@spacitydrummer4JC I for one would like to teach music and you need a degree to teach at a university and I wud also like to compose and this is a great school to magnify my talents, is that enough for you?!
Assuming they graduate, where do Berklee students expect to work afterwards? They just expect to walk into a studio, record something, and become millionaires? Take out another massive loan and open a record label? If they want to play on cruise ships, which a good portion of them do, I can do that without a degree. If they want to audition for P. Diddy's band or start their own band, which a good portion of them do, I can do that without a degree. What exactly are their intentions?
I am a Berklee student, and I thought I'd let you know they don't let idiots into Berklee. We are not that naive. They even tell you pursuing a career in music is mostly freelance and entrepreneurship, and it's about how much you want it and how hard you're willing to work for it. Nothing in this life comes easy, but if you want to succeed, you work for it. So, no. When I graduate I'm not expecting to become a millionaire, or to even sing on a cruise line, but
@spacitydrummer4JC I am 110% PLANNING on being successful. There are also a lot of jobs in the music industry, it all really depends on what you want to get into. Success is a choice, not something that just falls on you. In the end, it is your hard work that puts you in either a good position or a not so good one.
PS. I also think that you think you know more than you actually do.
Hello fellow musicians and poets(: I'm applying to Berklee College of Music for the semester of Fall 2012 for songwriting & composition. I'd like to know some respective and honest feedback on two of my songs roughly recorded on my page! I will answer questions as well. Please give it a listen and give me some advice on the audition and tips if you have any. Thank you ! :)
@LutherjrVatersticks depending on where you live, you should also consider the Musicians Institute in hollywood california. i go there and its absolutely outstanding!!! nice kids from all over the wolrd and some of the best musicians in the world as your teachers. if you still decide to go to berklee thats fine. its also an amazing school!! but this is my opinion on Musicians Institute. good luck!!!! :D
@drummermikerocks1 Thanks for the advice! I live in NY but I've been hearing great things about the musicians institute lately. I'm going to check it out.
@lakajd yes they did. Likely because they realized that a degree in music doesnt mean a thing in the world of Rock n Roll , or the "music industry" for that matter. Clealy they apply what they have learned as studied musicians. Very few 'musicians' (these days) it seems are able to play and READ music - oh yeah remember music ? Litle black dots with tails arranged on five horizontal lines - written with different clefs. As a classically trained musician I have an affinity for DT in that regard.
Man, i have good news for you berklee, I CAN BE THAT BRAZILIAN GUITAR PLAYER, or a bass player too if you want it! just pick me and give me a chance! xD
There's so much propaganda at this school... "Let Berklee discover you!" Yeah right... you make your own way. Don't come here to become famous, come here because you LOVE music with all of your heart and soul and would do it even if you never made a dime off of it.
Berklee makes all their students think that they're going to be the next BIG THING in music and then they become all discouraged when after Berklee they're on welfare collecting food stamps living with smelly hipsters in Brooklyn.
I AM A BRAZLIAN ....and im a guitarrist..lol im trying to find ppl that really likes music and r not lazy..but its kind of hard......i want to go to this college and i fisish high school.....
guys i need guidance? do you honestly think its a scam? i have been studying super hard to apply with my all three of my instructors, and now everyone is saying this place is no good? what should i look into im seriously so lost. im a singer (i can actually sing) , piano player, and can play a few chords on guitar nothing amazing. im a senior this year, what should i do? :///
@buggy627 GO FOR IT!!! DO NOT let people's *opinions get in the way of you trying it for YOURSELF i go and I love it there haven't been there for no more than a month n I'm already improving a lot, meeting amazing people, and Berklee will bring sooooooo many endless opportunities, from a gig down the street to singing back-up for a major artist, but you'll never know if you never try,you feel me? You don't want twenty years to pass n think *what if...
@Mark2072 Hahah I did audition. Last month I don't know if I got in yet. What's it like? what's your major? Thanks for responding. I'm glad I auditioned anyway
@buggy627 All music schools essentially do the same thing. They even out your playing by making you focus on all aspects of music all day, every day. If you’re incredibly studious you can find all the same information on your own, but it would probably take you about ten years to digest it all on your own, and networking would be harder. A degree in music is useless unless you want to teach music at a university. So, if your goals are to perform or create, you can go other routes if you want.
@buggy627 Also, don’t convince yourself that Berklee is the be –all- to end all. Every single music school on the planet teaches about 80% of the same material.
@buggy627 Oh, and as pointed out by many other people Berklee is more up it's own ass than any other school in the states. Trust me, Harvard grads a twice as humble as most Berklee kids. If you go there, go for the great teachers, and ignore the propaganda.
i think this is such a waste... if your a good artist your a good artist. you shouldn't be taught to be one. it should be something you find in yourself with your won passion your own personal studying... not trained like a fucking monkey.
@aguitaraddict That's logical to a point, but college is a voluntary thing, so in choosing to go there you're displaying that it is your passion, and thy you would like to indulge yourself further into the components of what you love. It's about expanding on what you know, and using it to your advantage. High school is an industrial assembly line, but college is what you want it to be.
The only way to get treated fairly at Berklee is if you are a valuable asset to their advertising campaign. Then you will be treated with absolute favoritism by the faculty/administration.
