Time transcripts of Joe(Bretts4thNarrative)

[00:00:00:00]	[ Interviewer ] Alright. Uh why don't you introduce yourself?

[00:00:04:01]	Yeah. Uh I'm Joe Plattenburg. Umm I play the trumpet

[00:00:08:01]	and the clarinet. I played a lot through high school. I've been in marching band

[00:00:12:01]	and concert bands and stuff. So uh, go...

[00:00:16:02]	with it I guess.

[00:00:17:02]	[ Interviewer ] Cool. *sniffs* Could you tell us about your very first experiences with music?

[00:00:21:02]	Um yeah. I mean I guess I never was really formally introduced

[00:00:25:02]	to music [ snare drum hit ] until probably middle school. We had like a 

[00:00:29:02]	um instrumental program type thing where you like 

[00:00:33:02]	played different instruments and picked whatever you liked best.

[00:00:36:03]	But I guess before that um I had had some friends that had

[00:00:39:03]	older siblings that played instruments and 

[00:00:42:03]	one of them had a clarinet and I thought it was really cool and had lots of buttons on it and stuff

[00:00:46:03]	so um... [ Interviewer ] Did they ever let you play it?

[00:00:48:04]	I never actually played it before but I just thought it looked cool so as soon as I got to middle

[00:00:52:04]	school um I was like I wanna play this. So once we got to the that section

[00:00:56:04]	of the experimental like program or whatever I, I 

[00:01:00:04]	played the clarinet and I really liked it. So, played it through middle school and high school

[00:01:04:05]	and um bands and stuff like that there.

[00:01:08:05]	[ Interviewer ] Did any, did any of like your older siblings your younger siblings did they have any, play instruments or your parents?

[00:01:13:05]	Um the only would be my mom played piano when she was in high school.

[00:01:18:06]	And she didn't continue after that though.

[00:01:21:06]	And my uncle, who's like far out of town, played trumpet.

[00:01:24:06]	But aside from that I reallly didn't have much um like hands on experience other than people just

[00:01:28:06]	telling me about their own experiences with it.

[00:01:30:07]	[ Interviewer ] Do you remember much about your, er, did your earliest music

[00:01:34:08]	educators, like in middle school and high school, did they like leave a big impression on you?

[00:01:38:08]	I would say so. Especially in probably high school more than school.

[00:01:42:08]	Um in middle school it was sort of like, people were just doing it because their friends

[00:01:46:09]	were doing it, I thought. And no one was particularly serious

[00:01:50:09]	until once we got in high school.

[00:01:52:10]	My high school band director, I thought, really left a strong impression on me.

[00:01:56:10]	Just the way that he taught, I felt was uh influential.

[00:02:00:10]	And he was also the marching band director and that had a strong impact on me.

[00:02:04:10]	as I continued with that.

[00:02:06:10]	[ Interviewer ] What was marching band like in high school?

[00:02:08:11]	Umm, I feel like it was probably pretty similar to a lot of other high schools.

[00:02:12:11]	We had rehearsal a few times a week. Um we would [ sousaphone plays ] 

[00:02:16:11]	have one show that we practiced all through the summer. Um we would memorize our music

[00:02:20:12]	and go to competitions during the fall. Uh play at football games

[00:02:24:12]	and travel to away games. Same kind of deal as probably a lot of other high schools.

[00:02:28:12]	[ Interviewer ] And was uh, did you also

[00:02:32:12]	continue in your concert bands in high school?

[00:02:35:12]	Yeah I played in several groups, aside from marching band.

[00:02:38:13]	I did a um a concert band, which we called the 

[00:02:42:13]	Wind Ensemble, for a few years. I was also

[00:02:46:13]	in jazz band, I played saxophone there. And 

[00:02:50:14]	I did like the pep bands and I also played in the pit orchestra for the musicals.

[00:02:54:14]	So yeah.

[00:02:55:14]	[ Interviewer ] See I didn't, I didn't know that you played saxophone. Were there any other instruments that you like maybe

[00:02:59:14]	experimented on or tried out for a little while?

[00:03:01:14]	Um mainly clarinet and sax were the only ones that I did through high school.

[00:03:05:14]	Uh I played several different saxes. I did like alto, tenor, bari, through different

[00:03:09:14]	years in jazz band. And then I played clarinet. I guess I played bass

[00:03:13:15]	clarinet in the community orchestra in my city and E-flat clarinet 

[00:03:17:15]	a few times in Wind Ensemble. But I mainly stuck reeds up

[00:03:21:15]	through high school before I got to college.

[00:03:23:16]	[ Interviewer ] Did you do any, uh, solo competitions?

[00:03:26:16]	Yeah uh I did a solo and ensemble competition

[00:03:29:16]	the my last three years of high school. So sophomore year on.

[00:03:32:16]	And I got a grade of 1 in all of those.

