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My major that I chose was Pro Music, Professional Music.

Because I want to go into education, and because I'm also heavily involved
with having leadership roles in different
ensembles that I'm in as a vocal group instructor and director and coach.
I've taken a lot of electives in the Ear Training and Harmony Department.
Especially at Berkeley, a big part of arranging is like, well, yes
we're really the movie the same way.
But we want to make this song new and exciting to all the listeners,
because they've already heard it the same way over and over.
So what are we to do?
We're going to re-harmonize this melody.
And so harmony, that's the vocabulary, so that's been my that's been my focus.
And that kind of gives you an idea, too, of what I want to get into.
I want to be a coach and a clinician, and eventually
a professor at a school like Berklee.
I'm doing Music Business.
Just declared.
I like to know my rights and know what I can do, what I can't do,
what other people will do.
I like to know exactly what I'm getting myself into,
so what's a better way to do that than do Music Business?
As a musician, you learn all the rules and everything else.
Playing and all the theory and all of that.
But then when it comes to actually working and stuff,
musicians' rights are very not known in a way.
You go, oh, well, you know, I'm just going to go sign that record deal
and make a bunch of money.
And then you actually learn what that record deal means
and that bunch of money is not a bunch of money.
I'm doing music business because I also want to work as a music supervisor.
Knowing a lot of the rules and all of the legality is very important.
My principal instrument is piano and I'm studying Contemporary Writing
and Production with a minor in TV and Media.
Basically, I'm looking into arranging, orchestration, film scoring,
directing, and producing things.
So in Contemporary Writing and Production,
we are taught how to arrange and orchestrate.
Plus we are taught the technological aspect.
How to sync audio and video, so you have the chance
to go into commercial and jingle writing,
and you have the chance to go into film scoring and orchestration kind of work.
So I'm looking at all of those.
I'm keeping my options open because I know that the industry is
changing as the years go by.
So I'm just going to live it out here at Berklee and see what happens,
but definitely heading in that direction.
I majored in Composition at Berklee.
In the loft sessions, I used a lot of the training
that I had gotten from Composition.
For example, there is an arrangement for a friend of mine's, Sarah [? Wok, ?]
at the beginning, it's a song called "Still Frames."
There's this violin harmonic glissando, which I borrowed from the intro
to the Firebird of Stravinsky, which is a piece that we studied in Composition.
It just happened to work out that I showed up to class that one day we
were analyzing the score, and it was like, that's perfect.
And it's given me the tools to be able to implement a lot of the ideas
that I get from some of the masters in my own works.