Anyone here famliar with "Modern Music School"?

[BigOldHarry]

Yes, I did a TB search (no hits).

Music School for Rock and Pop - Modern Music School

Any feedback?

[onlyclave]

Dude, they teach you what YOU want to learn and take the most direct, easiest path. All of those university music schools have been ripping people off for years.

All hail the Modern Music School! It has revolutionized music education!

[shadow_FIX]

Originally Posted by onlyclave

Dude, they teach you what YOU want to learn and take the most direct, easiest path. All of those university music schools have been ripping people off for years.

All hail the Modern Music School! It has revolutionized music education!

Disagree heavy on the universities ripping you off. The Modern Music School wouldn't have taught me proper upright technique and given me the facility to play in orchestra/jazz combo/big band/wind ensemble/latin jazz ensemble in the course of a week, and playing rock on the weekends. The classical stuff has helped my playing in every genre.

But you're still entitled to your own opinion.

[onlyclave]

Originally Posted by shadow_FIX

Disagree heavy on the universities ripping you off. The Modern Music School wouldn't have taught me proper upright technique and given me the facility to play in orchestra/jazz combo/big band/wind ensemble/latin jazz ensemble in the course of a week, and playing rock on the weekends. The classical stuff has helped my playing in every genre.

But you're still entitled to your own opinion.

I guess the sarcasm escaped you. I hold two university music degrees. I can smell a bad program a mile off.

[BigOldHarry]

Originally Posted by onlyclave

I guess the sarcasm escaped you. I hold two university music degrees. I can smell a bad program a mile off.

That was my concern - they look like "Berklee Cheap" -

The reason I ask is that they are opening a "Campus" near my girlfriend's house in Pasadena (She's trying like hell to get me to move up there and was hoping this might be incentive...)...

But has anyone actually BEEN to this place?

[loinmute]

MMS is not worth the thousands of dollars it charges imo

[BigOldHarry]

Originally Posted by loinmute

MMS is not worth the thousands of dollars it charges imo

You might well be right - but have you actually been there or know anyone who has - or are you just guessing?

[IronLung1986]

so it's a school...teaching rock and roll? there's something fundamentally wrong with that i think. rock music should not be taught in schools. instrumental instruction is one thing but...

is nothing sacred anymore??

[Stick_Player]

There are MANY of these types of "schools".

Just in the L.A. area:

Modern Music School Pasadena
2982 E. Colorado Blvd. #111
Pasadena, CA 91107

LA Music Academy
370 South Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, California 91105 USA

School of Rock Hollywood
General Info 4516 Mariota Avenue
North Hollywood, CA 91602

MIT, BIT, GIT

... probably a lot more.

And if you wannabe like the lil girl Jessica that "sang" Friday... these people will ALSO take your money and have you sing through Auto-Tune.

[BigOldHarry]

Originally Posted by IronLung1986

so it's a school...teaching rock and roll? there's something fundamentally wrong with that i think. rock music should not be taught in schools. instrumental instruction is one thing but...

is nothing sacred anymore??

One can make the case that Sacred <> "Rock and Roll"

One can also make the case that this is what the Berklee school does right now... Only folks know that the Berklee school is the real deal... Who knows about this one...?

[shadow_FIX]

Originally Posted by onlyclave

I guess the sarcasm escaped you. I hold two university music degrees. I can smell a bad program a mile off.

Yuh totally lost it somewhere, and I'm usually good at picking it up...even on the Internet.

In that case, well played! At first I was like but now I'm lol'ing

[spankyc52]

There is a program in Oklahoma called the Academy of Contemporary Music, it is kind of new, but it is part of a state school, I go there and I really enjoy it, I am in music production program, worth a look into, but it does not teach upright at all.

[loinmute]

Originally Posted by BigOldHarry

You might well be right - but have you actually been there or know anyone who has - or are you just guessing?

Been to a university program, but I didn't complete. I can tell you that you would be hard pressed to find electric bass at a college or "modern" styles of music with the exception being jazz. However, I will also add that I attended an accredited community college with the pro being it cost about $800 a semester; but my uni (college) did offer electric bass and taught classical and jazz.

edit: in Texas there is not much difference between uni/community college except the $$$ and reputation. The curriculum is mandated by the same governing bodies which oversee the state's universities.

[BigOldHarry]

Originally Posted by loinmute

Been to a university program, but I didn't complete. I can tell you that you would be hard pressed to find electric bass at a college or "modern" styles of music with the exception being jazz. However, I will also add that I attended an accredited community college with the pro being it cost about $800 a semester; but my uni (college) did offer electric bass and taught classical and jazz.

edit: in Texas there is not much difference between uni/community college except the $$$ and reputation. The curriculum is mandated by the same governing bodies which oversee the state's universities.

Yikes - if it's anything like the folks who mandate what gets taught in public schools there, y'all are in trouble!