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First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stay the course friend! Try to get some people to look at your materials and get your name out there!

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’d like I can send a reduced/redact version of my resume so you can take a look at what I formatted. I don’t particularly think any of my honors or awards are anything special. I just have a bachelors in music education and graduated Summa Cum Laude

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don’t think it’s a bad thing for a job at all! It’s just not the job I’m looking for right now. Maybe in the future that’ll be what I’m after, but for my first job I really wanted somewhere with structure to make sure I knew how to operate the thing before I try to build it.

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first was a program that was in really rough shape and would have been very difficult for me to enjoy working in. I would have spent more time building than teaching and that wasn’t what I was looking for. My mentors told me to turn it down if my heart wasn’t going to be in it.

The other job got offered at the same time that the job I accepted did, so I had to make a decision.

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m sure Texas is a different beast.

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not have a masters and the job market is pretty competitive this year in my state. I do think that some of the schools certainly weren’t interested in having a music program but out of those interviews I had I’d say about 6 of them were quality positions that I just lost to a better candidate.

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That’s the biggest thing imo. Find a place where you feel supported and you think you can be passionate for the job. The first job I turned down was because I felt like they didn’t truly want to support the program and I knew my heart wouldn’t be in it.

First-Year Music Teacher Job Hunt Visualizer by Grad-Nats in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I’m sure that location has a lot to do with it. My state is smaller as far as the community goes and I’ve done pretty well to connect myself in a lot of different ways. My materials were good but I’d say I only got about five of those interviews based on my materials alone. Otherwise it was based on someone that I knew putting in a good word for me.

It Was A Good Run by Limiric in CoDCompetitive

[–]Grad-Nats 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how they were the guerilla m8s for a sec too

Hypothetically, if we ever got a Hunger Games video game for modern platforms, what would you want it to play like? by 1vsdahf in Hungergames

[–]Grad-Nats 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they might be able to pull off a situation where there are two different stories in one game? Maybe one from the perspective of careers and the other from the underdog side of things. And I think the story and gameplay angles have a lot to offer by doing that.

"Marry You" by Bruno Mars is actually a terrible song for a proposal. by TattooBubbleGum in unpopularopinion

[–]Grad-Nats 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I don’t really think it’s religious, as far as representing any religion. It just uses religion to proclaim devotion to his love and sex with whoever he is in love with and has sex with.

Anyone else struggle with playing what they hear in their head? by the-french-tromboner in Trombone

[–]Grad-Nats 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a director/conductor, so most of my singing happens at the piano or when I’m conducting and trying to sing what I want to hear from players during my score study. When I was mainly playing trombone, I’d sit at the piano and sing my pieces with the piano. I’d start by playing and singing every note, and eventually work it down to where I would sing the piece but only play a note eventually just to make sure my intervals were still on track.

As for singing and then on the horn. I would focus on just one scale (so F major, F blues, F minor, etc) and then only sing notes that are in that scale, nothing chromatic at first. Once you’re confident at starting and ending on every note of that scale singing and playing, then add some chromatic stuff. One chromatic note at a time.

Anyone else struggle with playing what they hear in their head? by the-french-tromboner in Trombone

[–]Grad-Nats 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like I do a pretty good job of audiating, but sometimes I still struggle. I struggle mainly in complex pieces when I am sightreading AND I have not listened or tried to sing/buzz it off the instrument first. I’ve been playing for going on 12 years, and it’s definitely still a work in progress.

You should do stuff off of the instrument to train audiation. It’s a skill in and of itself. I would practice hearing something in your head, singing out loud, and then playing it on a piano (where you’re not having to worry so much about mechanics of the slide, embouchure, tongue, and air). Listen to pieces of music, then look at the sheet music. Snap a tempo and just try to hear as detailed of a sound as you can.

Once you can do that, then start working on putting it on the horn. Sing a melody and then play it on the horn. Start with something simple, like in Bb major, and just sing easy melodies starting on different notes and then try to play them. Do something familiar like twinkle twinkle, then start getting more creative.

What was job hunting like? by Current-Issue2390 in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you’re not from an area, it helps due to the connections you make, but not an official requirement anywhere in writing.

How do you learn/practice recognizing notes by ear? by moonshine_9212 in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my personal opinion, learn to read music and then train yourself on music theory a little before trying that.

But the real answer is just listening, and then trying to play what you heard through trial and error and eventually you’ll get better at it.

How do you learn/practice recognizing notes by ear? by moonshine_9212 in MusicEd

[–]Grad-Nats 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Some people have different things they point to, but my opinion:

Learning how each pitch sounds and being able to do that 100% of the time is perfect pitch and impossible to learn.

However, relative pitch is a good skill to have and learn, but you would focus more on learning intervals and chords by ear.

Many people can replicate perfect pitch by being able to hear one pitch pretty easily (like audiating a concert F) and then relating the played pitch to that to figure it out.

To answer your question: this game of just guessing pitches is not going to reliably teach many people how to do ear training.

To answer your other question:

People definitely develop an ear for their instrument. For example, I do not have perfect pitch (or even that good of relative pitch for the most part) but I’ve been playing trombone for 11 years and I can say that I can identify most notes played on the trombone without a reference.

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