no more blah?

my bloggers block may be gone. but i'm not sure. hence the question mark in the title. as you all know, because if you're reading this then you have to know who i am, otherwise how the heck did you stumble upon this? but anyways, as you all know i am in band. why? you ask, i am in band because i like to play the flute and my cute little piccolo. i'll put a picture in here as soon as i remember how to. as much as i like playing, i do not enjoy band most days. one reason is the director. i like his music choice but i'm the biggest fan of him. i like the other director more. i think that my director can choose good music because he is the director of the top band, whereas the other director is the director of the middle band so her music choice is a little more limited.

enough with that rambling and i'll try to get to the point here. one of our songs for the upcoming concert is a brahms piece called how lovely is thy dwelling place. it's originally meant for a choir, we even listened to them and i have the sheet music as if i was going to be singing instead of playing but that's not going to be happening, but one of the area directors so kindly arranged it for us. it doesn't look complex, and it's not complex rhythm wise, but there is some complexity while playing it. but this is still not the point. my point is this morning when we were rehearsing, while playing the brahms i looked up at my director to make sure that i was still on the beat and not behind or ahead for some reason. i have no idea what he was doing but i couldn't find the beat for the life of me from his directing. he might have well been just standing up there waving his arms at us becuase there was no familiar 3/4 pattern going on there. because i could't find the beat i just kept with my section and it was all good. the band was then stopped and mr bird told us what to do to make the piece sound better. this was his great little tid bit of information; just pretend there are only two measures in the piece. the first measure is the pickup note at the beginning and the rest of the song, 175 measures mind you, is all one measure. hence the arm waving. okay cool. it is a very pretty piece though and its probably my favorite.