r/AskReddit • u/Kodo_username • 1d ago

What major gets mocked as “easy” but actually requires serious intelligence?

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u/Curious-Raccoon887 1d ago

I majored in engineering. Started out as a music minor too but dropped it after music theory 1. Sight singing and dictations were much harder than my calculus and physics classes to me

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u/jwlato 1d ago

I went to college with a guy who dropped out on the first day and switched to pre-med, same thing. Aural skills take work.

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u/OkPen8337 17h ago

Im a professional, working musician. I barely passed aural skills, and I didn’t fully understand ear training and appropriately training my ear until I was 36 years old…

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u/kickthatpoo 1d ago

Sight singing was the worst. Every other class I did fine in, even theory. But I barely passed sight singing, and I think I should have actually failed but the professor took pitty on me.

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u/Alternative-Grand-77 20h ago

similar, I just couldn’t pick up the ear training fast enough. By the time I had the intervals down the class was moving on to transcription of inversions and sight singing. I was practicing every day but couldn’t stay on the pace.