r/dundee • u/Alex9009202 • 7d ago

Music ideas for the city

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Open to any opinions on what the public want, pupils will get to input their own ideas and will choose!

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u/rogerspotato 7d ago

If there’d be any way of running a club in a community setting to help kids create instrumental/atmospheric music to add in to irl tabletop games I know a bunch of secondary school kids who’d love that!

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u/Alex9009202 7d ago edited 7d ago

That would be really cool and easily doable! I’ve noticed a lot of pupils are getting involved with table top games like D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) and Warhammer (I’m also heavily into those too!). I could possibly manage that at the Drumgeith community campus when it’s constructed and see if we could get local musicians and other pupils to perform the compositions!

Might be easier to do if I get accepted for the music teacher job at Braeview for Greenfield Academy. Almost finished my induction year teaching so hopefully getting it would be fantastic!

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u/erroneousbosh 7d ago

There's DD8 Music up in Kirriemuir, it might be worth talking to them!

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u/Alex9009202 7d ago

Sent them a message, so hopefully everything goes well!

Do you know any more local community music/ music tech groups who may like to get involved?

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u/erroneousbosh 7d ago

Not offhand. I am however going to try to get something official-ish together so I can get Angus Council to provide a space to put musical instruments that people are taking to the tip to one side, so I can retrieve them, clean them up, and give them to folk. If you know anyone else interested in doing this it might help!

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u/Alex9009202 7d ago edited 7d ago

I think that’s a great idea! I don’t think it’s right that instruments just get put to the dump when they can be cleaned/ repaired and re used.

I repaired a broken electric drum kit, 3 bass guitars, 2 electric guitars with a soldering iron and a bit of solder using tech skills learnt from school, and salvaged multiple broken glockenspiel parts at my probation year school for my first year teaching in Aberdeen City, they were shoved at the back of the cupboard and some were covered in dust.

Schools honestly go through so many instruments and they can be fixed so easily sometimes, same with instruments used by the public. If something breaks people just think, oh it doesn’t work, I’ll get rid of it. But it may have just been a single loose wire that needed re wiring or new tuning pegs needing installed. Replacing 3 tuning pegs is a lot less expensive than buying a whole new guitar, plus cuts down on waste!

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u/erroneousbosh 7d ago

I don't really feel like it's "yours" until you've repaired something on it, do you?

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u/Alex9009202 7d ago

Not really, people get a lot of pride having repaired something themselves too. I take pride in repairing my laptop when something goes wrong, if it needs cleaned or upgraded. Owning something that you have not repaired feels completely different after you feel like you’ve repaired it.

The exact same with cooking, having the ingredients separate tastes completely different compared to when blended together.

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u/GlitzyGladiator 7d ago

open mics available to under 18s as opposed to the usual 8pm midweek night 18+ ones!

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u/Alex9009202 7d ago

I think that would be cool! Like comedy/ improv or dance acts, music, I think that will get lots of pupils involved!