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Originally Posted by EADGC
Plenty of great schools in the Toronto area. Save your money.
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I'm inclined to agree here, even though I go to Berklee. Berklee is expensive as hell (even on scholarship), and it WILL drown you if you aren't up to the challenge. Like any music school, bass will be a secondary concern and music (theory, ear-training, practice) will be the focus. Berklee isn't any different from any other school in terms of musical instruction and quality of the cirriculum and teacher - what you're paying for is the variety of options the school has available to you that aren't available anywhere else, and the shear number of CONTACTS and people to interact and play with music with on and outside of campus. If you're willing to have a mind**** of an experience doing things that include staying up all night several nights in a row writing that arranging project and formatting parts, taking the T every other day out to Allston to band practice and then practicing several hours a week for your .5 credit lab, spending four hours doing a few dinky ear training dictations for homework, then Berklee/music school is for you. But you have to be committed and you have to be willing to work. In order to get your money's worth, you can't do it half-assed.