Well, I've never been to Berklee, so I don't have much to base an opinion off, but I figure there must me some truth in all these complaints, right?
All I know is this... $50,000 to spend a year at Berklee College? Fuck that!
That's more than the two years at my school will cost me( all of it, not just tuition). I've been here for about a month, and as far as I can tell it's a good school. The teachers give a shit, and the classes are small( 30 guitar players in the whole program!)
things happens for a reason, maybe attend to berklee is not a good idea, is very very very expensive, i dont understand why is so expensive..is a bachelor degree not a grad school
dont mean to be full of ones self, but I think I'm the kind of student they're looking for. especially because I have the money to pay for it xD, well sort of...
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How the hell are a Brazilian Guitarist, a Chinese Percussionist and an Islandic Vocalist going to meet at this school if their respective parents are not some drug lord, some highly positioned member of the corrupted party that rules China and the son or daughter of Bjork?
Now you tell me that creativity, adaptability and originality historically originate of this pampered type of person and maybe, only maybe I'll believe you Mr. Brown. For the rest, this video is putrid hogwash.
@hu6h057 When a scholar institution charges more per semester than what the average BA earns on their first 2 years of employment (out of the "western world" that is), you have got to ponder on the possibility that this school is nothing more than a cash cow for some neo-aristocratic elite with one goal in mind; Getting more dough, more cash and/or more gold.
"There are three things we're looking for. We're looking for cash, we're looking for checks, and we're looking for publicity." I'd love to give our dear mister brown a slap, send him home, and take the hell over.
Gosh, i want to go to this school so bad, but im a mediocre singer (well people compliment me but im sure its just to be nice) and i have no prior training (which is something they stress) But i do love writing songs/ poetry. Do i somewhat have a chance? D:
@IlikepurpleXP You have to apply to find out! But believe me I am not that good and I got in....I enjoy playing and thats what mattered. If you enjoy playing or singing or writing try your luck at Berklee. You never know it may help you more than you think. The experience is nothing compared to that of a regular university.
That school is bias. Berklee is looking for the same ol same ol. They do not like if you're unique and make music that does not fit into their up tight normal/boring ways. Click my name, I make hip hop music. Make instrumentals, write my own lyrics, even ghost write for other artists and they did not accept me. I'm as original as they come. check my page out and you be the judge. i also have a myspace, you can find it on my youtube profile... GET AT ME. AND EFF JERKLEE
That school is bias. Berklee is looking for the same ol same ol. They do not like if you're unique and make music that does not fit into their up tight normal/boring ways. Click my name, I make hip hop music. Make instrumentals, write my own lyrics, even ghost write for other artists and they did not accept me. I'm as original as they come. check my page out and you be the judge. i also have a myspace, you can find it on my youtube profile... GET AT ME. AND EFF JERKLEE
I wonder how Berklee is now... Joe Satriani talks about it being "like Animal House", with "people smoking pot and setting fires in the alley", "most of the students were kids who looked like they couldn't get into any other school":
I hope that's not what I get for $22k+ per semester...
@bassjak666 never ever even thought of trying to get in because Berklee is not for me.. and if some of the crappy audtion pieces I saw were good enough to get in I shouldnt have a problem
Siobhan Magnus: rejected by the Berlee College of Music and one year later singing with the Bee Gees. God, it must suck to be the admissions officer right about now.
man i love berklee. i got in a about a year ago. knew nothing of sight reading, improvising, and i was so nervous for the performance i botched my original songs, but for some reason they saw something in me and gave me a shot. now im in three pretty tripped out bands (still shy away from jazz) but i count even comprehend how much ive learned just being in the berklee enviroment. it really is an amazing school.
i was thinking of going to berklee, but i have no musical skills, so hopefully since im a freshman in highschool ill gain the abilities that they are looking for in a student, wish me good luck :] <3
Everything Brown says is entirely true, at least in my case. I'm not a virtuoso and I'm pretty much (was and still is) allergic to Jazz. I got to Berklee based on potential, or promise, rather than actual accomplishments. I'll be graduating next semester, and looking back on the three years I spent here, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Sure, there are several little flaws and a few major criticisms I have about Berklee, but in the big picture, this place is unbelievable.
i was offered a very generous scholarship to berklee, and during the interview process was told i would be a perfect addition to berklee, and that there was no way i would not get in.... and i didn't get in hahaha because the director of admissions damien bracken had issues with me.... i tried to get in tuch with the president but never got a hold of him....
@InsanityType66 you have to be really fucking good. If you can get a scholarship from Berklee, you're probably good enough to just start yourself in the music world.
@KwameNewton Good I'm glad it's not just my family =) But I mean they don't really accept music as a "real carreer". Rather, they think it's a hobby and should be done in your free time when you get home from the office =S
Berklee is a scam and is guaranteed to wasted your money. And, Roger Brown is a swindler trying to trick untalented people to spend $30000 for a semester. They take people into this school who don't belong there in order to steal their money.
Berklee tells you that making it big in the music world is not a guarantee. It's ultimately up to you. The only way you can truly waste your money is if you just go to the school and do nothing with what you learned afterwards. That's why he says "passionate" because it's not about just going and saying "I went to Berklee!" because you did. Even though Berklee is one of the leading colleges in music in the world today, they choose the people who they think will make a difference.
