hollywood - WIY? Blog - Who Influenced You?2024-03-29T14:04:23Zhttp://whoinfluencedyou.com/blog/feed/tag/hollywoodJerry Grant My High School Music Teacher Had A Positive Influence On Me When I Was A Teenagerhttp://whoinfluencedyou.com/blog/jerry-grant-my-high-school-music-teacher-at-hollywood-high-had-a-2017-06-01T20:20:44.000Z2017-06-01T20:20:44.000ZDavid Bryanthttp://whoinfluencedyou.com/members/DavidBryant<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2180886?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2180886?profile=original" class="align-full" width="250"></a><br> <strong><a href="http://www.nujazzalternative.com/" target="_blank">JERRY GRANT</a></strong></p>
<p>My high school music teacher at Hollywood High Jerry Grant had a positive influence in my life. He made our harmony classes fun by relating classical music harmony and theory to current day pop music.</p>
<p>I remember bringing him some of my pop songs I had written as a teenager and how positive and encouraging he was, complimenting me on my sense of melodic structure. When I look back on those songs I realize they were not that great. I was just starting out, but he still found something in my writing to compliment me on. I respected his opinion as a jazz and film/tv composer so to hear his compliments about my songs was a big deal to me at 17 years old.</p>
<p>After I graduated high school I took some private composition lessons from Mr. Grant which helped me a lot in understanding composition, melodic and harmonic structure.</p>
<p>Teachers can have a positive or negative influence on a young person's life. I feel blessed and grateful that Mr. Grant was my high school music teacher.</p>
<p>Here are the links to his Wikipedia page and website.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Grant_" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Grant_</a>(composer)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nujazzalternative.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nujazzalternative.com/</a></p></div>