Music Room

Music Room

               A few years ago my parents decided to change our very outdated guest room into a music room. The old lumpy mattress and 80’s looking bed frame were taken out and musical instruments were put in. Guitars were hug on the walls by clasp hooks, over time drums were slowly added until we had a pretty nice set going and a keyboard too. A huge record player was requested by my sister for Christmas, and soon enough Santa brought that clunky thing down the chimney. It plays records, cassette tapes, cd’s and an iPod all on the same “machine”. It really is fun because my sister and I enjoyed listening to all the different decades of music on it. The shelves were hung on the walls to accommodate my sisters’ huge collection of records. Lots of other stuff was added, a microphone, some amps, random stuff like cowbells, tambourines’ (anything that will make noise). A sleek couch was added that can pull out into two twin beads, (put in the room especially for when our cousins visit!) Man my sister and I loved that room and we love it even more now!

               Recently my sister got a recording microphone and some software that goes along with it; we enjoy singing and playing instruments and making music out of it using the software! It’s very addicting; I can spend hours up in the music room recording without even noticing it is time to get to my homework. It’s amazing because you can lay down a track, and then the next track you can harmonize or sing backup with your own voice! You can also beat box to get a nice back beat to sing to. My sister and I made a good “studio couple” we record her playing the guitar, keyboard, or piano. And I played the drums or beat boxed. Then one of us would sing lead and the other would sing hums or harmony. We had some great times!

               Many hours were spent in that room with my family having what we called “family jam sessions”. We also spent many summer days messing around in that room with our friends and neighbors, even if it wasn’t to play music, but just to listen to it. When Christmas rolls around we play Christmas carols and sing along. That room has harvested many great times. It has seen party’s happen, and individual people trying to find themselves with music. It has been such a blessing having that room to always look forward to entertaining me. (426)

Danni N.