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Thursday, April 24. 2008
"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Wednesday, April 23. 2008
"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Wednesday, April 23. 2008
"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Wednesday, April 23. 2008
[News] [PR 4] 4/23/08 US SCHOOL OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC ANNOUNCES CERTIFICATE COURSES
Radically different music courses contain 'holy grail' information and
training tools unobtainable outside of entertainment capitals such as
Hollywood or New York.
NEWARK, Delaware - Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - US School of Commercial Music today
announced new Certificate Courses which can save students years of
private study. They may be taken individually or as part of a USSCM
Diploma Program. Each course is complete in itself and covers hard to
find information which functions as a through grounding in its subject,
without unnecessary 'busy work'. Students, in confidence of not wasting
their resources, need only add their creative energy, will,
determination, strong wishes and goals!
Because not everyone has the need or the time for a full college
program, US School of Commercial Music staff has designed several
"Certificate" courses which concentrate deeply on important essential
subjects for all Commercial musicians, without requiring
pre-requisites to study. These courses also function as electives for
Diploma students (who choose at least two). For more information,
please go to www.usschoolofmusic.com.
MUSIC UNIVERSALS Perfect Pitch Conditioning Relative Pitch Eartraining
(for non-Diploma students only) Personality Resonance Practicum for
Performers, Songwriters & Composers
TRAININGS Physical Conditioning for Musicians Emotional Development for
Musicians Vibrational Sensitizing for Musicians Intellectual Training
for Musicians Spiritual Evolution for Musicians
WORKSHOPS SuperChops for Guitarists SuperChops for Soloists Chordology
for Guitarists Chordology for Keyboardists
INTENSIVES Performance Boot Camp ('get up to speed' for USSCM Diploma
Programs; open to entering Diploma students who are good music sight
readers)
Descriptions of the Certificate Courses: ______________________
UNIVERSALS: PERFECT PITCH 10 Weeks While some highly-advertised courses
are 'snake oil', it is possible for most of us to overcome years of
Relative Pitch conditioning and experience increasing levels of
Absolute Pitch sensitivity, but training must be very precise to
succeed. USSCM has assembled and organized all the relevent research,
surveyed all the historical and currently available methods, evaluated
and put it all into a fun but 'no-punches-pulled' perspective. This
information has been judiciously combined with the most efficient
methods and USSCM's proprietary approach for acquiring Absolute Pitch,
organized as a serious regimen. For lasting results, you must be
prepared to work daily for short but concentrated periods (one hour
minumum)! You may not take this course at the same time as Relative
Pitch Universals! Students who complete both Relative Pitch and Perfect
Pitch will receive bonus instructions on how to sustain both skills.
This is an evolving course, with new information and techniques added
periodically. Students who complete both Relative Pitch and Perfect
Pitch will receive bonus instructions on how to sustain both skills and
may retake either for half tuition.
RELATIVE PITCH 10 Weeks Most of us experience Relative Pitch, but our
sensitivity is often not high enough to be truly useful. Starting from
the beginning and progressing rapidly, USSCM has assembled all the
tradtional approaches, organized and modified them, then combined them
with USSCM's proprietary approach into the most efficient professional
RP training system ever devised. This is the most comprehensive
approach to making our Relative Pitch skills more intense and useful
and simultaneously trains many important other tonal harmonic and
melodic skills. You may not take this course at the same time as
Perfect Pitch Universals! This is an evolving course, with new
information and techniques periodically added. Students who complete
both Relative Pitch and Perfect Pitch will receive bonus instructions
on how to sustain both skills and may retake either for half tuition.
PERSONALITY RESONANCE PRACTICUM FOR PERFORMERS, SONGWRITERS AND COMPOSERS 10 Weeks
All musicians can benefit from the skills of reading
people (consider live audiences, owners, demos, auditions, target
audiences and colleagues). Personality reading and an understanding of
personality interaction is another one of those special skills such as
Perfect Pitch which can give a musician a distinctive competitive edge,
increase his or her ability to negotiate the difficulties of
relationship and enhance management skills, while interacting with them
musically or in life settings. Musicians generally already have the
advantage that they understand the principle of resonance, in which
sound energy transfers from one system to another through an
interposing medium such as wood, water, or air, but not a vacuum.