Even if you have the talent, families (specifically parents and grandparents) tend to resist you becoming a musician. I find they don't believe you can make a proper living
@xaviermoyssen The "3" things he's "looking" for are all lies. They like boring, non creative, same garbage. violins and guitars, piano's. They do not want creative new age style.
This makes me feel better - ALOT BETTER - about applying to music college... These guys aren't even looking for skill or 'the next best guy', they are just looking for people who love music and have the motivation to learn all they can from and about music..
Well there IS a limit to your skill. He didn't say can't play at all, he said if this is off or you play in a weird tune, etc. Sightreading is the only thing he said if you don't know how to read because there is no in between. It's read it or not. Trust me, Berklee is not only looking for passionate prospectives, but also prospectives with a certain amount of skill. If they didn't care, there would be no point in their auditions.
Well yea, obviously, but I figured they were looking for those types that have been going to private lessons for years and could play Flight of the Bumblebee with their eyes closed, like really technical and exact kind of thing.
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I'm auditioning for guitar in December and, from what I've heard, the sight-reading exercises are just used to place you in the right class assuming you get in. I'm terrible at reading as well...
This is interesting. I have a question (more answers the better) about the audition. How exactly do you make an appointment for when they are doing the tour, going around to different cities? I would be auditioning in Memphis - how would I set it up to where I would be auditioning in that city?
go to the website and apply, its a long process, but once you've applied you'll get an email some time after that will give you an audition date, time and location. Warning, the audition could be located in Boston.
Well, it's like any other music colleges or conservatories. You apply for it by sending in your high school transcript, SAT/ACT scores, essays and etc, then if they accept your application, Berklee will ask you a list of date and places that they will visit. You pick one and if you don't see Memphis on the list, you need to get to the closet audition place by yourself. Wish you a luck. from a Berklee student.
It is my dream school now, and if I get in, I know that I'd make my time worthwhile, and I figure if you can't do that at ANY top notch music school, you either don't belong there, or you are too lazy. My advice to anyone is to go to Boston and see it for yourself if you are thinking of attending. Don't listen to what morons like whatisthescore are saying and actually go see it for yourself, or find current students, or accredited alumni to talk to via email, on the street, or on facebook.
But singling out Berklee and calling it a scam and then promoting MSM, NEC, or even THE NEW SCHOOL!! ... You need to take a look at the bigger picture. All of them are financially a rip off. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. if everyone boycotted colleges, which wouldn't happen in the first place, we might make progress, but it's not going to be like that. Anyway, before I write a book, whatisthescore, you really have no clue if you say you wasted your time at berklee.
@lyoko34 :D that's how I feel to :D I want to go here so bad !!
Coppergreen1700 1 day ago
um....what about aMERicans. You go out of your way to show people how noble you are, even to the extent of ignoring Americans.
patrikinskywalker 1 week ago
1:25 Berklee Trek The Next Generation
patrikinskywalker 1 week ago
IM A SOPHOMORE IN HIGHSCHOOL AND THIS IS THE ONLY PLACE I WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE IM GONNA DUEL MAJOR AND HAVE A MINOR IN PSYCHOLOGY
lyoko34 3 weeks ago
Starting my first semester at Berklee, Fall 2012!!!!!! AHHHHHHH
mollinicole888 1 month ago
@mollinicole888 well fuck you very much
rockinroller25 1 week ago
This makes me want to cry.
pugs321 1 month ago
@pugs321 I know the feeling dude.
rockinroller25 1 week ago
@rockinroller25 Dude, do you know why I said that?
pugs321 2 days ago
Does anybody know if you must attend community college FIRST before you go to Berklee? Is that true?
MHidalgo8 1 month ago
@MHidalgo8 No, that's not true
HugoMadizon 1 month ago
@spacitydrummer4JC I for one would like to teach music and you need a degree to teach at a university and I wud also like to compose and this is a great school to magnify my talents, is that enough for you?!
nilkcamcela 2 months ago
Assuming they graduate, where do Berklee students expect to work afterwards? They just expect to walk into a studio, record something, and become millionaires? Take out another massive loan and open a record label? If they want to play on cruise ships, which a good portion of them do, I can do that without a degree. If they want to audition for P. Diddy's band or start their own band, which a good portion of them do, I can do that without a degree. What exactly are their intentions?
spacitydrummer4JC 2 months ago
@spacitydrummer4JC Hey,
I am a Berklee student, and I thought I'd let you know they don't let idiots into Berklee. We are not that naive. They even tell you pursuing a career in music is mostly freelance and entrepreneurship, and it's about how much you want it and how hard you're willing to work for it. Nothing in this life comes easy, but if you want to succeed, you work for it. So, no. When I graduate I'm not expecting to become a millionaire, or to even sing on a cruise line, but
eatmyface223 1 month ago
@spacitydrummer4JC I am 110% PLANNING on being successful. There are also a lot of jobs in the music industry, it all really depends on what you want to get into. Success is a choice, not something that just falls on you. In the end, it is your hard work that puts you in either a good position or a not so good one.
