I'm 20 years old and just about to drop out of the University of
Toronto after two unpleasant years here. I am considering applying to
the Recorded Music Production program at the Trebas Institute here in
Toronto. I would like to know if anyone here has ever been involved
with this program at Trebas (or any of their other programs), and if
so, what was your experience like. More importantly, how hard was it to
find work in the field afterwards? If you could do it over again, would
you? At this point in my life I am deadly serious about getting into
the music business, but is going to Trebas the right way to do it?
Would I be better off just staying at U-of-T and getting that English
degree?

Thanks folks!

I'm 22 and went to U of T three years ago, and after one year i decided
it wasn't for me. Same thing as you, "wanted to get into the music
business." I looked at trebas because it is the most heavily advertised,
but decided against as i heard only bad things about it from former
students, and former music instructors.

Someone suggested that i look at Harris Institute for the Arts:
http://www.harrisinstitute.com/
I did their one year 45-course program a year ago and thought it was
great. They do two tours every week so go check it out. It's located at
Sherbourne just south of Queen St. It goes by fast and there's a lot of
****in material and by the end of it you're practically living at the
place, but it was a good experience.

I had a great time at school academically (and socially) because of a
few things:
1. I already had recording experience working with my own band, with
neighborhood bands.
2. I have a good musical background in theory, writing charts, and being
professionally trained in playing instruments (although harris does have
two outstanding theory/composition/arranging instructors: Todd Booth and
George Botley)
3. I continued to record 5 EP's for other bands during my time at
Harris. So, i had an outlet to apply all the stuff i was learning.
4. I participated in newsgroups like this one, and read as many books as
i could find about recording.

You'd be surprised how many people show up and treat it like high
school. It's not, it's one year of heavy training.

There are about 45 courses that you complete in one year, which is a
lot, so if you already have a context for all the new material to fit
into, all the better it will be. In terms of any education being your
ticket to a career, not a chance. Now a days the only thing it is a
ticket to is a limited internship at a local studio with no guarentees
of employment at the end. It is an entrepreneurial business and you
gotta make your own place to fit.

Roach


A. R. wrote:
I'm 20 years old and just about to drop out of the University of
Toronto after two unpleasant years here. I am considering applying to
the Recorded Music Production program at the Trebas Institute here in
Toronto. I would like to know if anyone here has ever been involved
with this program at Trebas (or any of their other programs), and if
so, what was your experience like. More importantly, how hard was it to
find work in the field afterwards? If you could do it over again, would
you? At this point in my life I am deadly serious about getting into
the music business, but is going to Trebas the right way to do it?
Would I be better off just staying at U-of-T and getting that English
degree?

Thanks folks!

Humber College has a course in AE-ing I believe...I'd go there first and
then follow the instructions in my PM

Don


"A. R." wrote in message
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I'm 20 years old and just about to drop out of the University of
Toronto after two unpleasant years here. I am considering applying to
the Recorded Music Production program at the Trebas Institute here in
Toronto. I would like to know if anyone here has ever been involved
with this program at Trebas (or any of their other programs), and if
so, what was your experience like. More importantly, how hard was it to
find work in the field afterwards? If you could do it over again, would
you? At this point in my life I am deadly serious about getting into
the music business, but is going to Trebas the right way to do it?
Would I be better off just staying at U-of-T and getting that English
degree?

Thanks folks!

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Have you considered staying at the University of Toronto and
transfering over to the music department? It would be a shame to let 2
years towards a bachelor's degree go to waste, even if you might need
to do a little back-tracking to change majors. IMHO, a little music
theory/ear training/composition never hurt anyone. From what I can
gather, there are several folks working in the field of electroacoustic
music at the University of Toronto. Speaking from my experiences at
UCSD and now Dartmouth, there is much to be learned from the academic
electroacoustic composer folks. At the very least, I've racked up many
hours of production experience.

On a completely different note, a half-completed degree will never look
great on a resume. It's worth taking a look at what the music dept.
has to offer before dropping out...

Travis Garrison

Not bad from what I've heard, which isn't a heck of a lot

Don


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I got a copy of Musical Mariner, and the original music wasn't bad but I
got the feeling that the stuff had got a lot of overdubbing and processing
after the original field tracks were cut.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

A. R. wrote:
I'm 20 years old and just about to drop out of the University of
Toronto after two unpleasant years here. I am considering applying to
the Recorded Music Production program at the Trebas Institute here in
Toronto. I would like to know if anyone here has ever been involved
with this program at Trebas (or any of their other programs), and if
so, what was your experience like. More importantly, how hard was it
to
find work in the field afterwards? If you could do it over again,
would
you? At this point in my life I am deadly serious about getting into
the music business, but is going to Trebas the right way to do it?
Would I be better off just staying at U-of-T and getting that English
degree?

Thanks folks!


Trebas and Harris are not acredited institutes. There is some placement
of grads, but stats aren't what these schools claim.


Sheridan College have been upgrading their facilities over the last few
years. Sony put a major TV studio in there, there are a lot of
broadcast training programs at Sheridan, that use industry standard
equipment.

Ryerson is undergoing some major upgrades to their facilities, but I'm
not shure if they'll have the stuff in place by the time you want to
go.

Sheridan might even offer the same course as Fanshawe ( Music Industry
Arts - 2 Year Program ) The Fanshawe course has been running for a
long time and is respected in the industry.

What end of Music do you want to be in? If You are looking at the
business end of things Harris, or Trebas might have something to offer.
If you are looking to the tech side of things.. Learn Electronics,
Learn at a real acredited school.

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Harris Institute is registered with the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. To see where grads are working now go to www.harrisinstitute.com.