Irvin,+Kayla

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__//** Goals: **//__ My first goal for this year is to play with more confidence. I tend to under estimate myself sometimes and think that I can't play something correctly when I really can. I also tend to play quieter than I should because I don't want to make a mistake for everyone to hear. This leads to my next goal which is to except the fact that I am going to make mistakes. I need to remind myself more often that everybody is going to make mistakes especially when learning something new so who cares if you play a wrong note or miscounted a rest so you come in a beat too early. My final goal is to work on my articulation especially when I am playing something fast. My articulation on a nice pretty slow song is good but when I start to play something faster my articulation is definitely not as good as it can be because I become too focused on playing the right notes rather than articulating the notes correctly.

Very good goals and essay! I think as you work towards your goals you will become more confident and perhaps with time the ways you describe yourself as a musician will change! Keep up the good work and practice hard for District Band auditions!!

__//** What Music Means to Me: **//__ To me, music isn’t just the sounds that you hear coming from the radio or the sound that somebody produces by playing and instrument or by their voice; music is a way to express yourself. I feel that atleast once in a person’s life, they feel sad so they listen to a sad song or they feel angry so they listen to something more like rap or if they are really happy they might listen to an upbeat pop song. No matter how they are feeling, they are taking the music and using it as a way to show their emotions and almost tell a story of how they are feeling just by the music that they are listening to.

__//** Six Words That Describe Me: **//__ There are several words that I would use to describe myself as a musician. I would first say that I am hard working. If I have something that I can't do I make sure that I work on it till I can do it. Another word to describe me is hesitent. I sometimes tend to second guess myself when playing something because I think that I am wrong. I would also say that I don't compare myself to other people. My thoughts are that you are the musician that you make yourself so it doesn't matter how much better or worse you are than other people, you just have to worry about you and always pushing yourself to make yourself better. Nervious is a good word to describe myself too. I am okay with something untilI mess something up then I apply so much pressure on myself to not mess up again which makes me really nervious. I always feel like if i really mess something up then I am letting everybody or myself down. Another word to describe myself is dedicated. I have been in band since 5th grade and started taking lessons in 6th grade. I have been in band ever since so I would say that makes me dedicated. The last word I would use to describe myself as a musician is bashful. It kinda of goes along with me getting nervous but sometimes I just don't want to stick out in either a good or bad way.