Snare Drum Review Essay

The sound of the snare drum made me scared in my mind I thought Please Mr. Zielenski don’t pick me to play the snare… I had known that I could not play the snare drum last year in sixth grade and I wouldn’t even touch one the sound of it was cool, but I could never just get the rhythm right. When I started band I started with a camp over the summer and I was pretty great at playing the quarter notes only. The weeks I tried hard at trying to play the snare, but I constantly did flams (using both sticks and hitting the snare) and I decided that day that I could not possibly play the snare drum. Then this year came around and I decided that it was time to make a change I had to play the snare for band I decided to start with a beginner book and keep going through what I could not play. I walked into the band room on the day we were getting our concert music Mr. Zielinski asked me to play the snare drum and I said,
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The snare sounded like a jumbled up mess, of course the three boys that played percussion yelled
“You failed!”
I replied in embarrassment “ That is okay at least I tried.” When I came down from the ryser Mr. Zielinski told me I had done a good job. In my head I thought He is probably saying that to be nice I will try at home. That night I practiced but everything came out wrong so I then decided to give up. The next concert I had to play the snare for Alpine Adventure, but I asked Mr Zielinski if I did not have to and he said that he would let me pass for this time. The rest of the year I did not play the snare drum because I was so embarrassed that I would not even want to touch it like it was poisonous. I kept getting judged by the boys who also played percussion they all would not believe that I could not play the snare drum and how I could never ever touch