"Um... Tanabe student, was it? You need to switch between loud and soft more quickly. Measure 156 needs to be sharper and cleaner. You could learn from that flute player."
"Yes!" Tanabe Nagi answered loudly.
Kasamaki Nozomi scratched her head awkwardly. She exchanged a glance with Tsuruzuka Mizore and smiled sheepishly.
"Tsukamoto student, did you switch to trombone from another instrument? I can hear that you have some foundation, but you're not quite comfortable with it yet. Keep practicing."
"The Saxophone Section doesn't sound full enough. Please play with more feeling... That won't happen today, will it? I'll come and check on you later."
The head of the Saxophone Section was the club president, who was absent today. Saito Aoi also played the tenor saxophone.
With two key players gone in a single day, it would have been stranger if the section had sounded good.
Some time later,
Taki Noboru clapped his hands again. "That's all for today's practice."
"Thank you very much!" everyone chorused.
I'm Sorry for Being Born
Practice had ended a little early these past few days because of the rain.
After practice, the members returned to their section classrooms. They still had to put away their instruments and music stands. Unless they applied to take an instrument home to practice, it had to go back to the instrument room.
"I'm exhausted~"
In the bass section's practice room—Class 3-3—Kumiko Oumae slumped over her euphonium, looking miserable.
"Are you okay?" Kato Hazuki asked, hands on her hips. "I've never seen you get scolded that badly before."
"Today was just rotten luck..."
Kawashima Midori put her enormous double bass back in its case and pulled the zipper shut. "They say once music has been played, it can never be recreated. That's why you have to play every time with