PS. I also think that you think you know more than you actually do.
eatmyface223 1 month ago
I just auditioned and applied to Berklee for Fall 2012!! I am hoping I get ACCEPTED:)
marietmusic 2 months ago 3
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Hello fellow musicians and poets(: I'm applying to Berklee College of Music for the semester of Fall 2012 for songwriting & composition. I'd like to know some respective and honest feedback on two of my songs roughly recorded on my page! I will answer questions as well. Please give it a listen and give me some advice on the audition and tips if you have any. Thank you ! :)
arthurderas 4 months ago
Berklee College of Music is my dream college! I cant wait until I apply there in 2 years.
LutherjrVatersticks 4 months ago 2
@LutherjrVatersticks depending on where you live, you should also consider the Musicians Institute in hollywood california. i go there and its absolutely outstanding!!! nice kids from all over the wolrd and some of the best musicians in the world as your teachers. if you still decide to go to berklee thats fine. its also an amazing school!! but this is my opinion on Musicians Institute. good luck!!!! :D
drummermikerocks1 4 months ago
@drummermikerocks1 Thanks for the advice! I live in NY but I've been hearing great things about the musicians institute lately. I'm going to check it out.
LutherjrVatersticks 4 months ago
Presidential scholarship FTW :)
pebblefrog196 7 months ago
@pebblefrog196 Are you serious?
JELLYS1AP 2 months ago
@JELLYS1AP That's what I'm aiming for. the original post was a little misleading I guess :P
pebblefrog196 2 months ago
Actually it has already happened at Berklee ...
two guys who grew up together met another dude at Berklee
they started a band ...
Called it
Dream Theater
10 Million+ albums sales world wide
ChrisHaspeck 8 months ago 4
@ChrisHaspeck YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
cimore000 7 months ago
@ChrisHaspeck they dropped out of there though
lakajd 7 months ago
@lakajd yes they did. Likely because they realized that a degree in music doesnt mean a thing in the world of Rock n Roll , or the "music industry" for that matter. Clealy they apply what they have learned as studied musicians. Very few 'musicians' (these days) it seems are able to play and READ music - oh yeah remember music ? Litle black dots with tails arranged on five horizontal lines - written with different clefs. As a classically trained musician I have an affinity for DT in that regard.
ChrisHaspeck 7 months ago
SO THE PRESIDENT OF BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC DIDN'T EVEN STUDY MUSIC? HE STUDIED PHYSICS IN COLLEGE..... THIS MIGHT NOT BE THE COLLEGE FOR ME LOL
BloodShotNow 8 months ago
Man, i have good news for you berklee, I CAN BE THAT BRAZILIAN GUITAR PLAYER, or a bass player too if you want it! just pick me and give me a chance! xD
busislo01 9 months ago
no they make u feel real at home in the audition, thts what I've experienced as well as heard.
Mark2072 10 months ago
There's so much propaganda at this school... "Let Berklee discover you!" Yeah right... you make your own way. Don't come here to become famous, come here because you LOVE music with all of your heart and soul and would do it even if you never made a dime off of it.
Berklee makes all their students think that they're going to be the next BIG THING in music and then they become all discouraged when after Berklee they're on welfare collecting food stamps living with smelly hipsters in Brooklyn.
Vicfirth5bb 10 months ago
THIS IS UNFAIR I HAVE THOSE TALENTS AND INOVATION AND YET THEY DON'T ACCEPT ME!!!!!
rockinroller25 11 months ago 15
@rockinroller25 They only accept over-rated people like Bieber, and lady gaga.
daoyinyang 2 weeks ago
@daoyinyang Not sure if trolling or stupid.....
rockinroller25 2 weeks ago
where is this college located?
AbiRaquel 1 year ago
@AbiRaquel Boston
mjpugh123 1 year ago
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I'm kind of into beginner, how do I get the bag and if I can live at school and it costs something oh I'm from Brazil? much obliged
carlos39321 1 year ago
ESPERANZA FOR THE WIN :-D Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
flamersarelosers 1 year ago 2
I want to go here!
Madssss123 1 year ago
I AM A BRAZLIAN ....and im a guitarrist..lol im trying to find ppl that really likes music and r not lazy..but its kind of hard......i want to go to this college and i fisish high school.....
eromigor 1 year ago
Its Mr. Mackey! Mmmkay. I wonder if Trey modeled the character after this guy when he was a student there, mmmkay. Mmkay.
lowbrassman2000 1 year ago
"Error, try again".... for calling berklee a g**ber institution?? lol
tessler6868 1 year ago
so basically they'll except anyone as long as they got the moneyzzz
profmcnasty 1 year ago
Mmm kayyy
noknownartist 1 year ago
I'm the Icelandic vocalist
gudmarr 1 year ago
When I saw how much studying in Berklee costs I realized why people save money for their child's college studying for their whole life..
m4ssee 1 year ago 3
im in high school, i'm workin towards it . im makin it somehow
megajames3000 1 year ago
What Berklee looks for in a student is 50,000 dollars a year.
nuke97 1 year ago 131
@nuke97 damn rly?lol
eromigor 1 year ago
@eromigor Yup.
nuke97 1 year ago
@eromigor I highly recommend going to a regular university instead.
nuke97 1 year ago
@nuke97 y did u go here?
cuz i might want go here but not if its a bad school
mekarpass7 1 year ago
@nuke97 damn straight... :-/
aeg623 9 months ago
@nuke97 dead on
Akiachrounoumena 8 months ago
@nuke97 What did you expect? It's an amazing college. That's what all prestigious colleges cost, maybe less.
