A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

It is nights like these, when I see my friends pictures from universities, that I wish I was in marching band. Or even considering joining marching band. While I loved it in high school I'm just not sure if it would be the best move for me when I transfer to university. It's fun, energetic, a great way of exercising. a way to see different places, to get to see football games for free, to have spend time and bond with all your closest friend. I mean those are the pros for me, the things that I loved in high school but in turn this is a different chapter of my life. I know that if I join marching band I'll have a blast and expand my musical capability but on the other hand I won't be living at home. Marching band is expensive and takes up a lot of time. Not only that but you also travel for a lot of games. If I'm working and trying to make a living my boss wouldn't appreciate it if I was asking for all this time off to go to games and things like that and I sure wouldn't like spending so much time away from my boyfriend. Time that really isn't necessary. I think it would be a ton of fun but I think it will be just as much fun to join ensembles and nothing compares to the rush you get on that field but if I can get a big solo or something like that in an ensemble it would all be worth it. And I wouldn't have to worry about relearning mellophone every year. If I would have gone to University straight out of high school and wouldn't have bills to pay or a boyfriend to love then I would take marching band. I know there are tons of people who probably think I'm crazy but as much as I would think I would have fun in marching band, just as much fun can be achieved in a concert setting. Enough about marching band, for now. I haven't gotten to play much since last Wednesday because I have come down with strep throat :( Hopefully this crap will be gone soon so I can get on with practicing my solo and improving my skills with a lessons. I hate that I finally got things rolling with my teacher and then.. BAM! Strep throat hits me and I have to cancel. Just my luck. But I'm hoping by Friday I'll be all better and be able to practice my little heart out. On french horn and sax. It's really true that if you don't practice everyday you go backwards. Sometimes I wish playing were like riding a bike... you could put it down for a year and when you pick it back up it would be like you never stopped. Unfortunately it doesn't happen that way and all us musicians (at least wind) have to practice out butts of everyday of the year. No breaks for us. Well I'm going to hit the hay, 6 am comes early! Until next time, live with no regrets.

Philosophy is the highest music

So I haven't gotten to practice horn in a few days but it has been crazy around here. Of course I hung out with my boyfriend over the weekend and worked ( I really need to make time for practice on weekeneds though), and today I was with my parents because we finally bought a house :). And as soon as I got home I got to slaving away at my theory homework ( I even forgot to do my laundry) and now it's to late to practice. I fear of waking my neighbors and them complaining. I was supposed to have lessons today.. but of course that got cancelled because he says he has a stomach virus. It's not that I don't believe him, I don't understand why it is so hard to give just one hour a week to me... maybe if he doesn't have time for me he shouldn't have offered the class at the college, don't cha think? I know he's sick but something always comes up! Well I'm trying to get that straightened out and practicing this super hard solo, Adagio and Allegro. It's going alright so far but it just doesn't sound like the recording to me. I'm thinking maybe I'm just playing it to fast of something. But on a more depressing note, I really wish I could practice right now because I feel super stressed and that always helps me feel better, doesn't it you?? I just found out my grade on a test I took today... not so good and I studied my heart out for it. You know, I always try to look at the positive side of things but this has really got me down.I know I have like 4 other tests but I really want to make honor roll again this semester and that is not a good start! That means every other test I have to work twice as hard. Oh, how I wish everything came as easily  to me as music does. I like how even when you think you know it all about music, there's always something more to learn. It's like in high school I thought I knew it all and here I am in college learning about part writing and all that junk. There is a lot that goes into music and you never really realize it. While I know not all music is written by the rules it's pretty cool to see how the great composeres all seemed to write the same way or in similarly ways. Similarly enough that we can study about it and call it "the rules". I just think music is fascinating in so many ways and the fact that people come up with these combinations and things that sound so good and complicated and amazing. I just don't know how they do it. I try to compose things and it comes out sounding like Jungle Bells. I FAIL. But  I really need to start watching less tv and devoting more time to studying. Last week I had the excuse that I was working all the time but this week I have nothing to do and a math test coming up so I really need to get studying because I don't understand any of it... I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that are with me. They say musicians are supposed to be good at math... sure 2 + 2 but give me this logic stuff and algebra and all that and I am lost. The numbers just don't speak to me. Well I guess I should get off here and go to bed.. 6:00 am comes pretty early. Until next time, live with no regrets. (and practice french horn)!

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

I know, again it's been a million years since I've wrote a blog.. but give me a beak please! School has started and I've been working more than ever! I know, not much of an excuse. I should be saying I've been practicing so much I haven't had time or I can't type because I've practiced so much my fingers are about to fall off... but that is not the case :( On the bright side though I am getting back into (trying) to practice every day. I'm going through the typical practice routine and I'm trying to go back to the basics since when I first began playing I jumped right into the music and ignored the rest. Because of that I'm going back and learning scales and lip slurs and different things like that. All things I know I'll need no matter where life takes me! Hopefully, my boyfriend and I will have some adventures ahead of us, which at the moment I'm not going to give details on but down the road I will tell :) But if things don't work out with that I'm planning on applying to schools here in Florida and hopefully something will work out there. I have found a solo that I think is really cool called allegro and adagio. If you have the time go look it up on YouTube (I'm to lazy to post the link right now) and I know it's long but it's worth it. The contrast in it is amazing. I know if I tried to play it I'd be working on it for a while... especially to get adagio up to speed.  Ah! As for saxophone I'm working on finding some music that I thin would be fun to play and then I'm going to work on it some more. I"m going to try to learn at least one new scale every time I practice it and hopefully one day I will be amazing! haha well I'm going to go and find something saxophony to play. Until next time, live with no regrets.