livingisland
06.19.12 | People are always telling me I should go to Berklee to improve my musical skills so I can make a career out of it. Now I'm playing bass for some Berklee graduate who plays hundreds of other people's songs for a living. |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | Shit man, what do you play? |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | Nevemind. |
InvertTheInverted
06.19.12 | Go to Stanford. |
livingisland
06.19.12 | Did you go there? |
sniper
06.19.12 | dj spooky went there too. where do you live man? i ended up going somewhere closer to home than berklee, which is good because i eventually lost interest in playing jazz as a career. i'm studying comp now, but i still do play a lot. |
livingisland
06.19.12 | I live in New England, really close to Berklee, so it wouldn't be a big deal getting back and forth. I would like to compose, but to me it seems like most people that graduate from there make really bad music. |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | ^ that's what I'm afraid of. I play percussion and I'm planning on going to Texas State to major in performance in jazz. It's
kinda funny how I plan to do something with computers if I don't stay as a music major. |
Vesper
06.19.12 | I don't know anything about this particular school, but one of my best friends from high school went to Musician's Institute in Hollywood, and I swear it made her music taste worse, because all her friends there play in Pantera cover bands or something. I can't see her or any of her friends' bands going anywhere.
Then again, most of my favorite musicians/bands just made their way up through their respective local scenes and just practice on their own time while pursuing other academic interests or working a completely unrelated job to pay the bills. |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | My comment was directed at sniper |
sniper
06.19.12 | well, people who go to berklee generally don't leave and then go write pop music like the people on this list did. most become successful touring and recording artists in jazz because the school is essentially a pressure cooker for good soloists. the problem is that it's so competitive that most people there feel like small fish in a big sea. i don't know how proficient you are on your instrument, but if you don't think you can hang with people who will be the next big names in music (jazz especially) consider a smaller school for a more personal education at a tiny fraction of the cost.
just my two cents based on talking to kids who have gone there. |
sniper
06.19.12 | oh i meant comp as in music composition not computer science. go for the music major man. |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | Yeah I definetaly plan on it. But if I don't follow through with performance, I'll study to teach. If I decide I don't want to major in music anymore, I'll go do something regarding with computers, but that's if I'm absolutely 100% sure I don't want to study music anymore. That being said, I'll never stop playing music as I can't imagine myself not playing any music anymore and I love playing too much to stop. |
livingisland
06.19.12 | I have no real desire to play jazz so it would probably just be a waste of time, then. |
ZilbelPing
06.19.12 | Have you ever played in a big band before, though? Most who play jazz love it and for a good reason. It's tons of fun. |
BlackFugazi
06.19.12 | Berklee is great if you want to play jazz or funk or prog-something. But nothing else...they take a lot of students who they know can't keep up with their intensive technical courses, because they flunk out. |
Aids
06.19.12 | my cousin goes there and he loves it. seems like a cool place. |
bloc
06.19.12 | I think it would be a lot of fun. Definitely makes you more confident on your instrument and you're kinda going to school for something you love. |
