Friday, September 18, 2015

first day of band

Today was my first day of band. I play the baritone horn. It is like a mini tuba. It was really hard to get it on the bus and I was really scared about it falling of the seat and breaking.
It got to school safe and I put it in the hall next to everyone else's. My lesson was at 12:00.
 When It was finally time for my lesson I walked down the hall with my baritone and my friend Jimmy, who also plays the baritone. Miss. Del Vechio my band teacher let us in. She gave us a couple papers about band and told us the rules and then she showed us how to open the case and how to hold the instrument. I already new some of this stuff because my dad taught me over the summer how tho play the baritone. We did some buzzing with the mouthpiece and the we tried the instrument. Jimmy got the full size one and it was kind of hard for him to hold it because he was not tall enought to hold it. We tried a few notes and she new that my dad was a music teacher and that I had learned over the summer so she asked me to play a song.
I went up to song ninety over the summer so I played that. She was really impressed. She told me for homework that I had to work on tonguing.
 Jimmy and I went back to the classroom. Jimmy's was heavier so it was harder for him to carry it all the way back to the fifth grade wing. At the end of the day we had to put it back on the bus which was also hard. Band was so fun!