Hi, right now I'm taking the last half of my grade 11 and I'm looking very much in the direction of audio engineering as a career (it tickles my fancy ) Anyways I'm trying to take classes in high school that will help me prepare for either studio apprenticeship or audio engineering school afterwards. I have dropped biology seeing that it deals with stuff I don't see as something I will need, while taking chemistry 20, 30, and Information Processing amongst the other must have classes (math, english...)

What I'm most interested in is taking an online class having to do with something involving music, recording, music writing, recording technology and so many more. I have already talked to my principal about it and he has been looking into a few different things but I fear that he doesn't know what the F*** he is doing. Could anyone maybe recommend me some classes I should take, preferably ones available online that I may convince my school to allow me take even if they are not offered in our school division.

My second choice would be to take an arts class where I would write and record some of my own music for the class, this wouldn't really teach me much myself, but it would give my a due date and the push to move my ass so I may prosper.

Thanks!

Just do everything yourself. Read audio-engineering books, research online, learn different instruments, get ahold of Pro Tools or some other good software and start making and recording your own music. Learn everything there is to know about engineering and music. You could start a band and record your music or manage/record a local band. Try to involve yourself in audio-engineering and music in every way you can.

Get your highschool diploma/GED and get into a good school. There is alot of good schools around. Research and find one you like. Make it your goal to go there. If you are really interested and have som talent, and perhaps some luck, you will most defintly end up working with something in music/audio.

Good luck!

so does anyone else have something to say???

Quite a coincidence - I've just posted 3 articles on "Becoming a Recording Engineer" over on musicrecordingcenter.com.

The last one (which should be published tomorrow sometime) has some suggestions about remote training which might help.

Look for the heading:
13. Campus based, local studio based, or distance learning?

Let me know...

Glen

glen wrote:

Quite a coincidence - I've just posted 3 articles on "Becoming a Recording Engineer" over on http://www.musicrecordingcenter.com. The last one (which should be published tomorrow sometime) has some suggestions about remote training which might help. Look for the heading: 13. Campus based, local studio based, or distance learning? Let me know... Glen

That resource seems to exclude the excellent school of http://www.audiocourses.com

Which incidentally was the school that initiated and ported the city & guilds sound engineering qualification to a distance learning mode. They are qualified distance learning designers and audio engineers.

The school has a very good reputation and in fact has a 100% pass rate for the city & guilds programme, where in a face to face environment it is more like 60%!
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Hi Ac,

Many thanks for pointing me to audiocourses.com. I had indeed missed this somehow.

I've updated the article accordingly.
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http://www.musicrecordingcenter.com

Well then I've brought it down to afew after school options and just learning on my own right now.

Either I could go to either provinces surounding saskatchewan for an audio engineer school or option 2, I could get a job at one of the local studios to become an apprentice/go getter boy while taking one of these online courses over the net on my space time (not sure which online course is better?)

Not sure what would be better although I can see myself on option 2 being that it would work out better on my budget (have no rich parents to put me through school easily) and I would be able to stay with friends and family and what not. Not to sure but what does everyone else think?

TJ6900,
I just ran across this article online:

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2007/Recording-School-Online-January-Mixing-Class.html

thought you might be interested

Those guys have been around for a while and from what I can gather it is access to videos and pretty much that is it.

I'd like to stand corrected but I don't think that is a "school" in the sense that you go through an academic programme, with objectives and learning outcomes etc.

Of course I'm a qualified educator and course designer, operating at graduate and post-graduate level so I might be over biased.
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Has anyone here ever taken the audio master class course? If so I would like to know how it is because I signed up for the free bit and found the first unit fairly interesting.