BEAT - Transcript
[variety of sounds]
[Kim Bejot]
My classroom obviously doesn’t look like a normal elementary music room because of all the farm stuff in it. The stuff... we just basically went out to junk piles and found most of it. Some of it we had to buy but it doesn’t amount to a whole lot of money.
[Case Johnson]
We take nothing and make it into something.
[Brent Bejot]
There’s one rhythm that I’ve always drummed out on my desk and I was just playing it at home one day and Mom’s like hey, that’s kinda cool. So we wrote it down and... now it’s a piece.
[rhythm]
That’s pretty much it. That’s my little rhythm that I hold claim to.
[Kim Bejot]
They used to think that if you kept a steady beat you had the most boring part. But do you know who was the mostly highly paid person in John Philip Sousa’s band? The bass drum player. And he just kept a steady beat you know. That’s the heart and soul of the band.
[rhythm]
[Cory Johnson]
I’d never played an instrument in my life. I couldn’t even keep one of the steady speeds, it was... was bad. I just got better as it went along and... now its easy. Because I can read a little bit of music now you know. Before I didn’t even know... it was just a piece of paper to me. Now I can actually read it.
[rhythm]
[Brent Bejot]
I’m pretty much just a big band geek. BEAT is extremely rhythmic and that helps a lot and I even notice with other musicians at like honor bands and stuff that I go to that their rhythm might be a little bit off and... I give a little bit of credit to BEAT for helping me get some of those more complex rhythms a little bit easier.
[Lucas Graff]
It’s the non-competitive factor to me I guess. I mean so much of the stuff you’re involved in right now in high school and middle school for some of us is competitive eventually and this is just kind of something new.
[Brendon Coutts]
It just brings people together. I mean, there’s not really anything else other really that I can think about that brings people together like music does.
[Kim Bejot]
I think the kids are just normal kids. I love them, I love their energy, I love their thought process. I love it when they don’t just sit there and yes ma’am, no ma’am. They show me some original ideas.
[Lucas Graff]
One of my favorite would be the Supersoaker I play in Cowbarn Cha Cha. I don’t think I can legally say that for television though. Trademark.
We get compliments all the time. You don’t even notice people at your performance and then they’ll just come up to you. Just when I’m working at the store or whatever, they’ll be like Hey that was really good the other week.
Yeah, thank you. It’s what I do.
[Kim Bejot]
When they get in the groove, when they’re all thinking the same beat and it just rocks. I mean that’s just awesome.
You know, I hate to see a song come to an end because you could just go on and on and on forever.
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