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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nah.  He can write his music and practice the guitar but he needs to do his school work.

Take the guitar and make him do his school work to get it back.  Tell him you're fine with him creating music but school comes first.[/quote]

You are just awful. Do not take this kid’s guitar.

I suggest reading Dave Growl’s book, The Storyteller, and trying to be like his mom. They had an incredible relationship.

Also read Stixrud’s The Self-Driven Child. He blew off school to spend hours on the guitar. I think he’s done pretty okay in life.[/quote]

For every Dave Growl there are hundreds of thousands of men who could never pay rent with their music. I would focus on the overwhelmingly more likely scenario and plan for it.[/quote]

It’s Grohl.

Dave is the first person who would say he’s not the most technically proficient drummer. He has talent for sure, but also a TON of perseverance and a dose of luck (primarily Nirvana needing a new drummer). He also made some good business decisions (primarily releasing his music on his own record company).

Point being that if OP’s son throws himself into this and really commits, chances are he will be able to support himself with something related to music. Becoming famous really isn’t the goal for most musicians. It’s being able to do music full-time.[b] He could be a session musician. He could do soundtracks. He could produce. He could supplement that all by teaching[/b].

There’s a million ways to do it.[/quote]

The overwhelming majority of those people have a college degree, usually in a field related to music. If you are a star you can get away without education, but being a star is like winning the PowerBall.[/quote]

How is a college degree necessary for those jobs though? [/quote]

Not that PP but my XH I mentioned above who makes a nice living (or at least did while we were married maybe it’s all turned to shit now, I don’t know) does all of that and more, and he has a college degree. It wasn’t necessary but [b]I do believe it helped[/b] and he had a few famous relatives in the music business. [/quote]

How has it helped? Honestly curious. [/quote]

Everyone says that a musician needs a college degree but can't explain how that degree is going to help the musician.  There are plenty of people with liberal arts degrees and student loan debt and are working at Starbuck.  For the last time, how does a college degree help a musician? 
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A music major studies a particular instrument – whether trombone or voice, piano or violin – and also takes music theory and composition courses, music history classes, and classes related to sharpening aural skills. Music majors perform in front of their peers and audiences, and they practice to hone their art.

This is the same for other arts and design fields. There is a basic language and terminology that is developed and allows you to talk to and understand other professionals in the field. [/quote]

You seem to be talking about jazz or classical.

Rock music—which seems to be what OP’s son wants to do—is a different animal.

The language of music schools (triads, dyads, Lydian modes, etc) is almost NEVER used among rock musicians. If a rock guitarist started using those terms among other rock musicians, 99% of the time you’d get either blank stares or laughed out of the room.[/quote]

I think Lady Gaga, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Ariana Grande, Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox, Björk, Jonny Greenwood, Rostam Batmanglig, Glen Danzig would tell different. I really could be here all day listing more musicians. You seriously don’t know what you are talking about![/quote]

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