The Drum

Before I thought that the drum is the worst instrument that the world has ever had. With all kinds of noise, unpleasant noise rather, all put together in a single instrument. Well I really hated it before but everything changed when I was in Grade five, I never thought that the instrument I hated most will be considered as one of the most wonderful thing that had ever happened in my life.

I have many classmates especially the boys who were involved in our school band were playing the drums. At first I was looking at them from a far thinking that they were all insane because they were always tapping the table even if we were in the middle of the class.

One day my friend Rema and I were climbing the stairs. Then she told me suddenly that that she wanted to play the drum, so I was shocked because I never thought that a girl as smart as her would be interested in playing the drum. Well I felt at that time that I was different from the others because I think all of my friends are playing musical instruments in our school and I don’t have any interest in playing an instrument. So I said yes even if I am not on myself at that time.

Ten minutes later our school’s musical instructor happen to pass in front of us, so Rema ran towards him and told him that she and I would want to play the drum, and fortunately our musical instructor was very happy to say yes and he even told us that we could start by tomorrow. So I asked him if we could play the snare drum, but he told us that we cant play the snare because the school is running out of snare drums, so we have no choice but to play the parade drum.

When we wee walking back to our classroom Rema told me that it is very hard to play the snare because our hand should be very fast and she told me that it will also be very hard for us because we don’t even know how to play figure one in the snare and if we would be able to know it, it will take time. So I told her that I don’t know ho to play figure one in parade either, but she told me not to worry about that because it is very simple. So she taught me everything I have to know before the day ended.

So it happen that as time goes by I was also insane because of the drum and you know I even had an accident because I was very insane at that time. It happen when I was already late in the flag ceremony so I ran down very fast in the stairs because I thought I could still make it, so what happen to me is that my ankles was injured because I fell from the stairs. When I was able to learn figure 10 I did not proceed anymore for figures 11 and 12 because I was already insane in playing the snare’s figures especially figure seven. Even if I was not able to play the snare at least I was able to learn its figures.