25 or 6 to 4 {EDITING}

25 or 6 to 4

There was only one more week left until the final football game. I had been practicing the music for two hour now. I was glad that we had taken Fly Me to the Moon out of the last show - I had been having a lot of trouble with that song.

By this point, I was really bored, but had no more music to practice, so I took out the music for 25 or 6 to 4 so I could practice for the Veteran's Day parade coming up.

I was still having trouble with the notes, so I whipped my phone out and texted the section.

RainOnAStarryNight: How do you play this measure?

DSupreme: It goes bwaahh-aahhh

RainOnAStarryNight: ...that doesn't tell me anything

andrea: You kind of just move the slide

RainOnAStarryNight: Like how?

21jes: Like how dylan said

RainOnAStarryNight: I can't hear him so bwaahh doesn't tell me anything

21jes: Listen to the arrangement that's how I learned it

I typed "25 or 6 to 4" in the search bar and the first suggestion that popped up was "25 or 6 to 4 meaning." I was curious, so instead of being productive and searching for the arrangement, I clicked the search suggestion.

The first result was from a site for song lyrics and their meaning. I had no clue that the song had lyrics. Apparently it was written by Chicago for brass instruments.

Waiting for the break of day,
Searching for something to say
Flashing lights against the sky,
Giving up I close my eyes
Sitting cross-legged on the floor
25 or 6 to 4

Confused, I looked at the description of the song.

Apparently, the song was always mistaken as a drug reference, but the artist claimed it was about writing a song at 25 or 26 minutes to 4 AM.

This was another song I could relate to my own life. Man, I could not believe that the season was almost over. I could've sworn that I was in the locker room at the middle school with Caiden just yesterday. How did I catch on to this instrument so fast? One second I'm sitting in the band room on the verge of tears because I didn't know what to do, and now I'm sitting here playing Runaway Baby, Uptown Funk, and Sing. It really is a miracle that I ended up in band. Without Ms. Blue or any of the trombones, I would still be that depressed little human being waiting for someone to stand up and reach out a hand to her. I can't tell you how many times I've been up at night crying because I've been thinking about how my life used to be. I used to spend most of my waking hours wanting to go back, even if where I could return was just comprised of adequate memories.

I really was grateful that I was in band when I was.

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We had sectionals on Wednesday to practice Runaway Baby. I didn't really understand why they all thought it was difficult - I thought it was one of the easiest songs we've done.

Andrea asked Anthony, the guy who played the tenor saxophone, to help us, since his part was the same as ours. Ms. Blue had given Andrea some Kit-Kat bars. "Do with these as you will," she said, winking at us.

Andrea grinned. "You guys want these?"

"Yes," we all replied.

"You'll have to work for it," she said.