I realize this is a little off-topic, but then, that's why I put it here

[Maestro]

I just got into Berklee School of Music, which is in the back bay, up in boston. And I'm indescribably excited at the moment, and I feel a need to tell everyone I can.

Also, the best part is that it means I can keep playing airsoft in Massachusetts. Believe it or not, you, MAASF, were a significant factor in where I decided to go to school. So thank you guys, keep on rocking, see you on the battlefield.

[SACSlym]

Congratulations, youll be just up huntington from me, and soon, shorty, so yeah, we can totally do that game in the prudential we've been planning.

[Raider]

Get me into the freshman dorms and you can have all the women and free booze your tiny heart desires.

[Maestro]

Congratulations, youll be just up huntington from me, and soon, shorty, so yeah, we can totally do that game in the prudential we've been planning.

I've always wanted to rappel down a building for an airsoft game.

Get me into the freshman dorms and you can have all the women and free booze your tiny heart desires.

Deal.

[Ubez]

you, MAASF, were a significant factor in where I decided to go to school. So thank you guys, keep on rocking, see you on the battlefield.

It might be because I'm wicked incredibly super-duper-stupor high right now....but...idk if I should feel loved or...further confused

[DOYON]

It might be because I'm wicked incredibly super-duper-stupor high right now....but...idk if I should feel loved or...further confused


you should just feel loved.

[Sneaky]

congratulations good luck in collage

[Ravage]

Wow congrats man. Berklee is hard to get in to. What exactly are you majoring in?

[Maestro]

Wow congrats man. Berklee is hard to get in to. What exactly are you majoring in?

Most likely, Film Scoring.

[DerFrownmacher]

Also, the best part is that it means I can keep playing airsoft in Massachusetts. Believe it or not, you, MAASF, were a significant factor in where I decided to go to school. So thank you guys, keep on rocking, see you on the battlefield.

Heh, one of the reasons I decided to go to Dartmouth instead of way out in Mass College of Liberal Arts (which forbids anything that so much as pretends to look like a weapon within 10,000 miles of campus).

Though I have yet to see whether that was a good decision...

Congratulations, glad you're sticking around.

[SACSlym]

Heh, one of the reasons I decided to go to Dartmouth instead of way out in Mass College of Liberal Arts (which forbids anything that so much as pretends to look like a weapon within 10,000 miles of campus).

Though I have yet to see whether that was a good decision...

Congratulations, glad you're sticking around.

What do you want to major in? Oh hell there's a school in Boston for it.

[bag32]

congratulations good luck in collage

someone's not going to collage...

[SACSlym]

I like collages though, i make them all the time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/SACSlym/insectcompilationFLAT.jpg

[bag32]

lol;)

[Nugget]

That plane one is soooooo sick, youu should make it poop paratroopers out the back and have two door mounted GPMGs.


Oh yeah, good luck Maestro, congrats.

[Ravage]

Most likely, Film Scoring.

Ah very nice. Do you have to performances and such on your major instrument, becuase we do here no matter what your major is.

[Raider]

Deal.

I WILL hold you to that.

[APW]

So did you get a scholarship, or will you be in debt for the next life, unless you get a good score thing into a film. Then you'll have it paid off in 20 years. What was the audition like?

[Maestro]

Ah very nice. Do you have to performances and such on your major instrument, becuase we do here no matter what your major is.

I'm not sure, it's possible, I'll probably end up performing casually no matter what.

Also, thanks everyone. And I want a spider car.

[SACSlym]

spider car is one of my favorites, the sketch is huge lol

[Nugget]

Spider car is cool too, it has 8 legs, and that would take quite a few IEDs to take down. Put a minigun in the back and you got a cool troop transport.

The bug helo is kinda cool how its ass swings down and forward to fire.

[Ravage]

Now lets not forget that this thread is about Maestro getting into Berklee, which is no small feat for a musician these days. I'm with APW, I wanna hear about the audition process and such. Actually what instrument did you audition with I don't recall what you play haha

[jmb91]

please tell me you auditioned on the electric ukulele

[Maestro]

I play the violin, and the audition was hilarious. I got there and was called to my audition about 30 minutes early, and they gave me a room to warm up in for 20 minutes, and a set of 6 different 4 line sight reading pieces, and was told they'd pick two. All the people were ridiculously chill, which was awesome. After a little while, they brought me to an audition room, and had me play my prepared piece, which I had been working on forever so it wasn't too big of a deal. Then they had me pick one of the sight reading pieces, and I got almost to the end and the guy said "Ok, that's good, I know you can read." Then he played a 12 bar blues and told me to improv over it. That's all I remember, it's mostly all a blur.

[Ravage]

thats pretty cool. I didnt even have to sight read at my audition for RIC. I did have a music theory exam though. Did they give you one of those?

[Maestro]

Not that I remember, Berklee seems to get a lot of self-taught musicians, so I guess they skip theory in the audition.

[Ravage]

Ah. Well I assume you'll end up having to take theory courses anyways. RIC is very classicaly oriented when it comes to training students and such so we all have to take 4 semesters of theory and sightsinging and ear training.

[Maestro]

Yeah, I was talking to someone who said it was pretty obvious that berklee was a college run by musicians.

[Ravage]

haha apparently. what are they getting for tuition a semester these days?

[Maestro]

haha apparently. what are they getting for tuition a semester these days?

Like, 24ish. It's madness.

[Ravage]

thats insane. are you getting any kind of scholarships or is you/your parents' wallets going to take all of that raping?

