music college

[PERFECTXDARK]

hey just a quick post,but I was wondering if I took all applied classes in highschool and did really well like 70's in all of them and then did amazing i music and got like 80's and 90's,would I be able to get int oa music college and just study music? like not become a teacher or anything just study like jazz or live performance? thanks :)

[The_Red_Death]

hey just a quick post,but I was wondering if I took all applied classes in highschool and did really well like 70's in all of them and then did amazing i music and got like 80's and 90's,would I be able to get int oa music college and just study music? like not become a teacher or anything just study like jazz or live performance? thanks :)

The music college I'm planning on going to (Selkirk in Nelson, B.C.) only requires that you pass an audition, and had a C or better in English 12. High grades will help when getting into any post-secondary school though, and music courses definently can't hurt.

[Mr. Pickle]

first off, arent you like 14?

every school is different, but i'm sure they'll look at ALL of your grades, not just music. and i dont think 70's = 'really well'

[PERFECTXDARK]

first off, arent you like 14?

every school is different, but i'm sure they'll look at ALL of your grades, not just music. and i dont think 70's = 'really well'
yeah man I wanna my life planned out and I know I wanna do somthing in music and I am going to look at the one in B.C but thanks very much for the input guys :) do you have to take applied or academic ? to get into the music college I sound like a noob but im just looking for help. p.s p.s again :P can I have the name of the college in b.c?

[Valdris]

well, even if your grades suck, you can always do transfer corses in College.
But you should try to get ~80%

[PERFECTXDARK]

how does the college system work like can you like major in music performance then minor in like jazz theory? I dunno im just using that as an example and is applied fine for music college as long as you get like 70's and 80's?

[The_Red_Death]

yeah man I wanna my life planned out and I know I wanna do somthing in music and I am going to look at the one in B.C but thanks very much for the input guys :) do you have to take applied or academic ? to get into the music college I sound like a noob but im just looking for help. p.s p.s again :P can I have the name of the college in b.c?

Yeah, I'm 15, and I'm already planning for college myself. But yeah, check out Selkirk College (http://selkirk.ca/learning/programs/?program=Music). I've heard it has one of the best music programs in Western Canada, despite it being only a 2 year program. I think I heard from someone that it was directly transferable to Berklee College Of Music in Boston, but don't quote me on that, as I'm not entirely sure.

/waits for someone to quote me on that.

It also has details for admission requirements on the site.

[namesareoverrated]

Music colleges usually aren't heavily picky on grades -- if you come in with a good audition, you're in, if you come in with a mediocre audition and you have good grades and they really need a bass player for one of the lower bands then you'll get in. Also, grades will really help on scholarships, many of which allow you to apply the money to whatever sort of studies you wish.

Berklee (and probably some other schools) has this weird reverse-grades thing going on; at my interview I was told that they wouldn't accept me because my grades and test scores were so much higher than their average student -- they basically said that they want people who can't do anything else and that my skills in other areas turned them off. On the other hand, they are the only school I have ever heard of to do this, and mine was probably a very rare case, so don't count on that.

Just do your work and get 90's so you don't have to worry (as much) about paying for college.

-- Oh, and to more directly answer your other question, music college (for me) has involved almost nothing but music. My major is Jazz Studies, which is a form of Performance degree. Next semester, for example, I will have 12 classes -- 10 music classes/ensembles, one speech class and one health class. For now, take some non-music classes. Everything you need to know about music you'll learn in college, so that can wait. What can't wait is stuff like English and History, because if you get to college without knowing that you'll be pretty far behind.

[ROM]

if you want real big music colleges theres always Berklee and the one Steve Bailey teaches at, in north carolina I believe (googles it)

[ROM]

woot another post ... the college is Coastal Carolina University !
heres a liink http://www.uncw.edu/music/

[PERFECTXDARK]

Music colleges usually aren't heavily picky on grades -- if you come in with a good audition, you're in, if you come in with a mediocre audition and you have good grades and they really need a bass player for one of the lower bands then you'll get in. Also, grades will really help on scholarships, many of which allow you to apply the money to whatever sort of studies you wish.

Berklee (and probably some other schools) has this weird reverse-grades thing going on; at my interview I was told that they wouldn't accept me because my grades and test scores were so much higher than their average student -- they basically said that they want people who can't do anything else and that my skills in other areas turned them off. On the other hand, they are the only school I have ever heard of to do this, and mine was probably a very rare case, so don't count on that.

Just do your work and get 90's so you don't have to worry (as much) about paying for college.

-- Oh, and to more directly answer your other question, music college (for me) has involved almost nothing but music. My major is Jazz Studies, which is a form of Performance degree. Next semester, for example, I will have 12 classes -- 10 music classes/ensembles, one speech class and one health class. For now, take some non-music classes. Everything you need to know about music you'll learn in college, so that can wait. What can't wait is stuff like English and History, because if you get to college without knowing that you'll be pretty far behind.

