Welcome to the forums! I'm glad to see that you are so excited about lucid dreaming. My words of wisdom are that you shouldn't be disappointed if it takes a while for you to have your first LD. It took me three months of keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks before I had one, but obviously that varies greatly from person to person. Lately I haven't been keeping up on my DJ, or even my RCs, but the days I do remember to do a couple of RCs I usually end up having an LD, so keep up those RCs and eventually they will pop up in your dreams and you will hopefully become lucid! I wish you the best of luck!

Also, a side note: I used to play the trumpet in elementary school. I was also in Jazz band, but I no longer play. It is a very fun instrument though!