If you didn't already know, I love music. I love jazz band, concert band, and recently, marching band. Marching Band is new at our school. We stumble around the field last year and this is our first year of competing. We actually have a full show, and its a Spanish show. The school (students/administration) doesn't support us in the way I would like, and our funding is basically from the parents. We didn't think we would win anything. After all it is our first year.
We host our first competition, and it was a big public event. A bunch of bands in New Jersey came and it turned out great. Now, we didn't win a trophy because we were only hosting. But we all thought our show is a mess, the judges thought different. Me and my friend sat in the stands, the bands next to us were doing cheers, but not us. Our director hates that stuff, and thank goodness because I don't really like acting stupid or silly for serious events like that. We beat a band who has had a program for 30 years. It was by a small fraction, but it made that school mad.
For the next few weeks, we worked hard. We really learned our music and drill. My section (alto sax) knew the music, drill was so annoying though. But our work was paying off, because we won our class each time. Last week, we won best visual and music. It was AMAZING. We are the little band that could, he had nothing, and this weekend, if we win this, we could go to Atlantic Coast Companionship. Now, how we are going to get there is unknown to me. We have no money at all. But right now, we need to focus on our competition, because I want to go to ACC, and the band is buckling down to be the best we can be.
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