You already know I like art, but there's
other things to me, you know, aside from art.
I like other things too. Like... art.
In instrument form! *laughing*
When I was 5 years old my mom put me in piano lessons, and
even though I didn't understand what piano really was at the time,
it just became a part of me as I grew up,
and I still enjoy it to this day.
If you didn't know I play piano, then you must be very new here.
Do your research, I literally posted
a piano video, like what is it...
Six videos ago?
Nah, just pulling your leg, it's fine if you didn't know.
I'm glad you're here, welcome.
But I mean, it WAS only six videos ago, sooooo..
I took lessons at this little place down the road.
It was quaint and homemade,
just a really great atmosphere.
The owner was this sweet old lady, and
she had so much passion for running the place,
and teaching kids piano. :)
It was great... until around eight years later,
when the place was bought out by another owner.
I don't know the exact details,
but I'm assuming it was because the place was going downhill a bit,
and the owner couldn't keep it.
So now the little piano place is being run by new people,
and they... SUCKED! D:
They literally had no care or respect for the place,
and only wanted to make money.
All the passion was gone,
and you could feel the life drain out of the poor place every day.
They branched out to other lessons, which doesn't seem bad,
but there would be electric guitars playing at the same time as violins,
and during my private lessons, there would be some kid
blasting it on the drums a couple rooms down.
Nothing worked. There was no synergy...BUT...
No, it got worse.
The new owners renovated the place to add dance lessons!
So not only are there freaking drum solos playing at the same time
as one-on-one piano lessons,
but now there's an EXTRA layer of background noise of bad hip-hop music! D:
I remember trying to play a Mozart piece I was assigned,
and halfway in we were interrupted by:
(Britney Spears - Baby One More Time)
A lot of people were complaining,
but the owners didn't listen... or care!
More variety means more profit, so pffft...
Off with you, peasants!
We decided to leave when they added karate classes.
So that's how I stopped lessons.
To be honest, I already knew the basics of piano,
and they were kind of just throwing songs at me to learn.
And when I got it down I just move on to the next,
and totally forget about the previous one.
You know, like, when you study a test just to pass,
and then walk out of class the same day like,
"Nice, now I can forget everything!"
So I was kind of getting bored of the whole routine anyway.
For two years I stopped playing piano.
I thought I could only play what teachers told me to,
and wasn't interested in the majority of what they were giving me. -_-
I was tired of the typical classic songs and stuff.
Not trying to say classical, or any of that style of music, is bad!
I was just sick of learning them and was overall disinterested.
Keep in mind, I was doing it for eight years.
In the summer of my junior year of high school,
I remember hearing a Pokemon song, and thought,
"You know, this would be really pretty on the piano.
I wonder if people have made it into sheet music..."
And thus, I was introduced to a whole new world of piano music. :D
"UHGHBFBFTFB. Jaiden you aren't a real pianist,
unless you only play Beethoven, and Chopin, and Mozart.
Anything else is a disgrace to the piano."
*silently takes out scalpel, Jaiden wat*
"What are you doing?"
"Do you mind if I use this scalpel to just try and make a big incision in your head?"
"What, why?"
"You seem a bit closed-minded." *OOOOOH*
I started downloading a bunch of video games sheet music I was attached to,
and I was re-inspired to pick up piano again!
yay, happy ending~ don't give up on your dreams, kids!
sparkles, fireworks! :D
pew pew pew pew
But what you don't know (unless you know me personally,
or have been stalking me for the past fourteen years of my life),
is that I've actually had my fair share of playing a lot of other instruments, too.
I was a bit of an instrument dolphin, diving into one instrument,
dropping it and diving into a new one, repeat cycle.
THE UNITED STATES EDUCATION SYSTEM IS DUMB.
I think we all... already knew that.
Also shout out to Arizona for being one of the best states in the US for education!
*HACK cough* 48th why *cough HACK*
So I don't know about you, but my elementary school forced third graders
to take a suzuki class,
where you learn how to play the violin.
No one liked it, except the three or four kids
whose parents already forced them to learn violin before that.
The only thing I looked forward to in that class
was trying to get the SPECIAL violin case with the black interior,
instead of the normal blue.
I realize now that was just our school having absolutely no money,
and buying whatever they could find to have enough violins for the amount of students.
