day2-02-09-11, Ponderosa Elementary School

Today the first thing i did was help out the drummers with rhythm, i am not a drummer but i know how to read the rhythms (they were easy because it was out of a beginners book). Next, my mentor told me to go and help two trumpeters with their tone, he also gave me advice on what i should teach them when it comes to tone. It was harder today, because instead of one kid like at Buri Buri, i had to teach two. One of the kids knew how to play better than the other, but i felt bad because i was giving more of the lesson to the one who didn't know how to play as well. It's very hard to teach them when it comes to tone on trumpet, because it varies for us brass players... we all have different embouchure's (muscles around lip). I have to be in the kids body to know what he's doing wrong. My goal for next time is to make their trumpets actually sound like one...