Disclaimer: I do not own Loud House.
"I'm so excited it's almost time for music rehearsal." Luna said excitingly to Isaac as they walked to the music building.
"I am too." Isaac adjusted his sleeve a bit. "I haven't played since my concert."
"I just feel those chills when I'm about to preform." Luna shivered in joy a bit with a smile. She spun around in excitement.
"Time to sit down for awhile." Melody said as she and Aria walked in.
"You say that every year and everyday." Aria rolled her eyes but still smiled.
The group walked into the music room. If Luna wasn't holding her instrument both hands would have been would have been on her face. She hadn't been in Royal High's band room from what she had seen of it Ambertheart's was much larger. There was a giant screen in the center and Mr. Taylor's desk was right next to it and really good speakers next to it. Luna could tell she was really going to enjoy her time here.
"Okay everyone get to you seats and set up your instruments." Mr. Taylor said walking in. Immediately all the students, including the freshman headed to their seat. Upperclassmen lead their section's freshman to their section's respected seating. The alto saxes sat on the right side of the second row. Luna sat at the end with Isaac to her left. On her other side was one of the tenor saxes. She noticed Alec sitting with one of his legs crossed like he owned the place. Even with her back turned she could sense Melody giving him the death stare from the trumpet section. There were a few people, including Clark, that were handing out music. Betty told them something before Luna got her music and saw she was Alto Sax Two. Luna figured it would be better to be a lower part but it suited the new player that she was.
"So everyone want to know the theme of our show?" Mr. Taylor asked with a smile. At that moment a choir of yes with both excitement and annoyance came from the upperclassmen. Betty was practically out of seat. "It is superheroes!"
At band room burst into excitement. Most people seemed to be really excited about the reveal of the show. Especially the freshman since it was there first show.
"Much better than my junior year show." Isaac said and Luna raised an eyebrow wanting to hear more. "It was based on a band called Party! and it wasn't that much fun."
"Now who wants to hear the show?" Mr, Taylor asked as the band cheered. Mr. Taylor went to his computer and clicked something and a small beep went off before the first note played. Luna was at first turned off by the techno sound of the computerized band. She had heard of computerized sound but never used it before. She normally wrote her songs on her guitar and piano so she was very unfamiliar. After a few seconds Luna let herself enjoy the music. She could recognize a few of songs. She wasn't the biggest fan of superhero movies but she didn't mind watching a couple with Lincoln and liked a lot of the background music. The band was silent for the entire time each of them fully invested in the music. When the show finished everyone applauded.
"So here's how the rehearsal will go, first we'll warm up then we'll do a run through of the entire show." A few of the freshman groaned but Mr. Taylor raised his hand. "Don't worry I know it won't be the best but there's only one way to go, up! Afterward we'll have sectionals and then we'll work on the song together."
Mr. Taylor called down Hallie and Dustin. Dustin raised his arms and the band started by tuning the concert B flat. They did it a couple of more times before they moved to the B flat scale. They proceeded to move to this thing called 1-1-2-1 where they played up and down the scale by every note and going down to one then moving up by one until they reached the top and then did from the top of the scale until the bottom.
Luna started to tense up as the run through was about to began. This was going to be the longest time in a row she played her alto sax. The show was roughly fifteen minutes long and the longest she had played on her alto sax before this was not even five minutes long. It didn't help this was the first time she played her alto sax in front of people. She was still scared to play this instrument in front of her family. She even waited for Luan not to be in their room before she practiced. As Dustin and Hallie started to conduct Luna attempted to play.
As the run through went on Luna started to calm down. She found her sound hidden among about the 200 hundred members of the band. During the run through Luna couldn't help but notice that their were still some notes she didn't know and was glad Amberheart allowed her to use her guitar as her main instrument for her major. It was probably due to playing it for about fives years now. Kind of made her wish that she was able to play guitar. Luna started to appreciate the moments where she was resting, it helped her figure out a few of the notes.
Once it was done Mr. Taylor nodded before walking to the front. "So how do you think we did?"
"Horrible." The guitarist said bluntly.
"Thank you for your option Luke." Mr. Taylor said before looking around. "Any else. Um you."
"I think it was alright." Aria answered. "I've heard worse."
"Of course you say that Aria." Melody said from the trumpet section.
"How about we do a thumbs up system." Before anyone moved he added. "Now this is based on first run through."
Luna chose to go to the middle and Isaac had the same idea. Looking behind her see saw Melody had her thumb down, while Aria had her thumb up. Alec had his down and she was unable to see what Ethan gave the run through. After some time Mr. Taylor dismissed the band to sectionals. Luna, Isaac, Alec, and the other two freshman followed Betty and the other upper class to a class room in the building.
"Everyone ready." Betty said once everyone was all set up. "Okay so I thought about a few moments we could work on."
"How about measure 75." An upperclassmen joked. Luna looked at that measure and saw it at least the Alto Sax 2s were resting at that point.
"You do that every time we play something." Betty teased sticking her tongue out slightly.
"What it may be an easy part but we still need to practice it." The upperclassmen said still trying to keep the joke going. The freshman laughed a bit at the joke along with one or two upperclassmen. Most of the upperclassmen groaned and or rolled their eyes as if he did this all the time.
"I think we should do the part at measure 146-187." Isaac suggested as he shrugged a little. "This section seems to be very alto sax reliant."
"Good idea Isaac." Betty gave the freshman a thumbs up. "How about we play through it first then we get to spefics."
The other alto saxes agreed and they played the section. Unlike the band run through Luna could hear her sound much clearer. This fact made her much more nervous than the run through the entire band run through. She could pick out her wrong notes and guesses.
"Alright." Betty said clapping her hands together. "There was a lot of good things and plenty of things we could fix by our first show. The biggest one is wrong notes were very prevalent."
"Like Little Ms Show Up Late." Alec said with the insult clearly direct at Luna. Luna gave him the biggest death stare.
"Well, Alex was it." Betty pointed to him.
"It's Alec." He corrected very annoyed that she got his name wrong.
"Okay, Alec, well here at Amberheart we don't call people out. Even if you don't say their name." She turned directly towards him. "We don't want anyone getting emotionally hurt okay?"
Alec didn't give a response.
"Okay. So how about we look over the song and then we can look over some trouble notes. In my experience it is a very good help."
At those words the other alto sax looked over a couple notes and every few seconds a note would play and sometimes they would fix the note. Luna found many notes she knew rather easily but a few of the sharps and flats in the piece couldn't help but confuse her.
"Are you alright?" Isaac asked noticing her troubles.
"I can't figure out some of these notes. " Luna sigh in defeat and pointed to one of the notes. She hadn't felt thus defeated since the really bad government quiz she had mid senior year.
Isaac looked over the note a bit. He adjusted his figuring before tapping Luna on her shoulder. She turn upwards to him. "Here's what the figuring is."
Luna copied Isaac and played the note. It sounded of at first but after a bit of adjustment it sounded decent.
"Thanks alots." Luna said as sectionals went as planned.
AN: So it's kind of hard to write music scenes, despite being in band for eight years. Could be that it's something a person has to be there to understand the full thing. See you next chapter.