Indefinite Music.

Did I tell you, I am kind of learning how to play the trombone? Well currently I am just transposing the part so it is in the concert key I am used to, then playing in on a valved trombone which is much more similar to my euphonium then an actual trombone with a slide. It is an interesting experience, to say the least. At first when originally auditioning for jazz band on piano and then being asked to maybe to settle for third trombone, I was not only upset that I got beat out for piano yet again but also confused of where my integrity lies. I knew that the jazz band needed a trombone player, but was I willing to give in and accept defeat, when I could spend my time otherwise doing something that would help benefit me in other ways. I decided that first of all this would be a good opportunity to getting better in reading in different concert keys, second I eventually will hopefully be able to say that I am capable of playing jazz trombone and lastly I do enjoy jazz band regardless of instrument choice.

Tonight was my first jazz band concert at the HS level and the only one since the spring of my eighth grade year that I played in. It brought back memories of jazz band during middle school and overall a great night of music making. Sometimes I forget that there are some people I got to school with that are actually really cool, talented and mainly wanting to create just like me.

I think I like jazz, because it not definite. One big problem I had with all my experiences with classical music is that there is many more wrong ways to play something, then ways that you played it right. I was always getting uptight about notes when working on a Chopin Prelude or memorizing my melodic and harmonic scales; music speaks best to me when there are no wrong notes due to the fact that it is open for interpretation.

We must be open to change, it has the capabilities of inspiring great things. Change is indefinite music.