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On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:37:33 -0500,Music was one of the majors I considered on entering the university. I'm glad I chose engineering. I'm deeply into music, I practice and/or play daily (usually on more than one instrument), but I think it's much more pleasant as an avocation. I wouldn't have liked a life where I was constantly hustling to get performance gigs.
AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:On 8/21/2024 2:31 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:30:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:+1>Spoken like a man totally ignorant of music theory, how>
difficult it can be and how useful it is when playing,
improvising or composing.
<LOL> I doubt the lack of knowledge of music theory caused
Willy Nelson, Peter Frampton, Paul Simon, John Lennon,
McArtney, or George Harrison, any trouble... Need I go on? I
could fill the page with succesful musician/composers who
never even heard the term "music theory."
Yes to all that but an equal number of counterexamples.
>
There's no general rule; Formal training assists and enriches
some performers/songwriters while others get along well on
extreme diligence and independent study alone. Once in a while
there's even a 'natural', a.k.a., 'idiot savant' as an outlier.
From musicians I've known, I'd say success correlates strongly
to extreme diligence above all else.
As someone who started college as a music major, I can confirm the
two main categories of career are teaching and performing. So far
as classical music goes, making a career out of performing has a
couple of options: toiling away at very low paying jobs or hitting
the bigtime as a star. Like professional athletics, great success
alomost requires an extreme degree of dedication and effort--not
to mention some luck, It didn't take me too long to reaize I
didn't want to spend half (or more) of every day practicing. On
top of that, I didn't really want to teach--so I made an informed
decision to switch majors.
FWIW, I had music theory in high school, and really enjoyed it.
It definitely enhanced my musical abilities too.
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