Transcripts of Shield(2ndNarrative)



[ Interviewer ] Could you please introduce yourself? Uh my name is M. *laughs* 

[ Interviewer ] Uh how old are you? I'm twenty-three. 

[ Interviewer ] And what do you do? I'm a student 

[ Interviewer ] Alright cool. 

[ Interviewer ] Could you please tell us about your first experiences with music? with music? When I was little my grandma played piano a lot.  So... *sniffs* I never really learned how to play but it was something that she taught me a little bit. 

[ Interviewer ] So she played in the house with you?  Mhmm 

[ Interviewer ] Sort of mini recitals? Yeah she just, I mean she had a they had a baby grand at their house. So she'd play when I was over. 

[ Interviewer ] And what was, when did you first start actually learning music? Fifth grade in band. 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm *sniffs* What instrument did you play? Snare drum. 

[ Interviewer ] How did you decide that? Uh I wanted to play trombone originally but my mom talked me out of it because she said she couldn't get any noise out of a horn so I probably wouldn't be able to either. 

[ Interviewer ] *laughs* And she told me that she played the drums and I was like "ooh mom did that so I want to do it too." 

[ Interviewer ] So did uh, did both your parents play music instru- musical instruments? Uh yup my dad plays guitar and my mom plays pretty much whatever she wants to. *laughs* 

[ Interviewer ] And do they still play it even today? Uh not so much today but for a, when I was little my dad played guitar a lot. 

[ Interviewer ] Did you ever end up learning to play guitar? Nope. *laughs* 

[ Interviewer ] *sniffs* 

[ Interviewer ] So you started music, again fifth grade, Why did you keep up? Why did you keep on doing that then? I just found that I really really liked it and part of it was up until then in school we had to sing and the big kids got to be in band and I wanted to do what the big kids did. 

[ Interviewer ] *laughs* 

[ Interviewer ] What was uh what was the band class and music like in high school? Umm what do you mean? 

[ Interviewer ] So like did you have, did you participate in like music ensembles, bands, or like music theory classes? Umm really uh it was they were all ensembles. Pretty much. And I joined marching band in, I joined my high school marching band in the 8th grade and then I sort of, then I stuck with. 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. I wouldn't have kept playing after middle school if it hadn't been for that. So- 

[ Interviewer ] Really? Yeah 

[ Intervewer ] Well why's that? Um by the time I was in the eight grade I was kind of I really didn't like practicing very much. *mutual chuckles* And, I don't know, some of the fun was starting to wear off and then I think at the end of my seventh grade year my teacher came up to me she said "Hey we need cymbal players. Do you want to do this?" 

[ Interviewer ] *laughs* And it was really fun so. 

[ Interviewer ] So you played cymbals initially in your high school band? Yup 

[ Interviewer ] And then did you play any other instruments? I played bass drum my freshman and sophomore year and then snare my junior and senior year. 

[ Interviewer ] *sniffs* Did you ever, uh, take like private lessons on any of these instruments? Um I took private lessons for, ah, on snare drum and then on drumset. 

[ Interviewer ] Mkay. *sniffs* Did you ever, did you play in any bands er like jazz grou- ensembles on drumset? Yup I was in jazz band and then I was orchestra for the musicals. Those were all drumset. 

[ Interviewer ] What were your um like private lessons like? On, on like drumset? Um. 

[ Interviewer ] LIke for instance who was your teacher? Steve Dodge. For Columbus Percussion. 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. 

[ Interviewer ] How long were like the lessons? About half an hour. 

[ Interviewer ] Would you go like once a week or so? Yeah, usually run ran over *mutual chuckles* 

[ Interviewer ] *sniffs* 

[ Interviewer ] Did you like doing drumset more than snare drum or snare drum more than drums? Um, I don't know. At first drumset was kind of intimidating because there were lots of -- *laughs* there was a lot going on. 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. So... I don't know I think once I started college I liked snare drum a little bit more 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. Um but yeah. It was, there was a lot of talking in lessons *door closes* and sometimes it was really frustrating cause he would make me slow down everything. 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. It's like you have to slowly so you nee- can play it faster. But it ended up working even though I cursed a lot of the times Why are you making me do this? 

[ Interviewer ] How do you practice? 

[ Interviewer ] Like for instance on snare drum. What are you like, start up slow and then speed it up? Yup 

[ Interviewer ] Just rep it over and over? Yup. 

[ Interviewer ] K and so an I'll guess the end what's like your very favorite of all the instruments to play? That's really hard, I don't know. *mutual chuckles* Drumset. Just cuz I don't get to play it very often 

[ Interviewer ] Mhmm. 

[ Interviewer ] Alright. Very much.