Yeah,but ok say I go to a music college,I have completed high school,I took all APPLIED classes,got 80's and up in all the classes,then I find this college how do I pick my classes do they like ok what do you wanna major in and what do you want to minor in? somthing along the line of that,and thank you for the pointers about other classes! :):thumb:

[Aukai]

Well normally If you going to me a music Major, ok let me use myself as example too..

I'm a Jazz studies major, my schedule last semester looked like this.

Music Theory I - Aural
Music Theory I - Harmony
Piano I
Jazz Improv
Jazz Apperciation
Recital Lab (Basically attend concerts)
Comp I
College Algebra

My 2nd Semester looks like this

Music Theory II - Aural (Ear training)
Music Theory II - Harmony (Written training)
Piano II (I wish this sh.it wasn't required)
Jazz Combo
Jazz Improv (Jazz Theory)
Bass Lessons (For upright)
Guitar Lessons (For chops)
Recital Lab (For Concerts)
Comp II

As you can see, you won't really have a hard time picking your classes, those first 3 are required for the first 3 semesters...then at some point I'm taking music history. then you'll take performance classes like Jazz emsemble, jazz combo, or w/e your music perference is. then you'll have like 1 or 2 basics and like 1 bs class like health.

And on picking your major....hell if you don't know yet say undecided.

[namesareoverrated]

Yeah,but ok say I go to a music college,I have completed high school,I took all APPLIED classes,got 80's and up in all the classes,then I find this college how do I pick my classes do they like ok what do you wanna major in and what do you want to minor in? somthing along the line of that,and thank you for the pointers about other classes! :):thumb:

First, I'm afraid I'm unsure of specifically what you mean when you say "Applied classes." If you mean taking a bunch of High School music courses, I would say don't bother unless you can't read music or are completely unfamiliar with chords. In my experience, the college is perfectly willing to teach you, most people don't take music theory and the like in high school, and the average high school music teacher might teach an unusual method, forcing you to start over in college anyway (I, for one, was in HS choir for two years and had to learn solfege [do, re, etc.] three different ways!) You should be in band and all that, and choir isn't bad either, but theory and classes like that are pretty hit-or-miss. If you're talking about something else when you say applied, please explain.

Second, again, I must go with my experience. For every school I to which I applied, I was given the opportunity to declare a major right on the application form. When I actually got to the school (summer orientation, a few months before classes started), as a music major, I had a meeting with a music professor, and she walked me through the scheduling process. I should note that this was a very short process, because I had exactly two choices to make. All of my required music classes were already planned out for me, I was able to choose up to two non-music classes and I later auditioned for ensembles (I had to be in at least one ensemble, I am currently in two). The first year of music school will most likely have little to do with the specific major you are in (I haven't taken any Jazz classes yet), but will be all general music stuff. This gives you the opportunity to adjust your major to a different music area, or to decide that music isn't for you.

[namesareoverrated]

Piano II (I wish this sh.it wasn't required)

Heh, yeah. Piano is probably my most purely frustrating class. They hand you a piece of music, you understand every nuance of the piece, you understand the technique involved, and if you're anything like me you can memorize the entire piece note-for-note by the second sight-read. The only thing you can't do is sit down and play it. :angry:

Then there's World Music Lab. Another required class, and one that some people hate, but I can't figure out why. We spent the first half of the semester playing Japanese taiko music -- putting my entire body into hitting a drum that's five feet in diameter while screaming in unison with 30 other people doing the same thing is incredible. :smash: We spent the second half of the semester learning the rhythms of Carribbean percussion music, which was more laid-back but no less fun. Good thing I have another semester of this!:chug:

[Aukai]

Heh, yeah. Piano is probably my most purely frustrating class. They hand you a piece of music, you understand every nuance of the piece, you understand the technique involved, and if you're anything like me you can memorize the entire piece note-for-note by the second sight-read. The only thing you can't do is sit down and play it. :angry:

Hell yeh! we had to learn out scales, and doing so is so much eaiser on piano(well at least visualizing it on piano is eaiser cause you can see your flats and stuff), but he tells me its not the right fingerings! So yeh, It's hard to remember 24 different fingerings, 12 for each hand...fu.cking douche bag of an elf piano teacher...



Then there's World Music Lab. Another required class, and one that some people , but I can't figure out why. We spent the first half of the semester playing Japanese taiko music -- putting my entire body into hitting a drum that's five feet in diameter while screaming in unison with 30 other people doing the same thing is incredible. :smash: We spent the second half of the semester learning the rhythms of Carribbean percussion music, which was more laid-back but no less fun. Good thing I have another semester of this!:chug:
OMG that sounds awesome