[00:03:35:16]	And um I guess

[00:03:38:17]	two of the times also I did the uh ensemble

[00:03:41:17]	competition, portion of it. So I played with other people from

[00:03:44:17]	Wind Ensemble in, in like a woodwind quintet

[00:03:47:17]	or something like that.

[00:03:48:18]	[ Interviewer ] Did you ever receive um private instructions?

[00:03:52:18]	Um not regularly or frequently. I, I had a teacher for a little 

[00:03:56:18]	bit in middle school.

[00:03:58:19]	Um high school, I really didn't have a teacher.

[00:04:02:19]	Uh eventually my second year of college I took lessons for a quarter

[00:04:06:19]	but in terms of private lessons that was, it was never very formal

[00:04:10:20]	or very um lengthy or anything.

[00:04:13:20]	[ Interviewer ] How come you decided to continue playing the clarinet in college?

[00:04:16:20]	Um a lot of this probably has to do with the fact that uh my senior year 

[00:04:20:20]	like halfway through the year, as an early graduation present, my mom got me 

[00:04:23:21]	a brand new Buffet wood clarinet which was kind of expensive.

[00:04:27:21]	And so I would've felt bad if I had just like stopped playing once I got to college.

[00:04:31:21]	But honestly though at the same time, um, I've just enjoyed playing

[00:04:35:21]	all through high school and I wanted to keep that up. And the, my teachers

[00:04:39:22]	always impressed on me the importance of being a lifelong musician

[00:04:43:22]	as they would say. So I felt like it would be something good to, you know, meet other people

[00:04:47:22]	and just have something to do.

[00:04:49:22]	[ Interviewer ] What have you done in high -- in college?

[00:04:51:23]	In regards to continuing your musical experience?

[00:04:53:23]	Um I've performed in the Collegiate Winds, which is a concert 

[00:04:57:24]	band. I play clarinet there for the past four years. I've also been 

[00:05:01:24]	in the Athletic Band, I play clarinet and trumpet there, and in the Marching Band, with trumpet.

[00:05:06:24]	[ Interviewer ] So when did you make this uh transition to trumpet?

[00:05:09:24]	Um that was the fall of my freshman 

[00:05:12:24]	year of college. Uh I came here at Ohio State and I

[00:05:16:25]	came to the football games and everything. And I'd heard the marching band before and how 

[00:05:20:25]	um impressive they were and everything. And once I saw them at the football games I

[00:05:24:25]	just decided that I really wanted to be a part of this organziation. And just

[00:05:28:25]	almost became obsessed with it. So I just um, I made it

[00:05:32:25]	a decision that fall that I wanted to be a part of that er

[00:05:36:26]	do everything in my power that I could. So I started practicing trumpet as frequently

[00:05:40:26]	as I could, probably about an hour a day, every day.

[00:05:44:27]	I got the DVD of [ outside chatter ] the fundamentals and I talked to other people that I knew -- known that were

[00:05:49:27]	in the marching band. To get help with my marching and everything 

[00:05:54:27]	and um up until that summer where I tried out and made the marching band. [ outside chatter ]

[00:05:59:28]	[ Interviewer ] And what's, what's the marching band been like since you've been in it?

[00:06:02:28]	Um probably the single most

[00:06:07:28]	beneficial and positive experience in my time in college, I would say.

[00:06:11:28]	Um between the performances um and everything, that's always

[00:06:15:28]	amazing. Being, having the opportunity to perform in front of 

[00:06:19:29]	thousands of people that are all cheering for you, in addition to the 

[00:06:23:29]	social aspect of it. Just being able to meet all these new people

[00:06:27:29]	all these new friends and everything that I feel like truly will be lifelong friendships.

[00:06:31:29]	Um those, those two things together

[00:06:35:29]	have made it a really beneficial and positive experience.

[00:06:40:00]	[ Interviewer ] So once you're finished all up with college, are you going to put up the trumpet and the clarinet?

[00:06:44:00]	Or are you going to try and continue in some way?

[00:06:46:00]	I mean, I would like to ideally say that I would like to continue.

[00:06:50:01]	Um I mean I guess if I did try to pursue that it would probably be

[00:06:54:01]	with the Alumni Band. I know they have different functions they do in addition to the Alumni Game.

[00:06:58:01]	Um or like a community orchestra or band or 

[00:07:02:02]	something like that in whatever city I end up moving to. 

[00:07:05:02]	I, like sometimes churches will have things like that or like community

[00:07:08:02]	organizations will have bands and that sort of thing. So

[00:07:11:02]	at this point I'd like to say I'd like to continue but

[00:07:14:02]	um I guess that's yet to be seen. But there's

[00:07:17:02]	plenty of time probably down the road.

[00:07:19:03]	[ Interviewer ] Alright. Thank you very much. 

[00:07:20:03]	Yup. Thank you.