Monday, February 25, 2008

Playing tests

So I am in the drum section for my high school I play the quad drums in the marching band. My teacher says that I am really good. Anyways at the beginning of the year my class had a "playing test" where we get a sheet of music and than played it some time during the next week. After that test I was technically deemed third chair but was really fourth (there were two first chairs). This being a new semester and all we had another playing test for chairs (on the snare drum). We got it last Monday and we played it today. I thought I did really bad because I went second to last and it didn't sound very much like anyone else (including B-rad [first chair] and Chuck [same]) so I was really worried. After we are all done Mrs. Stallman said "Kenji, you got all the rhythms perfect and if you would have done all the dynamics (loud, soft) better than you would have gotten 100. Everyone else had some tempo problems and the same problems with dynamics..." She than went on to talk about the trumpets and blah blah blah. So I go up to her after class and she said that I got a 96 out of 100. Chuck got a 94 and I don't know about everyone else but she said I am first chair!!! She is giving people a chance to try again and do better so I hope Tamine (previously "second" chair) doesn't do better than me on her second try, because I think she was the best out of everyone else anyway...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

GOOD JOB!! THAT'S REALLY COOL!!

Unknown said...

good job. I'm so proud. I can't keep a beat to save my life :)