Last night I go to see The Business of Being Born (which was incredible) and end up crying like, well, a baby. This morning I watch the trailer for this movie and have another mini cry-fest. I was going to blame all this crying on hormones but why blame? I’m just going to enjoy…
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In elementary school, there was mandatory music class as of Grade 5 (ish?). Which started with going down to the gym and picking the instrument you wanted to learn. The only extra test was if you wanted to play percussion.
If you did, the music teacher would give you a little rhythm test, just clapping patterns back and forth. I wanted to learn drums, so I did the clapping thing. The music teacher said I had great rhythm and that I 'passed'.
There were two separate times for percussion and woodwind. When I showed up for percussion, ready and excited to do some drumming, the teacher came to meet me at the door. He told me that I should come back for woodwind class instead, because it was all boys learning percussion, and it would be better if I learned clarinet and come to class with the girls. Not open for discussion. No drums for girls.
So you bet your ass I'll be going to see this movie. :)
Posted by Catherine
February 12, 2008, 1:38 PM
Damn, Catherine, that's so unfair! Sorry your music teacher was an ass.
I remember noting that an earlier Girls Rock clip on YouTube garnered a ridiculous amount of sexist comments (this must've been almost a year ago). Obviously some people still think girls can't or shouldn't rock out. It'll be so cool to see the girls in this movie prove those people wrong!!
Posted by C.K. Kelly Martin
February 12, 2008, 2:43 PM
Catherine -- I feel your pain. I was crazy for drums in grade 7 when we picked, but was told I HAD to play flute because I could already read music. What kind of logic is that? I ended up with the clarinet though, and I did like playing it, but I'm still a little wounded that I was denied the drums.
Posted by Erin
February 12, 2008, 7:33 PM
However...
That same teacher also made a guy in the grade ahead of me play the flute. He played it right through high school.
I'm not sure what my point is.
Posted by Erin
February 12, 2008, 7:34 PM
Erin - that's funny, I had the reverse experience.
At my all-girls high school (man, I am all about the traumatizing school stories today), I tried /again/ to learn drums. But there were so many of us who wanted to learn drums that they whittled down the numbers by only letting girls take drums if they had formal piano training (and could read music).
So I guess the lesson here is that the only prerequisite for learning drums is that you be able to read music well and also not at all. Voila.
And yes C.K., he surely was an ass (on that, and many other occasions).
But I went and got myself some drum lessons when I was 18, so in your face you dream squishing music teachers.
Posted by Catherine
February 12, 2008, 8:47 PM
I saw Girls Rock at Hot Docs and it was AMAZING, all you will love it.
Posted by Danielle
February 12, 2008, 10:25 PM
"But I went and got myself some drum lessons when I was 18, so in your face you dream squishing music teachers."
Love it, Catherine! Rock on!
Posted by C.K. Kelly Martin
February 13, 2008, 6:47 PM
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