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Music has been a giant part of my life and without it I do not think I would be the person I am today. It has been a part of my life since I was little and continues to play a big role in it today.
It all started when I was in the 5th grade when I decided to join the elementary school band. We were asked what instruments we wanted to play and at the time I was not actually sure what I wanted to play so I kind of just did what I thought sounded nice at the time and that was the flute. So, I went home after school and told my mom how I wanted to play the flute and she at first did not like the idea of that because she said the flute was for girls, but she eventually decided to let me get one. I remember my experience being quite enjoyable and …show more content…

The warm-ups were some of my favorite parts of chorus though because they were just fun little things we did to warm up our voices and I always got a kick out of them. My favorite out of all the warm-ups was when we sang “My Bonnie” by The Beatles the point of the warm-up was to alternate between standing up and sitting back down every time we said a word that starts with the letter B. If you have heard this song by The Beatles, you can see where my enjoyment comes from since almost every other word begins with the letter. My favorite thing about chorus was my 8th grade year in middle school when the chorus had to do a musical of some sort and it was a requirement of every 8th grade chorus. We were given choices on the musical we could do by my chorus teacher Ms. Leaptrot. The class eventually settled on doing a musical called Fiddler on the Roof which I had never heard of, but to introduce us to the musical she showed us the movie that was made based on it. The movie was phenomenal and the music was really catchy so it had us all excited for it. We then spent the entire second half of the year stressing out learning the musical and time and rehearsing all the …show more content…

When I saw her on July 17th it was for my birthday and I had bought my best friend Trey and I tickets to go see her all the way in Durham, NC which was about a five hour drive. We got up at eight in the morning tired because we had worked a double the night before, but we were excited to start our road trip together. So, on the road we go listening to music just talking and killing time since it was around 300 miles of straight road to North Carolina. When we got to the concert place in North Carolina it looked nice and fancy and the crowd was very diverse from people dressed casually all the way to people wearing dresses and suits, but that is what Lindsey Stirling does she brings together a very diverse crowd with her music and I find that very beautiful. We enjoyed the concert with all the amazing songs she played and with how majestic everything sounded. We thought it was completely worth the drive and I sure hope so because after it ended around ten PM we had to drive five hours back home so we were dead tired by the time we got back. The next time I saw her was with my girlfriend except this

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