Being a student in music means a lot of things....

My parents about went nuts when I told them I had applied to a conservatory and had been accepted and I wanted to be a professional musician.  I don't blame them. It was like I announced I wanted to be a philosopher and make my money for life standing on street corners telling others what is wrong with society and their role in it. Greatly satisfying but at the end of the day you have a quarter in a tin cup.

It also means putting up a camera in a piano room, getting on concert black and playing to no one just for the experience of playing under pressure.  It means this:

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