magichristo 7 months ago
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mecmar 1 year ago
guys i need guidance? do you honestly think its a scam? i have been studying super hard to apply with my all three of my instructors, and now everyone is saying this place is no good? what should i look into im seriously so lost. im a singer (i can actually sing) , piano player, and can play a few chords on guitar nothing amazing. im a senior this year, what should i do? :///
buggy627 1 year ago
@buggy627 GO FOR IT!!! DO NOT let people's *opinions get in the way of you trying it for YOURSELF i go and I love it there haven't been there for no more than a month n I'm already improving a lot, meeting amazing people, and Berklee will bring sooooooo many endless opportunities, from a gig down the street to singing back-up for a major artist, but you'll never know if you never try,you feel me? You don't want twenty years to pass n think *what if...
Mark2072 1 year ago 2
@Mark2072 Hahah I did audition. Last month I don't know if I got in yet. What's it like? what's your major? Thanks for responding. I'm glad I auditioned anyway
buggy627 1 year ago
@Mark2072 I would love to attend, i am very interested in their Music Performance program. Was the audition tough?
anyse18 10 months ago
@buggy627 All music schools essentially do the same thing. They even out your playing by making you focus on all aspects of music all day, every day. If you’re incredibly studious you can find all the same information on your own, but it would probably take you about ten years to digest it all on your own, and networking would be harder. A degree in music is useless unless you want to teach music at a university. So, if your goals are to perform or create, you can go other routes if you want.
jh193187 11 months ago
@buggy627 Also, don’t convince yourself that Berklee is the be –all- to end all. Every single music school on the planet teaches about 80% of the same material.
jh193187 11 months ago
@buggy627 Oh, and as pointed out by many other people Berklee is more up it's own ass than any other school in the states. Trust me, Harvard grads a twice as humble as most Berklee kids. If you go there, go for the great teachers, and ignore the propaganda.
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mecmar 1 year ago
he sounds like mr makay mmmkay
1Nickk1 1 year ago
BERLKEE SUCKS
Whatisthescore 1 year ago
i think this is such a waste... if your a good artist your a good artist. you shouldn't be taught to be one. it should be something you find in yourself with your won passion your own personal studying... not trained like a fucking monkey.
aguitaraddict 1 year ago
@aguitaraddict That's logical to a point, but college is a voluntary thing, so in choosing to go there you're displaying that it is your passion, and thy you would like to indulge yourself further into the components of what you love. It's about expanding on what you know, and using it to your advantage. High school is an industrial assembly line, but college is what you want it to be.
Bloodsymple 1 year ago
@aguitaraddict yea and you should strive to learn as mush as you can... what has not learning done for all these old dudes stuck playing on youtube
megajames3000 1 year ago
The only way to get treated fairly at Berklee is if you are a valuable asset to their advertising campaign. Then you will be treated with absolute favoritism by the faculty/administration.
Whatisthescore 1 year ago
Well, I've never been to Berklee, so I don't have much to base an opinion off, but I figure there must me some truth in all these complaints, right?
All I know is this... $50,000 to spend a year at Berklee College? Fuck that!
That's more than the two years at my school will cost me( all of it, not just tuition). I've been here for about a month, and as far as I can tell it's a good school. The teachers give a shit, and the classes are small( 30 guitar players in the whole program!)
MikeBsMovies 1 year ago
@MikeBsMovies mind i ask what college you attend? its application time :o
buggy627 1 year ago
@buggy627 Grant MacEwan in Edmonton. Two months in, I've seen people improve like crazy.
MikeBsMovies 1 year ago
Is it true there's some sort of revolt being planned against berklee?? I heard some people talking about it the other day in class
Kobymakesmegag 1 year ago
Berklee has more drug dealers posing as musicians than it does actual musicians.
Whatisthescore 1 year ago 2
things happens for a reason, maybe attend to berklee is not a good idea, is very very very expensive, i dont understand why is so expensive..is a bachelor degree not a grad school
ikeya1984 1 year ago
I want to go here:) my music teacher has two students that have gone here, two of which recieved scholarships :D
singingfool14 1 year ago
haha what berklee is looking for in a student? money money money money money!!!!!!
melissblissers 1 year ago 2
@melissblissers Thats so true!
rgdbhd3333 1 year ago
This guy is such a con-artist. Don't listen to his lip service. Berklee is a scam. You will be bankrupt and he will be rich.
Whatisthescore 1 year ago
hey you....do you attend berklee or someone you know? i wanna know why yo says that berklee is a scam
ikeya1984 1 year ago
@Whatisthescore I agree!
rgdbhd3333 1 year ago
@ajg23p yup they need money to run a school of this caliber. It sucks it has to be that way.
LIGHTRONIX 1 year ago
dont mean to be full of ones self, but I think I'm the kind of student they're looking for. especially because I have the money to pay for it xD, well sort of...
LIGHTRONIX 1 year ago
Respond to this video... berklee is a scam
Whatisthescore 1 year ago
Dear Mr. Brown.....I've read alot of things...bout all of stuff...but I don't know enough about you...la la la Peggy...or if you hear a song in blu....Morgana, or young become the...or..keep Katie...cause I have Liz...Jim Nanc..is your gorgeous Nose...wow but mine's better...wanna take a look? Tough...shhhh Ask, maggs..Jeff...or Bob..xox Where do I signed up 4 LIFE???
