getting a music degree

[Caleb_Pickering]

ok so im only a sophmore in highschool right now, but i already know that i wanna get a degree in music. could yall tell me what all id have to study to become a highschool percussion teacher? so ill know what college i should look at in the north/east texas area.

[Janeway]

If you're going to be a teacher, you don't really have to go to $60k a year school. I mean, if you get a scholarship, that's dandy.
Otherwise, I don't think it's that worth it.
But...um..
You should probably study music education if you want to do that.

[Janeway]

Oh...I forgot.
If I were you, I'd start learning woodwinds/brass pretty quick.
I've never heard of schools just hiring percussion teachers.

[Caleb_Pickering]

allo the schools aroung my area do, we all have the main band teachers and then a percussion teacher that just works with percussion

[Janeway]

Oh. Rich kids.
Boo.

[Caleb_Pickering]

haha no were actually very poor-middleclass and our teachers are very underpaid. but they say that the percussion director is a band teacher and use him as the percussion teacher since thats what he does. Actually every game/ drumline comp/ band comp weve gone too all the 30+ schools weve seen have percussion directors.

[Dextrous]

We had a main band teacher, a Brass teacher, a jazz teacher, a wind teacher and 3 percussion teachers 1 head 1 for the pit and one for the drumline.

[drummer172]

My advice to you, is to go to a normal collage, and major in percussion. If your perticuarly smart double major. If you go to a just music school you are backed into a corner, you need options.