BUT IT WAS SPECIAL TO ME, ALRIGHT?!
Nothing else to say about my violin experience.
I literally don't remember anything else
but just wanting to be the first to the only black violin case.
(don't turn that into a racial thing...
looking at you Wall Street Journal)
In fourth grade, they let us choose if we wanted to stick with the violin,
or switch to a viola, cello, or bass.
I chose the cello.
*awkward silence*
Nothing else to that story either,
I just played the cello for a year and then dropped it.
There was this one girl in class who was literally the smallest out of everyone.
*insert easy typical short joke*
(also jaiden you loner you havent even shared that with anyone and ask for help)
She chose the bass.
The thing was freakin' two times the size of her,
height and weight wise.
It was almost torture, watching the poor girl haul this obnoxiously large instrument to class every week.
"So that's how the Egyptians built the Pyramids."
The school also forced us to learn the recorder.
That was a nightmare!
All I remember about those days were:
*really bad recorder playing*
"Guitar!"
"Dudes, calm down with the instruments!
What are you trying to do, turn us into a parade?"
Again, the school is shoving MORE instruments down our throats,
when they barely had the budget to pay for complementary pencils in their own classrooms. -_-
(hey, I don't think you need to be throwing away your money to random crap)
(you know, I think there are some other people there who could benefit from a bit extra in their salaries)
So the school bought guitars... but not enough guitars.
They couldn't afford enough for all the students in the class,
so we had to share them in groups of THREE. ;-;
THREE! Not even TWO!
You tried?
One student would have to play a chord, and then the other two would just stare at them.
No one learned anything! Imagine trying
to learn how to write the alphabet but HEY,
NO, NO, NO, NO NO,
you can't write the letters.
You have to watch someone write the letters.
Kinesthetic Learning Style
ppft, what's that?
School... *sigh* what are you doing?
Are you trying to be low on that education list?
You know your supposed to try for 1st, right?
It's not a... It's not a highscore kind of thing.
You're not supposed to go for 50.
Finally, a course, there was a typical band option in 5th and 6th grade.
The instrument I chose was the flute.
The main reason is because when the band teacher came in to show us all the instruments we have to choose from,
he let us try to play them without any experience.
And when he was explaining the flute
he was like, "Ok, so now the flute is one of the hardest to pick up.
It's a bit more complicated than it looks.
You gotta figure out the exact special way to align your lips to make the sound because it because it's a very particular...
*Jaiden figures it out*
HOLY MOTHER! I AM THE CHOSEN ONE
THIS IS A SIGN FROM THE HEAVENS! GREEK GOD APOLLO
HAS DESTINED ME TO PLAY THIS FLUTE! GET REKT'D MAT3S!!
I actually really like playing the flute. Since I already knew how to read sheet music from my piano lessons,
I was already a step above most of the students
and I had fun. :)
But I had to drop it after sixth grade, because taking
band in junior high didn't fit in my schedule.
Instead, I chose to take an art elective.
(and you know where that led to)
Alright, serious business to talk
about here, it's actually important. I've
noticed a lot of people have been going
out of their way to send threats and
really horrible messages to other people
that, I guess, create similar content to
mine
I just wanted to say, dude...like stop. I'm
getting embarrassed on behalf of what
you're doing these people aren't copying
me or anything, they're just having fun
making videos.
Calm down! They're getting really
unmotivated and sad! You're kind of
ruining it for everyone.
You may not believe it, but what you say
and do online does have an impact on
people. You have the power to really hurt
someone, but at the same time you also
have the power to make someone happier!
So, I mean, it's your choice if you want
to create a good impact or a bad one,
like, I don't really care what you do. I'm
not here to be your mom. Freedom of
speech and everything. But ahm..uh..I don't know.
Stop comparing everyone to each other.
Just let them do their thing, they're not
pretending to be me or anything, there's
a difference between taking inspiration
and straight up copying. Think about it, if
everyone is copying each other then
there would only be like, a few channels
on youtube. Only one animation channel,
only one gaming channel, only one vlog
channel, etc. Everyone else was a copy in
your eyes, right?! What makes channels
different are the personalities behind
them. Content can be similar, but everyone is
so unique, identity and charisma-wise, that
every channel is kind of in their own
category. Just everyone chill, okay? Cool.
Have a good rest of your day! ^v^