NancyPizzotti 1 year ago
How the hell are a Brazilian Guitarist, a Chinese Percussionist and an Islandic Vocalist going to meet at this school if their respective parents are not some drug lord, some highly positioned member of the corrupted party that rules China and the son or daughter of Bjork?
Now you tell me that creativity, adaptability and originality historically originate of this pampered type of person and maybe, only maybe I'll believe you Mr. Brown. For the rest, this video is putrid hogwash.
hu6h057 1 year ago
@hu6h057 When a scholar institution charges more per semester than what the average BA earns on their first 2 years of employment (out of the "western world" that is), you have got to ponder on the possibility that this school is nothing more than a cash cow for some neo-aristocratic elite with one goal in mind; Getting more dough, more cash and/or more gold.
hu6h057 1 year ago
"There are three things we're looking for. We're looking for cash, we're looking for checks, and we're looking for publicity." I'd love to give our dear mister brown a slap, send him home, and take the hell over.
berkleeduder 1 year ago 3
Gosh, i want to go to this school so bad, but im a mediocre singer (well people compliment me but im sure its just to be nice) and i have no prior training (which is something they stress) But i do love writing songs/ poetry. Do i somewhat have a chance? D:
IlikepurpleXP 1 year ago
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Sorry, but no.
AcidMothersTitties 1 year ago
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@IlikepurpleXP of course you do.
beatlesfan129 1 year ago
@IlikepurpleXP You have to apply to find out! But believe me I am not that good and I got in....I enjoy playing and thats what mattered. If you enjoy playing or singing or writing try your luck at Berklee. You never know it may help you more than you think. The experience is nothing compared to that of a regular university.
narakusgirl2006 1 year ago
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That school is bias. Berklee is looking for the same ol same ol. They do not like if you're unique and make music that does not fit into their up tight normal/boring ways. Click my name, I make hip hop music. Make instrumentals, write my own lyrics, even ghost write for other artists and they did not accept me. I'm as original as they come. check my page out and you be the judge. i also have a myspace, you can find it on my youtube profile... GET AT ME. AND EFF JERKLEE
fightinray 1 year ago
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That school is bias. Berklee is looking for the same ol same ol. They do not like if you're unique and make music that does not fit into their up tight normal/boring ways. Click my name, I make hip hop music. Make instrumentals, write my own lyrics, even ghost write for other artists and they did not accept me. I'm as original as they come. check my page out and you be the judge. i also have a myspace, you can find it on my youtube profile... GET AT ME. AND EFF JERKLEE
fightinray 1 year ago
I wonder how Berklee is now... Joe Satriani talks about it being "like Animal House", with "people smoking pot and setting fires in the alley", "most of the students were kids who looked like they couldn't get into any other school":
I hope that's not what I get for $22k+ per semester...
basshred 1 year ago
i dont need berklee
atl2maryland 1 year ago
@atl2maryland u mean that you cant get in
bassjak666 1 year ago
@bassjak666 never ever even thought of trying to get in because Berklee is not for me.. and if some of the crappy audtion pieces I saw were good enough to get in I shouldnt have a problem
atl2maryland 1 year ago
I am going to Berklee! Nothing and no one will stop me. I AM going. I don't even have to think about it. I'm going.
tjolmsy 1 year ago 26
@tjolmsy
I will see you there my brother. Promise. :]
Ei8htBallDubstep 5 months ago
Siobhan Magnus: rejected by the Berlee College of Music and one year later singing with the Bee Gees. God, it must suck to be the admissions officer right about now.
hurah96704 1 year ago
This is a lie. I am the definition of everything he said.
fightinray 1 year ago
Check out my music and you be the judge..... Look up Fightin' Ray
fightinray 1 year ago
this lifted such a weight from my chest oh my god im going to this school in january hah
biggiestickz 1 year ago
:O I am touched. I really want to go to this college but I am constantly worried about my lack of sight reading skills.. thank God.
Tengent 1 year ago
and a ton money.....
gallo18 1 year ago
man i love berklee. i got in a about a year ago. knew nothing of sight reading, improvising, and i was so nervous for the performance i botched my original songs, but for some reason they saw something in me and gave me a shot. now im in three pretty tripped out bands (still shy away from jazz) but i count even comprehend how much ive learned just being in the berklee enviroment. it really is an amazing school.
DaPartnerinDaCrime 1 year ago
@DaPartnerinDaCrime you're not in berklee, don't lie about shit like that man
iunnodiapeys 1 year ago
@iunnodiapeys uhh yes i am. im a elpd major
DaPartnerinDaCrime 1 year ago
If that is what you are looking for you must give me a scholarship plz!
leorjc 1 year ago
i was thinking of going to berklee, but i have no musical skills, so hopefully since im a freshman in highschool ill gain the abilities that they are looking for in a student, wish me good luck :] <3
rachelp147 1 year ago
Everything Brown says is entirely true, at least in my case. I'm not a virtuoso and I'm pretty much (was and still is) allergic to Jazz. I got to Berklee based on potential, or promise, rather than actual accomplishments. I'll be graduating next semester, and looking back on the three years I spent here, it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Sure, there are several little flaws and a few major criticisms I have about Berklee, but in the big picture, this place is unbelievable.
mhazani 2 years ago
i was offered a very generous scholarship to berklee, and during the interview process was told i would be a perfect addition to berklee, and that there was no way i would not get in.... and i didn't get in hahaha because the director of admissions damien bracken had issues with me.... i tried to get in tuch with the president but never got a hold of him....
dmmc1043 2 years ago
@dmmc1043 How much scholarship money did you get?. I was given $18,000 a year
Saxmaster1230 1 year ago
@dmmc1043 how do you get scholarships??????
