Too Young To Be A Band Leader

It is a story about my boy. Since he was seven years old, I asked for him to take a music course.

At that time he was so confused, what instrument he should choose. I  forced him to choose guitar. he just obeyed my request although he wanted to study keyboard. It was because we didn't have keyboard and still didn't think to buy so soon.  I knew it was so difficult for him.  In my opinion, studying guitar is important for a man. Every man should know about guitar.

You know what would happen if someone forced you to do something you didn’t want? Right, hewas so lazy to study guitar. He took a lesson on Monday. If Monday came, he would be so lazy and depressed. He pretended to sleep while the time came. But my husband  tried to support me. He accompanied my boy with her sister because her sister also studied vocal at the same place. 

When he was at Junior High School of 75, he saw that one of his friends, Bintang, was a good guitarist. He was also a good-looking boy, and clever. The music teacher always praised him as a good musician. From that time he realized that he could be a good guitarist, too. He started to be serious in practicing guitar again.

While he met his cousins, he asked them to practice together. Finally they made a simple band, called Molta. The group consisted of his cousins and him.I saw them so serious with their band. It made me think to find an event for them to show their band. 

 Finally I  offered them  to take a part at my medical students “Prompt Night” program. It was my plan. They  were so happy. They didn’t know how hard I had struggled to ask for their band's performance to the Chairman of the Committee at that program because only medical students of her university could take a part at that program. I just said to my boy to  manage his band to make a good performance. 

It was not easy to manage his cousins. They are older than my boy. They were university students and he was just a Junior High School student, but at this time my boy was the leader. He had to manage them to practice well and made a good performance. Sometimes he complained to me about his  cousins’ behavior. I just asked him to be patient to handle that. He just kept silent and raised hi spirit again by remembering what I said to him. I want him to study more how to handle people and manage a band.