Teenage Musicians by Phoebe Ermert

Were you ever interested in playing an instrument? Do you stand around with your friends and re-site words that rhyme? Or do you sometimes sit at a computer till 2 in the morning creating your own beats? Well I can tell you right now that a large majority of teenagers have done these things at least once. Our music is beyond passion in the current generation, we need it to show our feelings and what we really think. Sometimes when you can’t just use words you can instead pick up a guitar and strum what you want to say. Or just open your mouth and let your words flow exactly as you hear them. You can make it sound deep from inside of you, your own true style of what you really feel.

Music is in most people’s lives; it doesn’t really matter your age. But going threw the years when you get into the real word can be hard. Kids have trouble dealing with everything they have to go threw. A lot of teenagers go to music to drift off and let everything out, releasing their tension. I asked a couple students here at A.C.E how they truly feel about music. Chris Baradit said “Just being able to express yourself with any instrument and no limitation is amazing. I can just pick up an instrument and not worry about anyone judging me, just my own sound.” Chris West told me “ Music makes me feel good, I get to do exactly what I hear in my head. I get to say what I want and make it sound the way I want it to.” After this I wanted to know how some people have gotten into their talent other then taking lessons. Kyle Hinderliter told me that he has self-taught himself the guitar for 3 years, and also produces his own beats. He has learned the nature of music on his own because he has had time and patience.

Now a day there’s many different verities of music, but does that mean the majority of music has meaning to it? Do the new verities of music satisfy people? Jessica Urena spoke to me about downfall in the industries “I feel like the game is dead, back in the 90s people expressed the way they should. Now it’s all fake and going into a different direction, it’s all just about record deals with out feeling.” Soul has died out for many musicians and it’s too late for a lot of them. That’s why there will always be up-coming artists in every generation, there will always be change waiting to happen.