Going To School

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Good luck with your career Nicole i hope i speak for all of us as i say i hope to hear some good things being done by you in the future
 
POETS, I'm surprised that most engineers won't make over 35,000. That sems crazy for the amount of help you provide for hte band, and for the difficulty of the job. To the person that said that there's no math involved, you sure about that?
 
i dont know about the audio program..but a buddy of mine went to full sail for game design, and he said it was great..got a great job straight out of school...just my 2 cents
 
bigwillz24 said:
Straight up man an audio engineering program will not teach you how to make beats they will teach you how to record.

And the first thing they tell you is that a producer is not the person that makes beats that is the arranger. Don't take it the wrong way but most of the schools are not oriented around hiphop.
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I gotta agree with willz right here. Desert you wanna learn how to make beats. You really don't need to go to school for that. IMO the best way to learn that is to find someone who's already doing it (someone who makes beats you constantly feel) and learn from them. That's how I learned how to make my beats. I hooked up with a local jazz musician back home in Texas and "interned" on his projects. It got to the point where I was making a couple of beats for him and makig a little money making beats to some of his clientele that wanted rap beats (it helps that they just liked mine better and that my mentor understood that and didn't get pissed off).

I've thought about going to school myself for this, simply to better perfect what I already know about mixing and maybe learn a few new techniques not to mention running into possible connections, but that's about all.
 
DesertEase said:
i wanna go to school to become a producer cuz my passion is beat makin and producing tracks
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Then you want to take a music theory class, and a MIDI production class. Most Community Colleges will have courses in this area.

You won't get much help in a school setting outside of that.

Music theory, and music composition classes will teach you basics of writing music. Not lyrics, but actually composing notes and writing musical arrangements. Will this make you a dope producer? No. Will it help you with melodies and how instruments should be arranged together? Yes.

Do you want to go to Full Sail? No. They won't even begin to teach you that kind of stuff.
 
Not sure if you got my message yet, but when you get a moment to check and reply to my PM that would be great :).
 
onlydude said:
Not sure if you got my message yet, but when you get a moment to check and reply to my PM that would be great :).
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Who you talking to fam?

If you meant me, I don't have a pm from you. So I didn't get it. :D
 
Change of POETS said:
Who you talking to fam?

If you meant me, I don't have a pm from you. So I didn't get it. :D
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rofl guess it would be a good idea to state who I was talking to :rolleyes:

Was talking to misscc803
 
I'm glad someone pointed out that Full Sail isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I was going to go there if you guys hadn't of said anything.

Anyway, I think the best way to get into the recording industry is to have connections, and talent.
 
man am i glad i stumbled into this post at 3:30 in the morning. i have been looking into going to school for quite some time no, basically for some of the same reasons that other people have already said in this post:
A) to put in some time in a real studio behind a real board with real equipment and learn the real way to do it, so that i can combine that with my method and become the best at mixing as possible.
B) to meet some other people in the area that are either down to collaborate, at the same place i am, know some people that can get me somewhere farther, or just people that i can learn any little bit of knowledge possible from.
C) the diploma. i dont care if its just a piece of paper. the only thing i ever hear from people that are twenty, thirty years older than me is that AT SOME POINT, GET SOME TYPE OF DEGREE OR DIPLOMA, YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY.

im keeping it real here, i dont think that im gonna get out of school and that diplomas gonna get me a good job straight away - especially not after reading what everyone here has said. i dont need that, thats what my job now is for. but when the day comes and i meet the right person who has the right opportunity in his hand, i want to have the right credentials in mine.

as for full sail, about two or three years ago i was looking real seriously at it and i was all excited to go and move to florida and everything, and i didnt do it (for the obvious reason, because it costs a small mortgage for a one year program). all i knew about it was what i saw in the brochures and on the website and everything and it looked amazing. but as time has gone by, and i ended up moving to florida and back anyway, all i have heard is bad thing about it. basically as far as i can tell its just not worth the money at the end of the day, period.

anyway, thats where im at now as far as school. im looking, learning, meeting and greeting, and just staying on my grind until then. one.
 
p.s.

misssc, i would love to know some more about that school im in charlotte which is only about an hour and a half from columbia. let me know what you know about it and once you get in what you think of it.

where is aiken at by the way?
 
Aiken is 45 minutes from Columbia and about 30 minutes from Augusta,GA.

You can find out more info at http://www.midlandsaudioinstitute.com/

Also is there anyone interested in a 3 CD Duplicator or an Roland VS-2000? I need the funds asap. I dont think things gonna work out like i planned them to. But ne ways i'll drop the price for the VS2000 and take $1095 shipped and $350 shipped for the duplicator. Get at me asap.

Nicole
 
misscc803 said:
Aiken is 45 minutes from Columbia and about 30 minutes from Augusta,GA.

You can find out more info at http://www.midlandsaudioinstitute.com/

Also is there anyone interested in a 3 CD Duplicator or an Roland VS-2000? I need the funds asap. I dont think things gonna work out like i planned them to. But ne ways i'll drop the price for the VS2000 and take $1095 shipped and $350 shipped for the duplicator. Get at me asap.

Nicole
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So I take it you arn't interested in selling the keyboard stand or allready sold it? If so, thanks anyways and best of luck to you if you decide to go to that school :D.
 
Yeah the stand sold locally sorry about that. But um ne ways items still for sale are below.

Roland VS-2000CD will drop to $1000 plus s&h
Ezdupe CD Duplicator will drop to $315 plus s&h

Thanks
Nicole
 
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