Band Music

band music that you don't know how to play

in the first rehearsals of the year

and the recording

and it's so unbelievably beautiful

and you don't know how you'll ever to play it

but then it starts coming together

piece by piece

slowly sounding like it should 

and it sounds more and more like the recording

then you add your own touch

and it's so beautiful 

it sounds like the recording

and you're so proud of it but also so sick of it

because to make it pretty

you had to practice it

over and over and over again

It's so beautiful but also so not but so much so

and you're so tired of it

but it's so beautiful

and then the concert comes up

And so you play together for the last time

something goes wrong

but you can't listen

because you're concentrating

It's all over before you can even really think

blood, toil, tears, and sweat

 all within minutes

and then it's over. It's all over.

thanks for reading

stupid poetry about something I didn't even intend to write about oops :P

and also this took way longer than it should had

Today I learned #5

that playing flute right after applying hand lotion is an incredibly bad idea. Your flute slides out of your hands.

Filming/Recording

There's this background noise of food or eating...all. the. time. Dear family, please stahp eating so that I can film, please!?

Today I learned #1

That the height needed for my feet to be placed flat on the ground while sitting in band chairs is exactly the height of my flute stand.

I also learned that my flute stand can't stand the weight of my legs.

Conclusion- my flute stand is now damaged. I still need to find something to rest my feet on that doesn't look weird.

You know you're a flautist when....#1

you inwardly wince at a long drawn out run of scales in the high register....

How ironic

the easiest note to play on flute is the hardest one (for me) on the bassoon (with my repertoire of about 7 1/2 notes that I can play).

Dear band director,

I LOVE you for choosing for us to play The Sound of Music. However, if I go around incessantly singing parts of the Sound of Music, please feel free to slap me or to tell me to shut up.

Audition

Haven't practiced over the summer
No particular experience choosing audition pieces
No private teacher to help teach
Can't ask band teacher since s/he's the one auditioning me
Wants to get into a higher level band
Chose piece I didn't like
Changed piece 2 hours before audition
Auditioning done by person I really don't want to fail in front of
Totally botched rhythm of my solo during audition
Also totally botched chromatic scale
Wonder how I did.




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Is this poetry? It certainly looks like poetry.....am I a poet? This wasn't even intentional.....

The advantage of knowing all 12 major scales

Music Teacher: Let's begin warming up with a scale. What major scale would y'all like to play?

Me: B major! (Which has 5 sharps and is virtually one of the hardest scales to play)

Everyone: *looks at me weird*

Other Music Teacher: So flute....