What are you taking/Aspiring to?

**Pepsi** · 12-20-2008, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by effingawwesome

I just finished my first semester of classes for my Music Education degree with instrumental certification K-12. I am seriously, seriously seriously considering transferring from my current school to the University of North Texas and switching my major to Jazz Studies.

If I don't end up going there after my sophomore year then I'll finish out my degree at my current school and work for a few years on a cruise ship playing lead trumpet in their house band to save money. Then I want to go to UNT to get a masters in jazz studies and an artist's certificate in trumpet (pretty much is a PhD in trumpet) from them.

I would like to be a studio musician, but really I would be happy if I got to play in a jazz band to make a living. Hell I would spend the rest of my life on a cruise ship if that was the only gig I could get. After a long career of playing I want to teach at the university level teaching trumpet and the school's jazz program.

After all that and I get really old I want to retire somewhere in/on the Mediterranean. Like Dizzy said, "Some days you play and you win. Some days you play and the horn wins. Then you get good enough to where you always win. Then you die and the horn wins."

That's the first time I've heard anything like that.

**effingawwesome** · 12-20-2008, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Pepsi

That's the first time I've heard anything like that.

anything like what?

**Pepsi** · 12-20-2008, 07:23 PM

Originally Posted by effingawwesome

anything like what?

Majoring in Trumpet...which is essentially what you are doing.

**effingawwesome** · 12-20-2008, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Pepsi

Majoring in Trumpet...which is essentially what you are doing.

Oh ok. Have you never heard of majoring in Music Performance? It's essentially the same thing but you only play classical music on your instrument. When your degree is complete it says BA in YourInstrumentHere Performance. Plus you have to be fluent in 2 other languages if you're a performance major.

Jazz studies is pretty much music performance but you play jazz instead of classical music. Most people who teach on the collegiate level or play in orchestras have their degrees in performance. I just don't like playing classical music enough to do it.

**sycld** · 12-20-2008, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by Pepsi

That's the first time I've heard anything like that.

that's because in real universities, you can get degrees in a wide variety of disciplines, unlike in that buttfuck bable college you used to go to.

**Anonymous D** · 12-20-2008, 08:54 PM

Industrial Electronics Technology

Once I graduate, me a a buddy plan o go to Iraq and work there for a year or two.

**Pepsi** · 12-21-2008, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by sycld

that's because in real universities, you can get degrees in a wide variety of disciplines, unlike in that buttfuck bable college you used to go to.

It's not because of the school I go to. I just hadn't heard of it before.

I'm quite aware of the various degrees out there...seeing as I live fifteen minutes from a "real" university.

**Mad Pino Rage** · 12-21-2008, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by Pepsi

It's not because of the school I go to. I just hadn't heard of it before.

I'm quite aware of the various degrees out there...seeing as I live fifteen minutes from a "real" university.

I was under the impression that you were an angry 13-year old kid and not old enough to go to post-secondary schooling.