FRIDAY EVENING. SURE ASHLEY. ALL RIGHT, KEVIN. THKAN YOU OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND EXCDIEENG EXPECTATIONS. THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S EXACTLY WHAT ONE FRESHMAN ATAI SNTS HIGH SCHOOL IS DOING THIS YEAR ANDREW GILLESPIE IS BLIND, BUT HE IS NOT LETTING HIS CONDITION. STOP THE MUSIC. THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S RIGHT. ANDREW HAS BEEN BLINDLL A OF HIS LIFE, BUT WHEN HE GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL HE DECIDED HE WOULD NOT LET WHAT HE COULDN바카라 게임 웹사이트T SEE STOP HIM FROM WHAT HE COULD DO, AND HE A BAND OF BROTHERS HELPING HIM ALONG THE WAY. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND HEAR THE SYMBOLS THE BASS DRUMS AND THE TRUMPET WHEN YOU TEAK A CLOSER LOOK AT XANAX바카라 게임 웹사이트S MARCHING BAND, YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트LL SEE THE TEAMWORK PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER. 18 YEAR OLD ANDREW GILLESPIE, 'I바카라 게임 웹사이트S THIS TEAMWORK. THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S HELPED HIM BRING HIS TALENT ON THE TRUMPET ONTO THE FIELD WITHOUT LIKE THE REST OF THE TRUMPET SECTION AND DR. BETH. DAN SOME OTHER PEOPLE THAT UNFORTUNATELY WERE OYNL HERE FOR BAND CAMP AS STAFF. I DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T KNOW IF I바카라 게임 웹사이트D STILL BE HERE HONESTLY, LIKE IF I바카라 게임 웹사이트D STILL BE ABLE TO DO THIS. A MONTH AFTER ANDREW WAS BORN HIS PARENTS FOUND OUT HE WAS BLIND HIS CONDITION IS CALLED BILATERAL RETINAL DYSPLIAAS. HIS RETINAS DIDOT N FORM WHILE IN UTERO ANDREWS FATHER SAYS, OTHER THAN THAT, HIS SON IS A TYPICAL TEAM AND HE WANTS OTHERS TO SEE HIM THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, MOST PROUD MOMENT I HAD WAS YOU KNOW WHEN THE OTHER BANDS DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T REALIZE THAT HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S BLIND. WHEN IT CAME TO JOINING THE MARCHINGAN BD ANDREW바카라 게임 웹사이트S PARENTS WEREN바카라 게임 웹사이트T WORRIED ABOUT THE PLAYING BUT THE MOVEMENTS SO TO BE KIND OF LIKE UP THEN DOWN. YEAH, AND THEN WHEN YOU THERE YOU GO ANDREW HIMSELF HAD SEOM ANXIETY ABOUT IT ALL THE FIRST WEEK. I HAD NO IADE WHAT I WAS DOING BANDIRECTOR. JODI BEST HAS BEEN BEHIND HIM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. WE HAVE KIND OF A LILETT SOMEWHERE WE EITHER TAP HIS SHLDEROU A LITTLE BIT OF ONE WAY IF WE바카라 게임 웹사이트RE GOING TO THE RIGHT TO THE LEFT AS FAR AS THE FINGERS. I WILL USUALLY ASK WHEERTH HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S RESTING. TELL THEM WHAT THE NEXT MEOV IS LIKE. OKAY, NEXT MOVE. WE바카라 게임 웹사이트RE GOING 16 STEPS BACK BIG STEPS A LITTLE STEPS. I DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T HAVE THE SHEET MUSIC FOR ALL THE BAND TUNES. ANDREW SAYS HE DOESN바카라 게임 웹사이트T USE ETH MUSIC BECAUSE IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S INEFFIENTIC AND UNUSABLE WHILE PLAYING AS LONG AS TREHE바카라 게임 웹사이트S ANOTHER PERSON PLAYING SECOND TRUMPET. I CAN KIND OF LIKEAG T ON AND PLAY THE EXACT SAME NOTES AS THEY WOULD BE AND REMEMBER IT. THEES ARE PHENOMENAL PLAYERND A ISNE O OF THE HARDEST WORRSKE HARD WORK AMATO ANDREW LESIV BY I FEEL LIKE ANYONE CAN DO. ALMOST ANYTHING A LSONG AS THEY PUT THEIR MIND TO IT. AND AMAZING KID TREHE ANDREW AND THE BAND PRACTICES THREE DAYS A WEEK ABOUT AN HOUR AND 45 MINUTES EACH DAY. THEY TRAVEL TO ALL OF THE GAMES AND PERFORM FOR ALL OF THE HOME FOOTBALL GAMES. NOW THE BAND ALSO PERFOSRM FOR OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR A TNDHEY HAVE THIS THING WITH THE MOTHERHOOD TTHA BASICALLY IS LIKE THEY LIFT EACH OERTH UP AND THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S EXACTLY WHAT THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE DOING FOR ANDWRE AND AND HE FOR THEM HAS BEEN AN INSTRUCTOR. FIRST OF ALL HE WAS SAYING HOW GOOD IT IS TO BE BACK ON THE FIELD AND GET THAT VIEW BECAUSE HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S USUALLY UP THERE BUT NOW HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S DOWN THERE WITH ANDREW BUT ALSO THAT ANDREW IS AN AMAZING PLAYER ON THE TRUMPET AND HE IS TEACHING HIS BANDMATES. I KNOW HE WON. I KNOYOW U YOU DID THE STORY IT GOT ME CHOKED UP WATCHING IT BECAUSE AS A PARENT, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S IT'바카라 게임 웹사이트 HARD TO PUT YOUR CHILD OUT THERE WHEN YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트RE AFRAID. MAYBE TYHE WON바카라 게임 웹사이트T BE ACCEPTED WHEN YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트RE AFRAID. MAYBE THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트LL FAIL ANDOR F THAT BAND AND THE DIRECTOR JODY. I MEAN AMAZING TO WPRA THEIR ARMS AROUND HIM AND HELPIM H BE THE BEST THAT HE CAN BSOE THAT HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S ABLE TO CONTINUE DOING WHAT HE LOVES. I MEAN, HONESTLY IT GETS IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S REALLY EMOTIONAL AND WHAT EELS I THOUGHT WAS AS A PARENT SO OFTEN KIDS ARE LIKE WHEN THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE GOING GETS TOUGH. THEY JUST GIVE UP BOY, ISN바카라 게임 웹사이트T HE AN INSPIRATION? EVERY GET OUT TREHE WHAT I DIDN바카라 게임 웹사이트T PUT IN THERE. HE LIFTED NIKE SLOGAN JUST DO IT. HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S LIKE, YOU KNOW NEW THINGS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE HARD AND DIFFICULT, BUT JUST ONCEOU Y JUMP INTO IT, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S NOT THAT BAD. THOSE WERHIE S WORDS AND I WAS SO IMPRESSED. WELL ANDREW I TELL YOU WHAT, YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트RE AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US NOT JUS
