1. Music Performance
By: Micah Heeren

2. Starting Young
Most people who become exceptional musicians start when they are youngsters.

3. Youngsters playing bell instruments
Learning rhythm and pitch

4. Learning syncopation and rhythm
How to stay together and how to syncopate

5. Performing young
Can be difficult at times but is worth it in the end.

6. Growing with your instrument
Whether it is a bass clarinet to your voice it is important to the instrument time so that you can grow together as a unit

7. Choral performances
Like any other performance a choir performance can be very uplifting and a great teaching moment.

8. In the high schools
High school can be a place of confirmation in your particular area of interest or it can show you if you don’t like certain musical requirements

9. Performance in High school
A great way to challenge yourself in your particular area, perhaps being flexible and playing more than one instrument.

10. Small groups
Getting together with friends is a great way to grow with your instrument and gives you extra practice time along with having fun

11. Collegiate Instrumental
Finding ways to challenge yourself even more and pushing the limits alongside schooling.

12. Performing groups
Collegiate level music is a place where you meet people with the same aspirations and can fulfill your thirst for performance

13. Contemporary Music
Learning classical music can lead to wanting to performing contemporary music as a out

14. Practicing and Performing
Performance and practice go hand in hand when it comes to music. You shouldn’t have one without the other.

15. Importance of performance
Performance is a “showing off” of what you have achieved and want other people to enjoy just as much as you do

16. Different Instruments
Some attend colleges and make music there while others travel the world and find different instruments to master

17. Drum corps
During a summer long journey people have the chance to become masters of there brass instrument making memories from the hard work and sweat they put into a show

18. Dedication
There must be a sense of dedication to ones self and to their instrument in order to achieve ones dreams much like the men in this drum line

19. All together now!
Unity is a key part of performance and will always be, thus why basics and foundations are essential otherwise there would be no ensemble performances

20. Mature performance
Music most often times becomes better when the performer has aged and has grown with their specific instrument

21. Educators of music are essential to the cultivation of musicians
Future educators
Learning in the Classroom
Must be considerate and listeners
Make the students the best that they can be
Show students how to improve themselves