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Originally Posted by Skull&Crossbones
If they can't draw a straight line, they're not an art major or anything like that. That's my point. I was always the slowest/worst in the class in hearing notes. One class for example right now has us playing common melodies by ear as students are trying different teaching strategies. I can figure out one, maybe two phrases, by the time everyone else has figured it out and then I can't fully participate. I can't even remember the melody in such a cacophony of sound so I don't know how other people do it.
When you're consistently the worst among your peers no matter how much extra work you do on your own, it starts to wear on you as a person. Or at least if there was someone else who didn't get it so I wasn't always the only one left out.
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No they wouldn’t choose art major. But it wouldn’t make them stupid. In fact it would show that they are smart understanding that it’s just not their thing.
Other people figure music out and you don’t doesn’t mean they are smart and you are stupid. They just have better ability in something. When you are talking about art of music, besides hard work and general intelligence one has to have an ability/talent. Talent is not an inducation of smarts. It is what it is. If you totally lacked abilities, you’d not be accepted to a program and likely wouldn’t graduate. You must have ability in simethhhg.
If you believe you lack ability though and are the worst among your peers (and in addition to it it bothers you) what made you choose this path?