Personal Narrative: The Music Career

It all happened on a Monday at around 4:30p.m. The audition was supposed to go perfectly. I had practiced the music over and over again. I knew it by heart and could play it at a moment’s notice. But it didn’t go as planned. That’s the one thing that I remember most, things don’t always go as planned.
About a month before the audition, we got the music. Our band director, Mr. Brockman, called all of the percussionists into the other room. He began to hand out packets to us. When I received my packet, I began to flip through the music. As I flipped through it, I discovered what it was for. There were five instruments, mallets, snare, tenors, bass, and cymbals. This could only mean one thing, drumline. I decided that I would audition for
After school got out, I met of with all but three of the percussionists that intended to further their musical career. One of these people was Matthew Powell, another was Jesse Climie, who didn’t know that we were required to audition, and the third was a traitor that was moving to Kirksville and had no reason to audition. All of us that were present, I believe that there were five including myself, headed off to the high school band room here the auditions were being held. As we were walking on the sidewalk, I noticed a fairly deep hole in the sidewalk up ahead. I turned to the person walking beside me and said, “Watch out for that pothole up ahead,
The next day at school, I was very anxious the entire day to see what instrument I had gotten. I hoped that I had somehow gotten tenors, but deep down I knew that I wouldn't. As it turned out, I was right about not making tenors, but I did make something else. I made front line, but was assigned the role of line captain. A line captain has the same role as a section leader. The only real difference is that you can only be a line captain during marching season.
During marching season, percussion is usually split into five sections. These sections are the snare line, the tenor line, the bass line, the cymbal line, and the front line. The front line, or as I like to call it, the front percussion ensemble, is made up of a large variety of instruments that range from an automobile brake drum to a xylophone. A professional front line is mainly composed of mallet percussion instruments, which includes xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and many others; however, auxiliary instruments are also prominently featured in many front lines as