The Berklee College of Music

Date: Jul 01 2008
Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time)
You get out of Bezerklee Pool of Mucus what you put into it.

There is a 50% drop out the first year because frankly most of the people there are NOT musicians, they are posers.

Berklee has a very tough 1st year which weeds out the wanna-be's.

DO NOT depend on this school making you a great musician. In fact, count on them ruining your style with too much thinking.

That being said, it is AWESOME for learning theory. Then walk away from the theory and let the soil of time cover the seeds, then the seeds sprout and you simply KNOW how to play, no thinking needed.

And DO NOT expect the degree to get you a job and place but Japan. ESPECIALLY in Boston.

Internships, networking, gigging out, connections are the key.

I was a so-so student at Berklee, but I understood the value of internships. And so I had a job even before graduation. The hot shot student engineer??? He was unemployed and had to go back to Germany.

My path at Berklee led me to where I am now. I didn't expect it, but I would not change it.

Good luck!