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Yolo?

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Well, I went and talked to our new band teacher and it went pretty well. He gave me to choose between four options, I could play in pit, be a drum major and conduct, convince him to let me march saxophone, or learn a whole entire new instrument (baritone). So I asked if I could get to take home a baritone so I could practice on it and I did, played an hour on it and thought the rest of the day what I should do. I crossed off conducting cause I want to march, crossed off pit because I want to march, so it was down to saxophone or baritone. Went to school the next day and talked to Christine (my friend and section leader of the low brass) and she started freaking out and begged me to be in low brass with her. And then it got me into more thinking, the band needed more baritones (we only have three of them, and the marching show has a huge feature on the low brass) or doing saxophone (there's four saxophones).... I choose baritone, so this marching season's going to kick my ass, this is going to be a lovely season. Need to learn baritone and how to march now.
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New Season

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Welp our new marching season is coming up soon, with our seniors graduated and our brand new music going to be handed out next week, its kind of exciting and kind of scary. I am looking forward to the new season but also not in a way. We are in need of more percussionist if we are going to have a battery, so far we have two tenors, three snares, and only two basses. Then the pit is in need of a vibe player so yeah. Our low brass kind of scares me too because we might only have four baritones, and the low brass are going to have a huge effect on the show this year so yikes! Our woodwinds grew in numbers though, we went from two flutes to five, two clarinets to five, and three saxophones to six so yeah to them. The conflict with me and my spot in the marching band is that I am needed in a place that I really don't want to be in. The pit needs me but I want to march tenor sax. I've been in pit for two years because that's where they have needed me to be, and I love pit, but I really want to march saxophone this year. After playing saxophone in jazz band this year I fell in love with it and I really want to march this year. I know I want to do whats right for the band but I really want saxophone so badly.

Please leave a comment on what you think would help me, I'm kind of on the fence about what I should do, so help is nice. Thank you for reading this whoever you are and thanks for any comments
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failure....

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I can't believe that I haven't noticed that i haven't puy anything up that happened at our winter concert...(facepalms). Well it went really good i think. On my part it went good. My solos at the end of two of are peices sounded alright to me. But who knows, secretley my band director is planning on giving me away to aliens because i didn't play it perfectley to him. (My creative imagination I have.) Anyways our little sixth graders sounder really good for being, well, sixth greaders. Although when they were warming up it sounded like they were trying to call satan to them, it was a bit scary. I never knew how long the concert seemed to drag on with the middle school being in it until now, although last year it seemed that the high school's music seemed to go on forever to until now too so yeah. The seventh grade percussionists made me so happy because they were all playing in time will each other and it sounded so beautifilly. (until I seen how there technique was, some of them looked decent....only some...) The eighth graders well we didn't get to listen to them because we had to go warm up. Since the jazz band had to play had after the concert high school I went and warmed up my saxophone. The looks the percussionist gave me were pricless. They didn't know that I played saxophine and they just kept giving me looks of confusion, it was great. (Some of the percussionist knew I was playing saxophine though so yeah for them.) Once we got on the stage, I will admit, i was a bit nervouse. I wasn't as nervous has ii have been for the past years though which was nice. We played our fist song and i was ok, until the next song came and I had to play that solo at the end. My heart was pounding and i falt like if I messed this up I was going to die, but no problem I played the last note and the song was over. (I falt like my heart jumped out of my ribbcage though.) The last song, again the fear od the deadly solo I had to play. Again it freaked me out but I falt more confident this time. The sing ended and everyone cheered. Then our band director started talking about what was going on and how hes planning on leaving after the school year ended. (When he first told the high school we all lost it and started crying. Still it hurts me now, but I'm happy hes going to go into a career he likes more.) I started freaking out when i couldn't find my music and realized it was sitting on a table in the band room and mentally slapped myself. Once the jazz band played was when I really started to freak out though. I had never really played in front of a huge crowd like thid and it scared me, until we started palying and I felt more confident. For the concert I'd say it went very smoothly. Now i just have to practice the new songs for jazzband, concert band, and practice the percussion auditions, I'm gonna have fun this Christmas break :D
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Just Band

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Well hanging out with my awesome trumpet graduate, my older sister, and my percussion section leader right now. At two am. Watching scary movies. Yeah fun. Have a concert on Tuesday, I was so upset when I heard that. My birthday is on this coming up Wednesday. I( so wanted to have a concert and my birthday on the same day but no. So anyways I also have my audition music due on Monday and I haven't even looked at it. I've been concentrating on my saxophone the whole time and the concert is this coming up Tuesday so yeah... Does that make me a horrible band kid or something? I don't know but I'm going to enjoy this movie with my bang buds so peace out.
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Christmas Walk

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Well it went very... interesting. The jazz band had to play for the Christmas walk we had for our town and it was very cold outside. So for me I have never played outside in the cold, EVER. So I go up and ask my section leader, "Is it hard to play in the cold." She looks at me like I'm crazy. "Yeah just keep your instrument warm and it should be ok." So its at the Christmas walk and were all tuning. We all sound crazy cause he tunes us to be flat. One of our trombone goes and plays his note and our director tells him to push out. We all gasped. Then started laughing. We start playing and after about 15 minutes I'm thinking, "holy crap I can't feel my fingers." I was trying to play and I was like I give everyone playing a wind instrument during marching band so much more props. I didn't know it was that hard to play. I knew it was but just not THAT hard. SO to everyone out there who marching a wind instrument, props to you your awesome, like ze amazing PRUSSIA! Yup so the Christmas walk was fun.

~Hearts on Fire, Minds on Ice~
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