I'm Hungry
Have you ever noticed that sometimes the best track on an album never gets played on the radio? Musicians could be making more money.
I played at the small ensemble concert yesterday, and I have to say I really appreciate other musicians encouraging me especially since it was only after three practices and all I was playing was a poser percussion instrument. I met a lot of cool people, and I really look forward to working with at least some of them in the future including who I have been working with already. this one dude, don't know his name, has amazing drumming skills. He does that cool 16th var on the hats, and that makes me very jealous.
According to one of the professors, Southern is firing all the teachers (not professors but the teachers who give the students lessons on the side) because they don't have a masters degree. That is such bullshit. I'm going to write a letter this week because it's so stupid how the director of the arts-THE DIRECTOR OF THE FRIGGIN DEPARTMENT-doesn't understand that music isn't just an experience you can learn at a college. If you go into most music stores, I bet that most of them haven't even been to college. I'm feeling as a paying customer that this insulting, and as a student I will never have the opportunity to learn from a skilled drummer ever. The toughest crowds, to me, aren't the educated community-the people who dress up fancy and go to galas or top star concerts-but the fans who go to shows and throw things at people or boo them off stage. If these people who worked their way up from the street level are able to get into a college to work, then that means that there must be special talent. Music is also about education, but it's mostly about talent.
I played at the small ensemble concert yesterday, and I have to say I really appreciate other musicians encouraging me especially since it was only after three practices and all I was playing was a poser percussion instrument. I met a lot of cool people, and I really look forward to working with at least some of them in the future including who I have been working with already. this one dude, don't know his name, has amazing drumming skills. He does that cool 16th var on the hats, and that makes me very jealous.
According to one of the professors, Southern is firing all the teachers (not professors but the teachers who give the students lessons on the side) because they don't have a masters degree. That is such bullshit. I'm going to write a letter this week because it's so stupid how the director of the arts-THE DIRECTOR OF THE FRIGGIN DEPARTMENT-doesn't understand that music isn't just an experience you can learn at a college. If you go into most music stores, I bet that most of them haven't even been to college. I'm feeling as a paying customer that this insulting, and as a student I will never have the opportunity to learn from a skilled drummer ever. The toughest crowds, to me, aren't the educated community-the people who dress up fancy and go to galas or top star concerts-but the fans who go to shows and throw things at people or boo them off stage. If these people who worked their way up from the street level are able to get into a college to work, then that means that there must be special talent. Music is also about education, but it's mostly about talent.