Blog 13 The Last Blog

When I was presenting I thinks I did an okay job. I don't think mine wasn't the worst but it wasn't the best.  My project was about band and what it is like to be in band.  Band was really fun.  I did most of the blogs except for like two of them.

Blog 12 New Leaders

Today our band director will be interviewing people to be a leader in their section.  Anyone can try out to become a drum major,  spirit leader, and parade drum major.  None of the positions are really hard to do, but the only thing is many people are going to be trying out for it.   I could of tried out for section leader but I don't know if I'm going to be joining next year.  For the tubas, nobody is going to be running so Mr.Belski is going to have to pick someone.  For the french horns, all the seniors will be leaving so Mr.Belski will have to take someone from another section to lead them.  For Every other section it is just going to be how the usually do it,  someone will run against each other and Mr.Belski will pick someone.  Band banquet will be coming soon.

Blog 11 After The Concert

In class the day of the concert,  we just practiced the music we got.  Their wasn't anything hard that I struggled with.  When I got to the concert,  people were already there.  The jazz band didn't go on till 7 o'clock.  They played pretty good.  Every band had a few mistakes,  but it was still good.  The concert band played two songs.  They're called Festivo and Ammerland.  The first one was a march like song and the second one was more of a sad toon.  When our band went on it just took a couple of minutes to get ready.  At first I was a little nervous, when we started to play I was fine.  We played two songs, they were called,  Loch Lomond and Alligator Alley.  The first song was a Scottish type song and the second one was about an alligator.  When the last band went on,  I was just waiting outside.  They played two songs,  one of them was Cartoon.  I don't know what the other was but I'm pretty sure that it was good.  I left early because I didn't want to help clean up the stage. 

Concert 5/14/14 blog 10

We are preparing for our concert next Wednesday.  We are only going to be playing two songs,  Loch Lomond and Alligator Alley.   Both songs are really easy.  There is just a few places where I struggle with.  On some places I have to play a couple of high notes.  Other than that, I'm fine on everything else.  The concert will be a Kennedy high school.  This will be our last concert of the year.  After the concert their will be two things to practice for, finals and graduation.  The finals will be a week or two after the concert.  After the concert it is just practicing for finals.  It will be boring not playing any more music as a group for awhile.  Soon after school we will start to prepare for next years marching show.  Hopefully the show for next year will be even better.  It will be sad to see some of my friends leave after being with them for two years.

Preparing for Finals Blog 8

In class we are preparing for our finals everyday for a couple of minutes.  The first part of the test is to play five notes for 20 seconds each with a short break in between.  The next part of the test is to play to different notes without using your tongue to stop the air.  The hard part about it is that the different notes,  one will get lower while the other one goes higher.  Another part of the test is to articulate different notes and play different styles.  Their are other parts that we still haven't got yet.  Hopefully the next few parts will be easier than the others.  The finals this year compared to last years is a lot harder.  The easiest part for me is probably playing five notes for 20 seconds. The hardest part for me is playing different notes in different octaves without using your tongue.  I still have to practice everything else.

March 3 Festival concert

We had a concert at Kennedy high school.  The concert was okay because we didn't really see other schools play.  Most bands, they can get a score of good, excellent, or superior.  Our band got an excellent.  We were doing good in both songs until the towards the end of the second song.  There was few parts were people messed up and it was obvious.  I only messed up on some parts where I haven't practiced it as much as the other parts.  I didn't mess up on my solo which was good.  In class the next day we got to here what the judge has to say about the music.  When it got to my solo he said it was was good.  Our teacher went over with us about what we can do better.  Tomorrow or Friday we will get new music.  We won't be practicing the first music piece as much,  but we will keep on practicing the second piece.

Blog 4 2/28/14

Today in class we had our woodwind instructor to direct us.  It was a little different than normal.  When I went to go get my instrument I see that it was gone.  I had to use one of the old horns to play.  The horn was okay but it wasn't the same.  On some notes it would make a funny sound, but on my other horn the sound quality is so much cleaner.  As we were playing one of the songs, a different band class came in while we were playing.  t was a little nervous because we have never played any of our songs in front of people.  The other people in the band room were just staring at us while we played.  The worst part was when ever we would mess up they would have that look people would give when something is wrong. We are still in the learning process of the song.