STUDENTS PLAY MUSIC WITH THEIR BANDS, HANDLE SCHOOL ALL TOGETHER
Aly Miranda
TBS Staff Writer
One week; band practice. This next week; study tutoring and school events. The next week following that is band practice. Then comes studying, tutoring and school events all over again. This is only what some students who are in bands experience in their schedules.
School and music can be a handful and some students are proudly succeeding at that. These students are just having fun, making music and handling school all in their own way.
“Being in a band is like creating a work at art with different techniques,” Ashwin Chary, sophomore D.A.T.A. student, said. “It’s just a really fun thing to do for me.”
Music is and can be very fun to do and make. It is usually known to express someone’s feelings and can be related to when someone hears it.
“When I started my band about two months ago, I just wanted to have some fun and express myself,” Patrick Steward, freshman D.A.T.A. student, said.
Being in a band can be extremely fun and is a great life experience according to those interviewed for teens. It’s something to learn from and is a way, it can test you. It makes you realize what you can or can’t do, what you can or can’t tolerate.
“It can be a little stressful when things don’t go right. It can also be a little pressuring with all the stuff I do at school, but if everything works out, it can be really fun,” Jeffrey Lubin, sophomore D.A.T.A. student, said.
School can interfere with practice and performances and other things according to young musicians. It’s argued that school should always come first than anything else.
“I believe that school comes first because it’s what’s going to get me to places,” Chary said. “But, I love music so much so it isn’t very far behind school.”
Being in a band and in high school can get overwhelming, but students try to make a schedule to balance both, and not get frustrated at the same time.
“I try as much as homework as possible when I get home I go to practice,” Steward said. “But most of the practices are three times a week for only three hours, so I don’t really worry about getting behind.”
Even with school to worry about and the practices to go to, students are just having their fun and playing what they like. There are many different genres of any kind of music. Most students are into either hardcore rock, metal core rock, screamo, alternative rock, and/or pop rock etc.
“My band, Enemies Like These, played post hardcore,” Lubin said.
Whether it’s hardcore rock or pop rock, students are making something they have fun doing and that’s all that really matters.
“‘When Everyone Else Dies’, my band, plays metal core and it’s great,” Chary said. “It’s just so fun. Denis Shaforostrov from ‘Make Me Famous’ really inspired me to share the fun.”
Playing music is amazing and inspiring to a lot of people according to the musicians who agreed to be interviewed, it can be especially so for teenagers. Some are so inspired that they start their own band and make their own music.
“My dad inspired me a couple years back and so did some bands that I listen to, so for about a year, I was in a band and it was awesome,” Lubin said.
Music can be used to express emotions and is powerful to those who appreciate it.
“I really like being in my band,’Death To A Deity’,” Steward said. “I can’t wait until we start making money when we perform. It’s going to be great.”
They’re inspired. They have fun. They balance it out with school. They’re just teenage students who are having fun making and performing music. They’re just kids in a band and having the time of their life.
