With having your own major and being a musician, it can be hard trying to find the time that other musicians do daily and have time for. Oh yeah, we have to sleep, eat, and socialize, too. Here are nine things that are the true struggles of being a musician, but not a music major.
1. Finding the time to practice your instrument.
Having a 16 credit hour semester, on top of two jobs, doing some leadership positions, having friends, and trying to breathe. Where do you find the time to practice?
2.Trying to set up rehearsals around your actual major.
When your private lesson teacher checks your schedule and sees you have a perfectly open schedule around lunch time. No lunch for me then.
3.Thinking about a music minor, but not wanting to take music theory.
It's apparently incredibly awful and it is needed for a minor in music...
4.Wanting to do recitals, but that requires even more hours that you already don't have.
You need to perfect the piece, in order to do a recital. That requires more practice, which requires more hours that you do not have. You get the picture.
5. "You play ___! Are you a music major?"
6.“You’re so good! Why aren’t you a music major?”
7. Being in an ensemble or music group, which is full of music majors and people who have studied music for years.
And then you're just "there" and you feel so inadequate.
8. Trying to pursue a music major with your other major, but then having to drop it and feeling like a disappointment.
It feels really awful bringing the paperwork up to your music adviser and questioning if he had just signed the music major paperwork a month ago...
9. If people hear you're a musician, they want you to play for art showings and dance shows.
Just a hint: we really don't have the time. This isn't our major. And even if we wanted to, we couldn't play all the shows.
