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Originally Posted by ilovepiano  Think we're the same age aren't we? We had 2 Atari ST's when I was doing GCSE music with a Roland SC7 sound module and some shitty software called Notator Alpha. I did one of my compositions using that, propper ace piano tune lol   The teachers didn't really know how to use it, but I found it pretty straight forward, kind of like the next step up from Octomed! |
Im 28 verging on 29, and nah, we had no such computers or owt at school.
We learnt to type on typewriters, not even electronic typewriters LOL. We had BBC Micro's about the fourth year of high school, along with some new version of some BBC thing later in the year lol.
For Music we had a teacher that looked like the jester off renta-ghost
There were these casio keyboards that had about 80 sounds on them, and sticky tape with A, F, G stuck to all the keys. Music class comprised of sitting there with a pencil and a paper musical note book and pressing random keys that could be made for some form of tune (god knows what, just something that sounded like music of some sort), and we had to write the 'tune' down in clefs and all that bollocks.
One lad called David Barnes who I was freinds with at junior school (and a bit of highschool) got to play the drums, and later went on to be a drummer in a local gigging band before he joined the armed forces.
What was amusing about the creepy bearded freak that took us for music was that he had this 'back room' packed with studio gear......which funnily enough only the girls got to go into for 'special tuition'.......the mucky sod.
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Oh, and he did the school orchestra and during christmas carol season where the pupils had to sing in assembly, and he would just take the piss of people singing every year, you know, going "#Blaaah blaaaah blaaahh#? What the hell was that you mopey sods!?"....lol.
I will give him his due though, the school orchestra was excellent and he was really good at it. We often had rousing renditions of the Beatles' Hard Days Night on Parents evenings, and was quite awesome to behold I must say.
I only did music when I wasnt allowed to do any more woodwork, cos I kept getting A+ for all my practical and written work lol. They put me in Drama class for a while and for a stammerer that was a NIGHTMARE
, the bastards. He was a smug little bastard too, and had his own back room with a f'king BED in it!!!!!!. I shit you not.
But, to give him his due he was a good drama teacher when he could be arsed. Much like the music teacher I think they were frustrated artists who'd found themselves having to work as a teacher.
Sirius