On Wednesday my friend Kim went with me to Kaelyn's band festival in Holland. It was a totally new experience for me (and Kim). We watched them play 3 songs on stage. Then we went to another room for Sight Reading. I had no clue what this was and since some of you may not either, I will explain. They are given a piece of music they have never seen. Their instructor goes over it with them and they can 'sing' it (but not play). This means they sing the song by saying numbers to get all the components down. They get 7 minutes to go over and play 2 pieces of music. I was a little afraid of what I was going to hear. After all they are in 7th grade and only in their 2nd year of band. They were wonderful! I was so impressed! When you go to festival you get rated with a number in all categories. 1 being the best. They got all 1's.
We really enjoyed it!
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