Hoday!
At some point in your life, hopefully early in your life, you will realize that without college you will most likely end up playing in the bar scene. Well that gets old around age 40 and the chances of making it big in the music industry has been dried up in years past - but don't let me discourage you from trying anyway. You can learn new things on your own, take a few lessons here and there, compose and sell your songs, and keep caught up on technology, but nothing kicks you in the butt than going to college and learning everything there is to learn about music, its theory, and its history.
I have noticed the first day realization of many college students. They show up with expectations of how music should be taught. Some think that they will learn how to compose rock music, or how to sight read, or even to finally get good at performing what they want - only to find out that they will probably not get anything they expect at all - at first!
They ask, why do I have to learn how to sight sing solfege, recognize intervals, or dictate rhythm? Why do I have to learn my key signatures, meter, or how to write a 1 or 2 species counterpoint against a cantus firmus? Or why do I have to know about melismas, mass proper, Ars Nova, or fugues? Or why do I have to analyze a German 6th, or a 12-tone row? Or why do I have to learn how to play a tuba, a trumpet, a trombone, a clarinet, a flute, an oboe, a violin, a cello, a contra-bass, when I play a piano? Or why do I have to play in so many ensembles that have nothing to do with who I am as a musician? And why is everybody always judging me? And why am I learning to compose woodwind trios and string quartets when I should be learning to compose symphonies?
Well after about 4 years of that, you'll reflect back and think holy moly - now I know why!
Stay in school!
John
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