Musician's Institute - Is this a good choice?

violadad
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:24:16 +0000

guitaristsmom, welcome.

This is not my specific area of “expertise”, but I’m going to point you in a couple of directions.

First, I’ve asked the moderators to move this thread to CC’s Music Major forum [Music Major - College Confidential](Music Major - College Confidential Forums) where you will reap the benefits of extensive experience and insight into a vast number of music options.

You may or may not be aware that Musician’s Institute is a for profit institution, not a typical not for profit educational institution as are the bulk of schools discussed on CC. There is some info here http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/557007-college-degree-neccessary-music-industry.html?highlight=musicians+institute. It is not a typical college experience.

Other options might include Berklee, Belmont, USC/Thornton’s Popular Music program, UDenver/Lamont, The New School’s Jazz and Contemporary program. These are highly competitive audition driven admits, and without professional assessment as to your son’s skill sets and potential, they may or may not be viable.

If you search within the music major forum for “guitar”, “contemporary”, or the school name as keyword, you’ll come up with a multitude of prior threads. I’d suggest also reading some of the past posts by Steve M., raddad, and playsthemdrums from within that subforum.

If you have problems locating or searching, let me know and I’ll be happy to pull some additional thread links.