Western Audition

The whole reason I've been so worried about the music theory is so I will do well on the entrance exam at my college auditions coming up. Well my first one is coming up on Friday and I'm slightly nervous. I still have not been able to finish chapter one and I only have a few days. I'm still going to try to get through as much as I can, but I'm not exactly sure how much that's going to help.

I guess I have to go in and do my best, but I am very uneasy about it.

VIA Strengths Survey

So I took the VIA Strengths Survey and it said that my top 5 strenghts are:

1.Caution, Prudence, and Discretion

2.Fairness, Equity, and Justice

3.Industry, Diligence, and Perserverance

4.Judgement, Critical Thinking, and Open-Mindedness

5.Capacity to Love and Be Loved

I'm not exactly sure how this is going to help me with music theory, but I can see how it will help me in life. I want to go into psychology and music therapy as a career so I will need to be fair, diligent, and open-minded to make some sort of connection with the people I work with and having that kind of connection will help with treatment. Caution is just an overall good thing to have and the capacity to love and be loved, well, I feel like every person has this in them. The fact that it's a strength I guess means that I am more easily loved or love more? Maybe...

Part I: Elements of Pitch;1-4

I have been trying my hardest to keep up with all of my music theory on top of all the things I'm supposed to being doing for school, but it has turned out to be a bit harder than I expected. The last lesson has taken up a large amount of time because it was ear training basically. That is where they give you an interval and you're supposed to say if it is major or minor. I'm actually pretty good at telling which one is which along with the P4, P5, and octaves (just other types of intervals that are known as "perfect" intervals) because we have done them in choir since my freshman year. When I hear the notes, I can almost automatically tell which one it is, but only looking at the notes is a different story. I can't just look at a note and hear it in my head. I am very nervous about all of this because I have my first college audition coming up in a week and I have to take a music theory enterance exam as part of the audition. I'm also going to lose a few days that I can do this because of Honors Choir this week.

This whole process is a lot more stressful than I thought it would be.