Hope everyone is doing well. My life is over as I know it. I have decided that the good Lord didn't want me to have too quiet a life so he blessed my with my dd!
But now we have a new addition ---- a trumpet!
Yes, last night was instrument rental night so we now have a trumpet, music stand and band book. DD tells me that they will be playing in the Christmas parade. She will be singing with the chior/ensemble before the parade and then she will have to hustle to the staging area to get with the elementary band! I figure that she can practice after school while she waits for me to come home!
I hope, cause it doesn't sound too good right now!
But she is ahead of the game because she can read music!
Good luck with the trumpet! Oldest dd took Violin. And the 4 oldest all have had at least 2 yrs of piano.....
Elvis really wants either guitar or drum lessons.... We'll see......
YIKES!
OMG I hear ya on this. At least the trumpet doesn't require "alternative transportation"
Our school starts strings only in 4th grade, band in 5th. DS10 came home Tuesday with a sign up form, he had already filled in all of his information and his instrument of choice...the bass.
Yes, my kid wants to play an instrument that is not only bigger than him, but also sounds terrible when not accompanied by a full orchestra.
all this band & music talk is cracking me up!!
My son (now 18) went from trumpet in 6th & 7th grade to cymbals, bass drum, snare drum and a full drum set. It is painful at first......but I must say it is nothing short of amazing to see a true musician blossom from all those years of "practice". As they get older it is so fun to see/hear their shows & concerts evolve from nothing to a great show.
Support those music and the arts programs! It makes for a well rounded child.
Too funny, Tina!
And I needed funny!
Good thing she isn't play The Victors, though.....we Ohio State fans have entirely different lyrics for that song....
In regards to the instrument discussion.....Ds13 has been taking piano for about 5 years, and clarinet for 2. I was told (and I am only going on what I was told, as I do not play any instruments) that piano is a great instument to start with since you will learn to read 2 lines of music simultaneously (for left and right hands) and when you switch to an instrument that only requires one line of music, it is an easy switch. Vice versa can be a much harder transition. But again....I am certainly no expert.
Fair warning to all parents, this all backfired on my parents as I wanted to major in music for college and they would not permit me (since they were paying). Here is my story I will share with everyone.
I am an only child. I come from the country in NE PA (Lake-Lehman was my HS) and I only had 130 in my graduating class in 1993. I probably had (have) ADD so we had an organ so at 6 my mom (who was a beautician) started trading hair styling for organ lessons with an older woman who was a church organist. I HATED to practice, I wanted to be outside playing (basketball, in the mud, helping dad with the car - yes I was a tom boy).
Well in 4th grade we got to sign up for elementary band - well conveniently I smash off my front right tooth and the dentist strongly urged my parents against any wind instruments (we did not have orchestra), so I by default was a percussionist (mallet only - as my mom's sister played the bells and I had a bell lyre already). I was my own section for 3 years.
Then in 7th grade you join the HS Band, well marching band was fun as I was in the "Pit" and I got to finally play other things like bass drum, cymbals, etc. Then concert season came and there are only so many percussion parts to go around and being low man on the totem I was bored. I tried to quit but mom would not let me (as the HS band director was the same that she had).
So I started playing Tenor Sax just for concert band season in 8th grade (still playing percussion for the marching band season the rest of my HS days) because the only person who played it was graduating. (See I should have had no concerns about going on this cruise by myself.) Then switched to Bari Sax for Jazz band, as someone moved to the school and played Tenor Sax and bought a clarinet at a garage sale and taught myself to play, so switched to playing Alto Clarinet in 9th grade for concert band because the person who played it graduated. Then switched to Piano my junior year for Jazz Band and Bassoon for concert band.
Not sure how my parents knew what instrument to take where, but it was a blast, I went to summer music camp 8-12 grade and played everything I was in a least 5 concerts a weekend and every other weekend at least 8. I also was our substitute organist at our church during HS. During college I did marching band, orchestra, and concert band for my general education requirements and also marched in drum corps. I still want to get a music degree, one of these years. I still play; I have a keyboard, drum sticks & pad, flute, clarinet and bassoon. I am dying to get my hands on a Selmer Mark 6 Tenor Sax.
So be careful as you can end up with a monster like me.
me. So if they get an opening soon...
Well time to see what goodwill has....
So I got rid of the junk and cropped some of the ones that really needed it.
All of my kids take an instrument (piano first for 2 yrs), then most take voice or some type of siniging class.....acting classes....dance classes..... we go to the symphony, plays (classics & modern shows), etc.....
