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Trombone Mini Recital Slide 1

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Photo credits to Dr Colleen.   It was my first trombone mini recital but it did not go well like what I expected. I lost focus on my music and I played wrong notes - it was a really awful experience for me. I walked out from the recital room and started to cry.    Eric, Len and Dr Burrell followed me at the back ( Dr Burrell walked a bit slow as usual ). They tried to comfort me, patting on my shoulder and head. But I cried even louder, on Eric's shoulder. I could still hear Dr Burrell's voice saying: "you played good notes more than wrong notes."   Even Dr Karen approached to me when she saw me crying. She slow talked to me. She shared her own experience as a performer, she understood how badly I felt and she even cried. She remembered that similar thing happened when she was at my age. She said it is fine to make mistake now, so that I will not make the same mistake twice when I become a professional musician. She lost her position as the principle fl