Music and Me
You know, one of the things that I've been thinking about is how my interest in music has changed over the years.
It may sound kinda weird, but I really never enjoyed much music at all until sometime in high school. When I was in kindergarten, I liked the music that was played on Sesame Street, but that's about it. Not that 6-year-olds are expected to have much more interest than that. When I was in elementary school, I'd listen to Neil Diamond and Paul Simon. I know you're scratching your head at that, but my parents had those tapes, and they were pretty much the only thing we'd have to listen to in the car. I swear, whenever I hear that song Kodachrome, I get relapses of riding in our old minivan. In junior high, I guess I kinda liked M.C. Hammer, but who didn't in that day. Don't judge me; you know you liked him, too.
Then in high school I was introduced to country music. The thing that immediately struck me about country is that you can actually understand the words they're singing. And the subject material is much better than most other genres, probably 90% love songs. I'd much rather hear a song where vocals count than one where the practice is to play loud and scream unintelligibly. For those of you that like heavy metal, I'm not trying to make you wrong, but you are. :)
I'm now part of the St. John Fisher Youth Choir (I guess you could say I'm the lead bass), and I'm starting to learn how to play the acoustic guitar. I know a lot more music theory than I did a couple of years ago, and I'm learning more as I go. It's now my main hobby, even surpassing computer games. Kinda surprising for someone like me who was hardly into music at all when I was younger.
It may sound kinda weird, but I really never enjoyed much music at all until sometime in high school. When I was in kindergarten, I liked the music that was played on Sesame Street, but that's about it. Not that 6-year-olds are expected to have much more interest than that. When I was in elementary school, I'd listen to Neil Diamond and Paul Simon. I know you're scratching your head at that, but my parents had those tapes, and they were pretty much the only thing we'd have to listen to in the car. I swear, whenever I hear that song Kodachrome, I get relapses of riding in our old minivan. In junior high, I guess I kinda liked M.C. Hammer, but who didn't in that day. Don't judge me; you know you liked him, too.
Then in high school I was introduced to country music. The thing that immediately struck me about country is that you can actually understand the words they're singing. And the subject material is much better than most other genres, probably 90% love songs. I'd much rather hear a song where vocals count than one where the practice is to play loud and scream unintelligibly. For those of you that like heavy metal, I'm not trying to make you wrong, but you are. :)
I'm now part of the St. John Fisher Youth Choir (I guess you could say I'm the lead bass), and I'm starting to learn how to play the acoustic guitar. I know a lot more music theory than I did a couple of years ago, and I'm learning more as I go. It's now my main hobby, even surpassing computer games. Kinda surprising for someone like me who was hardly into music at all when I was younger.