A Little Bit About Me!

     Hello, I'm BauguessTrombone! 

        I am a second year Music Performance major, focusing on Trombone Performance. I have been playing trombone for around nine years now. Music has always been a huge part of my life, my father plays low brass, my sister plays flute and french horn, so I grew up listening and being surrounded by music. 

        So growing up knowing I wanted to make music, the trombone was not my first choice. All I wanted to play, and I had my mind set on it, was the cello! And the reason why was massively influenced by the fact that I used to watch Leonard Bernstein videos and I just loved watching the string players and how they all moved together. And since I was so little, my parents thought I would change my mind, but I didn't, not until I moved school districts that is. 

        Where I was born strings were widely taught in Elementary schools, but the new district I was in had very little funding to even support a concert and jazz band, and especially not enough to have strings taught in schools. So that dream of playing cello, ended very quickly. So instead I followed in my Fathers footprints and started learning the trombone.

          I have been very blessed in my journey with music. I have had the opportunity to show my skill and talent in many auditions. Some were successful auditions, were as others crashed an burned, but those failures I think have taught me more then the successful ones. Where I failed, I gained a drive to do better, to do more so I could come back the next year and see improvement. I have managed to be apart of All County bands for six years, and All District bands four times. During high school I also had the opportunity to attend different college honor bands at UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Pembroke, Mt Olive University, and East Carolina.

        When it comes to music, performing is once of my strongest suits, but when it comes to music technology I can get pretty lost in it all. I have never been well versed in technology and I have struggled for years with computers. I might be young, but I didn't grow up using computers, my family was pretty reserved on how much technology that we used, and how much me and my sisters were aloud to use. So these means it takes me a little bit of time to wrap my head around computer programs, and Muse score has become my worst enemy. When it came to a music software I learned how to use Note flight, and this semester I am learning Muse score. And this is a very powerful tool for musicians to use, but for me I have struggled with the complexity of the site. I have hope that by the end of the year, I'll have a better understanding of the software, as I believe it can be a powerful tool to use during my career.