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!
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