What was your favorite subject in school?
Growing up in a house with a classically trained musician, it is no surprise that there was always music going on somehow. Usually my Dad practicing or teaching.
Busy with work and teaching students, he never had the time to add his own children to the list, but the piano…and the music was always there for us to use…as long as we weren’t banging.
Just exactly how I learned, I’m not sure but I could read the notes on a treble clef before I could read the words on the page.
Music became my favourite class in school.
Oddly enough,after all of these years, I still have a bit of trouble quickly reading notes more than two steps above or below the staff – I have to stop and work them out – and the bass clef is a bit difficult until I work out the order in my head.
Treble has always been much easier since it is what I am most familiar with, but that in no way hindered my love of music.
In college I took music theory classes because I thought it was fun…the music majors didn’t agree.
I will never be a professional musician…I’m not good enough. That, and a very healthy stage fright…more like stage terror. But none of that dampens my love for music. There is music playing somewhere in my home at all times, including myself at times.
I love this post. It’s interesting how when someone makes a career of an art form it can take on the same psychological misery of a regular job. As a pseudoteacher pseudoscientist, I feel the same way about my colleagues who are top level career science academics