Short Essay On Marching Band

Back when I was in the third grade, my whole grade had to play the plastic woodwind instrument, the recorder. That’s where my music career all started. After third grade, I picked up the trombone, a large, brass, slide instrument. I played trombone for the next seven years of my life. Then when I was in my junior year of high school, I switched over to the trumpet. Also I switched to the french horn that same year. Then now I’m back in my senior year of high school, and I went back to playing trombone, but also picked up the mellophone. I joined many groups and clubs along the way, but I didn’t know how to read music for the first four years.
Once I got to high school, I joined the marching band in the fall, winter percussion in the winter and jazz band year round. Also, my freshmen year, I auditioned on trombone for an honor band called Northeastern Junior Districts where over 1600 talented students from all over Massachusetts auditioned to be in one of two groups. Only about 100 students got accepted, and I happened to be one of them.
Marching band was a passion of mine. I started playing on the trombone. I played the trombone for

two seasons. Then I switched it up and played trumpet for a season, then for my last season, I replaced the trumpet with the mellophone, which is just a marching band brass instrument similar in range to a french horn.
Each season in marching band there is a show theme.

My first, and favorite show, was themed “Wonder”, which was a show that consisted of four Stevie Wonder songs including Superstition and Isn’t She Lovely. My second year, our show theme was “Schoolhouse Rock”, which had songs like Conjunction Junction and I’m Just A Bill. The third year of my marching band career was called “Radio 1970” which contained songs like ABC and Raindrops Are Falling On My Head. Finally, my senior year of marching band had a theme of “Fools”, which contained songs from the past that had the word “fool” in the title. Some of those songs were Everybody Plays A Fool, with the last song of Led Zeppelin's Fools in the Rain. After four years going to ten hours of practice a week, I surely will miss everything I’ve learned from marching

band.
Every winter since I’ve started high school, I’ve been in a winter marching band group. My freshmen and sophomore years of high school, I chose to be in winter percussion, then my junior year, I decided to be in winter guard. Just like marching band, every season has a theme. My freshmen year's theme was called “Scenes” where we all acted as if we were in an Italian restaurant, where I played the xylophone. The next year, our theme was called “Hook”, where we acted as pirates from the movie Hook. During Hook I played the marimba, which is like the xylophone but with wooden bars instead of metal. The next year, I joined the winter color guard. Our show theme was The Story of my Life. Color guard was really fun and enjoyable, but I don’t believe that I would ever be going back to it. Winter percussion has always been and will always be what I love to do in the winter.
In the past ten years of my life, my music career has blasted through the roof. Whether it be it be a marching band or just playing recorder as an eight year old, I have fallen in love with music altogether.