SOPP537: I discovered I am not growing to the level I aspired to get to in organ playing
b"This question was sent by Harris, and he writes,\\n \\nAs a little boy growing up, I started having great love, passion and zeal for church classical music. But there was nobody who could guide me, teach me and mentor me on what music was all about.\\n \\nI also had no access to any musical instruments at home.\\nI had to join the church choir at age 14, and pleaded with the choir leaders to teach me music, but nobody had that time and patience to teach me music.\\n \\nAll I was doing back then as a choir boy, was to internalize the kind of notes and sounds I hear from the organ/keyboard.\\n \\nI was learning how to sing tonic solfa as I hear the keyboard/organ sounds, each time we are having choir practice and during church services.\\n \\nI did this for several years and got myself into hearing music and playing what I hear.\\nAs time goes, I got a small phone and started reading small books about the rudiments of music, how to understand lines and spaces on a sheet music.\\n \\nI was able to understand a little about the STAFF and tried to sight read as I play, but I discovered I am too slow and it\\u2019s sort of confusing to me.\\n \\nAs a result of playing by hearing, I became the organist of my local church and other churches I have served as an organist,\\n \\nI have performed with several chorale groups back home in Nigeria, played for several concerts, church services, bands and also indoors.\\n \\nI do play Hymns and classical songs to accompany the choir.\\n \\nI discovered I am not growing to the level I aspired to get to, so I have been seeking for means to travel out to abroad where they do music so well, so I can be able to learn as well, but it has not been easy.\\n \\nI have tried to register in some Organist forums, seeking for employment as an organist even its a small local church choir where I could start up from and learn.\\n \\nBut I hardly get a positive response.\\n \\nPlease sir, I really would appreciate if I can get great help from you in any way, to help me build my Christian music life, for I don't want the music fire in me to die off."