How Joe Morello Changed My Life

All of this contributed to me joining the marching band, beginning in eighth grade, which has taken over my life now, in the best way possible and given me a defined place. It’s nice to be a part of something like

Heroes and Villains changed a part of history from 1920 to 1940 in America. During that time baseball became a popular sport. One of the heroes that impacted baseball was Joe DiMaggio. We should all be like Joe he changed an event in life and also changed baseball history.

I learned two instruments my Senior year. This experience has taught me that if you are truly committed to something, you can achieve it, even if you didn’t start young.

I started off playing the synthesizer for the middle school jazz band and eventually progressed to the electric bassist by high school. I began performing as the only bass soloist in the region of 2-A bands that performed at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX.

Have you ever loved something so much, your world would be incomplete without it? For me, that is baseball. From t-ball to high school, many of my life lessons have been learned on the field. Without baseball, I would not be the person I have become. I am now six-foot four and throughout my childhood I have always been at least six inches taller than my peers.

Since the six grade I always wanted to travel to Chicago for band. So I joined a band I had an extremely fun Time. I got to seventh grade and I was in concert band and if I wanted to perform in Chicago I had to make the symphonic band by eighth-grade. I practice so much in seventh grade that eighth-grade came around I was the second chair in the symphonic band tuba section. I made it through almost all of eighth grade year and made a lot of memories but, I still had one more to go, Chicago.

I joined my high school’s marching band my freshman year, playing trumpet. I love playing trumpet, and being part of the trumpet section. I played trumpet during my Freshman, Sophomore

The love and passion to play drums started at the early stages of his life. Being born and raised in Gastonia, North Carolina, Jason began sharing his musical talents and gifts at the early age of 9 years old. As he matriculated through life, he continued to nurture and develop his craft and began playing for numerous churches and community events with bands all having different styles. Jason has played drums

Through weekly private lessons, chamber, wind, and orchestra ensemble playing, and assiduous independent practice, I have improved immensely as a trombonist and musician. My work paid off when I was accepted into Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute. At this nationally competitive program, I spent six weeks with talented, dedicated students while rubbing shoulders with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). I had never heard elite musicians live before the BSO. Their concerts brought tears to my eyes and my drive to make music at the highest level grew. After receiving instruction from these musicians and hearing their own performances, I refined my technique and made more tasteful musical decisions.

Chad Smith started off when he was just seven years old. He always wanted a drum set but he couldn’t afford one. One day Chad Smith’s dad, Curtis Smith, got some old ice cream buckets that Chad Smith could bang away on. Chad Smith’s dad went out to the trash can and dug out these old ice cream buckets. Curtis Smith made the drumset of ice cream buckets for Chad Smith.That encouraged him to begin taking drum lessons in the fourth grade. When Chad Smith took drum lessons, he learned how to read sheet music.

   When I moved back to Georgia the first time, I was placed into an orchestra class that made me feel like a 30 year-old woman stuck in first grade. I was uncomfortable with the fact that I wasn't being challenged and my love for music was slowly diminishing. It wasn't until I moved back to Virginia that I was put into one of the most highly-recognized high school orchestras in Chesapeake, Grassfield High School. My orchestra director, Mr. Vutsinas, pushed me to new heights of musicality that I did not know I could not

To prepare, I started doing lessons because I had become intrigued at the prospect of playing mallets. When marching season rolled around, I was given a marimba part and that was a huge accomplishment for me because I’d never so much as touched a marimba until about two months prior. During marching band I truly discovered my love for percussion, and just band in general (this was due to the positive and inclusive atmosphere that had been created). I also began doing drum set lessons, mostly because percussion has so many different instruments attached that I want to learn to play all of

On May 8, 2017, after months and months of practice and work, I became the Drum Major of the Harper High School Band. Becoming Drum Major was one of the greatest, and most rewarding accomplishments that I have achieved in high school. After putting in all of the work to get here it was one of the greatest feelings to hear my high school band director say, that after that nerve-racking tryout, I had gotten the position.

Ever since my years in elementary school, I have had a love for music. This love developed in middle school where the notion of teaching music came to me. In high school, I knew the profession that was right for me was music education. After graduation, I began my journey to my calling by attending Shepherd University.

I first joined the band in the fourth grade playing the drums. I played for about two weeks then I quit because I didn't like it, mostly because of the teacher. In the sixth grade we got a new music teacher and told me I look like a trumpet player, so I gave it a try. I was taking music lessons but after the first one my music teacher told me she had to leave because she