Here will be a feed of me learning new instruments in order to better teach my classes in the future. I am a saxophonist, I have had little to none experience on other instruments before coming to college. Since my time in college I have been learning how to play, at an amiture level multiple instruments in the hopes of improving my teaching process in the future. Drums/PercussionLearning percussion has been very fun and very rewarding. The process of playing is a lot more difficult than it looks but when your in the learning process one can only help but have a good time. The biggest challenges for me has been dealing with all the adaptation from one instrument to the next. Each instrument is very specific in the way it needs to be played and it can be hard to remember it all. I feel like I am finally getting to the point to where its all overlapping. After spending 2 semesters in percussion tech, 1 semester in steel band, as well as bucket drumming this summer with the Jam Van. I really am starting to like playing percussion and I am seeing improvement. Piano and keyboardSince becoming a musician playing the piano has been an aspiration of mine to pickup as a second instrument for a long time. In my first two years studying in the JMU School of Music I had been required to take 4 very basic and fundamental piano courses to round me as a musician and teacher for the future. However, I did not think this was enough for me. I have desired a deep skill set for this beautiful instrument and I shall learn. It wasn't till the lockdown had hit until I had an elongated time to sit down and discover what the keyboard can really do. Since about March 2020 I have been spending 1-3 hours a day playing piano along with my regular 2 hours of saxophone practice. As I type this in December of 2020, I can say that my skills on the keyboard have drastically improved. In a video directly below you can see a recording of me play the popular jazz chart Have You Met Miss Jones? Playing chords, the melody, and shells chords in my right. I plan to keep on down this path so that sometime very soon I can use my piano skills to change the world.
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Brandon RhinehartHere I will post videos of the performances I partake in. Archives
March 2021
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