Excellence In The Arts

                                           E6: Join a band and attend every rehearsal.
I never intended on being in a blues band but I got the lead part in the production and I have to be a drummer in there. So Jess (the person who brings the bands together) got me and the other lead role person Liam (who plays the bass) and got us both in the band along with four singers and two electric guitarists. The songs that I learned were Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley), Back To Black (Amy Winehouse), Let Me Down Easy (Instrumental), Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison),  Piece Of My Heart (Janis Joplin), Superstition (Steve wonders) and some 12 bar blues which is just instrumental. Plus I only had three weeks to learn all these songs! So with only three weeks I had to work hard, I had to skip some class time to learn song and I didn't even have a music sheet to learn them off.  Liam and I had some lessons together because neither of us knew any of the songs. And I practiced hardcore at home. When the day finally came to preform infront of a live audience at the Historic Village I had 100 butterflies flying around in my tummy. But when I got up on stage they all went away and I was focused on not mucking up. But of course since it was my first time I had a few mistakes but nothing major. My best songs that I played turned out to be Superstition and Piece of my heart. Plus the last time I played Blue Suede Shoes we go the crowd cheering. We had two sets of this each an hour long and I met lots of new cool friends in the band like George, Ethan and Liam.