Every since 7th grade I was in ABC. ABC is an advance class of orchestra where we play anything but classical music, hence the name. ABC was a class that started before school, and anyone who was in 7th or 8th grade could join. Usually our orchestra teacher was Mr. Hudson but the teacher for ABC was Mrs. Dykman. ABC music in middle school is meant to be harder and faster but at the time the music seemed easier and I was ready for a challenge. Mrs. Dykman told us our 8th grade year that if we wanted a bit more of a challenge we should join ABC in 9th grade. She was telling us that the music won’t be easy but with a little practice we would easily get the music. To properly execute how fun ABC Would be she suggested we should go to some of their
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Mr. Hudson was kind enough to tell us even if we don’t know if we wanted to sign up we could still get the music just to try it out. The song was had to audition for was Irish Medley. I personally was thinking sweet only one song, but little did i know irish medley had 3 different song in it, with a lot of repeats. I got the music and while I was practicing at my own tempo the music was actually pretty easy. Everyday I would play the song at the beginning and the ending of orchestra and twice when I got home. I perfected all out of tune notes and made sure I had the right bowings. At school my other friends who were planning on trying out suggested we should all play together, I was like sure why not, but once we started playing everyone was going like twice as fast as I was playing. Here is where all the tears came. I stayed after school three days a week and practiced with a metronome everyday, somehow I still couldn’t get the music up to the speed. I tried to be optimist about the situation and told myself at least i have the music memorized, there just wasn’t a way in the world I was going to be able to get the
Mr. Hudson was kind enough to tell us even if we don’t know if we wanted to sign up we could still get the music just to try it out. The song was had to audition for was Irish Medley. I personally was thinking sweet only one song, but little did i know irish medley had 3 different song in it, with a lot of repeats. I got the music and while I was practicing at my own tempo the music was actually pretty easy. Everyday I would play the song at the beginning and the ending of orchestra and twice when I got home. I perfected all out of tune notes and made sure I had the right bowings. At school my other friends who were planning on trying out suggested we should all play together, I was like sure why not, but once we started playing everyone was going like twice as fast as I was playing. Here is where all the tears came. I stayed after school three days a week and practiced with a metronome everyday, somehow I still couldn’t get the music up to the speed. I tried to be optimist about the situation and told myself at least i have the music memorized, there just wasn’t a way in the world I was going to be able to get the