{"id":9045,"date":"2022-05-03T21:59:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T02:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:38:01","slug":"the-masterful-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liftoffnews.com\/?p=9045","title":{"rendered":"The Masterful Musician"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at this school have a similar experience when they enter into Mr. Matt Golladay\u2019s Music\/Art Survey class. After learning of polyphony and classicism and of Mozart and modernism, the students hear Mr. Golladay say that he is a professional musician. This is a true statement, as he has worked in numerous fields and places in music across the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 19, I played smaller Broadway shows,\u201d said Mr. Golladay. \u201cI\u2019ve done <\/span>Oklahoma<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Wizard of Oz<\/span><\/i> a few times, <\/span>Annie<\/span><\/i>, and countless others. I\u2019ve also conducted pit orchestras for theaters and stuff like that, as well as high schools.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the career experience that Mr. Golladay has built is not solely based on musicals. \u201cI have done some small things such as playing for bands at bars in local areas,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I lived in Seattle, I played for three different local groups that really only played in Seattle and the surrounding area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Mr. Golladay says that he has played with bigger acts that, in his words, \u201cpeople would know about and go to,\u201d he shies away from discussing specific names. \u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of \u2018can I play it?\u2019 because I can,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen people hear me play, they are usually impressed with the precision at which I play.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to bragging about myself, I like to take the more humble route, because I really feel like I got lucky getting into some of the situations that I have been able to be in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Golladay has many notable examples of this. \u201cWhen I was in Seattle, I worked at this music store. It was kind of like a Guitar Center for orchestral instruments,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a guy there named Greg Lyons, who was the top lead trumpet player in Seattle, and generally in most of the Pacific Northwest. He was teaching trumpet at this store while I was managing it, and we became close friends, and hung out and played music together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he was not able to play a show, because he was already playing another one, then he would call me and I would sub for him. Once I started subbing for him, I got some of my own gigs out of that, and after that, you kind of spiral into bigger things. All of a sudden, you become more known, and that\u2019s kind of how it happened to me. I do feel like I lucked into those bigger events. I feel very lucky about the situations which I have been in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As proud as he is of his musicianship, Mr. Golladay notes that he could only do so much. \u201cTalent can only take you some of the way,\u201d he said. \u201cFor example, I met one of the best trumpet players in the United States, Wynton Marsalis. A while back, he came to where I was studying for my undergraduate degree, and he told me that there was a kid he had met in North Dakota who played trumpet at a bar on the weekends who was 10 times better than I will ever be. That\u2019s just the approach that I have to take as a musician.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Students who have Mr. Golladay as a teacher, particularly for his band class, feel that his past career furthers the experience that they have in his class. \u201c[His having a previous career] really makes it so that he understands how to teach students better. In my opinion, it makes him a better teacher overall,\u201d said junior Jonathan Sterba.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Golladay says that his musicianship has taught him important skills. \u201cYou have to know how to manage your time in that career field. You may be playing several different things for several different groups at the same time, and you have to keep track of all that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also notes that practice for the trumpet is more difficult than normal, as the instrument is played by mouth. \u201cPracticing the trumpet, as a high brass instrument, is more difficult than the other instruments. I can\u2019t just go and practice for two or three hours straight. I can go at it hard for a little bit, but then you have to let those muscles relax and calm down,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Mr. Golladay feels that the most important thing is the fact that as a musician, he must take on the role of both student and teacher. \u201cI am never not a student of the instrument. I am always learning,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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