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| Beagle147 (profile) wrote, on 9-9-2003 at 7:02pm | |
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| Today for the first time since...whenever I posted about it, my day was good, BECAUSE OF BAND. I know, it's hard to believe, but it does happen occaisionally. I am really actually glad that I'm in pit. I'm having a really good time now, and it actually feels like I'm accomplishing something since I can now play more than heart and soul on the marimba. Today I got the second song for the first time at practice, and in two and a half hours, I CAN PLAY THE WHOLE THING!!! =-O All you music people, shut up. This is huge for me. I know the part is rediculously easy, but it's still good for me. And I have a "pit solo." Or rather, I'm the only one who plays it in pit, but I have no idea what the rest of the band is doing. It's really not that big, since it's just 3 notes, but I didnt miss it all practice! :-) Wow, you know, it's nice to use happy emoticons for a change.. Anyway, while I know that I am one of the very VERY few pro-Markgraf people out there, this is my journal, so :-P. I like his teaching better then Lerner's. I know that he can be taken as rude, and sometimes probably is, but it doesn't bother me, because I'm rude too and you guys still love me or you would not be reading this. Or so I tell myself. Granted, he does cross a few more lines than I would, and I am not under any circumstances asking you to love Markgraf, I'm just kind of justifying I guess why I still like him. This is mostly in response to Amy's entry about Amazing Grace. Not that I dont think what he said/did was totally out of line, but I dunno... It just doesnt change my opinion of the guy. But he's not totally rude and stuff. It was great watching him try to build my confidence in my marimba playing though. Funny thing is it actually worked come to think of it. By the end of today's practice I was playing atleast half of the volume that he wanted it. lol. Only pit people would probably understand this I guess. He like came over to the marimba and was like ok, Lauren, give me the sticks. He played a few measures of what we were currently working on in the drum break REALLY LOUD and said that's how I want it. Can you do that? I kinda looked at him and was like uhhhhhhh....(it was at this point that I thought of my personal hero paragraph)...sure! Mind you, I did not/could not play that loud, but I was louder than I think I ever had been. And I'm actually hitting a majority of the notes now! I know that to most of you guys, this sounds like psh! I could probably play most of those notes now! And I have no doubt that you could. Only people probably who saw that first time leah was trying to teach me to play could understand the improvement on this one. It's just a really great feeling for me to go from absolutely not believing at all that I would be able to play anything ever to playing a whole song (however easy it may be, it's still a song) by the end of the practice that I got the music. It's nuts. But see, this is what I'm saying. Markgraf had a lot to do with this. The whole entire time if I would go up to him and be like Mr. Markgraf I suck at marimba and I cant do this he'd just go sure you can! Which, as I'm typing it, sounds like nothing, but can any of you imagine kayla (voldemort) ever having any faith in her students at all? I think it's just this great leap in directors that makes me like him so much. I was the one who all last year said that it did not matter who came, it would always beat the alternative. I came into this year ready to like the director, because remember, I did not have Mrs. C or Mr. Saint. This is pretty much my first opportunity to actually like a director; all you SRCS alums, you know what I mean here. It's just....I guess I've rambled enough...if you dont get it by now, just like post questions in the comments. On a much less....happy note, I am so nervous about French club!!!! That is the most nervous I think I have ever been for a speech, and the nerves have not gone away, because I wasnt nervous about the speech, I was nervous about the outcome of the election! grr! But, oh here's something many of you can relate to: My happiness from practice today has surpassed my nervousness about French club elections! I know how hard that is to believe, but that's how happy band made me today!!! Also, for those of you who did not give me a beagle with a big head this morning, yesterday was my 17th birthday. :-) I got tickets to the eagles game!! :-D It's on a day before an exam, but....oh well. It's the eagles. I also got the special edition lion king preordered, which is something I knew I would get, but it's like this deal you get the dvd, 4 lithographs, and a "plushie" when you preorder it. AND when my mom called to order that, she preordered finding nemo too! YAY!!!! That means that as soon as it comes out, I get the nemo dvd, the lithographs and the plushie! FINDING NEMO LITHOGRAPHS!!!! WOOT! (parenthetical documentation to kristen) But that's about all.. I'll try to update more often, just for you kristen. Kristen: lol woohu! I've been wondering when you'd update again. |
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Beagle147 | NOOO!!, 09-09-03 7:44pm AHH! I forgot one of the things I wanted to say here!!! Props to Amanda for my new icon on woohu!!!!!! You rock my socks! |
| Anonymous | 09-09-03 8:16pm Glad someone can be happy about band today. You really have no idea of the fun you missed. Bravo on getting the whole piece down in one practice, super awesome. Solos are fun too.
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Beagle147 | Re:, 09-09-03 9:06pm Yea Kristen, I know it's different than me. I was not suggesting that I am the same as him or anything. I guess it kind of came across that way. All I was trying to say is that he can be rude and it would not be the end of the world. I think he's rude too sometimes, but I dont hate him for it. I did not exactly mean that it's a step up in how well we're doing or whatever, but I no longer dread going to band class, even though I hate lerner. And maybe people will start liking concert band now, because we will be good at it. Just a thought. I was not about to say that Markgraf is a percussionist. If I did, sorry, overgeneralization on my part. I know he just does mallets and steel drum, but it works for me, cuz I play mallets. All the stuff I write about in here is merely my own reflections on things, not how I would expect or like other people to feel. I'm more expressing my thoughts than wanting to start a debate, atleast on this one, as, I'm sure, are you. Thanks for the french confidence and the birthday wishie!! :-) |
Anonymous | Re: Re:, 09-09-03 9:20pm I was stating my view on your view. You have free reign to post what you like here.
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Beagle147 | Re: Re: Re:, 09-09-03 9:26pm Whoa!! Dude, that's not what I was saying at all! I wrote in that comment that you were just expressing your views! I never said that you were trying to start a debate at all, I just said that I wasnt trying to start a debate. Dude, I even told you in im that this reply was semi-irrelevant and not really aimed at you, just felt like it had to be said for the good of the people.
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DragonSpeaker | 09-09-03 9:25pm Happy b-day once again from me as well! ^_^ (Uhh... sorry if that didn't exactly make sense. 0.o)
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Beagle147 | Re:, 09-09-03 10:03pm Yea, I'm the first to admit the man is not a saint. Well, I shouldnt say I'm the first to admit it, but I am admitting it. Lerner is just...grr though. And sadly, no, I do not get a notebook-on-a-rope. (soap on a rope reference. it's a joke guys) And I dont know about markgraf, I just generally like him, I guess just cuz he's nice to me. I do see how mean he is to everyone else, and how he confuzzles the freshies and how he's weird and all that crap, but personally speaking, he's nice to me. So that's all that I'm basing any of this on. None of what I've said has anything to do w/ his treatment of others, only how he's been to me. So...that's all I have to say about that. |
DragonSpeaker | Re: Re:, 09-09-03 10:20pm Oh, don't think I'm critisizing or anything- your opinion is entirely your choice. : ) I'm glad he's been nice to you though, it shows that he's capable of it, lol. And that is definitely better than Lerner's been. |