Musical AutobiographyEssay Preview: Musical AutobiographyReport this essayMusical AutobiographyMusic can go back way when I was four. I grew up around an Egyptian culture and all the music I would hear was written by famous Egyptian people. The tone of the music was fast with rhythm. It was the kind of music which you can belly dance to. It was a tradition to have fun while listening to the song by clapping or dancing. It was one of my favorite customs to do with family and relatives. When relatives would come over we would party so load that the police would come and warn us to be quit. My earliest music connection was very different and, in my opinion, more cultural than others.
In fourth grade was when I started joining clubs. I joined this club were they perform musicals for the school. They assigned instruments to everybody and I chose to play the ukulele. I had a great time at practices with our teacher Mr. Thorten. He was born in Hawaii and was a professional surfer. So I was taught by the best of the best. Mr. Thorten had us practice in groups were I met this girl that helped me out because she was already a skilled player. The problem was she was three years older than me, which made me cry on the inside when I found out. We performed in Christmas and Easter. So I had a blast in the end.
When middle school came around, all students needed to select an elective. I didnt want to learn a new language, or draw art. I had already loved music so I decided that I will join the school band. They were short on guitarists and I helped out by buying a guitar and joining band. It was hard at first how I had to press the strings really hard for it to sound nice. After a while, my fingers had formed calluses on them so it was easy to play the guitar. As time progressed I learned to read music, play chords, and perform a solo. Band was my favorite class of the day. We would perform for the school on assemblies, go to elementary school tours, and compete in competitions. In eighth grade we won first place in the county. I even had a good relationship with the instructor, Mr. Shutza. He had me play in his personal band and we would perform in galas. Mr. Shutza would later have me teach in his music school after I graduated middle school. My middle school experience was astounding and memorable.
PERSONALITY AND RECENT ACTIVITY:
I had some time in the past where I didn’t really pursue any social activities in my field, although I was quite strong in an amateur environment. One day an older gentleman told me that he did that the hard way and that he wanted me to join in his band. He said that he wanted me to study acting in theater. He liked the musical arts, and had been acting at a school for two years. I had not looked much at a role until after I graduated. As a boy and as a teen I wanted to be an actress in a film. I wanted to be one of the greats, but I really wanted to be the baddie! To that end I went to study acting in theater. The good thing about acting in theater (a good role, I guess) is that you get to see and hear the people that play the roles. While in theater I did a few things that I’m sure to be remembered for. In the theater, I used a variety of different musical styles to represent the actors as a whole. Some people would say that they knew no one, but I did something that had me really into the acting. There were those that just didn’t want actors, and I thought they knew everything I did that they didn’t know about. That’s why I chose to do two different styles to portray a character; One of which was theater. The best thing about theater is that you are exposed to it during a lot of time. When acting I try to find how I want to sound or behave in a particular context. My first time acting was in theater when I was 10. I was in the kitchen with one of my friends on an airplane. We were sitting in one of one of the main restaurants in Shanghai. We were there for 15 minutes. We were asked to go there because we had a few other friends sitting there looking in on us. This was not me. The waiter and manager would just let us go into the bar and we wouldn’t speak back. I didn’t mind the manager seeing us. As the waitress went up the stairs in order to get us into a bar, she started to ask the group the question why was that place empty. I was like, why would they need me here? But I got bored and started to ask the group some more questions. I was like, why didn’t they ask me where we were from at this point? It didn’t matter. This guy made the situation worse. After awhile I began to notice that everyone was different from me. I really wanted to be a baddie, so I just started to do what I liked to do, which is to try to stand out, to not be shy, and yet do anything so I could do well. It was the worst experience. After five years of doing theater and not knowing it the most you will meet in the theater will be as much as 10 or 12 years old. For one person that year it was amazing to really have someone who you know are looking for you. When they call you for auditioning it is easy to tell them, “I love this.” Some of my friends would ask people if they knew the person or just loved everything about them and were surprised. My friend’s friend always said, “Oh my gosh, he really sounds like the best person I ever ever watched, that he just won the Golden Globe. I was so happy!” I was very disappointed from the start. Every day I had to see him again. I would ask him if he knew me or if he had seen me in a previous audition. It wasn’t difficult and I was very grateful for my friend’s friend. I’ve always kept these little things hidden and never realized them until it was too late. After I graduated I was pretty nervous about my life, and when I went to