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Anyone here been to fullsail university?
« on: February 14, 2016, 07:46:50 pm »
I live near it and would like to know if their music production is worth it.

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Re: Anyone here been to fullsail university?
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2016, 08:20:40 pm »
I'd stay away from for profit schools man.

You might be better off at a community college, one of those state schools, or trying to be a broom sweeper in a studio.
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Re: Anyone here been to fullsail university?
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2016, 08:41:04 pm »
I figured. I'm more interested only in the networking and finding local people who are into the same thing I am.

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Re: Anyone here been to fullsail university?
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2016, 09:06:32 pm »
I figured. I'm more interested only in the networking and finding local people who are into the same thing I am.

You can do that by going to shows, trying to get in the know with the dj's, promoters.

I would find out if there are any studio's near you, and literally try to see if you can talk to some of those people or something. Just to get a foot in the door. It may take more than one attempt.
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Re: Anyone here been to fullsail university?
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2016, 03:13:27 pm »
Of all the for profit colleges, Full Sail is one of the worst. If you're really interested in pursuing a structured education in electronic music production, I'd look into one of the newer EDM-focused places like Icon or Point Blank. They do on-site and online classes, and will get you people who are explicitly into what you're into and not just "music". You don't wanna pay a full college tuition for that type of stuff, since most of it is just experience-based.

The main reason to go to a school for music is if you want a career in the industry at large, and even then very few schools will provide you with the most important tool you already clearly know you need - networking. I'm currently going to a school to study composition for visual media, and most of the stuff I'm learning through my classes could have been self-taught, to be perfectly honest. The education provides a structure to make things to faster and more efficiently, but my main focus is how most of my teachers are still inside (or recently out of) the film or video game industry and how there are students in non-music majors like animation and motion pictures that my school encourages collaborating with. So I'm developing a portfolio while marketing myself to possible future clients.

Without that, I'd be wasting my money.