Being a music major isn't as easy as it sounds. Spending hours practicing, attending recitals, practicing, doing homework, practicing, extracurriculars, practicing, etc., is enough to drive you insane, or have you lying on your practice room floor curled up into a ball. Having a social life? Forget it! Here are 16 struggles of being a music major.
1. "I can't, I have a rehearsal/recital" becomes your life motto.
What's a social life? I can't remember.
2. Practicing so much you accidentally neglect your other homework.
3. Juries.
If you find me dead on my practice room floor, it's because of jury stress.
4. Finding a video of an eight-year-old playing the piece you're working on and they're doing it better than you.
5. Not having hands big enough to play the piano.
Damn you, Rachmaninoff!
6. Sleeping in your practice room because it's 2 am, and you might as well stay there.
Enjoy that stiff neck from sleeping under the piano.
7. Music theory.
"The key of D-flat major exists but D-flat minor doesn't exist because then the relative major would have to be F-flat major, so instead we have C#-minor, which is enharmonic to D-flat."
8. Being compelled to analyze every piece of music you've ever heard.
"That song was in 3/4 time, in the key of A-flat major!"
9. Conducting to every song that comes on the radio.
10. When you have to take a class outside of your major.
Where am I? Who are you people?!
11. Having almost no time to do anything because you need to take 17 classes for your major.
12. Feeling slightly mad every time you hear someone say, "We have a music department?"
*sighs*
13. When your department's funding gets cut.
*ahem* *cough cough*
14. "What are you going to do with a music degree?"
Starve. Or teach.
15. Feeling guilty the one day you decide to de-stress and not practice.
16. Worrying that everyone is judging your practice session.
