TL;DR: Classes in Audio Engineering/Music Technology start in two weeks. Not sure if this is for me. Am I just lazy when I get home from work? Should I skip the AAS in Music or go for a Bachelors in something non-music?
This is a kinda 2-in-1 advice seeking thread. No fishing, just need some thoughts besides my own. I get up at 6am, go to work until 2:30pm.. and come home with no motivation to hop into FL and make beats- usually not to. On my days off work, I do produce.. practically all day.
I'm 24, started rapping/engineering tracks at 17 until about 22. Picked up production in April.
Now... I've enrolled into Austin Community College's Associates of Applied Science: Music Business, Performance, Technology program.
My classes this (my first semester in this program) semester will be in Audio Engineering, Synthesis, MIDI, Music Theory, Music Business.
I should also add, I get a pell grant so I will not be paying out of pocket.
In the second year of the program you have to do an internship, which being in Austin TX, there are many studios the school works with for this. I'm thinking this would be a great foot in the door opportunity.
I dropped out (got kicked out for weed) of college in 2012 and haven't been back. I've got about a year of general electives complete, so three years from a Bachelors degree.
Should I not do this Music Associates? Just go back for my Bachelors?
Do you all genuinely love producing? Does it ever feel like a chore?
I've done so much soul searching, and asked lots of older wiser folk for advice. I'm still second guessing if this is even for me, because I don't look forward to making music everyday. In it for the wrong reasons?
Would these classes in audio engineering really be useful to a producer?
I really appreciate you guys Much success to your 2017
Submitted January 01, 2017 at 06:42PM by mustbesomebody https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5lhczq/advice_do_you_always_enjoy_this/?utm_source=ifttt