So about a month ago, I was looking at the Berklee online music website for different programs related to music and music production. I've gone back and forth about whether I should invest in taking an audio engineering program, music production program, music composition program.... so on and so on for about the past 3 years. While most girls love to spend all day in the mall shopping for clothes......I'd rather camp out in a sam ash music store playing with the different keyboards, and looking at all the different pro tools options. With my first paycheck I got from my first job out of college, I went and bought an 8 track recorder and a condenser mic from sam ash. 2 pay checks after that I bought a korg triton 88 key keyboard on one of those 12 month no interest deals where I payed it off in 6 months.
So at first, my focus was making an album. Not to get a record label to want to sign me and not for me to try to get rich. Just simply because there I was working a job that I figured was the right thing to do because I was using my college degree, but I was so freaking miserable because all I wanted to do was music. I was going to make a collection of music for an album, simply just to make one. I had always made songs ever since I was little, but in writing, producing, and recording the songs for this 'project', I realized how organic it felt for me to make the music, and not just sing on top of a song. Again, this was just a 'let me get all of these emotions off my chest' type of project, so there was no setting aside money for studio time and no finding producers to create some songs for me. In my bedroom I created this album of about 18 songs. I learned about 8 and 24 track recorders, about condenser vs dynamic mics, about inputs/outputs, mono/stereo tracks. I got cubase software which lead me to purchasing pro tools soft/hardware. I learned about compression, and even soundproofing. I didn't have a closet I could use to record vocals, so I would get 3 tall floor lamps, 2 flannel bed sheets, set my mic up under those hot a$$ sheets, put my sister's mac powerbook G4 ( which she will never let me forget she let me use until I bought my own) on the outside of my homemade sound booth, slip my hand under the sheet 2 press record, and then hurry up and get back under the sheets to sing into the mic. Along with learning the production and engineering side of recording music, I also became a better songwriter. In fact, the last song I ended up writing for that album ( 'Night Of a 1000 Songs') was 'Fair Weather Friend', the song that landed me on Queen Latifah's present album, Persona, 2 years later.
I said all that to say this. The music behind the music was an interest that was sparked in me through that ' I don't know what to do with myself' project. I remember emailing Ryan Leslie in 2007 asking for his advice about whether I should invest in an audio engineering school, even after I had accumulated gobs of school loans already, and even though my main focus was creating the music, not how to make it sound good for tv, radio, and ipods. He emailed me (unexpectedly) that it's never wrong to invest in yourself, and your dreams. I talked about my idea also with an audio tech sales guy at sam ash who told me he was also trying to pay back his school loans after going to Full Sail. He told me that if I was a person on the creative side of the music, most times those individuals leave the engineering and production to others so they can focus on the craft that interests them the most, creating the music, not editing the sound. I however have listened to the Just Blaze interview where he talks about how he interned as an engineer, and through that avenue is how he ended up having his creative music making side heard.
Although I wanted to take the online Berklee Course for Making Music for Television and Film this september, I decided to do something that I always wanted to do when I was in elementary school, take my books home and read them on my own. Don't get me wrong though, for these Berklee classes, I want to enroll in the classes, but for now I'm saving up money to take those classes (cuz they're not cheap). There are a couple other courses I'm interested in, so I ended up ordering the books for some of those courses from amazon, and now it's just a matter of finding time to home school myself...ha. Here are a couple of the books I ordered:
Making Music Make Money: An Insiders Guide to becoming Your Own Music Publisher by Eric Beal
Complete Guide to Film Scoring: The Art and Business of Writing Music for Movies and TV by Ricard Davis
Pro Tools 101 Official Courseware
Here's the link to Berklee's Online Courses
Here's the itunes link for Queen Latifah's album Persona
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