Our heart beats sounds like lub dub lub dub. The Festive drums have drawn us together into one place. Everyday we play the drum till our hearts content. Our heart and soul connect as one as we play the drum, producing lots of exciting rhythm throughout our whole practice. We are a unique group of people whole love to play the Festive drums. Although we have experience lots of fatigue and sourness, we are extremely satisfied after every practice.
Training is welcomed by the blazing sun. The heat of the sun apparently really startled us all; it would be really nice to train in a cloudier weather. But the hot weather did not stop our ambition. As practice began, I was beginning to sweat so much that it felt really uncomfortable. It was really hard to concentrate at first, but slowly as the rhythms enter my soul, the heat seems to be nothing at all. I could feel all the different emotions emitted by the drum beat. All those fascinating drum notes beat my soul.
We took a short break and it was a great opportunity to reintroduce ourselves to one another. There are a lot of people like me who loves to play the drum and it is really hard to recognize one another from time to time. Members of the team come from different parts of China but that didn’t stop us from playing the drum. I’m really happy to see that so many people enjoy playing the drum. We resumed our training with a big smile. Training in the afternoon went smoothly also.
The day ended with everybody tired but I can feel that they really enjoyed themselves.
My second day training starts. The senior drummers were completely different from us newbie. The atmosphere they emit is more serious and tenser. The training of the senior drummers is really different compared to the new drummers. I really got frustrated when training began, I really couldn’t catch up with their speed. I could clearly hear the rhythms but my hands seem to be unable to catch up. Things got even more frustrated when the real teaching began.
I didn’t have the opportunity to practice more. I was required to be able to catch up immediately and be able to catch up right away. This really made me very tense. I was really down after the morning training. But I stood up and kept trying my best. I need to work harder in order to make up fro the lost time even if that means training on all my free time.
Afternoon training began and it was tiring as usual. Fortunately I was able to catch up with their speed. I was beginning to get used to the intensity of their training. I was able to treat each practice more seriously. It has been a long time since I started to take it seriously. The day of the performance is fast approaching but there is so much more to learn. It means I need to work harder each practice, for the performance, for the Festive drum team.
I could say I really changed after these two days. I realized I need to take things more seriously and work harder. But I hope I could still remember the joy that I feel each practice. It’s really hard to be optimistic after seeing myself in such a bad state.
