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Is non-classical music a stepping stone into classical music?

I know Germany likes classical music.

Like, you start out in non-classical music and does it get more advanced etc. when you do do classical music?

When I start a new instrument, it gives you folk tunes etc. I even learn some jazz or something, sometimes, well, like blues and Latin American (like from cartoons) and like some syncopated rhythmic things. When that's gone, sometimes so am I. Actually, violin is going good some because it's associated with orchestral music.

I can almost penetrate the system and see into how people advance on violin, with the help of youth orchestras or at school orchestras/band. Band is very active, you can do it as an elective, after school, for football games, and in honor band. They might even play Christmas songs at pep rallys. About advancing on violin, in piano I was good at scales enough and am good at key signatures, still. One violin teacher said I was the best sight reader she had, maybe because I sorta sight read my way through a lot of the piano training. Oh, and I had a hard time practicing for piano and had lots of homework, but when I got in a program called "Talented Music" in the "Talented Arts" of the "Gifted and Talented" program, everything fell into place and I was motivated to practice for homework, for functions some, nothing too hard or unpleasant.

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Christina Barrett
½ American ½ European-Asian

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That would make perfect sense Christina. I remember even in the introductory symphonic band, we would play pieces that were hardly classical, such as the Superman theme.

When I went from the 6th grade to the 7th grade, I was immediately thrust into a situation to where I went from lessons, right into a band setting. I remember being intimidated. We didn’t have a band in grade school. We actually had a pianist in our 7th grade symphony. There was only one. I remember hearing her on the CB radio, as her CB handle was the “Baby Grand”.

I can only remember one song that we played in 7th grade, and that was American Patrol. It’s an easy piece to play. Note the snazzy snare drum solo at the 2:48 mark. I never got to play that part, despite being second chair, because the two 8th graders always hogged the bass and snare drums, relegating me to having to play cymbals or cowbell. I noticed that the snare drum solo is different than the one we played. Apparently there are several variations of this song, and I’m thinking that we played a rudimentary kiddies version of it.



Here’s another version performed by an actual middle school band. Here they did away with the snare drum solo altogether.



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In 6th grade, I was playing Titanic, on piano.

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Christina Barrett
½ American ½ European-Asian

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This is the greatest piece of music ever recorded



Azn: “He (Orsen) now pretends to be in his 50s, but is in his 70s or close to 80 yo.”

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It is in a style that seems superior.

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Christina Barrett
½ American ½ European-Asian

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