Nevertheless, the principle of resonance extends to massless systems as
well, such as can be seen with tuned radio or tv antennas for
electromagnetic radiation, or the chakras and latifas of the human body
for energies not known to western science. (Resonance also figures into
the principles discussed by GI Gurdjieff, where 'foods' that enter us
from outside our organism are resonant with materials already within us
- enzymes, for example - after which they are digested. This is in
contrast with the internal stages of digestion, which he describes as a
'blending' of non-resonant materials to get a material of an order and
having a state falling between the other two.)
Students will learn to identify the typical personality resonances and
make efforts to objectively sense the nature of their relationships
with people having other personality types as their centers of gravity.
Various exercises will be introduced to assist the student to
experience unfamiliar types in their healthy upside, which is
invaluable. Adventurous students, primarily songwriters and composers,
may also briefly explore the unhealthy downsides of these personalities
for the purpose of depiction in their art. Emphasis will also be placed
on techniques for avoiding the downsides of one's own personality and
that of others, which is of particular usefulness to performing artists
who would be masters of themselves, their instruments and their art.
Students will also learn to objectively and scientifically type
personality using cutting-edge database research coupled with ancient
Eastern systems and to apply it to musical instrument preferences,
musical aptitudes and preferential styles. Students will further learn
to access these aspects of themselves for the purpose of becoming
better musicians and human beings. Interactions between personalities
will be explored, within the context of musical production. This is a
not-to-be-missed study for serious musicians from all ethnic
backgrounds, instruments, musical styles and experiences that has life
changing and career enhancing implications.
TRAININGS: PHYSICAL CONDITIONING FOR MUSICIANS 10 Weeks
"Mens sana in corpore sano." ("A sound mind in a sound body.")
Music making, like other arts, is a highly distilled composite
expression of our three functional brains (physical, emotional,
intellectual*); the result of many successively finer processes within
each of the brains and their associated 'bodies'. For these processes
to all function well, there must be available to us a tremendous amount
of biological energy, which is sourced by the physical body.
Physical conditioning is concerned with having a strong generator of
this energy and a solid platform for support of the higher functions of
each functional brain. After an explanation of the mechanisms whereby
this energy is created, we will look at a number of approaches to
building, conserving and utilizing it, by no means exhaustive but
nevertheless extraordinary, because no one method is sufficient for the
quantity of energy and support required for mastery or artistry.
Students will develop a daily regimen designed to build attention and
will, and to strengthen the functioning of their physical organisms.
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR MUSICIANS 10 Weeks Expression in music,
whether, of the second brain (through tone, fine motor movement of the
hands, smooth movement and gesture, posture, facial expression), of the
first brain (through rhythmic movement, percussion and percussive
sounds), or of the third brain (in melody, tonality, interesting
harmony, counterpoint, lyrics, arranging & orchestration), requires
careful attention to the elements of musical styles and one's ability
to resonate with them. Such resonance is complicated by struggling with
our general incapacities to feel and empathize, that is, to know what
and how we are feeling at all times, to know how others are feeling or
emoting as often and as best we can, and to realize our relationship
with others at all times. These capacities must be identified and grown
for us to successfully resonate in all situations. Music, which has
been characterized as "the language of emotion" is actually a language
of expression for all three brains. It is first of all, pre-verbal or
imitative of speech, but may also have lyrics. Finally, messages in
music may be mixed, just as they are in real life. A true professional
human musician will be able to sort out these messages and to
understand and employ the effects of their expression.
Students will complete assignments and be given exercises for the
thorough exploration of these matters for the development of emotional
expression. Mixed messages, while possibly fascinating, destroy
emotional coherence; students will also explore their causes and
preventions.
VIBRATIONAL SENSITIZING FOR MUSICIANS 10 Weeks Music is based on
vibration but why do musicians need to study it, what is it and what is
the 'vibrational world'? This is best described by example:
What's the vibe? Are you the least bit superstitious? Have you ever
felt you're being watched? Did you ever feel "I have to get out of
here."? Do you have any experience of luck? Have you ever felt deja vu?
Have you ever met a person or seen a place that immediately seems to
have extraordinary significance to your life? Do you experience the
presence of supernatural entities?
