Rant #1- The pros and cons of using music to study

The pros and cons of using music to help you study are pretty numerous, but probably the biggest for each is that it helps you study easier, and it relaxes you, but on the other hand, it can distract you and cause you to not study at all. There is research that goes either way, but personally I think that it helps you study. One article I found says that music only distracts you and doesn’t help at all, but another one I found says that it really helps. My personal opinion is that it really helps you. I find that whenever I use it to help me study, usually I get better grades, and it really relaxes me, but sometimes I kind of get away from studying for a minute when a good song comes on, so there is that element there that it distracts you, but I don’t really get distracted to the point where I don’t study anymore. I can really see music being a big distraction for someone else, though, because some people really like listening to music, so when they hear a song they like, they probably wouldn’t study at all. It might even get to the point where someone who likes music a lot might even get worse grades than everyone else, and the research that has been done even says things like that. So to conclude, there is research to both sides of the argument, and it really supports it, but my personal opinion is that it really helps you with studying and doing assignments.

Is Music the Career for me?

My future as a maker and consumer of music would have to be pretty limited. I don’t see myself being a maker of music because it’s not really what I want to do. I’d use music just as something to listen to in my adult life. It won’t be a career, or a hobby, it will just be something in the background. Sure, I’ll have experience working with the technology, but it won’t be something I’d use everyday. I wouldn’t choose music as my first career choice because even though it would be cool to work for a band like Bon Jovi or Simple Plan, my first choice for a career is teaching. I’d probably enjoy having music as a career, but not as much as being a teacher. I’d also be away a lot if I chose music as a career, and that wouldn’t’ be what I would want to do. I’d rather be close to home and spend time with family. I really think that music will just be something in the background in my adult life, because of the facts I’ve listed. If I hadn’t chose teaching for a career, then I could see myself maybe doing music for a career, because it would be fun working for a band, but it wouldn’t be as exciting as teaching. I think that my future as a consumer of music is pretty intact, because I’d still listen to music when I’m older, but I can’t really see myself having a future as a maker of music, and just because it’s not something that I really see myself doing as a career

Thoughts on Music Technology #1

My thoughts on Music Technology so far are that it’s definitely a fun course. You get to work with the PA equipment, do a blog, and more. It’s a really fun course, in my opinion. It even gives you some good experience with working with a band, so if I were to become a techie for Bon Jovi, for example, this course would really help me. The only thing that I’ve found challenging so far is remembering which microphones go where when we’re setting up for a band, but other than that, there’s nothing that’s been really challenging in the course so far. I think that the things that have been easy so far is actually setting up the PA equipment and managing the sound. It was a little hard for me at first, but as I did it more, it seemed to get easier and I remember it better. I’ve enjoyed just the whole experience of the course so far. You get the sense that you’re really helping out the music program in the school. There hasn’t been anything that I really didn’t enjoy. If there was one thing I wanted to see in the course, I think it would be a schedule for which student monitors the band each day, because I haven’t really done much with working the PA board yet, and that’s okay in a way, but I still would like to do some more work with it. So to wrap it up, there’s nothing else that I would have rather taken than Music Technology, because it’s just been really fun so far, and I really enjoy being a student in the class.