Jazz

On March 29th I observed the second jazz band at Bozeman High School with Steve Merriman. It was a weird day because they were missing most of the brass section due to a band tour. Most of the rehearsal was spent on doing repetitions on the harder spots in their music. I found it interesting that this jazz band had two trumpets and they were louder than the three in Studio Jazz. I had my jazz band class later that day and we talked about it . As a result we played louder. Mr Merriman played his horn with the students in order to help keep them together. The band sounded pretty good despite their missing players. One thing that I really liked was how Mr. Merriman used analogies; most of them were about weightlifting with repetitions.