1. Concert Critique
Instrumentation includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, and the music usually incorporates a strong rhythmic component suitable for marching. ... There are two types of percussion: "the battery" which is the drum line on the field consisting of snare drums, tenors, bass drums and sometimes cymbals, and then there is the pit, which is the ensemble on the front sideline that has your vibraphones, xylophones, marimbas, chimes, timpanis, keyboards and much more. Pit instruments usually vary from band to band and even from season to season in the same band. ...
Melody had a natural talent of being able to play virtually any instrument from the harp, violin, piccolo, saxophone, and bass to trumpet and everything in between. Melody decided to pick the instrument she loved the most, the golden trumpet. ... "And the solo goes to drum roll please," the percussion did as asked, "Andrew!...