In Band Everything I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Band. Music is an Art . Try to make your music beautiful. Keep things slow and steady in the easy parts and the hard passages will come out fine. If you can't hear the person next to you, you're playing too loud.
Practice does make perfect , and perfection is something anyone can aspire to.
Teamwork is everything . Even the last chair, third clarinet player has a part to play that is just as important as the soloist. Fifth grade students derived satisfaction from their band experience regardless of their talents. In a study of six elementary schools in a large suburban school district, students viewed their role as band members as part of their identity and benefited from both peer and adult recognition. 1990 Return to the Band Welcome page.