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You should think about a Music Business/Technology major Zodiac. I was on the same page as you at the beginning of this year, wanting to go into music but not being able to/not wanting to be a performance major. The business is more about the distributing/advertising side and technology more the recording side which is what I'm most interested in at the moment.

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Multiple Launch Rocket Systems crew member... at school here in Oklahoma through Dec 8th, then who knows where after that (hoping for Ft Lewis in WA, Germany or Korea). Also carry another job of trouble-shooting all the radios/pc's.

Freelance sports writer for the Miami Herald. Have only done high school football (about a dozen games) so far, but maybe some basketball in 2010. Also sometimes I take box-score call-ins in the office. Its pretty good pay for not that many hours of work and not that hard either so I like it. Hoping to make staff writer someday as then I would get more consistent work. I only get about two assignments a week right now.

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Multiple Launch Rocket Systems crew member... at school here in Oklahoma through Dec 8th, then who knows where after that (hoping for Ft Lewis in WA, Germany or Korea). Also carry another job of trouble-shooting all the radios/pc's.

Ft. Lewis/McChord area is so-so..... Spent 6 weeks there. Most of the year is dreary. Seattle is ok, but traffic on I-5 is always backed up.

Germany is great though. Go for that.

Myself, I'm a Staff Sergeant in the USAF as a Aircraft Communications and Navigations Systems craftsman on MC-130H Talon II's and MC-130P Combat Shadows and have past training on AC-130U Gunships.

I can't believe that was almost 6 years ago. I made that post while stationed in England. Since then, I was stationed at Travis AFB, Ca. where I worked on C-5's and C-17's. I got a medical retirement in June of this year and am now working on going to college again full-time.

I'm hoping to major in film. I'm also interested in music, but I'm way to passionate about it to play the game and make any money. Working on a set just seems like a great job to me, in that I could be making Transformers 9 and I wouldn't beat myself up too much.

I've also been waiting for a block of time to learn some more programming shit so I can make some coins selling indie computer games. I'd never work for a big games company though, cubicle work just doesn't seem like it's for me.

I've started studying History and Musicology. I have no idea what i'm going to do with that, though.

There's such a thing as "Musicology"? I thought it would be called "Music Theory", or something like that.

^Music theory refers to understanding how to read/write music as it is written.

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well, musicology is made up of systematic musicology, which contains music theory (Harmony, Counterpoint etc..) + Ethnomusicology, which is about all music that is not western concert music + Historical Musicology. What I'm doing is mainly Historical musicology.
I think Musicology exists only in Germany, in many other countries it's part of music performance, composition or whatever studies. Dont know if thats true though.

Currently the school I go to doesn't divulge into specifics in that field, so right now I'm just starting with "Music 101" or "Music Fundamentals." I'm pretty sure no matter how you slice it you'll end up taking that course first. Its basically just a class outlining every basic aspect of music such as rhythm, melody, harmony, etc. I find it slightly useless (or I guess I just don't care), because I have no desire to ever write or read sheet music but I'm glad I stuck with it; I'm learning more than I thought I would. You learn a lot about piano taking this course, too. Depending on what school you attend I'm sure you can get into things like contemporary music classes or production or something more focused.

Next year I might move into Music Theory and Rock History or simply switch my major to something else like English because I'm a writer as well.

I entered school as a music major in what I'm told is one of the better music teaching schools on the East coast. Practically, unless you plan to spend countless hours in a practice room every day or you get lucky and your band makes it big, you won't ever make a living in music. Becoming a music teacher in a school is the most practical job you're going to get, and that comes with all the fun disadvantages of being an educator and the lack of job security brought on by No Child Left Behind and the diminishing economy (first programs to get cut from schools are usually the arts programs. Bye bye music, theatre, writing, foreign languages, art...) Needless to say, I switched majors by the end of my freshman year.

Anyway, the only people that took the course that you're describing were non-majors and minors. Music majors jumped right into Music Theory I and Aurals I (sight singing, ear training, rhythmic training). Depending on what you're trying to do with your degree, it seems like your program isn't really taking you anywhere, and I suggest you get into a 4 year program somewhere.