The Lou-Dog
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I was playing a little bit of Jazz.... I chose Monash because I got in! The VCA only took 29 people the year I auditioned, there was probably 500 applicants. Monash took probably 50 from the same number of applicants and I got in there. I only auditioned for those two courses.
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Out of the Bachelor of Music courses, Monash and the VCA are pretty much entirely jazz. Mind you most of the students don't only play Jazz out of Uni, I play next to no Jazz but use a lot of the stuff I've been working on at Uni in the music I play.
The NMIT Bachelor course is more Popular music orientated! I don't really know anything about any other courses there may be.
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Hey man,
I'm studying a Bachelor of Music currently, at Monash University. It's a great course, and we're just about to have a multi-million dollar new music department built.
As far as the VCA goes, it's still a great course, but there are very few places available. Monash has most of the same instrumental music teachers, and great lecturers as well as two jazz musicians who are professors (which the VCA doesn't have), Paul Grabowsky and Tony Gould. I play with a bunch of guys from the VCA, who went to the VCA secondary school, did the bachelor there, and then finished honours last year, and they loved the course. They're also really impressed with the quality of the students coming out of Monash, as well as the teachers/visiting artists etc., we've had workshops with John Abercrombie, Jim Black, Aaron Goldstein, and Hermeto Pascaol (among others I can't remember) since last year when i started my degree.
Monash also has a partner ship with NYU, where you can go and stay there for a month and have a short course and play with the NYU guys, as well as learn of Scofield, Bernstien etc.
VCA is a great course, but don't rule out other oppurtunities! If you feel like you're not up to speed completely with your theory/aural skils, and need more experience playing jazz, then I'd do the VCA foundation course (i know people who've done it and they loved it, but they did it when it was free.), but if you feel relatively comfortable with that stuff and don't get into the VCA (their intake is only 30 or so students), I would strongly reccomend going to Monash! I'm getting lessons off of a guy called Steve Magnusson this year, who's a phenomenal guitar player and a great teacher. Here's a clip of him I like. You might not like it if you don't like free leaning jazz though!
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Hey man,
I'm studying a Bachelor of Music currently, at Monash University. It's a great course, and we're just about to have a multi-million dollar new music department built.
As far as the VCA goes, it's still a great course, but there are very few places available. Monash has most of the same instrumental music teachers, and great lecturers as well as two jazz musicians who are professors (which the VCA doesn't have), Paul Grabowsky and Tony Gould. I play with a bunch of guys from the VCA, who went to the VCA secondary school, did the bachelor there, and then finished honours last year, and they loved the course. They're also really impressed with the quality of the students coming out of Monash, as well as the teachers/visiting artists etc., we've had workshops with John Abercrombie, Jim Black, Aaron Goldstein, and Hermeto Pascaol (among others I can't remember) since last year when i started my degree.
Monash also has a partner ship with NYU, where you can go and stay there for a month and have a short course and play with the NYU guys, as well as learn of Scofield, Bernstien etc.
VCA is a great course, but don't rule out other oppurtunities! If you feel like you're not up to speed completely with your theory/aural skils, and need more experience playing jazz, then I'd do the VCA foundation course (i know people who've done it and they loved it, but they did it when it was free.), but if you feel relatively comfortable with that stuff and don't get into the VCA (their intake is only 30 or so students), I would strongly reccomend going to Monash! I'm getting lessons off of a guy called Steve Magnusson this year, who's a phenomenal guitar player and a great teacher. Here's a clip of him I like. You might not like it if you don't like free leaning jazz though!
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I happen to have a background in gender theory...
I'm surprised I didn't pick up on that during this thread, in which you've made so many incisive comments...... -
Surprisingly echo is the best gender theorist in this thread. Myself excluded of course.
{censored} you're smart
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this thread sucks.
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Get it out of the case mate!
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