Assignment 18: Buckets and Buckets (Tyler Gorman)

High school:

• First chair trumpet in wind ensemble
• Straight A's at least one semester
• Finish reading Dante's Inferno

College:

• Get a degree in music education
• Student teach (preferably at Henry Clay)

Life:

• Get married
• Have kid(s)
• Become a band director
• Get better at playing trumpet
• Get better at playing piano
• Visit Europe
• See Hamilton

So that's a rough version of my bucket list, generated mostly off the top of my head. It's quite generic but I suppose that just makes me a kind of generic person.

Getting first chair by the end of high school is a rather important goal for me because it will show how far I've come in terms of growth as a trumpet player, especially after the setback freshman year of getting braces.

A degree in music education is also quite important to me, as I've wanted for a while now to be a band director and to be able to teach the skills I've learned in my years in band to others.