takigan Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 (edited) borchnork said: Why am I no longer a music major? Two words: Aural Skills. Let's just say, we have grad students who come in from other music programs across the nation that struggle through this class. And I'm just a freshman! hahaha. It's sooooooooo hard, and I don't have the time to deal with it. God.....Aural <_ .> That's the class where the teacher plays a stream of eight to ten 4-part block chords on a piano at quarter note = 45 and after finishing gets up from the piano and says, "Ok class, now write down every single note I just played...-1 for every wrong note".....well, it only got that extreme for me a couple of times, but most of the time they'd still make you write down the bass note and the top note of each chord. Edited November 10, 2008 by takigan Quote
borchnork Posted November 10, 2008 Posted November 10, 2008 yah, when we do harmonic dictation, we just hafta get the bass and treble note, but we hafta write down the chord and it's inversion. After that though, we usually hafta part write the alto/tenor line for homework. Quote
Nancy08 Posted November 21, 2008 Posted November 21, 2008 You have to do the alto and tenor lines for hw? haha not us. I'm not that great at harmonic dictation but i <3 melodic dictation. Quote
rpd Posted November 22, 2008 Posted November 22, 2008 uhh, ear stuff is going to kill me in college. I have a damaged ear from ear infections as a child, far from tone deaf, but I notice it is weaker now that im trying to train it. I do amazing in the written part of music theory, but when it comes to dictation, I'm not great at all. Quote
borchnork Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 that's what the classes are for though... to BUILD your ear. Trust me, I'm much better now than I have been in quite a long time. The techniques like "Speed Writing" and "Tonal Indexing" as well as harmonic and melodic dictation get easier the more you do it, but it just wasn't for me. Quote
Gracelyd33 Posted March 16, 2009 Posted March 16, 2009 you are at UNT though sweetheart. Music was bound to be tough. (: Quote
chickora Posted March 23, 2009 Posted March 23, 2009 He is aware of the difficulty. Even the marching band was too much for a nonmajor like me. I just had too many hours, so I dropped out. But I do say, Band would be funner if UNT actually won some games. =sighs= Quote
M1KH4J157 Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 LSU VS UNT 27 - 3 OHHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH. >_> Quote
treblemaker Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 M1KH4J157 said: LSU VS UNT27 - 3 OHHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH. >_> You only scored 27 points on UNT and you are bragging? Quote
whitewing09 Posted April 3, 2009 Posted April 3, 2009 I really wish I could have taken a music composition class in high school :-\ Quote
takigan Posted April 4, 2009 Posted April 4, 2009 Taking composition classes really doesn't teach you how to compose. And you can't really take a "composition class" without at least some basic knowledge of music theory. You learn how to compose by composing, and learning from your mistakes as you go. You can take Music Theory classes or read books on music theory, which will give you a better understanding as to how music functions which can help you be a better composer, but a lot of the great music out there (Classical or not) was composed by people with little or no formal training at all. That being said, many community colleges with viable music programs offer courses in Music Theory at low costs (a few hundred dollars a semester). Anything is possible if you're committed enough. Quote
TRtrumpet Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 I wanna transfer to UNT after two years at TAMUK in Kingsville. Quote
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