While getting ready to practice I just thought, I wonder how many people got private lessons in high school, if so do you feel it prepared you for collegiate music and performance level?
As for me I can say it has gotten me so far ahead of most of my peers, not being cocky or nothing but it did. And I also have had the priviledge of studying with one of the best euphonium/tuba teachers in the U.S. which I am so thankful for. I just want to encourage those who are not and plan on teaching music to lessons with someone who can teach you, not just anyone tho.
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it only helped with some things not all. I could read/play a fly on the music...but theory and arranging were not on the menu - and I really needed them to be. when I got to sdsu (pwc), the white kids had the jump on me because they had gone through a year of theory/arranging, and orchestration in high school!