That one time...at band camp.

So, band camp was July 16th-27th. I won't lie, I stayed inside the whole time. I'm not sure if i specified before, but I play percussion, and in marching band, I play in pit. Most of the time I play marimba. Oh how I love it so much.
Since I've never really been taught how to do 4 mallets or anything, this will be the first year for me actually to perform with 4 mallets. Last year, I played 3, but that was only for the closer (less than half of the movement too...that irked me a bit). But this year, I have my 1st movement, the opener, in and out of  3 mallets, second movement, the ballad, is just 2, but its so worth just being 2. The song is gorgeous. The song was written for us. It's a beautiful version of Letter from Home by Pat Metheny. Then, my 3rd movement, the closer, is mainly a 4 mallet piece, with some of the moving parts mainly 2 mallet. Anyway, I'm excited to see the reaction from people. They'll be blown away by pit this year. We've never been this good honesetly. And with KMEA changing the part of percussion and guard judging just to musical effect and visual effect, it kinda sucks, but our marching band needs all the help we can get. Crittenden Co. of course, is not the best place to be in band. It is definitely not Murray or Lafayette, but we have some really good individual musicians....like myself.
While at band camp a lot happened.. My percussion teacher was one of my friends from Murray's community band this summer. He was a great teacher.  We still have a lot of visual things to work on, but we had a lot to work on, and we learned everything within a couple of days.
I did have a rough patch though. Even if the ballad is the absolute easiest piece I've played in my life, it was the hardest to learn. It's really a sort of love song, and psychologically I'm pretty sure I was just having a hard time learning it just for that fact. A heart broken girl does not do well with love songs... So, at one point I ended up in the instrument room crying for a couple minutes. But now, now that I've learned the song, I think it's so beautiful.
Other than the musical parts of  band camp, there was playing horsewaffel...(a game which will never be explained, for fear of such fun being let out to other bands), talking to my lovely friends, and just in general learning about myself a lot. Since having probably the worst summer of my life, I can say band was the only thing to make it bearable. But I'm thankful for what time I had band. Now I'm all, having a bad summer again, but thankfully I have band practice and it'll be marvelous yet again. Maybe even my percussion teacher will be there :)

Those ramblings

Since this is my very first blog post, I'd like to start out saying, or more so describing who I am. My name is Peyton Nicole. I'm a young artist in every aspect you could consider. Talent wise, age wise, maturity wise, etc.. I've been taking photography since, well about 8th grade I'd say. I'm turning 17 and I'll be a junior next month, so as you can tell, I've only had this hobby for a short 3 years, and I wouldn't be expected to be very good. Unlike photography, I just started painting, drawing, and working with sculpture/3-D art lately (I'd say within this past year). But on another side of the spectrum, I'm also a great deal into music.

In school, I play percussion. People may say that it may not take skill to play percussion instruments, and it's somewhat true, but it takes a lot of skill to master the entire section. Some people will never be able to acquire this in their entire musical career, but my goal is to do so. I think I'm a promising talent, not to sound overly confident that is. I've been in band since I was 12. Since that time, I've taught myself almost everything I know.. but this summer, I experienced what was probably the most significant musical thing that has happened in my life: community band. I was the youngest, thus all the teachers/professional musicians/college students wanted to teach me. I learned so much about just how the simple things impact everything.

All in all, I have my own style. Both visual art and in music I have a style that i'd like to be shown and noticed. My portraits of people, are generally what I think their personality has evoked to me; In paintings I like to use colors that create a psychological feeling, my black and white pictures I want to make either a dark or enlightened feeling. Some of my other pictures seem either "dark" in a way or extremely bubbly. In music, though I don't play original compositions, I do find solos or enjoyable marching band shows to be usually more dramatic with minors, chromatics, to be a lot more interesting.

But enough of a rant about that, there isn't much about me besides the fact I super love cats, I also love reading historical fiction. Not only am I a creative soul, but I also love to learn. Math and science definitely aren't my things, but I enjoy literature/grammar, and History/social relations. If I had any guilty pleasure, it'd probably be reading psychology papers, getting my hair dyed, or sometimes just even reading quotes from whom I perceive to be very influential people in our history, or people who are just now making history :3

So this is little ole' me. 

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
-Tim Burton