Which of the following describe your motivations for studying\/making music? Be completely honest.<\/p>\n
1. It’s an attention getter . . . makes me feel important.<\/p>\n
2. It attracts members of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n
3. I’m being sort of pressured to do it (parents, band director, peer group, etc).<\/p>\n
4. It sure beats washing cars (comparative approach).<\/p>\n
5. Sounds like a lot of fun!<\/p>\n
6. I just want to see if I can do it.<\/p>\n
7. I admire people who can do it; their skill awes me and scares me.<\/p>\n
8. It has always fascinated me . . . a sort of magic.<\/p>\n
9. It’s a creative skill, worth the effort.<\/p>\n
10. It’s a creative democracy that can be collectively exciting and communicative in group situations.<\/p>\n
11. To avoid inertia. When I am not involved in creative practice, performance, or study, I feel unfulfilled and sense an emptiness.<\/p>\n
12. I am compelled, even obsessed with working at it all the time . . . I can’t explain it, exactly, but the drive to do it is undeniable.<\/p>\n
13. Creative music is a God-given gift and therefore divine. It lifts the hearts of performer and listener alike. I must<\/em> be a part of the activity!<\/p>\n Motivations 1-4 are weak reasons for studying music and won’t buoy you for long. Motivations 5-8 are better reasons and might indicate that, as time passes, your motivations might improve. Motivations 9-13 are best for the study of music; they will carry you through a lifetime of continuous development. Use them as reminders, if and when your efforts begin to sag.<\/p>\n Survey taken from Jerry Coker, How To Practice Jazz,<\/em> New Albany, IN: Jamey Aebersold, 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Which of the following describe your motivations for studying\/making music? Be completely honest. 1. It’s an attention getter . . . makes me feel important. 2. It attracts members of the opposite sex. 3. I’m being sort of pressured to… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}