My Sons 1st Extracurricular Activity

My Sons 1st Extracurricular Activity

This week my son, Timmothy, had his first "concert" and the season finally of DRUMKidz.

Timmothy has really enjoyed this program and no doubt will be eager to pick it up again next year.

You will notice from the shirts the kids are wearing that DRUM is an acronym. It stands for Discipline, Respect, Unity, & Music. The teacher threw in a bunch of other virtues but they really don't make sense for the acronym.

I very vaguely remember music class in elementary school and in fact what I do remember was a teacher came in about once every two weeks and we sang for about a half hour. I don't even remember putting on a "show".

I can't imagine being an elementary school music teacher. I believe Sunnyside schools music teacher is very talented and very patient but I would go insane being around her more then the length of one of these programs. Fact I'm not sure I always leave in a stable state of mind.

This women explains the joy right out of joy itself. It's like her audience has never heard of music and she has to explain in detail the mechanics of everything they do before they do it. Geeez! I come to hear my kid attempt to make music, not have someone drone on and on about what a scale is and how it relates to the one verse song the kids are going to play after the 10 minutes of droning. Oh Well, if a person can train themselves to float off to that special place between the actual pieces of music you can live threw the rest I guess.

Our first musical treat was... Oh Boy... hold on... C Scale... and My oh My we got to hear it two ways! WOW!

It did get better (after more droneing) with BALAFON, JACK BE NIMBLE, DING DONG DIGGA DIGGA DONG, DRUM CODE (The DRUMKids creed), MY RIGHT - MY LEFT, MEXICAN HAT DANCE, & PLAY THE BLUES.

The music was very good. I was amazed at how well the 3rd, 4th, and 5th garde kids did in executing the music. Most of the time I was thinking about executing the teacher (or myself) to avoid the droning.