College Admissions Essay: The Importance Of Music To Me

Someone once said, “Music speaks what cannot be expressed soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” Music to me is a great stress reliever and it helps motivate me for the rest of the day. Band has been in my life since I first played an instrument my sixth-grade year. I first started band when I was in the sixth-grade of middle school. We had a choice of what instrument we wanted to play and I anticipated the clarinet was the best, suited instrument for me to play. The music we learned was at a sixth-grade level, so not all difficult. As I reached seventh or eighth grade, I had gotten braces and couldn’t play my clarinet. I had talked to my band teacher and she suggested that

My last band director was an old guy that did not care about the music program and having Mrs. Price and Ms. Lidia there to rescue us, they have brought back up the program. We had band camp the summer of going into my freshman year, where we met other upperclassmen and learned how to march for the football games. Marching for the percussionists was not whole lot of fun. The percussionists had to crab walk and the meaning by crab walk is, marching with one foot behind the other and shuffling over. I played one of the bass drums during my freshman year and the summer of my sophomore year, I reflected that maybe I wanted to be a drum major that conducts the band for football season. Amid basketball season and concert band, I was still part of the percussion section, just not during

Pep band captures the feeling of excitement for the basketball games in a way that nothing else would. The songs we play for basketball games range from the 1890’s to 2016. Since I’m still part of the percussion section, I am also part of Drumline. Drumline is basically the percussion section playing on the snare, bass drums, cymbals, and the quads. Occasionally Drumline will do a little performance of their own at half time, but that is not often. Last year, I remember dressing up like a basketball player and playing drum rhythms involving a