[Tank]

dude props to you, that is like...a big deal... you must be a prodigy

[Maestro]

I'm grabbing any and all scholarships I can get my hands on. Hopefully that will significantly lessen the load.
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Haha, also, prodigies don't go to berklee, prodigies drop out of berklee.

[Ravage]

hahahaha thats true you go to berklee to learn to be a prodigie lol. Either way man I'm psyched for you. That is a huge accomplishment. You music director at your high school must be ecstatic

[Maestro]

He probably will be, when I tell him, haha.

[APW]

He probably will be, when I tell him, haha.
Haha, my high school band teacher was excited when I told him I will be doing the berklee saxaphone weekend and some more private lessons over the summer. My friend is auditioning for berklee but he said he is just doing it to see if he could get in. He is a crazy guitarist. Number one or two high school jazz guitarist in RI.

[Ravage]

I didn't even attempt berklee for a number of reasons such as lack of funds, not to mention i'm not much of a jazz guitarist and I've only been playing classical gutiar for 1 1/2 years or so so I doubt I would have had the skill to get in when it was audition time...

I have been thinking about trying to go to a conservatory once I finish here at RIC but thats not for a while so no sense worrying about it now.

Are you planning on doing anything with music APW?

[Maestro]

Jazz is madness. I've tried to understand jazz theory before, it's just too complicated for me. That being said, people who can play it, play it well, and know what they're doing, are gods.

[APW]

Yeah, a minor or a double major at URI, then a major in mechanical engineering and some other stuff like business. I've got time though, still a junior.

[Ravage]

Jazz is madness. I've tried to understand jazz theory before, it's just too complicated for me. That being said, people who can play it, play it well, and know what they're doing, are gods.

Agreed. I haven't even bothered with jazz theory yet but we do have jazz theory courses and as of this semester a jazz guitar teacher and I think I'm gonna give that a shot maybe next semester or the following, just to see what happens. Can't hurt to try to learn, eh?

Yeah, a minor or a double major at URI, then a major in mechanical engineering and some other stuff like business. I've got time though, still a junior.

Ah yeah you've got plenty of time to worry about it.

[APW]

lol, I understand jazz theory pretty well, and can play the jazz and funk bari ok. I've got alot of tower of power down. Squib cakes!

[Ravage]

Well I never really got into jazz up until this past semester when I took a Jazz history course and now I've started to listen to it more and my interest has risen in it recently. So yeah haha

[APW]

I just like doing my school jazz band cause its fun. Thats gotten me more into it

[Ravage]

My schools music program was a joke. I'm surprised I made it out in as good shape as I did.

[BRAD]

were did you go to high schoolz

[2footgiant]

I didn't even have a school music program in y high school

[Ravage]

were did you go to high schoolz

North Providence

[BRAD]

North Providence
makes sense =) making sure your not one of them queers from hendricken, fuck hendricken

^if your not from RI, or NK you probably won't understand

[Ravage]

Here in NP we tend to hate on the Johnston kids for no apparent reason...Hendricken kids are queers too though.

[bag32]

Here in NP we tend to hate on the Johnston kids for no apparent reason...Hendricken kids are queers too though.

For some reason Burrillville hates Jonston as well, and everyone hates hendricken... but thenagain, burrillville is so small and neutral, nobody cares.

[twentytwo]

anybody else hate barrington as much as i do?

[Ravage]

Nope. Just Johnston and I don't know why. Fuck Johnston.

[BRAD]

Fuck hendricken!

[bag32]

anybody else hate barrington as much as i do?

dude, Oakleys mcgee is from barrington... suree they are all rich snobs, but he's pretty cool.

[twentytwo]

i no.... i still hate them.

[BRAD]

were do you two go/went

[twentytwo]

Burrillville.

[APW]

while we are so totally off topic, screw NK, mt. hope, middletown and newport.
So what are the berklee dorms like?

[BRAD]

screw NK
yea, well fuck Portsmouth! =)

[APW]

You know we are better. The only good part about NK is that you have the deed to Jamestown. We do have little compton though.

[twentytwo]

barrington..... (in angry dome)

[BRAD]

yea, well you also have a growth coming off the ass end of the island, o wait thats middletown and newport, wait aren't they the same things portsmouth? must be, its all the same craptaisic island =P yea, let that sink in mo fo!

burriville is cool, well cold but haha gay little joke =)

[Onigumo]

You can take a Starcraft class there for credits.

[Ravage]

So what are the berklee dorms like?

I've heard the Berklee dorms are actually crappier than most other dorms at colleges...

[Maestro]

Well, I took two classes at berklee over the summer, and both times stayed in the dorms, and had very different experiences both times. One time, I was in a pretty nice triple, it was right next to the street but it wasn't too noisy for me, it had it's own bathroom, and it was pretty excellent. The other time, the dorm I was in was a complete shit hole. It was falling apart, literally. So I guess, it all depends? I might end up staying in a friend's apartment instead, so it doesn't make a humongous difference to me.

[Raider]

If you can get an of campus apartment you gain the valuable resource of having a place with no restrictions on alcoholism and nudity.

[Tom Hogan]

If you can get an of campus apartment you gain the valuable resource of having a place with no restrictions on alcoholism and nudity.

Depends....

My brother lived in the Muslim house at Tufts, and both were forbidden... even in the shower.

[Nugget]

Wut?

[Raider]

Depends....

My brother lived in the Muslim house at Tufts, and both were forbidden... even in the shower.

Right, as it was denominated as a Muslim place of habitation . . .

Plus if it was AT Tufts, than its on campus, which means it's subject to the colleges rules anyways.

[SACSlym]

Raider meant off, not of.

[Raider]

Raider meant off, not of.

I love you.