So i found this school online here in my city, its called beatdrop.ca. If you'd like to take a look at the website just google it. Anyways, it has a $10k masterclass that takes 216 hours to complete. They say to become an expert or master something takes 10k hours, so obviously, that isn't going to make you an expert. I did call them however, and I asked about the skills of the people there, asked if there were people there skilled enough they could recreate a track from scratch etc if I showed them one, given the time etc.
I also asked how far I'd be ahead and, they gave me a fairly vague answer but I understood why. Everyone is different, but the guy I talked to said after I was finished, if I really cared, had a passion, did all of the homework, skipped no classes etc, I'd come out probably around 5-6 years ahead than if I'd just learned on my own with no outside help.
Do you think that's feasible? Obviously, you go home and you practice and you show what you learn in class. If you took someone and made them learn 100% on their own, it might take them 10k hours to master something right. But if they had a mentor or someone teaching them, that could be cut down? To be a true master takes experience, but the time to be fully proficient and understand how things work and take advantage of it, could be cut down significantly? If you had Headhunterz or some other big producer teaching you every step of the way, wouldn't your learning would be accelerated?
What do you guys think? Waste of money? I'm 27 and I don't have any musical background nor do I have time to sit at home all day dawing for 8+hours a day.
Submitted December 08, 2016 at 12:44PM by SecretlyaFish https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5h7l3t/school_for_ableton_questions/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, December 8, 2016