YOU'RE BETTER THAN YOU THINK!

Hoday! What Interval Is This?

Many of my Aural Skills Students have come to me independently to tell me about how they think they're not good enough to succeed in music. However, what I have found is that each one of them has a special talent of some kind in the arts. Whether it is in performance, composition, musicology, every single student (ALL OF YOU) have the ability to succeed.

Why do you have to take Aural Skills? In Aural Skills we study a number of areas in music; Sight Reading, Rhythm Performance & Dictation, Harmonic Dictation, Melodic Dication, Sight Singing, Interval Recognition, and other little devices to expose weaknesses! But it's not about exposing weakness it's about finding out who you are as a musician. Aural Skills is one of the only classes that will give you feeback on what you need to work on the most. And even though some may be weak in some areas, others will be strong in other areas. Nobody is immune from mistakes - especially me!

Just remember who you are in your music. You began somehow loving what you do, something happened to awaken you to this dream and something is moving you along within it - it's almost out of your hands so just flow with it and immerse yourself in the current world in which you live. You are about to be exposed to more experiences that would never of happened without this degree!

We teachers do care in fact, you're all we talk about! So please come to us about anything even if it's not about music, we'll listen. My advice is to PERSERVERE through college, you will be very proud of your accomplishments and ready to face just about anything life has to throw at you! Abandon all Preconceptions - You're Better Than You Think!

Thanks for Reading!

John