Berklee Audition

Thanks for all the info, it really helped. [img]smile.gif[/img]

good luck Cam'ron [img]wink.gif[/img]

I really wanted to attend berklee but unless my parents win the lottery or i suddenly become 200% better at drums and get at least 50% scholarship, i wont be able to go!

Did you read Louie's review of Berklee? Just making sure... good insights.

That's the truth, SP.... [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

There's always other schools, I just thought I'd give it a chance given it's reputation.


Any link to this review, matricks?

Not sure about the link, let me check... it's an old one!

The overall idea was that the Berklee percussion facilities are less than ideal. I have heard the same thing from many different sources.

That's a shame. I hear PIT has real nice facilities, and lots of them, though. I have also been considering Drummer's Collective. Anyone have insights on any of these?

I heard great things about LAMA... check that out.

I've heard from a pro drummer here in Hong Kong that the collective is great. Although it is quite small, he says when he went class sizes were very small. Kim Plainfeld seems to be an awesome player, and i've heard he's just as great to teach.

As far as berklee goes, if your accepted and even get scholarships, you should already be pretty damn good. Berklee is full of amazing musicians who are likely to go into the business so more than for shedding, i would say berklee is for sucking up advice on the industry, to make friends and network, im sure if you ask any berklee grad, they have gotten jobs from alummi they attended berklee with. I mean Vinnie and Neil Stubenhaus were there at the same time, and i think steve lukather too. So there ya go.

My teacher said P.I.T had great facilities but has a problem with theft. He said that you share a drum lab with one other person and you have a locker to keep gear in. The labs are open 24/7.

I don't know about facilities at L.A.M.A. but thats probably where your going to get the best and most experienced teachers with Joe Porcaro and Ralph Humphrey's who were i believe the founds of P.I.T but started LAMA when japanese people bought M.I. I may be wrong, but this is the word i've heard. I mean i've heard some bad things about some teachers at P.I.T not being that good. But yeah, btw Sammy, if your reading this, what years were you at P.I.T. because my teacher said he thinks that he was in the same year as you, when i was showing the list of teachers.

BTW the teachers right now at Berklee for drums include Rod Morgenstein and Ed Soph. They were the ones featured on the latest catalog i got a month ago.

Cameron here is a good discussion: http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...ic&f=609&t=431

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 14, 2005 09:14 PM: Message edited by: S.P ]</font>

When I was at Berklee 93-97, I went on a U.S Scholarship. I'm not sure if this is the same thing or not though. It sounds very similar. This "tour" made stops all around the country for auditions. I auditioned at Berklee because I'm in CT. I recorded a tape with 4 tunes on it and sent it in to get a chance to aydition. Funk tune, straight ahead tune, brush tune and tune that went between styles. Sent the tape in, got asked to come in and for an audition. I played live with the Bass chair (Rich appleman) and the guitar chair (who's name escapes me) We played segments of the same tunes. I solo'd over the forms of all of them. they put some figures in front me too. Sight reading stuff. then I did the ear training thing too. I earned myself a good chunk of change which always helps!! Just be ready when you go in and just play. They are not looking for people to come in and blow chops over everything. They would rather hear music!!!

Here's Louie's review:

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...c/f/609/t/3319