End of the year accomplishments

I hope to use this year as a year to grow greatly with my musicianship. Since, this year, I have a very talented section leader that is always willing to help me improve my playing abilities. During the course of the rest of the year, I hope to become more rhythmically accurate, especially during very fast moving pieces. This could be a measurable goal because we are playing the piece "Arabesque" this year, and if i am able to play it well, i will have improved greatly because the majority of that piece is very fast moving notes. I would also like to become more expressive with my playing. I feel like my pianos could be softer and fortes could be louder. Also, I would like to work more with the rest of the clarinet section to make intonation better throughout the section to make the band better as a whole. In June, I hope to be more rhythmically accurate, more expressive and be better in tune with my section.

This year, I feel, was the year i improved the most in my musical career. One of my goals that i had set was to me much more rhythmically accurate and technically better. The way i was to measure this was being able to play "Arabesque" and i feel i accomplished this with flying colors. Not only me, but the band as a whole played this extremely hard a technically demanding piece with much confidence. For next year, I hope to be much more expressive with my playing and not just playing what is written on the page.

Robert Smith

P.S. Sorry this was so late!