I know I made a thread somewhat recently (In like august I think) about not knowing what to do in my life. After reading all the responses, I was considering majoring in Sociology. However, after thinking about it some more, I realized that although soc is kind of interesting, I don't think I would like having a career related to it. I've been practicing drumming more than I ever have (the other day I practiced for 2 hours straight without even realizing it, just sticks, a drum pad, and rudiments too, all the boring stuff!) I've talked to the guy in charge of percussion majors at Temple's music school, met with him, showed him what I can do, figured out everything I need to work on in order to audition for the music school for Fall 2010. The main problem is that I need to be proficient on snare drum, timpani, and marimba. I'd say I'm pretty good at snare... I've been teaching myself rudiments now and getting pretty good, and my overall technique isn't bad. However, I have practically NO experience whatsoever on timpani or marimba. I've played timpani a bit in high school but I've never played marimba like ever in high school. and I need to be PROFICIENT on it. So anyway, I'm definitely willing to practice as much as possible to get really good at both timpani and marimba, but the problem is getting stuff to actually practice. I looked at the audition requirements and picked the books I want to work with, and asked my parents very nicely if they could buy them for me. I have NO money and my parents have always encouraged me to play music, paid for lessons, etc. However, now they aren't willing to buy these books for me and aren't even letting me audition at this point. It's unbelievably frustrating because I NEED these books to practice and I need to start practicing as soon as possible so I can actually get somewhat good by the time of the audition in the spring. Their whole deal is that I won't be making that much money if I want to major in music and they would rather me have a solid job. I've always been a "do what makes you happy, not what pays the most" kind of person, and I don't give a shit about money as long as I'm happy with my job. I know that no other job would make me as happy as working with music (my dream job is to play in the orchestra of Cirque du Soleil although thats an incredibly unrealistic dream). I've told them all of this and they will not listen. Any ideas how I could convince them to let me do this? Music is literally the only thing I've ever really enjoyed and seen as a career. Maybe there are other things out there that I could do and enjoy just as much, but it would all take the same amount of work as music would, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make it into the music school, and I figure anything I go into will require a lot of work, and this is the one thing that I know I'd be happy working for hours upon hours a day. Ugh I know this has nothing to do with weed but you guys have helped me out before with a kind of similar topic so I'm hoping maybe you have some ideas as to what I could do. Thanks for the help!
you broke the barrier!!! stick with your passion even when unupported, it will payoff, especially if it is sincere passion like it seems it is good luck
you gotta do what makes you happy...just do whatever you can to get the cash for the books you need. sell stuff you own, get a shitty job, something like that. its all worth it if its gonna make you happy
Do what makes you happy!! My bf is doing the same exact thing as you are. He changed his major to music and has to try out to be in the major in January. They only accept 20 people.. He doesn't know if he should do it and take the chance of not making it or just going for it and seeing what happens. I think he's going to go for it! Good luck!!
you don't need a degree to play music... i know a few successful drummers who started by sitting in on an open jazz night. one of them plays a gig every night of the week for a house band and loves every second of it. ...you do need the chops.
sociology degrees typically result in low-paying shitty jobs but if you like being society's bitch...
Just like, the fact that my parents are so against it has already affected me negatively. It sounds lame but since they've told me that they dont want to pay for my education if I'm going to be a music major, I haven't practiced that much. It just sucks, like not being able to do what I want because my parents are assholes. When I try to explain to them that I just want to be happy with what I do they don't even listen. Its even more retarded because both of them have jobs that pay hardly anything because they both do what they want to do... I mean, my dad works ALL the time (we kept track once, it was about 90-100 hours a week) and he loves his job to death, but my mom makes more money than him and she works part-time as a social worker for a non-profit organization. So you'd think they would understand where I'm coming from, but they dont.
hey---i was a dealing fool back in the day and alot of my customers were musicians and good ones too but never famous--but the only one who made a living at it was the drummer---he gigged nightly with jazz blues rock or country bands and was totally in demand as a professional drummer---good luck to you
I PM'd you but incase you don't check. (get it), I go to Temple Main and I drum. I'm not a percussion major but I know people in the music dept and I was in collegiate band last year as a percussionist and played all throughout high school with lessons since 6th grade so I could totally lend you some hard core technique based books (Syncopation, etc). And if you get to me by tonight (Thursday), you're welcome to come smoke some dank with some friends of mine :cheers2:
yuo need to do this for me for religion EDIT...it didn't copy but yeah i guess you copied that from somewhere..but yeah im going to be poor...BA in religion lol
this is all i could find http://www.studyreligion.org/where/teaching.html though.. a lot of employers look to hire employees that just have a BA.. doesn't matter what its in really.. as long as you have a BA.. because a lot of basic/advanced classes are lumped into your BA course... therefor you have the knowledge for a lot of different job opportunities
