Musicians Institute Online Student Testimonial

[@martialkenel7834]

Hello how are you ? I'm Martial from Switzerland 🇨🇭 and i was at the Musician Institute in 1994-1995. It always makes me melcancolic to watch videos abt this school on KZbin. I guess it has changed a lot in 25 years, though the lockers in the corridors look the same, except that they have been repainted apparently. 🤗 I would like to go back there one day just to visit but it's very far from my country !

[@bobbitchin5630]

Illuminating

[@stevendunn7928]

How do online students fulfill the ensemble requirement?

[@RyanAmplification]

How do you learn performance online? You can’t learn how to interact and communicate with a band on stage while watching videos online. Or how to adjust your playing on the fly to suite the song. You can learn to be a recording guitarist but not a studio or performing guitarist. MI, please correct me if I am wrong.

[@stevendunn7928]

I came here to ask the same thing. To be a NASM accredited school, there has to be an ensemble requirement. How does that work with an online school?

[@RyanAmplification]

@ I talked to a friend who was doing Berklee online and he said it’s on you to find performance opportunities in your community and to video those performances and turn them in for credit. Not bad if you’re in a band or have plenty of opportunities like that but if not then it seems like you’re screwed.

[@alanz1099]

My experience with Musicians Institute was pretty much the exact opposite of most reviews from students/alumni. I struggled heavily when it came to my studies, and found that most teachers and students wanted nothing to do with you if you weren't already at a certain level on your instrument. The people there really know how to make someone feel stupid when someone is inexperienced or trying to learn something new. I felt very discouraged being there, and found it to be a very cliquish and cold environment. Impossible to make friends or any type of connections. I'm currently stuck in non-music related day job and have struggled to get gigs due to the lack of help and guidance I needed. It seems like administrators only want to hear positive stories about graduates who succeed after MI, and have no concern with those who are struggling. Forget about any type of career assistance or job placement; anyone who receives assistance is someone who can make the school look good and attract new students.

[@SethWorsham]

When were you there? I graduated in 2011, my experience was the opposite of yours. I made tons of friends and overall everyone was super helpful with morale, we lifted each other up. The teachers were fantastic. They definitely don't help you do anything career wise after you leave there though, the "career counseling" is a joke and you're right about that part of it. And there's a whole lot more attendees and graduates who haven't had much success in their fields than there have been students/alumni who have. I absolutely loved my time there, but I'm sorry you didn't. I'd love to do it all over again. Honestly I don't know how much longer they'll be around. I recently talked to one of my teachers, and he still works for them but says attendance has severely dropped even a few years before covid fucked everything. And I'm sure she was paid (not much) to do this ad, but there's no way in hell I'd pay their outrageous tuition to do the classes online.

[@jazzdorefree194]

Sadly you learned the hard way what private SCHOOLS of any kind truly are. Cash generating machines under the guise of education with promises and expectations to snare and reel in daydreamers. In short a place for young people to stop facing life and stay in the ( parent support womb) pretending to be learning. Had a copy of the GIT (pre MI) textbook. 70's photostat pages of topic that I had learned in one summer on my 1st year of guitar study. Absolutely worthless. But if, as a newbie, I was not familiar with the terms/ topics, I can see that would be like reading hieroglyphics or a electronic schematic without some guidance. To do it on your own it daunting. For me was all the years of being programed by others saying "you can't". Raised in a sterile no encouragement environment, I had no confidence to trust my own judgement, even in hindsight when proving it was more than correct. A lot of wasted time. A study which to this day is still "self study"" other than analyzing Charlie Parker solos, all on my own. Even back to college at 50 only to realize that the only one who could teach me was the face in the mirror, me. The professor there was like you said, a person who tries to really know how to make someone feel stupid. Even proved by demonstrating the correct way , that his facts were WHACK because he just didn't care to know. Arrogant that he could say any kind of crap and no one would "Hey! " question or dispute it. Sorry to hear your ( obviously truthful facts of life) experience, and the fact you fell out of the music, and the fact that yes, we have to work to pay the rent. I stopped music for 35 years until I was 50 and still doing nothing with it as far a making a living.

[@kalorakalora]

Yeah man I think the problem is they accept too many people because they need money, and end up accepting people who like you admittedly are not technically skilled enough yet at that time

[@tonyspada2744]

Does MI detect bad picking while you study online ? Can they see that? Just curious

[@caprise-music6722]

Very interesting!

[@martialkenel7834]

Yes 🤗