But wouldn't you still have to pay your share of the hotel room even if you didn't stay in it? Otherwise some have to pay more than others.
Yeah, there's a lot of drama involved in music. There's also the instrumentalists against the vocalists...the instrumentalists, at least at my University, considered the vocalists to be second rate musicians because theory is not really used as much with singers. It doesn't matter in which key you sing, the scale is the same. You don't have to know which notes are flat or sharp. There's no embouchure to work on, or fingerings, or scales, and you don't have to know key signatures. We still had to learn it all as music majors, obviously, but just to sing in a choir, you wouldn't necessarily need to know it. So I was dating an instrumentalist and he didn't want to go to choir functions with me, like when we went bowling, because he was an instrumentalist. Just so petty. And some of the professors favored the instrumentalists over the vocalists. My composition and arrangement professor wouldn't let the vocalists do vocal arrangements. We had to do band arrangements, because he felt that band was more important. And he gave better grades to the instrumentalists, even if their arrangements weren't as good. My ex put off one of the assignments until the night before it was due, and the lab was only open for a couple of hours. He did the whole assignment in an hour and a half, it was almost all in unison, and he got an A, where I had spent hours each day working on mine, and actually had harmonies and such in it, and I got a B. My boyfriend even admitted his work was not good, he hadn't put any effort into it, and mine was way better, but he got the A, because he was an instrumentalist. I don't know if it's like that in other places, but where I went to school, instrumentalists and vocalists did not mix, and there was a lot of cattiness and such among the musicians in ALL the areas...Jazz band wasn't considered as serious as orchestra...vocalists are the bottom rung on the ladder....
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@SteveBrickNJ could enlighten me as to whether that's a universal thing among musicians, or if it was just the social environment where I went to school?