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So today my oldest son and his high school band are competing in a concert and jazz band competition. The competition is right across the street from my office, so I get to go watch him! I am very excited.
When I was in band (yes, I am a MAJOR band geek!), we did the same thing. One thing is different though. In the state I grew up in, when we did these competitions there was a different component. For all you band geeks out there, it was called "sight reading".
Basically how it worked was that we were given sealed envelopes of our music. Our director was given 10 minutes or so to preview the score, and make notes. Then, we were given 5 minutes to open our music, have our director point out thing he felt were significant, then we had to play it!
Of course this was only one part of the overall competition, but it was kinda exciting to read something brand new like that, but it was also scary as hell.
For histories sake, my HS band ususally did VERY well at both these types of competitions and marching and field shows as well. We were a hell of a band, and had the racks and racks of trophies to show for it.
When I asked my son about this last night, he looked at me kinda funny. "We don't do that dad" he told me. WHAT! I was stunned. Once I recovered, I got so good old fashion dad ribbing in, which was tons of fun.
Even though they are not going to "sight read", I am very excited to see my son play today. His HS band is the band to beat this year. They say the nut doesn't fall far from tree. I only hope he gets all my good stuff, and none of the not so good stuff.
I think I am gonna turn this into my Love Thursday post since I have not done one in a while, and I love my son, and I love good music!
Have a wonderful Thursday everybody!
Hi, thanks for staying.
So today my oldest son and his high school band are competing in a concert and jazz band competition. The competition is right across the street from my office, so I get to go watch him! I am very excited.
When I was in band (yes, I am a MAJOR band geek!), we did the same thing. One thing is different though. In the state I grew up in, when we did these competitions there was a different component. For all you band geeks out there, it was called "sight reading".
Basically how it worked was that we were given sealed envelopes of our music. Our director was given 10 minutes or so to preview the score, and make notes. Then, we were given 5 minutes to open our music, have our director point out thing he felt were significant, then we had to play it!
Of course this was only one part of the overall competition, but it was kinda exciting to read something brand new like that, but it was also scary as hell.
For histories sake, my HS band ususally did VERY well at both these types of competitions and marching and field shows as well. We were a hell of a band, and had the racks and racks of trophies to show for it.
When I asked my son about this last night, he looked at me kinda funny. "We don't do that dad" he told me. WHAT! I was stunned. Once I recovered, I got so good old fashion dad ribbing in, which was tons of fun.
Even though they are not going to "sight read", I am very excited to see my son play today. His HS band is the band to beat this year. They say the nut doesn't fall far from tree. I only hope he gets all my good stuff, and none of the not so good stuff.
I think I am gonna turn this into my Love Thursday post since I have not done one in a while, and I love my son, and I love good music!
Have a wonderful Thursday everybody!
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