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RE:Recording degree? Really?
I posted this here:
Recording degree? Really?
May be useful here also.
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I'm gonna chime in here...
Don't know if it will be useful...
Might get flamed all to he*ll !!!
I taught at one of these schools...
I was appalled at how many students couldn't read and write. How many who could not/would not show up. Didn't have the text books. High or drunk. Refused to listen, but could talk sh**it all day long, "My beats are gonna blow up!!!", "My bands gonna get signed!!!". "I'm an artist!!!", and on and on...
The school would not qualify these students first. If they could breathe and they had some kind of funding, that was all the school needed.
The school insisted that they be passed. You couldn't dock them for much of anything. We had to coddle them. Edutainment. Couldn't hurt their feelings, and on and on. And funniest of all, for all you Road Dogs, you couldn't swear in front of them. LOL. (WTF planet are these people on?).
I'm an old timer and a newb.
What you "make of" going to school is important. You're gonna need that drive as you're gonna be surrounded by *** (every and any derogatory character describing word you can think of) while you're in these schools.
It's really sad. You're in a battle to keep focused, to keep centered, to keep your sh**it straight enough so that you can make something of the experience and not be distracted by those mentioned above.
Unfortunately, unless you go to one of the schools with a hell of a reputation, which there are only a handful of, your instructors will not be what they were billed as. That sucks for you. A lot of the teachers I taught with would have been sent home on a real gig. They don't have that hang factor/drive/mojo/knowledge, etc... Anybody can doctor a "resume."
In this industry, a degree, as useful as it can be, can only go so far. Experience, attitude, and your work ethic, in the end, are paramount and above all.
As I've told many a student, 98% of the people in this industry are in the way. They shouldn't be here. Why? Cause' they don't have the drive you do. They don't listen. They don't watch. They don't develop skills. They aren't humble. They will weed themselves out eventually, but in the mean time you have to deal with them and move around them. It is what it is.
On a very brite side. If you have your sh**it together, if you can learn to listen, to show up, to fly straight, stay straight, and be humble, we'll find you. Why? Cause' if you can do these things, you have shown that you are a good, reliable, dependable, people. You are useful. We'll teach you the rest.
I liken those of us who do this for real, i.e. make a living, paying taxes, raising a family, etc. are like a bunch of "Navy Seal" types. Highly knowledgeable, reliable, tenacious, resourceful, extremely well trained (whether on the job, school, whatever), hard working, get'er down, etc. kinda people. We don't fail. It is not an option. We don't get "tired", complain, "I don't wanna do that", "I can't"...
Having said all this, this in no way means you're going to be "producer of the year", "rockstar", "famous", whatever. It means you're in the club. You're a "Made Man/Woman" (etc. LOL). It means you're in. No more, no less. You've circumvented the 98% who should go home.
At that point, Good Luck and Welcome !!!
As a side note, most everyone I know in this industry who is "making a living" at this, aren't the da*mn "producer of the years", "rockstars", etc. that all these sorry wannabe's are always aspiring to be.
They are Crafts People who work in their Trade. A completely different thing from what the wannabe 98% are always talking about. And yes some of these Crafts People are big name producers, techs, composers and rockstars.
Hope this makes sense, hope it's useful.
If you are interested, I wrote something similar to this topic, here:
ScrewMaker: Re:Best University to do audio engineering
Recording degree? Really?
May be useful here also.
------
I'm gonna chime in here...
Don't know if it will be useful...
Might get flamed all to he*ll !!!
I taught at one of these schools...
I was appalled at how many students couldn't read and write. How many who could not/would not show up. Didn't have the text books. High or drunk. Refused to listen, but could talk sh**it all day long, "My beats are gonna blow up!!!", "My bands gonna get signed!!!". "I'm an artist!!!", and on and on...
The school would not qualify these students first. If they could breathe and they had some kind of funding, that was all the school needed.
The school insisted that they be passed. You couldn't dock them for much of anything. We had to coddle them. Edutainment. Couldn't hurt their feelings, and on and on. And funniest of all, for all you Road Dogs, you couldn't swear in front of them. LOL. (WTF planet are these people on?).
I'm an old timer and a newb.
What you "make of" going to school is important. You're gonna need that drive as you're gonna be surrounded by *** (every and any derogatory character describing word you can think of) while you're in these schools.
It's really sad. You're in a battle to keep focused, to keep centered, to keep your sh**it straight enough so that you can make something of the experience and not be distracted by those mentioned above.
Unfortunately, unless you go to one of the schools with a hell of a reputation, which there are only a handful of, your instructors will not be what they were billed as. That sucks for you. A lot of the teachers I taught with would have been sent home on a real gig. They don't have that hang factor/drive/mojo/knowledge, etc... Anybody can doctor a "resume."
In this industry, a degree, as useful as it can be, can only go so far. Experience, attitude, and your work ethic, in the end, are paramount and above all.
As I've told many a student, 98% of the people in this industry are in the way. They shouldn't be here. Why? Cause' they don't have the drive you do. They don't listen. They don't watch. They don't develop skills. They aren't humble. They will weed themselves out eventually, but in the mean time you have to deal with them and move around them. It is what it is.
On a very brite side. If you have your sh**it together, if you can learn to listen, to show up, to fly straight, stay straight, and be humble, we'll find you. Why? Cause' if you can do these things, you have shown that you are a good, reliable, dependable, people. You are useful. We'll teach you the rest.
I liken those of us who do this for real, i.e. make a living, paying taxes, raising a family, etc. are like a bunch of "Navy Seal" types. Highly knowledgeable, reliable, tenacious, resourceful, extremely well trained (whether on the job, school, whatever), hard working, get'er down, etc. kinda people. We don't fail. It is not an option. We don't get "tired", complain, "I don't wanna do that", "I can't"...
Having said all this, this in no way means you're going to be "producer of the year", "rockstar", "famous", whatever. It means you're in the club. You're a "Made Man/Woman" (etc. LOL). It means you're in. No more, no less. You've circumvented the 98% who should go home.
At that point, Good Luck and Welcome !!!
As a side note, most everyone I know in this industry who is "making a living" at this, aren't the da*mn "producer of the years", "rockstars", etc. that all these sorry wannabe's are always aspiring to be.
They are Crafts People who work in their Trade. A completely different thing from what the wannabe 98% are always talking about. And yes some of these Crafts People are big name producers, techs, composers and rockstars.
Hope this makes sense, hope it's useful.
If you are interested, I wrote something similar to this topic, here:
ScrewMaker: Re:Best University to do audio engineering
PS Corrected to please the Spelling Police. LOL.
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