0 CommentsIn the Saxophone Zone
Playing the alto saxophone has been a passion of mine for about five years now. It all started back in the sixth grade at Trafton Academy. In the first week of school, they sat the sixth-grade class down in the band room. The teachers passed around instruments for us to hold. My full attention went to the saxophone.
The sax was an obvious choice for Shady Omran, who learned in middle school and now plays at Lamar High School.
I have always been fascinated with the saxophone’s stunning ability to be able to blend in a band with a distinctive tone and solo with stellar sound. My decision of an instrument was not too difficult. I also was thinking about playing the trombone, but I liked the woodwinds better than the brass. A couple of days later, the rental instruments were delivered. Now that I look back on it, the class’ excitement was, in fact, excessive; everybody was obsessively waiting for the day we finally met our instruments.
All throughout middle school I made steady improvement on the saxophone. Now, I am a sophomore at Lamar High school playing in the marching band during football season and also with the symphonic band, and I write my own sheet music to newer songs.
Marching band is challenging when you have to learn to keep your feet in time and play flawlessly. Despite the difficulty, marching band is a fun extracurricular activity, until bad luck strikes. One day on the field, the neck strap holding my saxophone snapped, dropping my saxophone neck first onto the cold, hard ground. All of the keys on the instrument were unaligned, and the neck was severely bent. This wasn’t the end of my instrumental career. Since the saxophone couldn’t be fixed, I got a slightly better one on sale.
When marching band is over, I play in the performing band. There, I enjoy listening and recreating some great classical pieces. Although I don’t plan on taking my saxophone into my career in the future, it will definitely be a hobby to keep practicing and improving on.
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