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Additionally, by the time you're an undergraduate you should be able to play any scale and arpeggio smoothly without hesitation. I'm an idiot and played for ab

Additionally, by the time you're an undergraduate you should be able to play any scale and arpeggio smoothly without hesitation. I'm an idiot and played for about 8 years and really, scales and arpeggios are not that difficult. For someone who aspires for a teaching degree these should be cake and you should not be getting flustered by these at all. Programming equivalent would be something like needing to write a syntactically correct for loop in a random language pulled out of a hat. A basic exercise with some challenge but simple to do if you have put any practice in it.

rukuu001 3y ago
Standard warmup - scales and arpeggios round the circle major n minor. 15 mins.
- dmoy 3y ago
  Yea this was standard warmup for me two years into high school (not piano, but still it's common warmup). I never even went in to music on undergrad. Everyone I knew who went into music for undergrad could play arpeggio in their sleep in any key, and most of them could do it on the piano too even when that wasn't their instrument. Maybe what happened is that was a class of all non pianists who were dragging their feet learning piano? Idk
867-5309 3y ago
that would be like pulling a random instrument out of a hat!
- bentcorner 3y ago
  Haha, fair enough. How about - typing out a "hello world" program using a keyboard layout pulled out of a hat :)
- thdespou 3y ago
  What about solve this random leetcode problem for me...
fraud 3y ago
You’d be surprised. Currently taking a minor in music and there are several students taking these classes with me who don’t know how major and minor chords are constructed/are learning for the first time now. I’ve personally noticed it a lot with the classically trained people in my jazz ensemble. Granted I don’t expect them to understand non diatonic harmony/modal stuff right away, but you’d think that they would at least know the basics. Most high school “musicians” are simply doing it for college applications or due to parental pressure. Played in a band in HS and had a few “all state” musicians play with us. They were completely useless. Explaining to them that we were playing a song in a different key/ having them transpose something was a nightmare. Even the jazz band kids could really only play in 2 keys without completely losing form. There’s a lot of posturing in music especially academically from my experience.

rukuu001 3y ago

Standard warmup - scales and arpeggios round the circle major n minor. 15 mins.

dmoy 3y ago
Yea this was standard warmup for me two years into high school (not piano, but still it's common warmup). I never even went in to music on undergrad. Everyone I knew who went into music for undergrad could play arpeggio in their sleep in any key, and most of them could do it on the piano too even when that wasn't their instrument. Maybe what happened is that was a class of all non pianists who were dragging their feet learning piano? Idk

867-5309 3y ago

that would be like pulling a random instrument out of a hat!

bentcorner 3y ago
Haha, fair enough. How about - typing out a "hello world" program using a keyboard layout pulled out of a hat :)
thdespou 3y ago
What about solve this random leetcode problem for me...

fraud 3y ago

You’d be surprised. Currently taking a minor in music and there are several students taking these classes with me who don’t know how major and minor chords are constructed/are learning for the first time now. I’ve personally noticed it a lot with the classically trained people in my jazz ensemble. Granted I don’t expect them to understand non diatonic harmony/modal stuff right away, but you’d think that they would at least know the basics. Most high school “musicians” are simply doing it for college applications or due to parental pressure. Played in a band in HS and had a few “all state” musicians play with us. They were completely useless. Explaining to them that we were playing a song in a different key/ having them transpose something was a nightmare. Even the jazz band kids could really only play in 2 keys without completely losing form. There’s a lot of posturing in music especially academically from my experience.