Meadows,+Joshua

My Goals this year are to: 1. Get better at articulating notes- my notes blend together sometimes 2. Play a solo in a song 3. Improve my posture to get a better sound quality

These are good goals! Please post how you plan to accomplish them. Goal #2 will be taken care of with Jubliant Holiday - so you may consider revising or adding to that goal so you have something to work on for the Spring too!! Cool essay! I never knew you were interested in the bassoon. Have you ever tried to play one?

My most significant musical experience happened to me about eight years ago. I was headed to church, like any other Sunday morning, and thought it would be an average church day. When I got there the pastor began the sermon for the day, and he began talking to us about life lessons, and all the things we should appreciate in our lives. Afterwards, we had a lesson on the Bible. ( I forget now what the passage from the Bible was) However, after the normal church sermon, they brought in a special guest player. The player was a young woman who was playing an instrument that I had not seen before. I asked my parents what it was, and they told me it was a bassoon. I was watching in awe as the young lady played, and I decided at that moment that I wanted to play an instrument in school. I had decided before that I had wanted to do something musically related, but I had always struggled to figure out what I wanted to play. Since I had a sudden interest in the bassoon, I asked my parents what instrument I should get used to if I ever wanted to play the basoon once I got better. They thought for a moment, and then my dad recommended the alto saxophone. And as we left church that day, I knew that that would be what I was going to do. A few months later I went into the fifth grade, and began playing the alto saxophone.