Studio Drummer – Seriously Consider Music Colleges

*ALSO, CONSIDER MUSIC COLLEGES IN YOUR VICINITY.* 

 

I would always recommend the experience and the gained knowledge and contacts that result.  One thing I would say about music colleges though is that they are not trade schools.  In other words, because you’ve gone to a music college means very little when it comes to the working world.  It doesn’t mean necessarily that you’re going to have jobs when you finish.  You’re going to have to forge your own path in regards to working in the field.  Practically everyone I know who’s been to college would tell you that the guys and girls that ‘can play’ in college could ‘play’ before college too. 

Approach the experience as something that is going to greatly enhance your existing knowledge and playing ability, not create your foundation of knowledge and playing ability from the ground up.

 

In my experience at the time that I entered the music business, which was the early 1980’s, there was a lot of work in jingles and film.  And also because of the relative lack of technology which now exists, sessions in general were more abundant, whereas now many sessions take place in solitary home studios.  It was a thriving business at that time.  Without a doubt these are now different times.