Text 3429, 77 rader
Skriven 2006-07-17 12:44:14 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Re: BAND?  OHMYGHOD!60712
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*** Quoting Glen Jamieson from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> True, but I'm also looking at storage.  We dont have room at home for
 CS> a drum set.

GJ> That is a very pertinent point.  My Kiwi daughter had the misfortune
GJ> to have 2 of her 3 children musically inclined in the modern manner.

Well, I think Charlotte will like Guitar but an old style one, not the electric
type.  Thats one of thre mistakes in shipping our household here.  I left the
old one i got as a college student in the wrong spot and it got packed to long
term stateside storage.  oops.

I've been looking hard at the little electronic keyboard units that are like
pianos though.

It's my opinion that no one is a fully educated person, without some level of
music training, even if they can barely manage 'twinkle twinkle little star',
its the exposure that is critical.  USA schools kinda drop all music after
roughly 3rd grade (age 9) unless you allow your child to take band or choir
instead of studyhall...  Hard sciences are much more promoted.

GJ> (The third studied drama, which is worse!)

Hehe that was me!  But I didnt 'act' after 6th grade.  I took to the techie
side of lighting and continued that right through college.  I was the lighting
for my Brother playing Tevvia (fiddler on the roof, man with a truely possible
professional tenor who opted to computer jobs but at his nightlife, still
sings in plays and such).  (How the hell do you spell tevvia?  Phonetic
there).
Wierdly my own singing voice is too low for alto.  I think they have a name for
it.  Bas-alto?

Little bit on that, which hopefully no one will mind!  I had fun with the CPO
Initiation.  I can sing *very very badly* when I try.  I am never a good
soloist but with practice, am dead on the backgound 'steady' that you put
right between the alto's and bass set.  Quietly, during my Chief Initiation
phase we played this up with me being finally voted 'the worst voice we have
heard among 500 chiefs of this ship'.  I carried a little card, 'pay me and
i'll stop' and got some 800$ that way (truely evil I be!).

I ranged from super flat to quivvering ear pain screaches only a 3year old can
normally reproduce.  Grin, only choir practice can actually teach how to do
that so well.  Had 'em all fooled.

Come actual ceremony with the family there, I and 3 others stood foreward to
sing the Star Spangled Banner.  Should have seen the :fear: some had when they
saw :me: there, then they learned 'they had been had'.  We did it barbershop
quartet style sort of with me on the low parts.  Got a standing ovation though
most of the family didnt understand the joke 'revealed'.

GJ> real jobs for a while to earn money.   The actor/director/hippy son
GJ> was eased into working as a chef in a Mexican restaurant by the Social
GJ> Security (dole) office, and is at last independently financial.

Smile, happens that way sometimes.

 CS> folk music she likes as well as soft jazz.  If it's too loud, she'll
 CS> listen but not really like it.

GJ> That is one consolation.

For sure! In fact, she's just 'polite' aboutthe loud music and hates it worse
than I do.  She likes the 'idea' of drums, not the sound of them.  Like all
kids today, Rap is well known.  She doesnt mind it, but likes it better whe I
play the Kingston Trio or Gregorian chant.  Yes.  Charlotte likes Gregorian
Chant and she's not just being polite about it.  She also likes Rachmaninov
(spelling?  Phonetics).  She says gregorian chant is like rap in a
straight-jacket that is let loose when it spirals upwards.

:Hummm:  I have a musical kid?  Maybe!  All sorts of odd things happen.  Lets
expose her to more of it and see what develops.

                                       xxcarol

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