Benefits of a College Level Program in Commercial Music

Boston, Mass., September 29, 2007 - "What Can You Really Learn From Random Lessons in Music?"

Random music lessons and study materials are fine for backyard performers but insufficient for aspiring commercial musicians. A residential college may provide what is needed, but it can be very expensive and its benefit is difficult to predict. Tuition may be extreme, the time commitment of 4 years is often unnecessary for the material covered and classroom training is not best for many musicians because they can often learn more quickly at-home or on the 'gig' (the job). Distance learning can be great for musicians, but it has pitfalls.

Programs may place artificial limitations on time. "You're doing an 'on-your-own-time' distance music course but we want you to finish this course along with the other random courses in which you are enrolled in within the next 4 weeks without any regard to the content of the courses you are taking." Worse yet, they may let their students think that taking "Basic ProTools" or "Beginner Guitar Chords" will make them proficient musicians!

Musicians should have distance programs that can be "tempo modified." The dated methods of post-humus academia just do not work for commercial music professional education. Time constraints (such as date set semesters and classes which don't compliment each other) are artificial impositions made by music courses which borrow from other academic institutions without consideration.

Distance education programs at these schools are hard to manage and student's really can't be sure that they're not leaving gaping holes in their craft. Students are made to assemble a program out of a few unfulfilling courses here and there and soon run out of choices, wasting a lot of precious resources, such as their enthusiasm, in the process. It's really like being made to build a house one room at a time under a contract agreement which stipulates that the house is complete at a certain time, no matter if there's a roof or not.

USSCM is the sole provider of complete college-level distance learning diploma programs in commercial music. If you have the determination to make it in the music business, you have what it takes to complete a distance education with USSCM.

About the US School of Commercial Music
First founded in 1915, US School of Commercial Music continues a rich tradition as the oldest, most trusted name in distance music learning. Beginning in 1995, USSCM was the first institution to offer a college-level commercial music Diploma Program via online technology. Today, USSCM offers programs in every major category of commercial music, as well as unique proprietary Certificate Courses with content unobtainable elsewhere. Recognizing that each music student has unique needs, USSCM's Matriculation™ software technology gives students the unparalleled flexibility to design online, the exact program they need in five areas: Performance & Improvisation, The Schillinger System, Advanced Improvisation, SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration and Music Production & Engineering.

USSCM is also the most economical way to acquire the knowledge and skills which a commercial musician needs to compete and collect a paycheck in today's noisy musical environment. USSCM students save considerable money by studying at home, anywhere in the world, and they actually get a better education than at typical bricks and mortar schools. While there is no substitute for working with fellow students shoulder to shoulder, peers are seldom professionals. USSCM exposes each student to a higher quality of music information and more professional material, because it upgrades materials on a semi-annual basis, the only criteria being that it be the best, most timely information and presentation available.

For more information, please contact
Registrar, US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com .
info@usschoolofmusic.com
617-666-4839