How Music Represents Life
How Music Represents Life
Some people will look at a music score like it is a piece of paper from Mars. All it is to them is a bunch of black dots on five horizontal lines. But to me, that paper is something much, much more. That paper is my lock, the key is my drumsticks. When my drumsticks touch my drum, it is more than sounds that echo throughout a room, it is an endless note of harmony to my ears. With those sticks I can play anything, make music that describes my feelings, my thoughts, my words. Those sticks are more than long pieces of wood, they are the base at which I found myself.
To some students high school is nothing but a race to find themselves in a population amongst hundreds. I truly don't believe half of those people "really" find themselves. For me, I was never in a rush to fit in. Sure, I tried my array of sports and clubs that I thought were fun at the time, but ended of dropping them for they really weren't me. The one true love I possessed was music, and I finally found myself within the instruments I play.
I admit I was horrible when I started, but like the little engine that could, I never gave up. I enrolled in various music classes to enrich my music experience. Drumstick after broken drumstick, I stuck with it. I refused to let my love for percussion break, unlike the growing pile of broken sticks in the "Drumstick Graveyard" (as us percussionists called it.) I'll never forget the look on my music teachers face, Mr. Cevallos, whenever I did something incredibly wrong. Likewise, I’ll never forget the looks he gave me once I got strong, and played to my true potential. I owe most of what I know to Mr. Cevallos, for he pushed me further than what I wanted to play, he pushed me even on those days I just wanted a break. Because of that I learned how to not give up, because at one point all of us were beginners, we don't get better by merely staring at the drum. Once you truly know your talent, your drum, and yourself, the drum will do much more than make noise, it will sing to you.
To me, music is much more than a few minutes of...