“I have a long way to go to sound like my music,” Army veteran Rafael Velez said. “But I’m getting it. Muscle memory, that’s the main thing.”
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Playing music helps her anxiety, she said. “It helps keep me calm and relaxed … because I do have a lot of health challenges.” He learned of the ensemble through his wife Grace Bermudez Velez, an Army veteran who works at the Veterans Administration Hospital helping veterans rejoin their communities. Of her husband, Bermudez said, “He’s better than me about practicing every day. He’s an overachiever.”The principle of New Horizons’ beginner bands is to create an atmosphere “completely supportive and free of competition and intimidation,” according to Ernst. Yet in order to play music, beginners must learn how to distinguish a quarter note from a half note, stay in rhythm with their counterparts, understand sharps and flats, and even learn when to take a quick breath to continue the melody.
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