Rejoice The Season!: For this song I am playing the xylophone. I am very excited about this song and hope it goes very well. It sounds like it is going to be a fast moving song that is festive. When we played this song I was not ready. I started to play, but I then decided to just label my music and finish numbering the measures.
Once in Royal David's City: For this song I play the snare drum with Marissa. I think this song is going to be very easy and fun. I looked over the music and was pretty much able to play it all on the first try. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24: For this song I play the bells and the xylophone. It sounds really cool and I am excited to actually start playing it once I know my music a little better. How The Grinch Stole Christmas: For this song I play the triangle and the woodblock. I just know this song is gonna be fun and easy to play. I only play for about 15 measures, but just from playing it the first time I can tell those 15 or so measures I do play are very important.
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Newark Band has 8 percussionists. Alex Tollefson, Tanner Kunkel, Emma Davidson, Megan Christian, Alec Albrecht, Marissa Williams, Micheal Kulakowski, and Faith Thompson.
Out of the 8 percussionists 5 of them are new to high school band. Two of them have never been in band before. To me this is just a challenge that will have to be conquered. As the oldest percussionist I am the one they will come to, to ask questions. I hope that all the knowledge I know will be passed onto them before the year is over. At the beginning of the year we had to take a short little playing test on the Ipad. This playing test is on Smart Music. We had only one chance to play it so that the next time we play it we can show improvement. My score was 19%. That is really bad but I hope to get that up to at least a 50% next time I play it. 9/11 Performance Last year for the 9/11 performance I was not there. I heard nothing good from it. They were off and could not hear one another. This year was a different story. We played a few songs. The star spangled banner which is a song we all basically know by heart and play very well. We also played America the Beautiful. We had to play America the Beautiful while the choir sang to it. We practiced the song at a faster tempo and we were louder, but when we performed it for the ceremony we did very good. We played quieter and did not play too fast. |
AuthorFaith Thompson Percussionist of Newark Band Archives
February 2017
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