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More involved in school than I've ever been
16 years ago
My average GPA over the first two years of high school has been 3.00 on the dot. Doesn't sound too bad at first thought, but I'm hoping to get into UW-Madison (it's an excellent school, and oh man you should see the library there) after graduating from high school. My brother, a genius with a 3.9-something GPA and a 35 ACT score and a 1590 SAT score and sixty-some college credits upon leaving high school (friggin genius), I think he had some trouble getting in. Even if I get straight 'A's throughout my remaining two years of high school I'll be at a 3.5 GPA, and I don't think I can top my brother's legendary test scores.
At any rate, I'm paying more attention to school now. Actually doing my homework and such. Not only that, but I'm playing guitar for the school's show band! I seem to have a reputation among the music program here or something; I got an email from the director requesting that I play and when I showed up to find out more I wasn't even asked to audition. The director just told me what music we're playing (stuff in the vein of Earth, Wind & Fire, they're alright) and that I could pick up my music when it gets in. Either I'm the only guitarist interested in show band among the school's 2000 students (unlikely) or the show band director regards me as extremely talented.
You know, I don't really think I'm that good at playing guitar. For one thing, I never figured out how to use a pick; for another, I can read standard notation but after months of only reading tablature, sight-reading standard notation for guitar is beyond me. I can practice one thing for a while and then play it reasonably well, but it takes a while. I like to pick out the more difficult songs (a favorite of mine is Steve Howe's Mood For a Day), practice them for a long time and claim that I can play them, when... not really well. The stuff I produce is certainly comparable to the original, but there's this string buzz all over the place and rhythm falters and such. Oh, and my left hand is disabled just a bit. Lame pinky finger, so a few chords are out of reach.
So there's grades, show band, and I also attend Japanese club. Mostly because the Japanese teacher is funny as hell, and I know pretty much everyone in Japanese club, and they're all awesome. I ain't weeaboo. I swear.
And between all this I'm juggling AYSO soccer and percussion lessons. Not because I'm interested in playing a drum set at all, but so I can study rhythms themselves and learn more (indirectly) about music theory. Rhythm is the biggest thing they omitted in that music theory course I took last summer.
And between all that, I somehow find the time to be bored enough to write something as long as this. I have no friends nearby to hang out with because I live miles out of town, far away from everything, so all I have to accompany me are my guitars and computers. And a few books.
At any rate, I'm paying more attention to school now. Actually doing my homework and such. Not only that, but I'm playing guitar for the school's show band! I seem to have a reputation among the music program here or something; I got an email from the director requesting that I play and when I showed up to find out more I wasn't even asked to audition. The director just told me what music we're playing (stuff in the vein of Earth, Wind & Fire, they're alright) and that I could pick up my music when it gets in. Either I'm the only guitarist interested in show band among the school's 2000 students (unlikely) or the show band director regards me as extremely talented.
You know, I don't really think I'm that good at playing guitar. For one thing, I never figured out how to use a pick; for another, I can read standard notation but after months of only reading tablature, sight-reading standard notation for guitar is beyond me. I can practice one thing for a while and then play it reasonably well, but it takes a while. I like to pick out the more difficult songs (a favorite of mine is Steve Howe's Mood For a Day), practice them for a long time and claim that I can play them, when... not really well. The stuff I produce is certainly comparable to the original, but there's this string buzz all over the place and rhythm falters and such. Oh, and my left hand is disabled just a bit. Lame pinky finger, so a few chords are out of reach.
So there's grades, show band, and I also attend Japanese club. Mostly because the Japanese teacher is funny as hell, and I know pretty much everyone in Japanese club, and they're all awesome. I ain't weeaboo. I swear.
And between all this I'm juggling AYSO soccer and percussion lessons. Not because I'm interested in playing a drum set at all, but so I can study rhythms themselves and learn more (indirectly) about music theory. Rhythm is the biggest thing they omitted in that music theory course I took last summer.
And between all that, I somehow find the time to be bored enough to write something as long as this. I have no friends nearby to hang out with because I live miles out of town, far away from everything, so all I have to accompany me are my guitars and computers. And a few books.
