Musicians

Hey, are there any people at DXPnet who can play music themselves? I'd be willing to bet there are, and I'd like to the stories that go with that. The music life is one of the most interesting to me. My band director, who is helping get ready to explode onto the college music scene, used to travel cross-country and sit in with some VERY well known bands. It's kind of ironic, but now he's playing drums for the spring production of Footloose in a highschool that few outside of New Hampshire have heard of, and that doesn't even have 500 students!

Hmmm...that 4th sentence should say, "...is helping ME get ready..." He already did four years majoring in music, having picked up drums in highschool and never even touched a piano until his first recital at the same college I'm off to this fall. He keeps stressing to me that I need to practice until I can play songs in my head, because it is VERY embarrassing to choke in front of an audience. I always wonder if that advice was from personal experience...

I used to play flute and piano and was quite a good learner, but I was too annoyed and had no patience for it, and for that and some other reasons I quit.

My friend plays in my school's traveling orchestra, and he gets to go to China this summer because of it... It kind of makes me wish that I could still play... Oh well, I'll just have to find some other reason to travel the world.

I played the clarinet for two years and the saxophone for six months during my fourth, fifth and sixth grades. I loved, loved, dearly loved the clarinet (yay jazz!!), I mean LOVED it, but gave it up because I wanted to try the sax. Hated, hated, truly hated and loathed the saxophone. For some reason, I just couldn't get the hang of it, and it was too damn big for me to handle. Plus, I had to walk home a long way to be carrying around a ginormous saxophone. I just despised it. I wanted to go back to the clarinet, but for whatever reason I never did. I also played the recorder in fourth grade, does that count? lol. Probably not. 🙂 I know how to play the harmonica a teeeensy bit, but not really. I mean, I can make it sound nice, but I can't read notes or follow sheet music anymore, so I just make up little thingies that sound good to me. I can play "Hot Cross Buns" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the piano...

God, I so want to learn how to play the acoustic guitar.

P.S. does using one's vocal chords count as playing an instrument? lol, because I was in all the choir groups and such from junior high all through high school, but dropped out my last year (of choir, not high school), because I was pissed off at the teacher...long story...music teachers, like most teachers, can be weird...no offense, but for some reason, they all seem to have a screw loose or something. Not all, I shouldn't say that. But most. 🙂

i used to play the clarinet also...(school band in middle school) -_-. And when i was real younger..i played the piano and the violin. I liked piano but violin was a pain in the ass. My real mother forced me to learn(hey, what can you expect from asian parents). But eventually i quit. Sometimes i regret, but i can always go back to it.. i dont want any regrets in life.