who wins? I dunno...

GEM desktop background

Just a little something for you all.....


Link:http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x43/thegemmerz/gem07logo4.jpg

Asturias(Leyenda) - Isaac Albeniz played by John Williams

For your listening pleasure.....

(note: Please be inspired by his playing n BE ENTHU WHEN COMING TO GEM SESSION.......) ;)

Home

The song that we will play on National Day.
Please practise...

T-shirt designs

Hi, these are the t-shirt designs that we have discussed on friday + some more.... U might changed ur mind after last friday so we will do a voting... pls send ur choice to the exco(those ppl who sms u about guitar stuff)Format(f?-b?). ALL MUST SEND,K!!!
(note: it's okay to choose differrent colour for the front and back part of the t shirt as u all hav decided to have black t-shirt... we will edit the design as necessary)

f1

f2

f3

b1

b2

b3

b4

please choose properly..

Cool guitar performance by Mr.Student Conductor

Marriage de Amor!!

The Last Lesson (for now..)

Yo.. this is the last of 4 lessons we have made... This lesson is about the c major scale.. use it to practice and improve your dexterity....Thank you to all of you who have viewed and practiced these 4 lessons...

Lesson No.3

Yeah!! We are now at lesson 3 already... IF you have mastered the basic chords taught in lesson 1 (Em,G,C,D) and the E and A chord from lesson 2, you can use those to play some songs. If not, keep practising your chord changing,coz you must be able to change chords quite fast if u wanna play songs...

In this lesson, we gonna teach you some plucking techniques-which gonna be useful when you play only individual string.Have fun.. the lesson no.4 will be up tommorow.

The Second Lesson

Hi...This is the second lesson, which is on barre chords. This gonna be more difficult than the first lesson, so don't be discouraged if you cannot do the barre chords right now... coz i'm sure you'll be able to make it nx time(if u practice)... the third lesson will be posted tommorow,so... just be ready.

Online lesson 1

Hi gemmerz.... this holiday we gonna post some FREE guitar lessons online.... please check 'em up and practice them....YOU MIGHT BE TESTED ON THESE LESSONS WHEN SCHOOL REOPENS...HAHAHA...-no worries though...the lessons are manageable.. here is the first lesson on basic chords...