Music Theory vs AP Music Theory, and AP stat q

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>right now im stuck on whether i should take the regular or ap course, i heard the ap course is very tough, ive been playing piano for about 2 years, but mostly play by ear, not alot of notes,</p>

<p>so far for senior year im gonna take Ap english, ap calc, ap stat, and ap govt.</p>

<p>should i also take ap music theory? im not gonna study music or nething, just taking it for the required fine art credit.</p>

<p>plus for the test, u gotta sing, which i would hate to do and cant do,</p>

<p>so, so far im leaning toward regular music theory, ne thoughts? thnx</p>

<p>also, its possible to take AP Stat, without taking "regular statistics as a prerequisite right? my counselour didnt belive that, but she asked me to find out, i think you could cuz im a math guy and i wanna take ap calc and ap stat at the same time, </p>

<p>thnx for the help</p>

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<p>AP stats isnt suppose to have a prerequisit except for like algebra. A lot of school teach it in one semester, 1/2 a year. The AP doenst even cover that many topics and the test is really easy. Dont listen to your guidance counselour, because most other schools dont require a prereq, but it is up to the individual school. A school can say that you need such and such but collegeboard doesnt have that requirement.</p>

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<p>I can't answer your question about music theory, but at my school, the prerequisite for AP Stats is Alg. II. I went straight from Algebra II (Honors) freshman year into AP Stats sophomore year, and I have yet to struggle in there. I'm also a math person, and I'm also taking another math class concurrently with Stats (Precal), so I imagine that you'd do well also.</p>

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<p>^thnx guys, i knew it, well its a new school, first year for ap calc or ap stat for that matter, ill be the first to take it, with calc</p>

<p>im in pre-calc rite now, and im like wat the heck, when she was bout to sign me up for statistics "honors"</p>

<p>im like no no, AP, and shes like she never heard of jumping to ap, but tomorrow ill tell her,</p>

<p>now wat about the music theory deal?</p>

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<p>i would probly recommend regular music theory- i'm in ap now, and though the class isn't hard (our teacher knows nothing), i've looked at practice exams and they are IMPOSSIBLE. and i've been playing my instrument for years and years, and have taken several years of music theory, so it's not like i'm completely clueless in that sense. i guess that's why the ap curve is so amazingly generous :p :)</p>

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<p>^thanks for the advice tomorrow morning im making the change, wow she was so easy to put me in ap music theory but questions ap stat lol</p>

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<p>yea I've seen practice tests and AP Music theory looks haaaard. You need to be very up on your pentatonic scales and such, which I am clearly not. :p</p>

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<p>and your harmonic dictation and ability to recognize chord progressions...::shudders::</p>

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<p>You should know the notes for treble and bass by ear like the clap of your hand.</p>

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<p>well thnx for the tips, i went for regular music theory, whew, o yea and i got the ap stats also</p>

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<p>I took regular music theory last year and it was easy. I bowed out of AP music theory since I'm not doing anything music related. My friend is going to college and majoring in performing arts opera and has been playing the piano since she could walk - her whole family is musical - and even she has trouble with AP music theory. The teacher is good, so that helps, but whenever I see the stuff they do, I'm like "um...I play guitar, I don't really need to know what inversion to use on b aug 7th chord..."</p>

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<p>No, unless you want to be a composer or an improviser, you would not need to know much about chord structure, only what it sounds like.
To the original topic, AP Statistics has no prerequisites other than Algebra II and is probably fairly straightforward as first-year college courses in statistics are not very advanced in terms of amount of topics covered.
You should take AP Music Theory, even if it is complicated; I wish I could do so, because it would be of use to me.</p>

<p>I just realized that you had already made your selection, so you can disregard what I just said.</p>

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<p>I'm taking Music Theory AP
I think that it's somewhat easy
however, I have 7 years of theory experience
that class...I had such a high A my teacher didn't even bother to calculate my exact grade and just gave me A lol.
If you've had only 2 years, I don't recommend it. Alot of ppl in my class=struggling...</p>

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<p>i never took theory before, but i play piano.. i went into AP Music Theory knowing basically nothing about theory but it's probably my easiest class. lol although that's probably because we do nothing in the class.. i haven't had homework ALL YEAR in that class. easy A, but wow, our class is screwed lol. we took a practice AP test for our music theory final and basically we were all just guessing and filling in random bubbles.. yeah the AP test is super hard =(
but if you just want an easy A and don't plan on taking the AP test, go for it.</p>