Nothing but Treble

Nothing but Treble — page 5 — Morgan finally handed it over Sure But here's a tip FYI you don't make words plural by adding a z to the end What are you talking about I'm talking about the way you wrote tirez brakez and signalz It's all misspelled You're supposed to add an s to the end of words to make them plural not a z I was about to give Morgan a little FYI of my own I don't care but Mr Byrd came over Colby Morgan how's it going he asked Good sir Morgan said I wouldn't exactly say things were good So far Morgan had knocked over my sheet music read my top secret note and basically told me I'm a lousy speller I wanted to switch partners But Mr Byrd went on Excellent So here's what I want you to do Morgan you'll play an F concert pitch by yourself Colby you will too Then you'll both play the same note together

Nothing but Treble — page 6 — Mr Byrd pointed at Morgan And go So Morgan played an F note on her clarinet Mr Byrd nodded Colby it's your turn I blew into my saxophone's mouthpiece and played my note too And together he said pumping his fist into the air When we were finished Morgan said Your cheeks were too puffy Colby Try firming them a little more Great Now Morgan was giving me a hard time about my saxophone skills too And to make it even worse she did it right in front of Mr Byrd I didn't want to look bad in front of my band director Who would Anyway Mr Byrd apparently thought Morgan was some kind of junior high band genius He smiled and said I'm impressed that you noticed Morgan And this is exactly the kind of communication building exercise that I hoped for

Nothing but Treble — page 7 — Keep at it you two Then he moved on to working with two other woodwind players Sherman Frye and Baylor Meece I guess Morgan noticed I wasn't too happy about her calling me out on my technique in front of Mr Byrd I'm sorry if I embarrassed you I didn't mean to Morgan said You sounded great I was just trying to help No problem I said I wasn't embarrassed Truth I totally wasn't embarrassed Really I was just plain annoyed by Morgan and how she acted like she knew so much She smiled Good I hope to be a famous conductor someday at Carnegie Hall in New York That reminded me of that New York New York song that Frank Sinatra sang I started the first few lines with Start spreading the news Morgan ignored me Instead she looked all dreamy and said There are hardly any women

Nothing but Treble — page 8 — musical conductors in the whole entire world you know I ended my song and Morgan went on with And I want to be the next one to lead an orchestra on the big stage Yeah well for now you'd better jet your brain back from New York City to Benton Bluff We've gotta work on getting our pitch together I said right before positioning my mouthpiece and playing another F concert pitch Much better Morgan said You didn't look like a baby chipmunk that time Thanks I think Morgan and I worked on playing our note together over and over By the time Mr Byrd came around to listen to us again we sounded pretty awesome together Mr Byrd noticed too What an improvement Morgan and Colby I'd say you two are almost pitch perfect

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