Reflection on Keyboard Orchestra Class

I don’t think I have enjoyed a class as much as Keyboard Orchestra (KO) in years. Going to school every day, taking classes Math, English, Science, Latin, in Winter and Fall terms always usually became a boring routine I am used to. Many students enjoy taking these core classes where you sit down, take lectures and do work. In Keyboard Orchestra we get to not only read and practice notes of a song to come together and create a masterpiece but we also get breaks to do what we want. The breaks we get keeps more of us focused on our main goal in the class for the day, to get those notes down. KO has taught me how to play, and read notes for a piano, I was surprised to see what I could do, and the teachers encouraged me. I had never ever played a piano before in my life, and I never thought I would have been able to play one. The only instrument I ever played was a guitar but I was in Fifth Grade and I already forgot how. The most fun I have in KO class is when everyone has their part down and we all play together. I enjoy it because it emphasizes the whole Orchestral theme and the combined sounds make me smile and shows me what a couple of notes and people can do. Another thing that I enjoyed as well were the field trips. In school none of us really have a field trip unless we are invited to one that has space, or if we are taking a class which absolutely needs a field trip to help us understand things, like for art class, we went to see an Opera and the whole class enjoyed it, days later everyone was inspired about Opera singers, and the art of music. The Field Trips in KO were absolutely fun for me, we got to not only learn about musicians working together to play pieces of music or the instruments they played, but we also got to walk around New York as a class, and enjoy the streets. I was surprised that our teachers had that trust in us, and I am glad we as a class didn’t let our teachers down. There wasn’t much that was challenging for me except learning the longer notes, and sometimes having to share the computer all the time with my partner, it made it harder for me to practice and focus on my part. Minutes after I’d forget how my part goes because of listening to so many other people play. From everything I have learned, I hope to continue to study and play the piano and maybe even guitar since they are related in a way of sound. I am glad to have taken Keyboard Orchestra class and I hope other people have as well.