I was fortunate to learn ukulele and recorder as regular schooling. I use to slouch in my chair and play the recorder for my friends on test day while they pretended to play. We also had choir and band, and concert band, I don't remember the difference between the two bands now. I was involved in all of these in elementary and junior high school. I even did poetry readings.
In high school I joined the high school band and jazz band. I played the baritone as my primary instrument as well as the alto saxophone. In band I could play every instrument except flute and drums. I could not get my lips right for the flute and lacked coordination for percussion. I tried out for the Alberta band with my baritone and made it but never played with them - financial reasons. I was in Ft. McMurray and they wanted members to travel to Red Deer and beyond.
As a youth I took piano lessons for two years and guitar for one year. I quit guitar when my teacher asked me to sing to her. I picked up guitar again 10 years ago and continue to play.
My wife and I started a community wide worship band when we lived in Saskatchewan, I played guitar and vocals while my wife played piano and vocals. She plays piano, has an amazing voice, and can play guitar. My oldest Josiah and daughter Faith both take piano lessons. Josiah is going into his 2nd year with a teacher. He taught himself the first book and so we couldn't refuse him to go in to lessons. Faith loves to sing and dance. Everything with her has to be musical right from the when she was in the womb. She use to slam her utensils on the table and then we realised she was making music. As she got older we could hear different rhythms. She says she wants to be a singer and drum player for the worship team when she grows up. Faith also has done two years of ballet.
Art: I took drawing lessons for a week in grade seven, other than that drawing, drama and other such art areas, I am not very gifted at, but I do appreciate to see it.
Dance: I was in Jazz club in junior high but chickened out when the big school performance came. I took 2 step lessons for 4 months with friends, then I took East Coast Swing lessons with my wife for 4 months. While in my first degree I took a dance class where we learned the basic steps for dances such as two step, polka, jive, swing, fox trot and the waltz. I enjoy dancing and would love it if there were a place to go where people could experiment with different music and dance.
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