(it said this should be 150 words total, I didn't know if that meant for each category or all of them together..anyway these three together are 260 some words. I took out about 50. I hope this is alright!! Thank you so much..)
LIZARD
Ah, the lizard. An interesting name for it; the fear of failure, the fear of being laughed at. In my experience as a musician, my first fear was of getting on stage and playing – will they laugh? Will I mess up? And those are very real fears, but I think what’s more important is the bigger picture. In the bigger picture many are afraid, not just of acting or performing, or being laughed at, but the bigger fear is in actually pursuing something in the arts. You may be afraid of being laughed at in the high school play, but you get over that. The bigger fear is: how do I tell my parents, friends and so forth that I want to try and make a career of it? Try and make something from nothing, which is essentially what creativity is in a nutshell.
MAKE ART
How refreshing!!! Literally, for the first time in my entire public education I am being told to create. I’ve spent my entire 19 years (1/5 of my life!!!) being told to “solve,” solve what? A question, which already has an answer? Sounds like a waste of time to me… I love this. Art is absolutely the opposite of trigonometry. It’s you, being yourself. Creativity is abnormal; you’re forced to react, not create things that get reactions.
LEARN
I love it. Great point. It’s how I’ve felt my whole life; “don’t let school get in the way of your education.” I haven’t, I’ve learned so much more, my entire life on my own then I have even gotten close to learning in school.
Blog Talk
These blogs are a total waste of time. In fact the first three years of college are. It’s as simple as that; and here’s why: I’m majoring in Audio Music Production, sound engineering. A sound engineering’s toolbox is Pro Tools, we won’t even learn about what Pro Tools is until our third year of school, or after 30 or 40 thousand dollars has been spent. Can you imagine a medical student who’s first three years of school are spent without knowing what the inside of the E.R. looks like? These blogs do nothing for me, and neither does watching the God Father’s one scene on repeat, or watching Alien Vs. Zombie video game clips. I’ve been in professional recording studios since I was 15. I’ve worked with different producers, I’ve engineered drums, and I’ve worked on bass and guitar sounds. I’ve EQ’d stuff, learned about mixing and mastering, all on my own. I’ve learned more from recording on my own then I will, perhaps, in my entire four years of college. That’s a terrifying thought for someone going into a field that is already limited – I’ll be straight forward, I couldn’t care less about doing sound for a video game or T.V. show. I’m here for music; music touches the heart and soul of an individual. T.V. and video games entertain for slight amount of time. It’s rare that they touch the soul of an individual. And if I’m going to make myself a career in the music industry, I’m going to need to know more then a blog post can teach.
Let me put it this way; Geoff Emerick, the sound engineer who did The Beatles album “Revolver,” began work on it when he was 19. I’m 19. When he was 20 they did “Sgt. Pepper.” George Harrison, the lead guitarist, was 23 when they finished “Sgt. Pepper.” On the other hand, I’m spending my ‘formative years’ writing my reaction to some online clip I read, before I head to class to hear about video games, and then write 300 words or less about it. Sound enlightening?
I’m not trying to be rude about the class, or anything like that, but I have thirst for working and learning. I feel I’d get a lot more out of a class where we learned, what’s the best way to record an all-vocal group? How do you do brass in a jazz context, or in a rock context? I realize these are audio specific questions, but that’s what I’m here for. I understand the need for a well rounded education, a little of this, a little of that. But that’s not going to get me a job, you know? In a field that’s already small, spending my time writing blogs isn’t exactly teaching me, and I’m not learning from it. It’s too removed; it’s not hands on. Labs, I mean, I’m sorry but doing a little clip on Garage Band isn’t ‘hands on’ either, it’s busy work. As are blogs, and I think that’s 500 words though so I’m done!
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