The other day I went in to band class mad over something dumb, so I picked up my trumpet and blew the hell out of it without warming up. Anyway then I just kept blowing high notes and the next day I realized that what I did was really stupid. I sounded like crap for a long time and my lips felt weird. Plus on top of all that the cold really made my lips chap and my lips felt like they were falling off. It was a really frustrating time. Today everything seems to be better I had no school do to snow. On Saturday I have 3 parades. I usually play Bach 3C for concert Band but if I play that for a parade I will be dead within the first song so I'm going with the Bach 6C or the Martin 7C. They are both good mouthpieces. Now that I know all my major scales I'll probably start working on my minor scales during the Christmas vacation and hopefully in January I'll start taking private lessons.