Some Things About Me

Let's Talk About Percussion

Let me start off by saying

It doesn't matter what percussion instrument you choose to play, it's gonna be hard.

Hell, I struggle playing the maracas and I've been playing a my school's band for 2 years. So, if you want to be a percussionist or play a certain instrument of the percussion category, know that whatever you choose may be the hardest thing you'll ever do.

When I first got into middle school I signed up for band and I wanted to be a drummer. Nothing else but a drummer. I was chosen to be a percussionist and what I didn't know at the time was me and a few other people were in charge of ALL the percussion instruments! This included the maracas, claves, cowbell, triangle, tambourine, crash cymbal, suspended cymbal, toms, snare drum, bass drum, anything else I forgot, and the vain of my existence: Xylophone and glokenspiel (which I will refer to as bellkit.)

It took me until the last half of 6th grade to finally get on the snare drum. Lemme tell you that was the only good part of hand that year (well, except me being a percussionist).

But, I had to play the xylophone and bellkit which if you don't know, SUCK ASS!!!!

I can go on and on about how much I hate any percussion instrument that require you to be like every other instrument except you don't have to blow into it (in other words: I hate any percussion instrument that requires you to play notes because it's hard looking at the sheet music figuring out what the notes are and then trying to play)

So, basically if you want to be a percussionist, remember that it ain't easy. In fact, it's considered the hardest instrument group and drums are considered the hardest instrument (in my opinion) because there's at least 72828373 percussion instruments and you have to keep time aka the tempo. If you fail, the whole band fails.

That's it.