Musicians Institute

Date: May 27 2009
Major: Music - Performance (This Major's Salary over time)
I submitted my application with my demo CD and thought I was about to enter this awesome school full of virtuosos. As it turned out the school accepts anyone with enough money to pay tuition regardless if they can even make a demo to send in. I learned a lot only because I wanted to, but I could have learned the same things by taking guitar lessons! The only real thing that I gained from MI was the confidence of being on stage and improvising off the top of my head, which I am damn sure I could have gained on my own had I known beforehand the school would be filled with a bunch of little kids who are too scared to play solos during their live playing workshops. If you want to go to this school and you think you'll be like whatever famous person they say went to the school you are sorely mistaken. I can't tell you how many kids dropped out because they were too scared to play guitar in front of the class! I was already really really good and I didn't know it until I went to this school full of pathetic guitar players. And they will pass just about anyone. About 80% of the GIT graduates make you want to plug your ears when they play guitar. I don't know what they are going to do, and If they are seriously teaching guitar lessons god help us all for the next generation of guitar players is really going to suck. Also, the teaching staff is SEVERELY inbred. What I mean is that almost all of the teachers are graduates from the same school! If you cant understand how bad that is, look a the teaching staff of any major university and they are never more than 10% inbred where Musician's Institute is about %75 inbred. Its sad that the best jobs the graduates can ask for is a job at the school they just graduated from. Once again, dont be scared if you think you suck at guitar, pretty much everyone there does.