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Band Lessons Begin

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Sydney Sears  Staff Reporter  High School band room.  Photo credit Sydney Sears. Band lessons will be picking up this week for the band kids at the high school.             Lessons are something every band kid has to go through. Most of the time, except for kids doing private lessons, students in band will be pulled from class to either see Mrs. Meunier or Mr. Gerth for a quick playing of something in the student’s lesson book.             “There’s stuff on rhythms, articulations… Or there’s a section where you have to play an actual song,” said flute player Katie Krob. She went on to say that lessons can really vary to what instrument they’re for, but lessons start off fairly easy and tend to get harder.               Another common difficulty band student’s face is actually making it to t...