Personal Narrative: A Career As A Music Education

Hi, I am 20 years old, I've been making beats for six years, working at being a Producer and Engineer for two years and I want to learn more! I know that if I were to be a part of greater producing processes and the Music Industry, my skills and talents will shine but more importantly, grow immensely.

I had to construct my time wisely in order to get my school work completed,

Have you ever had this kind of experience: You work very hard approach to your goal, and you think that you are ready to face any potential issue, but it unfortunately turns out to be very different than what you thought it would be than what actually happened. This is a lesson I learned from my entry-level music class while I was still a John Jay student.There is a big different between who I am and who I was in few years ago. Unlike now, I am very relaxed and I tend to be more productive and confident when I have to handle multiple things. I used to be very impulsive and a little bit of disorganized. My time management skills were extraordinary terrible, and I could not properly handle the problems by myself. I had a bad temper because I

Music has always been one of my greatest passions. However, the most difficult challenge I have ever faced has been participating in jazz ensemble.

From a young age, I was always fascinated with the profession of teaching and knew that I wanted to grow up and become an educator. As I reached my senior year in high school, I determined that I would focus my undergraduate studies on music education and become a middle school chorus teacher. I studied the craft of music teaching and dedicated myself to become the best music educator possible. While I completed my studies, I began to have a fascination with instructional technology in the classroom and researched the implications of including technology into choral and band music instruction. I was also given the opportunity to present multiple workshops to college students and in-service educators about implementing new and exciting technologies in their classrooms. While at Wingate, I assisted in the founding of the Center for Teaching and Learning where I helped design and implement a training program for professors to implement the use of an iPad in the collegiate classroom. Natalie Ayambem, director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, said:

My transcripts show that I only participated in band my freshman and sophomore years. Band became a necessary sacrifice because I still needed to fit in graduation requirements and a load of AP classes to my junior and senior year schedules; however, my music career did not end! I found a way to continue playing the bass guitar in my church praise band, and I am currently going on my sixth year of playing. I will be flexible in continuing my music career, whether it be in a class or a club, because it is definitely an activity that has become important to me.

For me it is important to reach my goals in order to be happy with myself. I have two career employments that interested me the the most, and they are. Music Producer and Sound Engineer Technician. Both of these careers have a lot of similarities and quite a few differences.

I am impressed with the level of collaboration that the music teacher in your district share. In my district I am the only beginning band teacher so if the students fail to meet a concert deadline the blame falls on my shoulders. Teaching by ear is not part of my district’s curriculum until they reach jazz band which is many years later in high school. We have to immediately prepare for our winter concert that is always held in December.

I realized I wanted to get into music and producing when I received feedback from friends, and family that I had talent after the first song I released, and after time passed all I received was just good feedback, of course, there were some negative opinions but I keep my head up. When I started writing/recording music I just saw it as something to do for fun, it became one of my serious hobbies after a while. That push I was given by friends and family has led me to believe I could make it in the music industry. That’s how the idea of getting into music came about.

I want to be a music producer because music is something I listen to daily when I can and it helps me relax and things when I’m angry or upset. Music is my dream and I want to make it a reality for me and music production and maybe a singer/songwriter is good for me also but I’m setting towards music production. A producer can be involved in the song-writing, audio engineering, recording, adding musical instruments and effects, hiring outside musicians if needed, help plan the overall promotion plan — including choosing album images and stage stunts. He can even advise the singers to get vocal coaching lessons

Acting, Band, and STEM are 3 of my favorite subjects. I have done many plays that I have performed in front of hundreds of people. I have played clarinet for 2 years and bass clarinet for 2 years now. I have loved the STEM field ever since I went to the 2012 Science and Engineering festival in Washington, DC. Since the expo, I have made games with Scratch and I am learning computer languages such as Java and Python.

Orchestra used to be my favorite class. Key words: used to. It was a place where I could play my best and everyone would put in the same amount of work. Last year was the best year in all my orchestral experience and I’ve been in quite a few orchestras in the last six years. There has been many different playing environments, people, and music. In ninth grade orchestra, I was one out of five freshman to be selected into Battlefield’s top orchestra group, Philharmonia, which was pretty exciting. It had one downfall, my brother and my cousin, Andrew Schlagel and Hannah Morgan, were also in it. I hate them with all my heart but playing in the same orchestra as them made some great experiences that I won’t forget. The entire year I was mostly

As the third black child of six and the daughter of a single mother, I was raised with my extended family. It was not until I was seven years old, my immediate family moved to Orlando, Florida from Chicago, Illinois. My mom, like most mothers, wanted the best for her children, and what she deemed valuable were to raise children with a holistic mind of the world. Because of this, my middle and high school years were full of diversity. One the most memorable years of my life was when I was accepted in Osceola County School for the Arts. This was a combination middle and high school that I attend for five years. There I learned many ideals and techniques about the fines arts. From technical theater to creative writing, I was taught how the arts

I chose being a music educator because I have always wanted to be a teacher. When I was younger, I used to play “school” with older siblings. I never enjoyed being the student, but I loved being the teacher and teaching them things. They always acted like they did not know what I was talking about even if they did. I have never been able, however, to decide on a subject to teach. Music has been the only subject that, over time, has remained a constant interest in my life. For a period of time, I thought maybe a math teacher, or even a science teacher. Teaching english however has never crossed my mind because while I am good at english for the most part, there are too many parts of english that are hard to me. Band was a whole new world for

Music teachers are the backbone of all real musicains. Although it may the not be the most intriguing job, it eventually pays off. While a music teacher may not get the most pay or the best hours, but to be able to watch students become adept in music makes it worth it.