In addition to the examples above, the 'vibrational world' also
concerns the so-called 'higher emotions' or impulses, such as
peace/tranquillity, fairness, orderliness, individuality and good
judgement. Ignoring these aspects is tantamount to ignoring the 25% of
your audience whose personalities call the vibrational world "home,"
which a professional or serious musician cannot afford to do. Attending
to them, can allow you your musical expression of all styles to contain
these higher elements and thus resonate with and appeal to more people
outwardly and help you resonate with them internally for yourself. (It
should be noted that, while important, the impulses of the vibrational
world are subordinate to such functions as faith, hope and love and
conscience.)
Students will strive to identify, in real-time, the emanations of the
'vibrational world', both human and musical. This effort is
particularly useful for students who wish to develop a spiritual side
to their music and/or identify aspects of music which may be beyond the
ordinary manifestations of human life, that is, extraordinary. About
this, see "Spiritual Evolution."
INTELLECTUAL TRAINING FOR MUSICIANS 10 Weeks While in the physical and
emotional aspects of music making, will and attention are very
important, the intellectual aspect cannot be expressed at all without
them. Melody, tonality, interesting harmony, counterpoint, lyrics,
arranging & orchestration are fundamentally dependent on the third
brain's ability to abstract and symbolize through the focusing of
attention, directed by will. In fact, an excess of attention is
necessary, if one is to attend at once to the expressions of each
brain, but nowhere is it so obvious as in fugue, in which multiple
melodies weave through each other.
Students work with various attention-building and focusing exercises,
then apply them to music, in order to begin to identify the taste of
the workings of will and attention in the intellectual aspects of
music. The capacities of attention are explored and exercised with
respect to music making.
SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION FOR MUSICIANS 10 Weeks There is music which belongs to none of the ordinary worlds: physical, vibrational, emotional,
intellectual.
Careful reading of the previous descriptions may lead the serious
student to an inkling of why it is necessary to prepare by studying the
above subjects as a foundation, for exploring the esoteric spiritual
possibilities which certain music may embody and provide. For example,
while some impressions contained in music may be food for ordinary
development, some may be food for extraordinary assimilation. While
some individuals may be sufficiently advanced to realize extraordinary
expression directly, we usually need some help.
Musicians instinctively realize that music can be a door to many
extraordinary experiences, including the normal and abnormal and beyond
them.
There is no overlap between the Workshops. Precocious students who
elect multiple courses really have their hands (and minds) full.
WORKSHOPS: SUPERCHOPS FOR GUITARISTS 10 weeks SuperChops has been greatly expanded from the core foundation originally developed by
Howard Roberts, legendary guitarist and founder of the Guitar Institute
of Technology (now Musician's Institute), as the basic training and
learning philosophy there. Howard was known for having the strongest
hands of any professional. These are the techniques that helped him
maintain his position for many years as the number one studio call in
Los Angeles, often working three sessions a day.
SUPERCHOPS FOR SOLOISTS 10 weeks SuperChops/Solo is for players of all
instruments who want to rapidly develop and maintain superior technical
chops in the four essential areas critical to solo mastery: arpeggios,
embellishment, intonation and thematic development. Many top players
use this system daily to keep their edge.
CHORDOLOGY FOR GUITARISTS 10 weeks Chordology/Gtr is the course we
designed for Howard Roberts' Playback Publishing, now expanded to
include advanced harmonic applications of sparse voicings and linear
voiceleading which was pioneered by George Van Eps and Howard, but
imitated by many pros.
CHORDOLOGY FOR KEYBOARDISTS 10 weeks Chordology/Kbd is for all
instrumentalists who want to have a large harmonic palette at their
disposal.
INTENSIVES PERFORMANCE BOOTCAMP 5 weeks Designed for high-school level musicians who need get up to speed for USSCM Diploma programs.
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 Diploma
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
Matriculate(TM) online technology gives students the unparalleled
flexibility to design the exact program they need by sequencing seven
basic areas called "Modules": Performance & Improvisation, Schillinger
System/LineWriting/Music Business, Advanced Improvisation,
Melody/SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration,
Media Composition & Scoring and Music Production & Engineering. Each
Module consists of 4 microsemesters of concentrated studies.
