Mark's Music School Diary.

Ok... music theory test done and celebratory burrito is eaten. I think I did pretty well. I have my piano test at 12:24 and my guitar jury at 2:15. Time to go practice again.


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Did my Jury. Mission accomplished. Got my "A", got admission to the actual school of music and jump to the 200 level early:

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Few notes about my jury...I walked into the room and there are 5-6 professors at a table including my private teacher. We did a little bit of administrative stuff and then I played my prepared piece "Have you Met Miss Jones?" - here is a practice runthough:



I started it a little fast due to nerves and didn't play it that cleanly but they seemed to like it with the admonition to play slower next time :embarrassed:

Then I was asked to play an F Jazz melodic minor scale in two octaves and an A7b9 arpeggio in two octaves which I did. Then I played "There Will Never Be Another You" with Bill Cunliffe on Piano and Paul Kriebech (sp?) on drums. The feedback was that I played the melody a little too straight. The sax teacher (whom I had never met before ) kind of accused me of playing a prepared solo instead of improvised but my private teacher apparently set him straight during their discussion on my grade while I was out of the room. Overall it went well although I didn't play as well as I should have.
 
Mark Wein said:
Yeah. I didn't realize that I had to start as just a liberal arts major until I earned admission.
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when i went to Shenandoah, there were trials to get in, but in 1979 their expectations were quite a bit lower. they were really looking for music students.
but then things got hard fast. like i said, i only lasted one semester because of the schedule and because i realized i wasn't going to make a living at music.
good luck.
 
mongooz said:
when i went to Shenandoah, there were trials to get in, but in 1979 their expectations were quite a bit lower. they were really looking for music students.
but then things got hard fast. like i said, i only lasted one semester because of the schedule and because i realized i wasn't going to make a living at music.
good luck.
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They actually turn away quite a few students here. I picked this school because its the only one with the program I need close enough to my house to be practical but it turns out they have a great school here.
 
Mark Wein said:
They actually turn away quite a few students here. I picked this school because its the only one with the program I need close enough to my house to be practical but it turns out they have a great school here.
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yea....getting into Shenandoah now is quite difficult. but like i said, that was '79 and they had very few guitar students.....so.....
 
Just had my musicianship test and got an A. A on the sightsinging and an A- on the prepared singing for an A in the class. Of everything this is the one I'm most proud of because it was a subject I was always terrible at my first time around and it took a lot of work this semester. My prepared piece was #62

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Are you personally happy with your progress? Are you able to see/feel your growth? Or do you feel that you're taking care of the individual dots, but aren't feeling them really connect?
 
Flamencology said:
Are you personally happy with your progress? Are you able to see/feel your growth? Or do you feel that you're taking care of the individual dots, but aren't feeling them really connect?
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I have seen progress happen and I'm happy about that. I definitely can do things I couldn't three months ago. One thing I've learned about this process (at this school at least) is that I need to manage my time a little differently and front-load my practicing a little more. I did that to a certain extent but with how non-school life has been going (still working, still have family drama to contend with, still doing things like refinancing the house and and major home repair) and my inexperience with the process as CSUF I didn't get to practice on general stuff as much as I needed to. Lots of keeping up on repertoire for classes but not as much practicing on the things that will make me a better player (note reading, line articulation and shaping, dynamics, etc). I'm going to spend my break catching up on that and have a different game plan for next semester. I progressed, but I should have done a little more. And I will.

One nice thing is that my combo instructors both invited me to stay in their groups for next semester (which isn't always a given) so I guess I'm making someone happy
 
I also have to add that this was the first Julian Lage I've actually listened to (I checked it out earlier tonight) and how he shapes his lines is how I want to sound:



right now I sound more like a typewriter than a musician.
 
I find it amazing and enjoy reading about it. Watched a bunch of the videos posted through out last night. I wish you much contined success.

Mark Wein said:
Few notes about my jury...I walked into the room and there are 5-6 professors at a table including my private teacher. We did a little bit of administrative stuff and then I played my prepared piece "Have you Met Miss Jones?" - here is a practice runthough:



I started it a little fast due to nerves and didn't play it that cleanly but they seemed to like it with the admonition to play slower next time :embarrassed:

Then I was asked to play an F Jazz melodic minor scale in two octaves and an A7b9 arpeggio in two octaves which I did. Then I played "There Will Never Be Another You" with Bill Cunliffe on Piano and Paul Kriebech (sp?) on drums. The feedback was that I played the melody a little too straight. The sax teacher (whom I had never met before ) kind of accused me of playing a prepared solo instead of improvised but my private teacher apparently set him straight during their discussion on my grade while I was out of the room. Overall it went well although I didn't play as well as I should have.
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Mark Wein said:
I have seen progress happen and I'm happy about that. I definitely can do things I couldn't three months ago. One thing I've learned about this process (at this school at least) is that I need to manage my time a little differently and front-load my practicing a little more. I did that to a certain extent but with how non-school life has been going (still working, still have family drama to contend with, still doing things like refinancing the house and and major home repair) and my inexperience with the process as CSUF I didn't get to practice on general stuff as much as I needed to. Lots of keeping up on repertoire for classes but not as much practicing on the things that will make me a better player (note reading, line articulation and shaping, dynamics, etc). I'm going to spend my break catching up on that and have a different game plan for next semester. I progressed, but I should have done a little more. And I will.

One nice thing is that my combo instructors both invited me to stay in their groups for next semester (which isn't always a given) so I guess I'm making someone happy
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Congrats on all your accomplishments. You certainly are working hard.
I find for me, that I usually feel like when I'm trying to learn something it seems that I struggle with it for a long time and then suddenly I "get it".
 
gtrjunior said:
Congrats on all your accomplishments. You certainly are working hard.
I find for me, that I usually feel like when I'm trying to learn something it seems that I struggle with it for a long time and then suddenly I "get it".
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Thanks!

And I usually have an "aha!" Moment like that too. Most of mine happened about a week or so ago as I was putting music together for this week and I could hear my work in a more final context.


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