Ady Kinsley<\/p>\n
reporter@greenepublishing.com<\/p>\n
Jaiden Johnson, a rising senior at Madison County High School (MCHS), first joined band in the sixth grade. He\u2019s played multiple instruments during his time in the MCHS concert, jazz and marching bands, but mainly the snare drum and keyboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This year, Johnson, along with fellow MCHS band member Keandre Dobson and alumni TJ Mattair, attended Florida A&M University (FAMU) High School Band Camp, where they and percussionists from across the state had the chance to meet other band students, learn new skills and perform for crowds bigger than the ones in Madison. This year, however, was different, especially for Johnson. This year, FAMU\u2019s band camp started a new tradition. Students were able to submit their own musical compositions for the camp\u2019s final performance. Johnson\u2019s original composition was chosen by FAMU Director of Bands Dr. Shelby Chipman and Coordinator for Music Teacher Education, Dr. Nicholas Thomas. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt took me like, five months to get the arrangement right,\u201d said Johnson about the process. He has arranged pieces for the MCHS Vaquero Guard Marching Band, putting together several stand tunes for the band, but this opportunity was a much bigger deal than high school football games. He shared online, \u201cI\u2019m blessed to say this is one of my greatest achievements so far.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most impressive part is, Johnson has only been arranging music for around eight months. When he isn\u2019t making arrangements or practicing music, he\u2019s usually welding or fishing. He hopes to one day become a student arranger for the FAMU Marching 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ady Kinsley reporter@greenepublishing.com Jaiden Johnson, a rising senior at Madison County High School (MCHS), first joined band in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-362820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}