It's thanks to people like you for anger in my world.
You know it's gonna be a bad fucking day when you get woken up by a loud ass fire alarm going off in your dorm at 745 am.
That being said... I had myself a little incident with my lessons teacher today.
First things first: I'm an SRT major. Time is of the essence for me, seeing as how i have very little of it during the day/evening... the prime time for events and happenings going on campus... because i have to be in the recording studio..or doing homework...etc etc.
Well. My lessons instructor, though told COUNTLESS times, doesn't seem to understand that i am an SRT major..and not a performance major. I'm seriously about to tell him I DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE SAX. But i dont. I have some standards. ... until today.
I'm in a decent mood going into the lesson, i know my shit for the week. I should play fine.
I get in the room and IMMEDIATELY he asks if i had work last night...because i missed a sax recital.
I didn't have work, but i told him i did (in reality i was working on an essay) to stop any drama from coming. Boy, was I wrong. He asked what my work schedule was like and i told him I work Monday and Wednesday nights, and friday, saturday and sunday (in reality i dont work mon and wed... but i have to get homework done sometime right?!)
Well he has the AUDACITY to say "well, I can see you wont make it tomorrow night or saturday night to those recitals. Since 10% of your grade relies on you going to every recital (there's seriously like 15 throughout the semester is he fucking insane!?) I'm instead going to make you write essays over the recitals instead, that way you'll get the same workload as the others going to the recitals".
Lemme get this straight...in his fucked up little world he's living in... Essays = Sitting and watching a concert.
UMMMMMMM fuck that.
he tells me if i want to be a future saxophonist, I have to appreciate the other saxophonists around, and attend their recitals to learn more about the uses of the sax.
I.. lose..it...here.
I finally say "Look, in all honesty, none of the other SRT major have to attend any recitals in their lessons (true), and so far you are the only lessons teacher i have ever heard of here that FORCES their students to go to others' recitals (also true). Furthermore, I'm not trying to become a saxophonist, in fact, I wouldn't be playing it right now if lessons weren't somehow required for my major. I'm strictly doing it to get through the year. I'm not a saxophonist. I'm a producer."
I don't think he liked it. But we decided to drop it and go on with the lesson.
I'm glad i'm the way i am. I couldn't imagine living though that without saying my thoughts toward it.
I've decided, i can take the 10% cut in my grade (i'm gonna get a B regardless anyways...yes... in LESSONS...my only B this semester). I refuse to do any sort of writing for a lesson. It's absurd and ridiculous.
I've also decided that I will not be taking sax lessons next year. At least not from him. I'm really wanting to switch my main to piano. I love the instrument to death. And i'm desperately trying to learn it as fast as i can (i'm in piano 1 rite now). Hopefully it'll work out, and hopefully my teacher will find out. He deserves to know that I think he's a horrible teacher. Maybe he'll really just how ridiculous he is in his method.
Am I in the wrong here? Did i do the right thing?
That being said... I had myself a little incident with my lessons teacher today.
First things first: I'm an SRT major. Time is of the essence for me, seeing as how i have very little of it during the day/evening... the prime time for events and happenings going on campus... because i have to be in the recording studio..or doing homework...etc etc.
Well. My lessons instructor, though told COUNTLESS times, doesn't seem to understand that i am an SRT major..and not a performance major. I'm seriously about to tell him I DONT GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE SAX. But i dont. I have some standards. ... until today.
I'm in a decent mood going into the lesson, i know my shit for the week. I should play fine.
I get in the room and IMMEDIATELY he asks if i had work last night...because i missed a sax recital.
I didn't have work, but i told him i did (in reality i was working on an essay) to stop any drama from coming. Boy, was I wrong. He asked what my work schedule was like and i told him I work Monday and Wednesday nights, and friday, saturday and sunday (in reality i dont work mon and wed... but i have to get homework done sometime right?!)
Well he has the AUDACITY to say "well, I can see you wont make it tomorrow night or saturday night to those recitals. Since 10% of your grade relies on you going to every recital (there's seriously like 15 throughout the semester is he fucking insane!?) I'm instead going to make you write essays over the recitals instead, that way you'll get the same workload as the others going to the recitals".
Lemme get this straight...in his fucked up little world he's living in... Essays = Sitting and watching a concert.
UMMMMMMM fuck that.
he tells me if i want to be a future saxophonist, I have to appreciate the other saxophonists around, and attend their recitals to learn more about the uses of the sax.
I.. lose..it...here.
I finally say "Look, in all honesty, none of the other SRT major have to attend any recitals in their lessons (true), and so far you are the only lessons teacher i have ever heard of here that FORCES their students to go to others' recitals (also true). Furthermore, I'm not trying to become a saxophonist, in fact, I wouldn't be playing it right now if lessons weren't somehow required for my major. I'm strictly doing it to get through the year. I'm not a saxophonist. I'm a producer."
I don't think he liked it. But we decided to drop it and go on with the lesson.
I'm glad i'm the way i am. I couldn't imagine living though that without saying my thoughts toward it.
I've decided, i can take the 10% cut in my grade (i'm gonna get a B regardless anyways...yes... in LESSONS...my only B this semester). I refuse to do any sort of writing for a lesson. It's absurd and ridiculous.
I've also decided that I will not be taking sax lessons next year. At least not from him. I'm really wanting to switch my main to piano. I love the instrument to death. And i'm desperately trying to learn it as fast as i can (i'm in piano 1 rite now). Hopefully it'll work out, and hopefully my teacher will find out. He deserves to know that I think he's a horrible teacher. Maybe he'll really just how ridiculous he is in his method.
Am I in the wrong here? Did i do the right thing?