My Experiences as a Musician

Hey everyone. This is Reed, and I'm going to try to post more often starting now. One of the big subjects will be music. As a musician, it's natural to develop a passion for music, obviously, so I guess I'll start with my experience as a musician. In my very early years, my parents bought two hand drums, as well as a beater drum set. I would always be drumming, because I loved it. Well, school started and I didn't really keep that up, but I would still listen to a lot of music. I'll get more into my influential music in later posts. When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I started taking piano lessons. I learned how to read sheet music fairly well and I was able to play pretty decent stuff. After maybe 3 or 4 years, my teacher moved and I wasn't able to continue taking lessons. In fifth grade, I started band class by playing clarinet, which I continued in sixth grade as well as seventh. Toward the end of the year in seventh grade, I tried out the bass clarinet, which I ended up playing for 8th grade and some of 9th. There was one other event that happened at the end of 7th grade which has really influenced me up to this day as far as music goes. After the last concert, we didn't really have much to do during band class, so my friends and I would all just mess around. One day, I decided to just go jam on the school drum set for a bit, so I started playing some of our jazz band songs that we had played that year by ear since I heard them over and over many times. The school drummer and a good friend of mine (Zach) was pretty surprised that I could do that without any formal practice or lesson prior to that. He taught me some basics, and then I was off. I purchased a drum set that year oh July 4th, 2011, and have since made major and minor upgrades to it. I'm now planning to buy a new drum set made out of higher quality wood, which will sound a lot better. I'm also planning to perform at school next year for the talent show or whenever I can with whoever wants me to be their backbone. The reason why I like the drums so much is that it is explainable when you are just jamming with your best friends, either doing covers, or just playing improv. You just can't beat that.