<p>Hello, I have enjoyed music my whole life, I was in chorus in high school and I loved it. I decided that I wanted to major in music. But life happens and I run into problems with my schedule, and classes are offered when I have to work, and secondly, I don't have a background in classical music. I am a Voice student, and I am having trouble because I feel out of place singing these songs. I do like when I hear other students sing classical music, but I dont think its for me. So my teacher tried to make me an offer, I can choose one song a semester that we could work on that was "pop" and the others had to be classical. I quoted pop because that definition was uh... well not always. But I could not perform that song for juries or anything so it was only for me. Is there anything that I could do, or is there schools that arent so classical? Or how about for people who want to go back but wants to take evening and weekend classes?</p>
<p>Before this group can give you any meaningful advice, we will need to know things in a little more organized fashion and in a little more detail. Let’s understand this one step at a time.</p>
<p>Are you currently still in high school, in college, or neither?
Is the teacher you mention associated with a school, or a private teacher you are going to on your own?
Are you looking for something where you currently live that you could do on evenings and weekends, or would you be open to moving somewhere else where you could look for a job and a school?
Are you looking to make music a career and, if so, what kind of music in particular?</p>
<p>There are a couple of schools, Berklee in Boston and the new USC program in Popular Music for example, that grant undergrad degrees for non-classical music majors. They are full-time programs however, and it sounds like you would need a good deal of financial aid to be able to attend either one. If you can tell us a bit more about your current situation and your goals, perhaps someone here will have some other ideas.</p>
<p>I don’t seem to understand…are you enrolled in a 4-year college for voice performance?</p>
<p>“I decided that I wanted to major in music. But life happens and I run into problems with my schedule, and classes are offered when I have to work”</p>
<p>This statement has me a bit confused…</p>
<p>Edit: BassDad beat me to it.</p>
<p>I was at a community college taking voice lessons, trying to major in music, I wasnt exactly sure what I would actually get my degree in at that time. But now I think I want to be a Music Therapy major. I was working and going to school, but I needed to work so I could support myself. That meant that I missed some semesters then I went back, then missed another and so on… My teacher is associated with that school, so currently I am not enrolled, and I am also not taking lessons which I hate. I could go look for a new teacher, but then I might feel uncomfortable, since this was my first time taking voice lessons, and he was my first teacher. I have been looking at other schools (4 yr schools) And they all seem to be full time programs. Why isnt there a school for part time music majors?? I am sorry about the original post. Oh yeah the “pop” songs were “What a Wonderful World”(I liked this one) and “No One Knows Who I Am”(This song was ok), the other songs were “Tu Lo Sai” (which I Liked the most) and “Salley Gardens”, “Danny Boy”, and “Per La Gloria…” (Which I hated- All 3)</p>
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<p>A Bachelor of music is an intensive program with a very specific sequence of courses and is in some ways similar to other professional schools, such as Engineering. For that reason, I suspect part time study is not made readily available. Eg. total immersion in an almost full day program of playing/singing and studying nets a holistic gain for a musician. That synergy between theory, musicology, your major, performance etc. would be very difficult to achieve if your focus is divided. Some SOM students even have trouble with part-time jobs due to the priority of rehearsal and performance schedules.</p>
<p>However, if you can get into a program and get started, I do know of one student in my son’s program (Michigan) who later dropped to part-time course load in order to work and pay for school. He is an older student and I don’t know if these were special arrangements or is generally permissible.</p>
<p>Thinking about how DD’s schedule is done, all of the classroom courses such as theory, history, aural skills, diction, are in the AM while lessons, coachings and ensembles are in the afternoon. She has to fit her LA classes around that, too. Not sure how you would work the part time unless you were stretching it it out a lot.</p>
<p>pwrsurg35, a similar question was asked here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/764582-music-programs-outside-degree-programs.html?highlight=adult[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/764582-music-programs-outside-degree-programs.html?highlight=adult</a></p>
<p>kmccrindle sums up the stumbling blocks pretty well.</p>
<p>And music therapy will follow the same format, and will include a heavier science load, and some lab/observation and practicum coursework as well. You can look through some of the links here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/729144-music-therapy.html?highlight=music+therapy[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/729144-music-therapy.html?highlight=music+therapy</a> and see if you can find something with some flexibilty, but it may well be a difficult search.</p>
<p>Thanh you everyone. I know about a few schools near me that Offer music therapy. I live in MD, and there are no schools in this state that offers a degree in Music Therapy, but Howard University in DC has a MT program, you can earn a B.M. Temple University in Philiadelphia has MT programs for B.M., M.M.T., and PhD. and Shenadoah University has a Music Conservatory that offers MANY music degree programs including B.M. and M.M. in Music Therapy. (I feel like this program might not be for me.)
I am not strong with classical music and I feel like that will be the biggest setback in earning my education.
I am looking a community colleges in MD and I live in Mongomery Co. This music program is not working out for me, but Howard Co offers Music therapy courses in the evening but the Music theory/Eartraining is in the morning. Frederick Co offers Music theory/Aural Skills in the afternoon- 3-430pm so I have to see if I can make it work…</p>
<p>I am thinking I will take some time now to improve my self and take lessons. I will need to get better with singing and piano, and I need to learn guitar and maybe percussion for MT.</p>