<p>This a first draft took about an hour to write would love some feedback
Topic is tuba </p>
<p>"Tuba", the one word that repeated over itself in my head. As I strolled out of the small tension and pressure filled room where I had just completed the mid year playing test.</p>
<p>I was never quite the best trumpet player ever since I had begun playing in the fifth grade. But whatever part the teacher needed me to play I was up for the challenge. Music had always played a role in my life, before I started to play trumpet, i had played violin in the elementary school orchestra. However, I enjoyed playing in the band along with the jazz band much more.</p>
<p>As I entered the small room inside the large band room, I first laid eyes on the music stand covered with various scales and sheet music. Soon as I say down my body filled with nervousness; I hated solo playing but when the whole band was playing I felt more at home. My band teacher watched carefully as the cold mouthpiece of my trumpet approached my mouth and I began to play. After a few required scales and some cracked notes the band teacher asked me to stop playing.</p>
<p>He then asked me something that had never crossed my mind and something that I wasn't ready for. He asked if I was willing to switch to the tuba because it would be better suited for me and the band as a whole. My school has two bands, concert band and wind ensemble, the latter being for more skilled musicians. He explained to me that I would have bigger role in the wind ensemble as well as a better chance of making it if I was to play the tuba over the trumpet. Due to the plethora of trumpet players through out the school. I went home that night and all I could think about was the conversation with my teacher and if I wanted to switch instruments.</p>
<p>But what I realized and the thing that stuck in my mind was that it was going to help the band. I wasn't in the band to be the best trumpet player but to contribute to the success of the band as a whole. So I went back the next day and agreed to switch to the tuba; an instrument significantly different than the trumpet. The trumpet is a leader of the band where as the tuba is the heart of the band providing the bass line to keep the band on track.</p>
<p>The road to tuba started a few months later after marching band ended. I struggled with the change because tuba required a different set of skills. At first I didn't enjoy my new instrument but by the end of my freshmen year, I loved the tuba and have been playing it ever since. Although I was no longer in the lime light, I still had a key role in the band which was all that mattered when we won first place in a band adjudication.</p>
<p>Tuba - a large brass wind instrument of bass pitch that produces a low pitch. Without my switch to the tuba, I would have not learned to adopt to certain situations even of they aren't centered around me but for the good of others.</p>