Chapter 6
"Here Mandy, these are the cymbals you getta use…" Crutchy told Mandy leading her away from Kim and off into the cymbal section.
"Which drum do I get to use?" Kim inquired.
"I think Mrs. Teaker ordered a new one this year, so I think that's yours…" Dave told her.
"It's up on the truck, come on and I'll help ya get it off." Boots told her.
"Thanks." Kim said hopping up onto the truck with Boots.
"Here this is your drum, this is your carrier, and this is your drum stand." Boots said handing things to her. "They all say 6 on them since you're drum #6."
"Oh… ok. What number are you?" Kim asked.
"I'm drum #4." Boots told her. Helping her off the truck with all of the equipment.
"That's what I was at my old school…" Kim started.
"Boots go get your drum set up and I'll show her how to get hers set up." Spot commanded. Boots scurried off towards his drum. Spot began to set up Kim's drum mumbling things like 'This goes here,' and 'watch how I'm doing this.' After Spot put her drum together he went off to get the percussion music and then began to pass it out. Once Kim got hers she took her drumsticks and started going over some of the songs. They didn't seem to be very hard.
"Ok everyone! We're going to get started now!" Mr. S. called from his podium and the front of the pavilion. "B flat scale on whole notes. One… Two… One, Two, Ready? GO!" The band then began to play. The percussionist all began to shake out their arms except for Kim and Mandy who had no idea what they were doing.
"Use your sticks and shake out your wrist and arms…" Boots whispered to her. Kim followed in suite with Boots and the rest of the section.
"Ok, everyone take out the Fight Song!" Mr. S. said vibrantly. Slowly the band shuffled through their music and found the fight song. The Kim and Mandy were the only two percussionist who pulled theirs out, apparently the others all had it memorized.
"That's another thing, out percussion section memorizes our music. We don't use flip folders." Spot told her harshly. It almost seemed like he was annoyed that she didn't already have the music memorized.
"Ok I'll keep that in mind." Kim said with an extremely fake smile. They then began to play the fight song. Kim stopped half way through exceptionally confused as to why her music was not what everyone else was playing.
"Oh ya… we changed that so the music isn't correct." Jack told her. After that they pulled out some other new songs and began to play them. The rest of the section had to take out their music for these songs too, which Kim looked at as a good sign.
"Next pull out Battle Hymn of the Republic." Mr. S. commanded from his podium. The section slowly pulled out their music.
"WHAT IS THAT!?!?!" Blink exclaimed in horror, looking at his music.
"Sixlets." Kim and Spot muttered at the same time. The rest of the snare drums turned and stared at them.
"What? It's not like they're hard. Maybe a little challenging depending on the tempo, but still…" Kim said with a laugh.
"One. Two. One, two ready go!" Mr. S. started a bit faster then anyone had expected. The percussionist tried their best to keep up but ended up failing miserably… well all of them but Kim and Spot who finished with Mr. S., perfectly correct. Once again the rest of the percussion section started at them in awe.