[purplegiraffe1]

so today/yesterday, i was pretty productive!I was hoping my extreme happy/hyper/energetic mood would last a lot longer than it did.... i feel helpless right now. helpless over my emotions. I just wihs i could be happy all the time, and never fell into this depression state..... I have noticed that my lessons make me feel worse about myself, and it gets harder and harder to make myself go to them. The other thing is that i hate doing my theory homework because i feel it is SOOO STUPID to analyze music!!!! I can pretty much gaurantee the composers did NOT sit there, and say to themselves, "Oh, I think i'm gonna put a dominant chord here, then go to a tonic...." NO! Pretty sure they wouldn't have even KNOWN what that even was! Mozart heard the melody in his head and then wrote it down! He DEFINITELY didn't think about voice leading, and chords!!!! I miss my dog Lady soo much!!! It frustrates me that my family is like "Come home!" yet my lessons teacher is like "You're not going home this weekend are you!?!" and when i answer "no." he replies "Good call!" arghhhhhh. and NEITHER SIDE UNDERSTANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes, it takes all i have to NOT have a meltdown during my lessons!

[the abyss]

when i was at college all i wanted to do was paint abstract modern art, but i had to learn the basics...........boring.............so i understand somewhat !.
as far as home and study goes you should do what makes you happy . life is a balance ,and you have to be kind to yourself.
having a break can make you into a better pupil.
see you later Mozart.
take care

[ADDithers]

Originally Posted by purplegiraffe1

so today/yesterday, i was pretty productive!I was hoping my extreme happy/hyper/energetic mood would last a lot longer than it did.... i feel helpless right now. helpless over my emotions. I just wihs i could be happy all the time, and never fell into this depression state..... I have noticed that my lessons make me feel worse about myself, and it gets harder and harder to make myself go to them. The other thing is that i hate doing my theory homework because i feel it is SOOO STUPID to analyze music!!!! I can pretty much gaurantee the composers did NOT sit there, and say to themselves, "Oh, I think i'm gonna put a dominant chord here, then go to a tonic...." NO! Pretty sure they wouldn't have even KNOWN what that even was! Mozart heard the melody in his head and then wrote it down! He DEFINITELY didn't think about voice leading, and chords!!!! I miss my dog Lady soo much!!! It frustrates me that my family is like "Come home!" yet my lessons teacher is like "You're not going home this weekend are you!?!" and when i answer "no." he replies "Good call!" arghhhhhh. and NEITHER SIDE UNDERSTANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sometimes, it takes all i have to NOT have a meltdown during my lessons!

I'm trying to figure out which composers - from Bach to Bruch - that didn't first learn the basics? For the best of them, it was relentless discipline. Unless you're a gifted maverick, and even then, you better hunker down & do your due diligence. Lady can wait!

[purplegiraffe1]

Originally Posted by the abyss

when i was at college all i wanted to do was paint abstract modern art, but i had to learn the basics...........boring.............so i understand somewhat !.
as far as home and study goes you should do what makes you happy . life is a balance ,and you have to be kind to yourself.
having a break can make you into a better pupil.
see you later Mozart.
take care

yeah, the worst part about my theory class is that i've already taken it, and passed it, and the only reason im even in it is because my current school isnt offering theory 4 this semester, so the professor that gave me my placement test told me to take theory 3 so i "dont lose my theory"..... lol.

[purplegiraffe1]

Originally Posted by ADDithers

I'm trying to figure out which composers - from Bach to Bruch - that didn't first learn the basics? For the best of them, it was relentless discipline. Unless you're a gifted maverick, and even then, you better hunker down & do your due diligence. Lady can wait!

none of them until the more modern ones learned anything about Neapolitan 6 chords, or things like that.... and those aren't the basics either... the stuff i'm having to sit through in my theory class isn't the basics, but stuff i learned when i was in theory 2& 3 at my old school. I know why we need to learn basics and i've got nothing against that... it's good to know what each note is, the value of each note, the time signatures, scales, you know, that kind of stuff. But, even studying other composers works, i don't see why we should even analyze it in the 1st place! But i guess that comes from the fact that i've had someone attempt to analyze one of my compositions, one that i composed using scrabble pieces, adn 2 dice.... although it did humour me a bit for the guy to try to figure out what i was thinking! so maybe that's the thing... maybe the theory teachers think we're amusing the dearly departed composers!