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__**Goals for Personal Performance:**__ 1) Become more accurate and experienced with tounging and aticulation techniques. 2) Become more confident with solo performance. 3) Strengthen my ability to read music accuratly (with key changes, new notes, and accidentals).
 * I plan to reach this goal by practicing proper tounging for the flute and continue to develop a good habit to properly execute aticulation.
 * I plan on practicing my music as much as I can and finding oppotunities to play my flute outside of school.
 * To reach this goal, I plan on finding pieces to sightread and juxtaposing piano or vocal pieces into an octive that is more comfortable to play on the flute.

Update on goals (10-8-12) I started to play my flute on my church's praise team. With the vocal music used, I can learn to juxtapose and create a way for me to strongly play with accuracy. This will also help with my confidence in solo performance.

These are very good goals for you! Glad to see you're already work on them!!! Great essay! Life would be so boring without music!!

__**Essay:**__ Music has shaped my life in vaious ways. Even before I started to play flute in 5th grade, music was present. Whether through band, church, and lessons you can find music somewhere around me. When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I started to take piano lessons. I learned note values and rythems, and how to apply them to an instrument. Then when I had to opportunity to join band in elementary school, I took advantage of it. I wanted to play flute because I thought it made a very pretty sound. Playing the flute and being involved in band has exposed me to the meaning of music for me. I learn soo much as far as musicianship and skill. I also learned too the emotion that can be incorperated into a piece of music. Playing "Elsa's" last year really helped me to realize this. Also playing at chuch has also exposed me to music in a very possitive way. When I played in KANIT, I also got a taste of intricate rythem and druming technique which gave me more skill and a greater appriciation for the hard work percussionists put in to playing. No matter what I did in my life, music was still very present. It has given me an appriciation for skill and perseverence in a creative form. I would not be who I am today without the joy I get so much from band and music. I look forward everyday to play my flute in band and to make music the best way I know how. My life would be boring without music.