Lakeside Band Concert
Thursday was the Lakeside Band Concert.
The band that I play in, the Beginning Band, was the first one to play and also the most basic one, hence the name. First, we played Lightly Row, which I messed up on because I played on the wrong part of the drum. At the end, we played When The Saints Go Marching In. On the second repeat, I totally wiped out. I was forced to improvise, and got back on track by the end of the song. The funny thing is, nobody else noticed that I messed up. I guess mistakes are more obvious when you make them yourself.
There were three other bands - the Concert Band, the Jazz Band, and the Upper School Jazz Band. My favorite was actually the Concert Band. There were a lot of players in the band, and so they could afford to have all kinds of instrumentalists - triangle players, timpani players, bass drum players, snare drum players, and everything else that the other bands had. So they could make really dramatic and loud music, which I noticed in their song about the Titanic sinking. There were a lot of crescendos and I could imagine the music in my head.
In conclusion, I enjoyed the concert even though I messed up a bunch of times!
The band that I play in, the Beginning Band, was the first one to play and also the most basic one, hence the name. First, we played Lightly Row, which I messed up on because I played on the wrong part of the drum. At the end, we played When The Saints Go Marching In. On the second repeat, I totally wiped out. I was forced to improvise, and got back on track by the end of the song. The funny thing is, nobody else noticed that I messed up. I guess mistakes are more obvious when you make them yourself.
There were three other bands - the Concert Band, the Jazz Band, and the Upper School Jazz Band. My favorite was actually the Concert Band. There were a lot of players in the band, and so they could afford to have all kinds of instrumentalists - triangle players, timpani players, bass drum players, snare drum players, and everything else that the other bands had. So they could make really dramatic and loud music, which I noticed in their song about the Titanic sinking. There were a lot of crescendos and I could imagine the music in my head.
In conclusion, I enjoyed the concert even though I messed up a bunch of times!
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