Career Options with a degree from GIT (MI)

[Endrik]

my buddy has a masters degree in music (from Arizona)
he can ask 70 bucks for 30min for guitar lessons.... but he doesn't take that much...he has a lot of students and earns good money
btw. he can play anything... got the skills to pay the bills

if you show the papers to kids' parents in California.... you can ask lotsa money for the lessons


if you want to do session work then no one cares about the degree.... you just must have a good ear... be good at sight reading and have shit loads of contacts.... it's ridiculously hard to get into the session scene

[yard dawg]

If you do a music degree make sure you have a good backup until you make it. Find something you enjoy besides music. You can make a living playing music but its tough.

If you want to be a session guy then you better be really good. I know session guys who can listen to a demo once and play it and get it right the 1st time with maybe a small punch in every now and then. If you go to nashville to be a session guy then you will have to know the nashville number system inside and out. I dont know if they teach that at GIT. You want to be the man then you have to do better than Brent Mason or some of the other top session guys.

I know a top session bass guy who lived in AZ before he moved and he made 60 grand a yr back there. You can make a living but it takes time and luck. As far as being a soundenginner goes dont waste your time. Studios are closing all over because of the home studio and theose guys are doing live gigs now. There are about a million sound schools popping out sound guys every year and the market is flooded.

Another option is you can try to get a publishing deal if you can write songs and sing. Those guys just write songs all day for publishing companies who then shop the songs to labels. Usually the royalties are split 70-30 or so unless you are a great seller then you can get 50-50 or better but its hard.

[bratfink]

Does anyone else see the Irony of calling a college GIT?

It's almost as good as Toyota's racing dept called TRD? ('turd' for those of you a bit rubbish at anacronyms)

I went to Coventry University and they had a Netball Team. Needless to say the team jackets were highly amusing.

[Mario8672]

First of all, does MI offer degrees or do they offer certificates?

Both.

[ApeDosMil]

It's probably as demanding as a bach. degree in psychology.