At the start of each microsemester, US School of Commercial Music
students receive a large package of customized materials covering all
their study subjects. Projects are recorded and returned to the college
via the internet for rapid feedback. According to Professor Amaral of
USSCM, "Choice and flexibility are great reasons to choose USSCM for
your commercial music education." He continued, "USSCM has an approach
unlike any other: · It mixes proprietary materials with the best of
published materials, which are evaluated and upgraded twice yearly. ·
There are no distracting non-music 'academic' subjects, such as English
or History. · There is no internal competition for resources between a
'bricks and mortar' operation versus 'online' · USSCM has only one
agenda: a student's rapid progress on a personal "microsemester" pace,
rather than keeping him or her in a too-lengthy "semester" program. ·
Students work in all four rhythm section instrumental areas each
microsemester. · Students record homework in each subject. · Feedback
about homework is greatly facilitated by online communication and often
seems immediate. · USSCM tuition is realistic, with generous
scholarships and discounts. · USSCM programs offer students a level of
choice and customization very difficult to achieve and manage with a
'classroom' model of course delivery."
US School of Commercial Music is the most economical way to acquire the
knowledge and skills 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 may 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, student peers are seldom
professionals. In comparison with many other schools and other
approaches to commercial music study, USSCM exposes each student to a
higher quality of music information, better accompaniments and
professional presentations, because it upgrades materials on a
semi-annual basis, with the primary requirement that it be the best
information and most effective presentation available. By rising above
the typical noise in music education, USSCM saves its students time,
money and energy.
At www.usschoolofmusic.com, prospective students may read about course
offerings, initiate inquiries, design their program, determine tuition
costs, scholarship elgibility, financing options and aid, fill out and
submit their application, print their learning agreement for faxing,
and much more. Also from the college homepage, students, alumni and
industry professionals may access several useful resources: Music
Industry News, USSCM News, MI Jobs, USSCM Forum and USSCM Internet
Radio.
For more information, please contact US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com info@usschoolofmusic.com 617-666-4839
Labels: commercial music, diploma, distance music, jazz, online
learning
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"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Tuesday, April 22. 2008
"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Tuesday, April 22. 2008
[News] [PR 3] 4/22/08 NEW DIPLOMA PROGRAM MODULES ANNOUNCED BY US SCHOOL OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC
The new modular structure makes possible comprehensive customizable
program choices.
NEWARK, Delaware - Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - USSCM announced today several new
Diploma Program Modules. According to the USSCM catalog, the
descriptions of the modules are:
Performance & Improvisation (P&I) Module 4 microsemesters: In the
USSCM Performance & Improvisation Program, you will acquire a firm
foundation in such essential areas of music as:
Eartraining, the skill to know and musically name what it is you are
hearing. Harmony, the skill to recognize the harmonic sequences and
practices associated with historical musical styles. Notation, the
art of clearly writing music which will be played by yourself and
others. Arranging, the art and skill of creating modern charts for
performance by small groups or as overdubs. Instrumental Technique,
the art of rapidly acquiring skill on your primary and secondary
instruments. Improvisation, the art of real-time composition on your
primary and secondary instruments. Ensemble Training, the essential
experience of playing with other great professional musicians through
the exclusive USSCM Faculty Minus One(tm) process. Repertory, the
experience of exposure to and immersion in a wide variety of commercial
musical styles. (design your program now)
"Continue your program by choosing up to six other professional areas:
The core categories of study in each of the subsequent modules remain
the same (Eartraining, Harmony, etc.), but with increasing
sophistication; to these are added the relevant module materials for a
well-rounded program.
Schillinger System of Musical Composition ("Schillinger") Module 4
microsemesters: The world-famous Schillinger System is the advanced
tool for music analysis and generation that has been used very
successfully by such songwriters as George Gershwin, such improvisors
as Howard Roberts and a great many Hollywood film composers; for
example, it was the Schillinger System that Gershwin used to compose "I
Got Rhythm," and which HR used to develop the vocabulary of his
well-known solo style.
USSCM has modernized the Schillinger System for today's composers and
improvisors who wish to have a special professional edge in their
understanding of melodic and rhythmic development (which is perhaps the
most important shaping force in music). In the Schillinger Program,
USSCM brings the Schillinger System up to date; within the SSMC Module,
students also cover and compare such esoteric systems as JS Bach's
System of Chordscales, the George Russell Lydian Chromatic Concept,
Bill Leavitt's Melodic Chordscale System, Charlie Parker's System of
Jazz Improvisation, and several other useful approaches. To elect
Schillinger, you should have a working fluency with the subjects
covered in Melody/Songwriting/Linear Counterpoint and be prepared to
rapidly realize your work and record it as MP3 audio files.
