My Goals From the Beginning of the Year

"In band this year, I hope to accomplish many goals and become a better overall musician. One goal that I have is to improve at sight reading. I have always struggled with sight reading. A second goal that I would like to accomplish is to practice more at home. I do not practice as much as I should to improve drastically at my instrument."

This is what I stated on our second reflection of the year which asked us to state our goals for band this year. As the year is coming to a close, I feel that I have accomplished some of these goals, but not all of them. My goals have also changed throughout the course of the year. In some places, I did fall short of these goals but I am a very different musician from the beginning of the year. I have gotten better at sight reading. This is one goal that I accomplished, but I am not as good as I would like to be at this task. I hope to work over the summer to improve at this. A goal that I unfortunately did not accomplish is practicing more at home. Honestly, I do not practice as much as I should, but I realize that I HAVE to get better about doing this if I want to advance in band next year. By working over the summer I hope to have drastically improved from last year. I feel like I am a different musician than I was in term one because I understand the music much better. This year my goals changed and I focused more on dynamics and and trying to make my sound quality the best that it can be. These goals were better goals for me and I did accomplish them. I now can also focus on all parts of the music such as dynamics, breath marks, staccato notes and other important parts of a piece. This year has been a good year in band and I hope that next year is even better.