Comin' Home, Comin' Home

So I'm FINALLY going on my plane to get over to the W. Coast. It's been way too long. I've been in Indy for a month already and I've missed a week of my classes.

~R

She's Mine- U-KISS

So I feel the need to share this not just because they're U-KISS and extremely amazing, but also that this is something that is new to them, not commonly seen anywhere, a style that I particularly hate, and they did it SO AMAZINGLY!!! Honestly, I fell in love with it immediately. I usually only like videos like these when they're old, the style of that era, and they were some breakthrough artist that I respect. Kind of like my love for the Bee Gees. But this is so amazing, it worked so well for them, and I don't doubt that it was probably one of the more fun videos to shoot, like when an actor gets a chance to do a ridiculous drunk/ high scene where they get to overact and do all of these fun things that you don't see anywhere else in acting. I think AJ had the most fun. XD I wish I had a car so I could go to their concert and see them do it live. D:< This is my fav song of last year.
~R

The Concert

So we had our concert on Saturday and contrary to my previous belief, I had really mall parts that I shared with many other people. But no. I have a BLOODY SOLO!!!! WHICH I GOT THE MUSIC FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE CONCERT!!!!!! Also, I've never really played in a concert before, so why the bloody hell did some bloody person think the give me a bloody solo!!!!

I'll never know.

Anyways, I was stressing and never actually played it with the whole band in the room except for the actual concert. We never practiced cueing me (because the bloody band director hates the percussion people and tends not to spend any time on us) and I had only slightly gotten the notes down about an hour before the concert started.

Knowing all this: here's how it went:

For the first two, Deck the Halls, and Spaghetti Dreams, I was perfectly fine. The parts were easy, I picked up on them in about five minutes, I felt good about it, my sound was really amazing, ad it just built up my confidence... until we got to Patapan.

To start it all off, I decided I wouldn't play anything but my solo and the ending scale because I hadn't practiced anything else an they were essentials. So, I only had two shots to get everything right. Also, there is so much bloody rest in it that I DEPENDED on my cue to tell my when to play because I would get lost in the counting. Then, I missed my cue.

Yes, I really did.

And to make matters worse, when she cued the timpanis behind me, I thought she was cueing me andI completely trampled a trumpet solo. I realized half way through what I was doing but couldn't pull off immediately because I was in the middle of the melody. So, I finished the line of melody I was on and pulled out, silently apologizing to the trumpet player right in front of me.

I royally fucked up.

But it's okay because nobody has the music besides me so no one knows I fucked up!!! Except the trumpet player, the percussion instructor, and the band director.... But even the rest of percussion didn't notice! I can' tell you how much I wanted to melt and seep through the cracks of the stage at that moment. I was so embarrassed!!!!!
~R

What Does The Fox Say // Percussion

So I've decided that I'm going to write a cool percussion piece to Ylvis's What Does The Fox Say. It's going to be AMAZING!!!!!! I understand if you don't like the song, but the piece is going to be really cool. When you listen to it (eventually) pretend like you haven't even heard it before. Anyways, I just wanted to remind you what it sounded like originally.

~R

MOOzik and WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!

So my band is doing a winter concert and I'm part of percussion. I though that I would be out of town for the concert (or really I said that just to get out of actually doing anything) and now, they've "found out" I will be in town and have assigned me parts. Let's see, I have three (technically four) pieces.

1. Patapan (I play bells for this one)

these bells not

these bells.

2. Serengetti Dreams (or spaghetti dreams)
I play really any mallet instrument for this one. We haven't decided yet but I'm pretty sure I'm going on vibes for this one.

3. Deck the Halls
I play Marimba (my favorite) for this one.

So this isn't really a big deal except for the concert is on Saturday and they have yet to give me the music for it!!!!! I don' sound terrible (we did some run throughs yesterday) but I don't particularly sound fine either... IDK we'll have to see....

Also, for the fourth song, there isn't any percussion that plays in it so the band director is making us sing. TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS!!! So... this kind of goes against my religion....

The one upside is that, if we don't know the words, the director said we could fake it and sing "watermelon" instead. The entire time we were rehearsing, I didn't hear one verse sung correctly. It was more like

"Hark the Herald angel sings WATERMELON, WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watermelon, watermelon watermelon watermelon!!!!!!"

What was even funnier was the fact that the percussion instructor was singing with us and he was belting our "WATERMELON!!!" louder than the rest of percussion combined. I couldn't sing half the time because I was laughing at him.

It was kind of fun though.

~R