college majors or classes to take?

i would NEVER intern @ a studio

and btw I NEVER interned and have a FT 9-5 audio engineering

why dont you detail your experience with the industry oh wise one

like for example...explain to me the point in interning @ a place of work that is destined to be out of business in 5 yrs

intern @ a studio....ha

GOLIATH wrote:Keep talkin slick...

And yeah, interning is a good start!!! Just cause you clean toilets and ****.

If yuor agressive enough you bypass all that, obviously you didnt.

i agree interning is a good start but if you're agressive enough, you'll get bypassed. interning at a studio isn't as easy as saying "hey mofo, let me intern at your studio!" first you've got to be recommended, then you've got to interview, then you get to clean toilets. more than likely the only skills you will learn from interning are networking skills.

tanamo00420 wrote:i agree interning is a good start but if you're agressive enough, you'll get bypassed. interning at a studio isn't as easy as saying "hey mofo, let me intern at your studio!" first you've got to be recommended, then you've got to interview, then you get to clean toilets. more than likely the only skills you will learn from interning are networking skills.

PREACH ON MY BROTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jaem wrote:

GOLIATH wrote: you can intern at a studio to learn the boards.. you can learn to produce by being patient and asking questions...

WOW!!!!!!

YOU ARE OFFICALLY ONE DUMB MUDDAFUKKA!!!!!!!

intern @ a studio to learn the boards and how to produce?????????????

more like intern @ a studio to learn how to make coffee, clean toilets, and not piss off the clients........did i mention make no $$$$$$$$$

I interned at the Rob Brothers' (Grammy for "Everything I do I do For You" Bryan Adams, and Produced Matchbox20 & Ice Cube) studio in Los Angeles for about 6 months. It was a pretty decent experience. My homie hooked me up with a shift there mid day till about 8pm M-F some weekends. Met a huge amounts of producers and artist such as Annette Napolintano (Concrete Blonde) Seal Chris Porter (Producer The Smiths/ Ocean Blue) and The Breeders. Never did sit in any recording sessions. I got to assist in studio set up and made alot of coffee too... I learned alot about mics there and alot about music biz there. The Robs were really busy and hardly ever in so i never worked with them. Lots of borring stuff I did like washing dishes and running errands for artist and staff. My homie who worked there was there alot longer and eventually was able to sit in on quite a few sessions. He eventualy ended up engineering a few indie rock records. So if you got drive like my friend did you can get somewhere going that route. You must have alot of patience and free time. Oh yeah money would help as most interns dont get paid. I decided that route was too slow and I actually started buying my own equipment because I got a good job. Now Im looking in to releasing my own stuff hopefuly, getting a small record label going.

I'm not a big advocate of college unless it makes sense. In this case I don't think so. College can't teach you to be talented. If you do have talent, it can be developed but, you don't have to go to college to develop your talent. Their are plenty of resources that you can utilize to improve your skills. I play piano as you do and in some cases it would probably be easier to do hip hop if I didn't because cats that are not fluent on piano, for example, hear differently. You don't have to worry about breaking "rules" musically if you don't know them. From a business standpoint, it's still not necessary to get a business degree to learn the music business. Their are plenty of resources available to educate you on the music business and a lot more affordable because you can talior your studies to the specifics of what you need to know and not unnecessary electives that you would have to take in college.