best college guitar program in country????

[rockeye]

What is the best guitar college program in the country?
Be specific as to why one program is better than the the next few.

[einstein]

New england Conservatory Boston and private lessons with Charlie Banachis. It would be impossible to do better.

[cyb3rvampire]

I'd say USC's program would be damn hard to beat. I'm sure theres a lot of other great places too though.

[Clifford-D]

Helps to have the talent to tap into what these institutions really offer.

What I mean is outside of the attention they put on prodogies,
all these schools offer similar fundamentals. After all music is music.

Most of us are not so highly evolved as to reap the specialized benifits
these schools have in their vault.

My friend and brillient musician Julian Lage went to Berklee and I believe enrolled in basic
advanced classes. He dropped out because he already had that stuff well behind him.
Berklee encouraged him to stay with offering him the cream of the
school. Specials studies with the best. Private lessons with Goodrick
and Lavano and many more.
I don't think that's going to happen to me. I would get
the mainstream courses.

Many people fantasize going to GIT and becoming awesome.
It just doesn't happen that way.
If you're hot, you're hot, if your not, well... You will pay the bill off for years.

Don't fool yourself, be real about your natural abilities.

My point is it's up to you, not a school, to get good.
As far as a good musical education goes, look to your colleges
in the area. The JC and the State College in my area have fantastic
music programs. You get the same music fundamentals. What you do with it is what matters.
so be cautious with spending money. Some of these schools are very expensive.

btw - The best education you can get is right here on TGP imo

Free


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[yZe]

I believe the best way to go ist to take lessons from a master in a big city, but go to school and learn a maketable trade which can't be outsourced, downsized, etc . .

like electronics, A.C. / Heating repair; or something

If you become the star student, the teacher will eventually pass on his overflow gigs to you because he knows exactly what you can do - Plus you'll have a marketable skill which you can take anywhere !!

Wish I had the vision for this 20 years ago when I was in my late teens :jo

[KRosser]

Depends on your interests and goals, no?

USC is a great classical guitar school in the more traditional mold.

Princeton is a great classical guitar school for traditional and contemporary music.

Etc.

[jzucker]

Manhatten SIM studying with Rodney Jones

[jzucker]

I believe the best way to go ist to take lessons from a master in a big city, but go to school and learn a maketable trade which can't be outsourced, downsized, etc . .

like electronics, A.C. / Heating repair; or something

If you become the star student, the teacher will eventually pass on his overflow gigs to you because he knows exactly what you can do - Plus you'll have a marketable skill which you can take anywhere !!

Wish I had the vision for this 20 years ago when I was in my late teens :jo

I agree with you though electronics are one of the fastest tracks to obsolescence (or did you mean electrician)

[rockeye]

I was thinking about going to the Atlanta Institute of Music. Its close to home and fairly cheap. I've got some friends going back to Berklee and going for the first time. I can't afford to go to Berklee.......even with loans and maybe a tiny-partial scholarship.......I can't see ever paying it off anytime soon. I can't see the value and cost vs. what you get out of it. I think you only get out of it what you put into it.
I'm about to start double teaming lessons taking from the two local badasses. I've also got Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry and Jack Zucker's Sheets of Sound I. They should give me an edge. I don't think too many people know about them.

[yZe]

I agree with you though electronics are one of the fastest tracks to obsolescence (or did you mean electrician)

Yes electric - my bad
Pardon the Hijacking (PTH)

But how is electronics being obsolete

is it because it is cheaper to buy something new rather than get it repaired ?

[jzucker]

Yes electric - my bad
Pardon the Hijacking (PTH)

But how is electronics being obsolete

is it because it is cheaper to buy something new rather than get it repaired ?

That's just a small part of it. The companies in the far east who manufacture the boards can get away without EPA regulations, without paying health insurance, with no minimum wage requirements, etc. Also, asia in general is more serious about education so they are putting out some fantastic engineers who are willing to work for less money because of the job deficit. In turn, companies in the US are farming out their electronics and engineering jobs to the far east.

[limester816]

My friend and brillient musician Julian Lage went to Berklee and I believe enrolled in basic
advanced classes. He dropped out because he already had that stuff well behind him.
Berklee encouraged him to stay with offering him the cream of the
school. Specials studies with the best. Private lessons with Goodrick
and Lavano and many more.
I don't think that's going to happen to me. I would get
the mainstream courses.



:)

Man, Julian is amazing, I met him and got to learn a bit from him at the Stanford Jazz Residency program. He mentioned he was going to Berklee, and I thought he was crazy.. but I guess it makes sense if he uses it to take lessons from some of the greats.

I hope his album with Taylor Eigsti comes out soon...

[Lolaviola]

Peabody Conservatory in MD for classical.

[jzucker]

Peabody Conservatory in MD for classical.

They got Paul Bollenback but other than that, how is it better than Manhatten School of Music, New School, Berklee, etc?