Mistakes I Have Made Throughout HS Band
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JOURNAL ENTRY Here's just a list of mistakes I've made in the four years of HS band. Looking back, I find them quite silly and stupid little things.
Sr: All year I made the same exact mistake(s) in our school fight song. B-flats and B-naturals are seen throughout the piece, but B-naturals are more prevalent. Well, I ended up playing all B-flats throughout the fight song, only now, as a graduate, did I realize my mistake. Fortunately, no flute or piccolo player was actually in tune with another, so it wasn't truly noticeable. Another mistake was the E-flat trill we had. We're supposed to trill our 2nd/3rd fingers of our left hand, I however, the lazy senior/section leader I was, managed to get away with trilling only the 3rd finger. Aha! I listened more closely now that I've graduated; the pitches are different. Once again, we had tuning issues so it wasn't too noticeable. Jr/Sr: Flutes are not batons, nor are they meant to be twirled. I damaged my flute that way once, and generally I follow rules so I don't get in trouble. Oops. Also, I was twirling my piccolo senior year at my very last performance and I dropped it. As section leader, I freaked out wondering if I damaged it (and my section plus a few alto saxes laughed at me). Luckily, weeks later I now realize what I thought was a damaged key turned out to be normal (I have a 4SP Gemeinhardt and it has the hand rests on it). I just never noticed the key actually touched the hand rest until now. So: I never kept in shape during the summer months, so upon returning to school (and only a few weeks into school itself), I pulled a muscle in my lower abdomen in gym class. As a result of this, I was limited in what I could do in marching band (only slightly though). I took care of myself during the school week until the Friday night football game where I simply ignored any pain from my abdomen and marched how I used to. You could say I hurt even more afterward during the game, and the entire following week. Lesson: exercise, even a little bit, can prevent injuries!More coming soon...
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