IT'S OVER 9000! I'm gonna set things straight with my first post. First, it is NOT 10:00PM it is 10:04. Second, I started this blog because I was bored and I don't want to study for midterms because I'll probably breeze through them like I breeze through all the other tests... Martin Luther King Day! No school! Less time to do 140 point English review! Hooray!
Have you ever felt really really stupid because you got your ass handed to you in less than 5 seconds?
Well this happened to me on Wednesday when I played my new shiny silver trumpet for the first time in Band.
I got to band class with my new (to me) vintage King leather case and my new (to me) vintage King Symphony Silver Flair trumpet. I had taken it out the day before, but unfortunately I had been told it was coming on Wednesday and when it came on Tuesday I wasn't prepared and hadn't brought my mouthpiece home. So, anyways, there I am, ready to kick bubblegum and chew ass, and I play the first note.
What comes out is something I never saw coming.
It sounds incredibly flat, like something is stuck in the bell. Sure, I can play up and down the scales, sure I can play all the notes, but it sounds worse than a dying llama. I was devastated. I was so devastated that I don't even remember 2nd or half of 3rd hour because it was all a blur of me being really sad and thinking of how I was stupid and beating myself up.
I plan ahead to go to the band room at lunch and practice with my band nerd friends, and when we get there, the first thing I do is run the instrument snake through every pipe of the instrument. Nothing. I take out every slide and blow as hard as I can into each. At this point, I've given up and give a huge sigh. I go into the band director's office and tell her my problem. The first thing she says is, "Did you check the valves?" And I say, ".. No." She goes, "Play a note." So I play a note and she says, "Yep, definitely the valves." She asks for the instrument, I hand it to her, and she tightens every valve, all of which was correct but the third.
So it turned out that my entire problem was that my third valve isn't in the correct position. I felt like such a dumbass at this point that I plan to redeem myself when I go back into the room and slur through the whole Tetris theme. I walk back in and the first thing my friend says is, "Was it the valves?"
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