InsanityType66 1 year ago
@InsanityType66 you have to be really fucking good. If you can get a scholarship from Berklee, you're probably good enough to just start yourself in the music world.
LIGHTRONIX 1 year ago
Great, I'm soo there =D
Bartekdex 2 years ago
@Bartekdex Already there! Heheh. If you wanna see how I got in, it's on my channel.
letspretendxc0re 2 years ago
@KwameNewton Good I'm glad it's not just my family =) But I mean they don't really accept music as a "real carreer". Rather, they think it's a hobby and should be done in your free time when you get home from the office =S
Canadianspunge 2 years ago
At the end it sounds like he's describing some weird threeway hook-up. Just sayin'.
KwameNewton 2 years ago 118
ahahahahahahahahahaaha
oh my God I'm laughing my ass off
robertcuthbert 2 years ago
@KwameNewton LOL
MrRonGuitar 1 year ago
@KwameNewton
EatxLovexPlay 11 months ago
@KwameNewton YOU ARE MY FUCKING HERO
nunchuckification 8 months ago
Berklee is a scam and is guaranteed to wasted your money. And, Roger Brown is a swindler trying to trick untalented people to spend $30000 for a semester. They take people into this school who don't belong there in order to steal their money.
Whatisthescore 2 years ago
hey dude
do you have any proves? or was that just another bullshit?
bigmwhite 2 years ago
@bigmwhite Go to the video titled Berklee All Star Quartet part1 and read I what I say there.
Whatisthescore 2 years ago
Berklee tells you that making it big in the music world is not a guarantee. It's ultimately up to you. The only way you can truly waste your money is if you just go to the school and do nothing with what you learned afterwards. That's why he says "passionate" because it's not about just going and saying "I went to Berklee!" because you did. Even though Berklee is one of the leading colleges in music in the world today, they choose the people who they think will make a difference.
GlitchHalo 2 years ago
Nope. Get off the acid, son.
KwameNewton 2 years ago
Im going to berklee, fuck it
xaviermoyssen 2 years ago 41
me too! i'm getting my associates here at my university than a year off and going to berklee!! let's dominate em!
partyboyrocks69 2 years ago
When you convince your family, lemme know how you did it =P
Canadianspunge 2 years ago
who needs to convince when you just have the obvoius talent?
xaviermoyssen 2 years ago
Even if you have the talent, families (specifically parents and grandparents) tend to resist you becoming a musician. I find they don't believe you can make a proper living
Canadianspunge 2 years ago
Yeah, they say that "money isn't everything", and then tell you that you need to make 'X' amount of money to "support your family".
KwameNewton 2 years ago
@xaviermoyssen The "3" things he's "looking" for are all lies. They like boring, non creative, same garbage. violins and guitars, piano's. They do not want creative new age style.
fightinray 1 year ago
@xaviermoyssen Me too :)
Guitareben 1 year ago
@xaviermoyssen Yeah~~~!!!!!
narakusgirl2006 1 year ago
@xaviermoyssen get ready to go bankrupt..:(
Kobymakesmegag 1 year ago
This makes me feel better - ALOT BETTER - about applying to music college... These guys aren't even looking for skill or 'the next best guy', they are just looking for people who love music and have the motivation to learn all they can from and about music..
Dogdashdash 2 years ago
thats what i was thinking. I was immidiately discouraged because i thought they were looking for really technical players...im applying for sure
lectwar 2 years ago
Well there IS a limit to your skill. He didn't say can't play at all, he said if this is off or you play in a weird tune, etc. Sightreading is the only thing he said if you don't know how to read because there is no in between. It's read it or not. Trust me, Berklee is not only looking for passionate prospectives, but also prospectives with a certain amount of skill. If they didn't care, there would be no point in their auditions.
GlitchHalo 2 years ago
Well yea, obviously, but I figured they were looking for those types that have been going to private lessons for years and could play Flight of the Bumblebee with their eyes closed, like really technical and exact kind of thing.
Dogdashdash 2 years ago
@GlitchHalo Their auditions are just there for show. It's a scam everyone knows that.
Whatisthescore 2 years ago
as he was talking about what the chinese iclandic and brazilian dude was making in their dorm room
I immedietly thought meth
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donottawaguitar 2 years ago
i'm applying as a transfer student. Aside from transcript from college from this year is everything the same?
dougsusername 2 years ago
I have a audition in Dec. I play the drums and I'm weak at reading music........is that goin to fuck me getting in......
fnkdrmr86 2 years ago 2
I'm auditioning for guitar in December and, from what I've heard, the sight-reading exercises are just used to place you in the right class assuming you get in. I'm terrible at reading as well...
