Well today was interesting...

This is going to go on a tangent to my previous blogs which I haven't done in ages. I just have to share this with you guys. So today at school our concert band had to perform the recital that we performed at eisteddfod for assembly today. Everything was all good and well until we discovered our snare drummer was absent. Now I'm in the percussion section and we alternate between the different instruments. If you played auxiliary percussion for a piece then the next one you will play a drum or perhaps the glockenspiel. Anyway I was put on assorted auxiliary percussion for one of our pieces "Orpheus Overture"

We desperately needed a snare drummer and so I had to fill in my absent partner's place and sight read the music as well as play as much of my part that was possible. What was the result? The entire school laughing at me as I put on an amusing display of trying to pick up the triangle and play the snare drum at the same time then fumbling about when I had to alternate quickly between both. It went surprisingly well. All the sounds that had to be made were made, I just looked like an absolute twit while doing them.

Later in the day at break time my friends showed me a picture that they drew which was their interpretation of what was going on during the performance. It absolutely made my day.