Just an update & questions… I’m taking lessons - my teacher says I’m improving but I can’t really tell - and trying to fit in time to study theory/aural skills (working full time until a week before school starts). During the first week of classes, I’ll audition for choir & voice placement, and be placed into the appropriate theory track (either freshman theory/aural skills or music fundamentals).
My schedule is:
2: Diction I
4: Music Theory + Aural Skills (or Music Fundamentals + “lab” depending on placement)
1: Group Piano I
1: Choir
2: Voice lessons or group voice (probably the former)
3: Freshman honors seminar
3: Graduate stats programming class
- theory/aural skills (or music fundamentals) are 8am every day, with the stats course following at 9am 3x/week and the seminar at 9:30am 2x/week, but that won't be much of an issue since I'm now used to waking up at 5:30am for summer swim team.
I do need to keep a 3.3 GPA - is this manageable for the non-talented-but-super-hard-workers like me in music? Freshman seminar should be straightforward, and the professor for the stats course is great - plus I will work hard, and group piano 1 will be mostly review, but for the other 9 credits of foreign classes - how would you suggest managing? I have no idea how grades really work in music.