Good luck!
Gronmon 2 years ago
That's definately me!
speaker3600 2 years ago 5
This is interesting. I have a question (more answers the better) about the audition. How exactly do you make an appointment for when they are doing the tour, going around to different cities? I would be auditioning in Memphis - how would I set it up to where I would be auditioning in that city?
spacitydrummer4JC 2 years ago
go to the website and apply, its a long process, but once you've applied you'll get an email some time after that will give you an audition date, time and location. Warning, the audition could be located in Boston.
DavidPramik 2 years ago
I saw on their site that you can still audition even if you are a non applicant. Thank you for your response - any information is extremely helpful.
spacitydrummer4JC 2 years ago
Well, it's like any other music colleges or conservatories. You apply for it by sending in your high school transcript, SAT/ACT scores, essays and etc, then if they accept your application, Berklee will ask you a list of date and places that they will visit. You pick one and if you don't see Memphis on the list, you need to get to the closet audition place by yourself. Wish you a luck. from a Berklee student.
Faith804 2 years ago
Wow, everything I need. Thank you!
God Bless!
spacitydrummer4JC 2 years ago
Those are some pretty weird comments TNJ..Roger Brown is a swindler. he steals millions from unsuspecting talentless hacks.
Whatisthescore 2 years ago
how so????
cwflad 2 years ago
I am English and considering applying to Berklee as a post grad thing. It would be THE SCARIEST THING if I got in!!
TrisPuri 2 years ago
It's really a great place. You may not like it, but that's a matter of personal preference.
TNJSax 2 years ago
It is my dream school now, and if I get in, I know that I'd make my time worthwhile, and I figure if you can't do that at ANY top notch music school, you either don't belong there, or you are too lazy. My advice to anyone is to go to Boston and see it for yourself if you are thinking of attending. Don't listen to what morons like whatisthescore are saying and actually go see it for yourself, or find current students, or accredited alumni to talk to via email, on the street, or on facebook.
TNJSax 2 years ago
But singling out Berklee and calling it a scam and then promoting MSM, NEC, or even THE NEW SCHOOL!! ... You need to take a look at the bigger picture. All of them are financially a rip off. And there's nothing anyone can do about it. if everyone boycotted colleges, which wouldn't happen in the first place, we might make progress, but it's not going to be like that. Anyway, before I write a book, whatisthescore, you really have no clue if you say you wasted your time at berklee.
TNJSax 2 years ago
Berklee is there to provide everyone with the tools they need
to be an ARTIST and this is up to the student. Of course
not everything you say is blatently wrong. College, in general, not
just Berklee or MSM or Harvard, is a scam. College in America has
become a business, and we all have to just face that fact. Sure, by
attending Berklee you may pay a little extra a year over another
school, but you won't make nearly as many CONNECTIONS that will be
valuable after graduation.
TNJSax 2 years ago
I think it's pretty ignorant for you to say that 4000 students
are conned by going to Berklee. I think that everyone that goes to
Berklee is given an equal shot at making the best of the whole
experience, and of course, those who do not have what it takes to make
that push towards breaking creative boundaries, might not make it in a
further musical career... But here's the kicker. It's on THEM, not
Berklee.
TNJSax 2 years ago
I truly felt comfortable for the first time
in all the college visits. The friendly admissions staff treated me
like I had known them for years, the student tour guides gave
individual pointers about the school. Overall, I felt like i had more
motivation to strive towards these seemingly unreachable goals of
attending one of these big name schools. I feel like Berklee IS in
fact a place for people like me and not just all the super giants of
music.
TNJSax 2 years ago 2
So i would have to say that all but the New School are making a decent
effort to improve facilities. In all of my visits, I found that the
most helpful school (staff, faculty, students, and whoever I may have
talked to) was Berklee. Between the 1 hour information session, the
separate 2 1/2 hour tour, and all the hanging around I did since I
stayed at the Hilton on Dalton (literally right behind Berklee), I got
all my questions answered.
TNJSax 2 years ago
Every building stunned me, especially the BPC. I prefered this over the New
School in that they have buildings that require either a 14+ block
walk (or subway ride). I also liked NEC's facilities, though they
were a bit too classically oriented in my opinion (simply because I'm
into the jazz degree). NEC has spent the whole summer renovating ALL
of their buildings, which are located about 2 blocks down Mass Ave
from Berklee and are also all located within a block of each other.
TNJSax 2 years ago
Also at MSM, the whole school is very clean
cut, quiet, and overall an amazing community (all now inside one
interconnecting building). I'll skip over Temple and WPU for now and
go to Berklee. My favorite of all the schools in terms of facilities
was Berklee. The Back Bay section of Boston Berklee is located is
simply a prime spot for a school. The way the buildings are spread
out, but still reasonable close (within a block), thrilled me.
TNJSax 2 years ago
Of all these schools, the order I put them in is: Berklee,
MSM, NEC, WPU, The New School, and Temple. The facilities issue you
brought up about nine months ago is totally wrong. By far, the New
School has the worst facilities. They have about 20 practice rooms and
aren't expanding (partly because of the lower part of Manhatten, there
is nowhere to expand to). MSM's facilities are tremendous. I
talked to students there have never had an issue finding practice rooms (they say).
TNJSax 2 years ago