Hello. I joined the swell community and I'm really curious how many people here are studying music, playing music, practicing music. Really curious enough about music that you watch those YouTube videos about music and teach you a little bit of something about music. I just would love to hear from you. I myself am a trombone player. I love jazz, I love funk. I love soul music. And I practice my trombone and I take trombone lessons weekly. Even though I'm an adult
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 2:20
And my parents were like, well, you only had a couple of choices to choose from back then and what you can play. And I think if I look back, I would love to learn the guitar and the drums. I currently play the ukulele a lot, and I do have a guitar, and I've been trying to teach myself for years, but I do have a very short span for myself of learning
And I think it would be really fun to also kind of sing and play the piano or sing and play another instrument. I have a couple interests in instruments. I have a guitar. I have an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar. And I also have explored with other kind of ceremonial instruments, like native american flute, gembe, a ceremony drum, rattles, and that sort of thing. And that has been a lot of fun for me, personally
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Hi Chelsea. I wanted to chime in and also say that I am a huge fan of karaoke. So I can't remember if we figured out exactly where we are, how close we are in relation to where we live. But if we ever have an opportunity to meet somewhere where there is karaoke, it is on. I would love to do karaoke with you. It's something I really, really do enjoy. So whenever there's an opportunity
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 0:21
It's. Oh, my gosh. Chelsea and Vanessa, you both win the 2023 award for the first people to ever respond to my first swell. Yay. So thrilled. So many things to unpack, so many things to talk about. I'll be back after this plane goes overhead and tell you more about how much I loved what you posted
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 2:39
I can guess that maybe it's because your band needed to have more clarinet players in school, or for some reason, your parents happened to have a clarinet sitting around in your family's box full of musical instruments. Not sure about that, but that sounds really great. And you play the ukulele, and I think the guitar has five strings. The ukulele has four. So you're pretty much 25% of the way. You're 80% of the way there getting to a guitar
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:15
And so, yes, I definitely have a passion for it. I have an ear for it, and I'm grateful for the gift that God has given me in music. So this was great. This was so great. I love the fact that you play the trombone. I love woodwind instruments and brass instruments. I just never got a chance to learn them. But I do love brass and woodwind instruments a lot
Zach Hillard
@Chief2 · 4:47
I have some shakers as well, so I'll invite you to that as well if you want to listen to me jam. But anyway, back to what I was saying. So I started playing the drums in the fourth grade and just fell in love with drums and things of that nature. More recently, about two years ago, I joined a music program in my area. They specialize in jazz, but the program is all about music in general and teaching music and learning music
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:51
It's been a really long time since I've been here, but hopefully I'll participate more in the new year. This is a fun question to try and get me back into participating here as well. Yeah. So I used to be a music major. I was a music major when I was in college for a couple of years. I learned music when I was in junior high and high school in the band
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 1:33
A number of you were talking about stories about playing in the band or learning at home or parents giving lessons and at church and music in the community. Fantastic. This is just so awesome. I really love swell just because of the five of you. I really love swell a lot hearing all of these personal stories about your experiences with music. And Wren, my gosh, you're recording guitar there and Vanessa's instruments. Look, I love all your stories
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 2:32
So the music will come in the form of we have a speakeasy series of dinner events, speakeasy. So music will be evident there. We've included gospel. We're encouraging folks just to listen and explore the curiosity flex on music is what we are encouraging. And I really am looking forward to your swellcast to be encouraged, but also to take that encouragement that you are going to provide us with and transmit that out into the ether of our communities
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 4:54
You were influenced by music as a kid with your whole family playing on the piano and guitar and now you grew up singing, you play the drums. Phenomenal. Shauna. Oh, ren, you chimed in as well. And shauna wren sounds like you've got know at your open mics you're doing amazing. You play guitar as well and shawna, you love music as got. I think we've got a pretty big band, a pretty big orchestra right now
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:17
I was a trumpet major, but when I was in high school, I made the jazz band, I think, as a sophomore. Is that right? I can't remember now. I'm embarrassed to say how long it's been. But anyway, I really got into jazz a lot, and I started listening to a lot of jazz music, of know, like the greats Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington and Miles and. And so many musicians that I was listening to
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 4:53
Oh my gosh. Wren. So great to hear your response and how you were in the high school jazz band playing trumpet and your story about how you were able to go hear Dave Brubeck. Yeah, who doesn't know? Take five by Dave Brubeck. I posted this photo of the program at Mills College where I went to see Dave Brubeck when I was in college. And that was really exciting. Yeah, he was doing a lot of touring in the 80s
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 5:00
But the music, the singing helped me to open up, to be able to stand on a stage and feel great about myself. So I'm still on that journey also to learn. But the music, I can't get enough of that. I have the music of almost many part of the world that I listen to, even if I don't understand the lyrics. But I still enjoy the enjoy the music. So that is my sharing here
Maurice Lekea
@malekea · 1:11
So it's so much fun to be able to sing someone's song, being like, acting like you are the person and learn the song. So I have to learn a lot before I stand on the stage. So that is something I forgot to mention. Anyway, thank you guys for listening. Bye bye. By the way, happy New Year's to all of you. Bye
Zach Hillard
@Chief2 · 1:43
So I always try to encourage other drummers. So I love that you do that and I love hearing about other drummers. You're learning piano as well, which is incredible, which I am also doing. It's just one of those things where you just got to put the time in and kind of do it if you can. So I just wanted to point out all the similarities
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 2:08
Karaoke also ends up being a theme throughout a lot of the discussions here. I think it's great that everybody on this chat has had kind of an experience in their life with music somehow, and that's what this was about, just reaching out and finding out how many of you love to talk about music and your relationship with music. And I think this is great. I did try to play my trombone and perform a little piece on this app
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 1:38
Um. Hey, wren. I can't believe I found a cassette tape that I must have transferred. Maybe this was around 1990, 219 93. I'm not sure when that. I think I copied off of a CD or something or maybe even recorded from an album, converting an album to a cassette. This is Dave Ruback, the Dave Rubeck Band. And I remember now
And of course, Johann Sebastian Bach and Mozart and then Beethoven. And as being like writer, creator, just lost soul. So that's my opinion on classical music. And then, yeah, if any specific genre you want to talk about, I'm game to do it
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:49
I meant to reply to your previous response about how you go about recording when you played your trombone. I have almost the exact same setup, but I don't do that. Whenever I record my swells, I usually just turn on my phone and just start talking into the mic. But whenever I record music, I've got this little Behringer. I think it's a four eight channel mixer