Hey there,
I'm about to go into my freshman year of music school and I'm going in on my clarinet. My current plan is to pursue the music theory/composition degree, since I've always had a love for writing music.
For a bit of back story: I've played both clarinet and piano for a while now (about 9 years on clarinet and 7 on piano) and I love them both! I have always had an extremely hard time performing in front of people, but I was always pushed to perform. I'm not planning in majoring in performance, but something has happened recently that has made me question my decision of instruments for college. Basically, I decided to audition with clarinet at my school since I thought I wouldn't make it on piano due to the demand being much higher. I didn't think it would matter too much since my ultimate goal is composition.
Well, now that I've gotten a feel to what I'll be doing during college, I regret my choice of not trying to get in on piano. I've realized that my passion for piano is so much stronger than clarinet. I enjoy playing in band and small ensembles with clarinet, but solo work is something I just get so terrified and uncomfortable with. When I perform on piano, it's just different. Yes, I am still very very nervous, but I just have this feeling of excitement? I don't know how else to describe it.
I know this is long, but I thought it'd make more sense if you could see where I was coming from. I'm all set to go to school and study clarinet while doing the piano classes that all music majors have to take. I did manage to test out of the first two, but I feel that I'll be missing piano so much at college. I don't know what to do. Should I postpone my school and wait to audition on piano next year? Is it a smart choice to do two instruments? I'm sort of at a loss. My school does allow you to do two instruments. I didn't know this until way after I auditioned! I just feel I made a big mistake. I have a friend who's doing a double major in Music Ed. with her clarinet and Performance with piano. I would love to do something like that, but I'm unsure if it's a wise choice?
I hope this made some sense. I've really been struggling with this and would love some advice! Thank you in advance!
If you need any more details I can try and help with that![:)]( ":)")
I'm about to go into my freshman year of music school and I'm going in on my clarinet. My current plan is to pursue the music theory/composition degree, since I've always had a love for writing music.
For a bit of back story: I've played both clarinet and piano for a while now (about 9 years on clarinet and 7 on piano) and I love them both! I have always had an extremely hard time performing in front of people, but I was always pushed to perform. I'm not planning in majoring in performance, but something has happened recently that has made me question my decision of instruments for college. Basically, I decided to audition with clarinet at my school since I thought I wouldn't make it on piano due to the demand being much higher. I didn't think it would matter too much since my ultimate goal is composition.
Well, now that I've gotten a feel to what I'll be doing during college, I regret my choice of not trying to get in on piano. I've realized that my passion for piano is so much stronger than clarinet. I enjoy playing in band and small ensembles with clarinet, but solo work is something I just get so terrified and uncomfortable with. When I perform on piano, it's just different. Yes, I am still very very nervous, but I just have this feeling of excitement? I don't know how else to describe it.
I know this is long, but I thought it'd make more sense if you could see where I was coming from. I'm all set to go to school and study clarinet while doing the piano classes that all music majors have to take. I did manage to test out of the first two, but I feel that I'll be missing piano so much at college. I don't know what to do. Should I postpone my school and wait to audition on piano next year? Is it a smart choice to do two instruments? I'm sort of at a loss. My school does allow you to do two instruments. I didn't know this until way after I auditioned! I just feel I made a big mistake. I have a friend who's doing a double major in Music Ed. with her clarinet and Performance with piano. I would love to do something like that, but I'm unsure if it's a wise choice?
I hope this made some sense. I've really been struggling with this and would love some advice! Thank you in advance!
If you need any more details I can try and help with that
