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How to Know If You’re a Music Major

This is a guest post by Ira from Forging Onward. You can learn more about the author at the bottom of the post, or read Shawna’s original posts that started this series: How to Tell if Your Friend is an English Major (or Spends Too Much Time Around One) and If You Think Your Friend May Be An English Major.

You Know You’re a Music Major When:

1. Your skin starts to pale from too many hours in the practice room.
2. You get excited when you hear that the orchestra will be sitting in the correct formation for a Beethoven symphony.
3. You hear the Up soundtrack and suddenly realize that the main theme is based on a Major 13 chord.
4. You get depressed because you completely forgot that yesterday was Palestrina’s birthday.
5. The only way to get that song out of your head is to go and listen to the whole piece.
6. You spend more than ten hours a week on a single-credit class.
7. You have to transcribe your ring tone when your phone rings in class.
8. Your closet is full of black clothing.
9. You sit around comparing your conducting batons and whether or not yours has the best balance-point.
10. You realize that the high violins in the background of that film scene totally just made you sad.
11. You stand in a grocery store and suddenly exclaim: “That was a third-relation progression!” …and only then do you realize that no one around you actually cares.
12. You make sure that your bow has enough rosin but you forgot to shampoo your hair that morning.
13. You have more friends with perfect pitch than friends who can understand a basketball game.
14. A day at the recording studio is absolute heaven.
15. You can imitate the voice of any pop singer just by listening to them once.

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