I have played a number of instruments in my life and performed on most of them. When I was younger, I was very eager to start learning to play the piano. When I got to middle school, I started band playing the oboe. I really wanted to play the harp, but there wasn't an orchestra. I modulated from the oboe to the bassoon. I also started to learn the organ because we inherited my grandmother's organ. I started playing the mellophone in high school for marching band.I didn't like marching mellophone so I tried percussion and the baritone. My friend taught me how to play the tuba. I picked up the trumpet so I could be in jazz band, but that modulated to the trombone because my embouchure is better for lower instruments. I ended up sticking with the baritone and euphonium for the rest of my senior year in high school and for marching my first year in college.
I love singing. I only had one voice lesson, which I honestly didn't pay too much attention during. Thus, I am not very good, but that doesn't stop me from singing at Church or in my car or when I'm walking around. I hope to take the time to learn how to properly sing, having been turned down in many different auditions for solos and whatnot because my 'voice is not mature'.
Arranging-wise, I am not that good either. I did take music theory in high school, but it ended up being a teach yourself how to sight sing class. I also took the music history class that also ended up as a teach yourself class. I still managed to pass the standardize tests for both, but I don't think I learned much. I'll claim one song that I arranged and performed at Church didn't involve much more than changing words, saying who sang when, and adding a few measures at the end. The other ones were very copied and the most I did was cut parts out (yeah, now I learn that the best way is to not copy, but to learn and incorporate).
I have written many words and melodies, but they tend not to be very good because I was determined to have it in phrygian mode. Self-teaching music theory and history inspired strange things.
I love singing. I only had one voice lesson, which I honestly didn't pay too much attention during. Thus, I am not very good, but that doesn't stop me from singing at Church or in my car or when I'm walking around. I hope to take the time to learn how to properly sing, having been turned down in many different auditions for solos and whatnot because my 'voice is not mature'.
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Arranging-wise, I am not that good either. I did take music theory in high school, but it ended up being a teach yourself how to sight sing class. I also took the music history class that also ended up as a teach yourself class. I still managed to pass the standardize tests for both, but I don't think I learned much. I'll claim one song that I arranged and performed at Church didn't involve much more than changing words, saying who sang when, and adding a few measures at the end. The other ones were very copied and the most I did was cut parts out (yeah, now I learn that the best way is to not copy, but to learn and incorporate).
I have written many words and melodies, but they tend not to be very good because I was determined to have it in phrygian mode. Self-teaching music theory and history inspired strange things.
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