should i go to ACM?

[CaffeineJunkie]

hey peeps

i'm currently debating whether or not to apply for ACM (Academy of Contemporary Music) and i just wondered whether anybody has any experience with them and if it;s worth adding another 3 grand to a student loan that will most probably kill me in the future


Cheers

CJ

(and yeh, before everybody from the other thread about schooling says it, i have decided to look at uni's)

[HTH AMPS]

ACM has a good rep for sure but I'd think hard about what you expect to do at the end of it all.  Do you want to be a session guitarist? score for films/tv?  It's a very tough market to get into with some very good players who can nail may styles.

 :twisted:

[CaffeineJunkie]

it's more so that i can keep in the habit of going to college/uni everyday and prepare me for going to uni, in that i will probably be living away from home, and will have to learn to deal with problems which would otherwise arise during my first year at uni.

I'm not planning on being a professional musician, i just like playing guitar and one of my best mates from before i moved to the other end of the country is going next year as well, so it's kinda 2 birds with 1 stone


plus i'd get to play guitar all day every day :twisted:

[FELINEGUITARS]

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plus i'd get to play guitar all day every day :twisted:

They make you do business studies and stuff too!!

[CaffeineJunkie]

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plus i'd get to play guitar all day every day :twisted:

They make you do business studies and stuff too!!

yeah, there is technical development, session styles, theory / applied harmony, sight reading/ear training, live performance workshop, business studies, pre production and post production.

i think with that much guitar packed around it, i'm sure i'll barely notice the business studies :D