On Friday was the jazz fest at Sahuarita High School. It was pretty fun, my jazz band is hilarious. We got an on stage clinic and they improved our rhythm section, though they weren’t bad to start with. Today we learned that our bari sax player got an award for soloing and our trumpet section got an award as well! I was very happy because where I was standing, we sounded a little off, but I’m so happy! We, as a trumpet section, beat CDO, who happens to be our rival band. The other band that received a trumpet award was Tucson High, but they deserved it. In fact, Brian from JazzWerx was in that band. Brian is great on improv and loves jazz.
The next day was a Saturday and I had all day brassline practice. I literally mean ALL day. It started at 9am and ended at 9:30pm. Our shirts should simply say something to the affect of – Yes. We are VERY intense. This was a good practice for all of us mellophones. Ben brought his friend Stephanie who had marched mellophone before herself. She worked with us a lot and when we came out of the music room, we played great. Now the challenge is to memorize this crazy music that looks like it should belong to a woodwind player, there are so many notes on the page and I can’t do what I do in marching band. In marching band I never had to sit down with a piece for anything more then maybe 20 minutes at most. I played most of it by ear, but since the mello part is so different from everyone elses, hard music, and in a different key then trumpet, well I can’t do that.
Of course it left me very tired. I used to think marching band wasn’t hard at all. Anyone should be able to play and make funny shapes. That was before I joined it. It’s actually very hard. Remember, I’m also a long distance runner so I’m not exaggerating or anything. It’s very fun and rewarding though.
You can actually check out our indoor brass schedule at http://cienegaindoorbrass.wordpress.com/.
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Alright, so I just got back from track practice an hour or two ago.
My primary is definitely the two mile, the most you can run in track.
I’m not sure but I think a lot of people from long distance/cross country are doing the mile or half mile, or even the 200! I don’t know, going that fast kills me. I like to pace myself but two miles is still shorter then a 5k (3 miles) so I hope I don’t die on this one. It’d be pretty embarrassing too…because I’ve done that before. The first time I’ve ever ran a mile my fastest. I’m pretty sure no one remembers though. Today in practice we had to do 10 sets of 200 meters at 35 – 45 seconds. Now, I’m even more dehydrated then I was and my nose was on fire for the longest time. I was not meant to go that fast. Though, I should probably hydrate myself more. Even if we just ran for 30 minutes out in the desert my throat would be killing me, so who knows, maybe this was better for me.
I must keep in mind that I’m only doing track to keep in shape for cross country.
I guess I’m in a good mood if you can’t tell.
I’m very exhaused though.
Last night I realized I had a rough draft due first hour and I hadn’t started it, but I finished by 11. Unfortunately, this morning my printer wasn’t connected correctly so it took my mother and I awhile to figure out how to burn it to a cd. I was late for zero hour, but so was my teacher so I was marked on time.
Collin had told me to simply skip zero hour, but I hate doing that. Plus, it looks like you’re ditching to the school. Well, I guess you are, but I don’t need to explain to the attendance office that I needed a good great in world history! Haha, I wrote a pretty good paper though I must say. I finished printing it from the band room right as the bell rang. I have to make up a math and history test tomorrow because jazz fest took up the whole day.
You make me look so lazy, dearest.