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This article was published 22/11/2018 (2693 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
It was only five years ago that Angela Rud picked up a guitar for the first time.
Now, the second-year Brandon University student will be playing in a concert at BU this evening, along with guitarist Raelyn Adam and director Paul Madryga.
Rud and Madryga practised together on Wednesday, during which Rud smiled as she strummed away.
“I always had a love for music, and I had played a bit of piano and just other instruments in band in choirs, and I just wanted to learn another instrument,” Rud said. “It’s a therapeutic experience to get to sit down and play the guitar.”
Their concert is a collaboration with the Eckhardt-Gramatté Conservatory guitar ensemble. They will be doing a few pieces together, and the Eckhardt-Gramatté kids will also be doing some on their own, director Paul Madryga said.
Rud started out playing jazz guitar in high school, and switched to classical last year during her first year at Brandon University. Learning a new instrument has had its challenges, she said.
“Getting over the initial pain of playing guitar and barre chords can just be a bit tricky to get your head around,” she said. The pain was from the numerous calluses that she has developed from practising the instrument. The integrated music education program student dedicates at least two hours every day to improving her guitar skills.
However, “after you do (get over the pain), it’s really rewarding,” she said. Since practising at the university, she has learned a whole new way to think about music and how it’s played.
“When I’m playing something I’ll stop and think, I’ll assess it and think how did it go and was there anything I could fix,” she said. “If there was, I would go back to that section and just kind of repeat it, and then stop and analyze it again and see if that was better or if I need to fix it again.”
Over the next few years, Rud says she wants to continue to stay involved with music and work on mastering the guitar.
“I would love to keep improving and just keep immersing myself with music,” she said. “I love the people that I get to surround myself with every day, and I feel like music is something that brings out the best in people.”
They’ve all spent a lot of time over the past few months preparing for the concert, she said, and she’s looking forward to playing all the pieces that they’ve worked hard towards during the semester.
“I think it will be just a fun night to enjoy what we’ve done.”
Seeing a guitar ensemble is a unique experience, she said, and theirs is filled with a lot of different music.
“We’ve (even) got some Christmas music that we’re going to play so you can get into the Christmas spirit,” she said.
The concert will begin at 7 p.m. at the Lorne Watson Recital Hall.
It’s free of charge and open to the public to attend.
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