Blind trumpet player overcomes obstacles with help from band of brothers
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Updated: 9:55 PM EDT Oct 16, 2021
Overcoming obstacles and exceeding expectations is exactly what one high school freshman is doing this year. Andrew Gillespie is blind but he's not letting his condition stop the music.Close your eyes and hear the symbols, bass drums and the trumpet.When you take a closer look at Cincinnati St. Xavaier's marching band, you'll see the teamwork pulling it all together.For 14-year-old Andrew Gillespie, it's this teamwork that's helped bring his talent on the trumpet onto the field."Without, like, the rest of the trumpet section and Dr. Besse and some other people that, unfortunately, we're only here for a band camp staff. I don't know if I'd still be here, honestly, like if I'd still be able to do this," Gillespie said.A month after Gillespie was born his parents found out he was blind. His condition is called bilateral retinal dysplasia, his retinas did not form while in utero.Andrew's father says other than that, his son is a typical teen and he wants others to see him that way."The most proud moment I had was, you know, when the other bands don't realize that he's blind," said Ben Gillespie.When it came to joining the marching band, Andrew's parents weren't worried about the playing, but the movements.Andrew, himself, had some anxiety about it all."The first week, I had no idea what I was doing," Andrew Gillespie said.Band director Jody Besse has been behind him every step of the way."We have kind of a little system where we will either tap his shoulder a little bit one way. If we're going to the right to the left as far as the fingers I will usually as whether he's resting tell him what the next move is like okay next move we're going 16 steps back big steps little steps," Besse said."I don't read the sheet music. I don't even have the sheet music for all the band tunes," Andrew Gillespie said.Andrew says he doesn't use braille music because it's inefficient and unusable while playing."As long as there's another person playing second trumpet, I can kind of like, tag on and play the exact same notes as they would be and remember it," Andrew Gillespie said."He's a phenomenal player and he's one of the hardest workers," Besse said.Hard work, a motto Andrew lives by."I feel like anyone can do almost anything if they put their mind to it," he said.Andrew and the band practice three days a week, about an hour and 45 minutes each day.They travel to all games and perform for all of the home football games. The band also performs for other community events throughout the year.
Overcoming obstacles and exceeding expectations is exactly what one high school freshman is doing this year. Andrew Gillespie is blind but he's not letting his condition stop the music.
Close your eyes and hear the symbols, bass drums and the trumpet.
When you take a closer look at Cincinnati St. Xavaier's marching band, you'll see the teamwork pulling it all together.
For 14-year-old Andrew Gillespie, it's this teamwork that's helped bring his talent on the trumpet onto the field.
"Without, like, the rest of the trumpet section and Dr. Besse and some other people that, unfortunately, we're only here for a band camp staff. I don't know if I'd still be here, honestly, like if I'd still be able to do this," Gillespie said.
A month after Gillespie was born his parents found out he was blind. His condition is called bilateral retinal dysplasia, his retinas did not form while in utero.
Andrew's father says other than that, his son is a typical teen and he wants others to see him that way.
"The most proud moment I had was, you know, when the other bands don't realize that he's blind," said Ben Gillespie.
When it came to joining the marching band, Andrew's parents weren't worried about the playing, but the movements.
Andrew, himself, had some anxiety about it all.
"The first week, I had no idea what I was doing," Andrew Gillespie said.
Band director Jody Besse has been behind him every step of the way.
"We have kind of a little system where we will either tap his shoulder a little bit one way. If we're going to the right to the left as far as the fingers I will usually as whether he's resting tell him what the next move is like okay next move we're going 16 steps back big steps little steps," Besse said.
"I don't read the sheet music. I don't even have the sheet music for all the band tunes," Andrew Gillespie said.
Andrew says he doesn't use braille music because it's inefficient and unusable while playing.
"As long as there's another person playing second trumpet, I can kind of like, tag on and play the exact same notes as they would be and remember it," Andrew Gillespie said.
"He's a phenomenal player and he's one of the hardest workers," Besse said.
Hard work, a motto Andrew lives by.
"I feel like anyone can do almost anything if they put their mind to it," he said.
Andrew and the band practice three days a week, about an hour and 45 minutes each day.
They travel to all games and perform for all of the home football games. The band also performs for other community events throughout the year.