Concentrations which require Arranging / Orchestration or Media Scoring
also require Schillinger. It should be noted that SSMC is a helpful
tool; not a major concentration.
Because every professional musician is a small business, the
Schillinger Module now includes music business courses such as
economics, financial management and investments, as they apply to the
music business. The Schillinger Module is the most appropriate one to
incorporate business studies, because its study stimulates the
mathematical functions of the brain.
Advanced Improvisation (AI) Module 4 microsemesters: In Performance &
Improvisation, we have laid the technical and stylistic groundwork
which includes Standards, Duke/Miles, Classics/Ballads, Latin/Bossa.
Advanced Improvisation continues, with the development of skills for
further important styles: Blues, Bebop, Fusion, Modern Jazz, etc.
Stylistic repertoire is continued appropriately in all the other
modules. While building repertoire, we continue the subject structure
outlined in Performance & Improvisation above, but the content becomes
increasingly advanced, covering all sorts of improvisational approaches
and theories applicable to modern commercial music.
Melody, Songwriting & Linear Counterpoint (MSLC) Module 4
microsemesters: To elect MSLC, you should have a working fluency with
Commercial Music Eartraining, Harmony, Notation, MP3 Recording
Techniques, a substantial Performance Repertory of important Commercial
Music styles, experience with Performance & Improvisation in Ensemble
settings and familiarity with the fundamentals of Arranging, all of
which are features of the USSCM P&I Module.
as you build upon your P&I foundation, in the MSLC Module you will
acquire powerful techniques of melodic and thematic analysis with which
to explore a substantial but focused library of important music.
Equipped with new analytical skills and musical conditioning, you will
then turn to linguistic analysis and apply it to both rapid song
composition and real-time improvisation.
Finally, as an essential component of the development of a personal
style, you will explore the balance between the vertical and linear
aspects of music through the creation of a wide range of projects from
modern 'chorales' to contemporary 'fugues'. In the MSLC Module, not
only songwriters and composers, but also guitarists and keyboardists
will benefit from a full elaboration of these techniques on their
primary and secondary instruments.
Business courses included in the SongWriting Module include Selling and
Sales, which are essential professional tunesmith activities.
Arranging / Orchestration (A/O) Module (prerequisite: Schillinger
System Module) 4 microsemesters: Students who elect A/O should have a
working fluency with the concepts of the MSLC and SSMC Modules. In the
USSCM A/O Program, you will acquire dexterity in your creative use of
the mechanics of ensemble expression within various musical settings
and production situations.
You will acquire the techniques of Jazz Composition, Arranging for
Large Ensembles, Writing for Strings and Principles of Orchestration.
Projects include writing and realizing scores of various size ensembles
and studio orchestras.
Media Scoring (MS) Module (prerequisites: Schillinger System (S) and
Arranging/Orchestration (Ork)) 4 microsemesters: USSCM students who
elect Media Scoring will have achieved, as a prerequisite, the subjects
covered in P&I, MSLC, SSMC, A/0 and, as an important byproduct of their
studies, a practical understanding of the recording and overdubbing
process. In the MS Program, you will take your skills to the next level
as you learn how to synchronize musical recordings to visual media such
as film, video, etc. You will accomplish projects in several important
Commercial Music forms and styles, including Jingles (the art of
musical merchandising), Commercials (the art of audiovisual
persuasion), Trailers (coming attractions) and Filmscores (the art of
enhancing the audience's emotional experience of a movie).
By artfully blending the skills of the arranger, composer, performer
and engineer, today's film, video and CD-ROM composers are specialists
who command good salaries and have interesting work in the fastest
growing area of the music business. Multimedia composers are found
everywhere the visual and aural arts meet.
Music Production & Engineering (MPE) Module 4 microsemesters: For
maximum flexibility, the MP&E module may be added to any USSCM program,
or taken right after P&I.
USSCM's philosophy is to train musicians first and engineers second,
because engineers who are musicians understand the needs of clients and
the intricacies of the medium much better than those who don't play.
Secondly, USSCM aims for its students to understand the underlying
principles of the sciences of vibration, acoustics and electronics so
that they can make informed purchase decisions and acquire the skills
to use music technology despite changes in the technological terrain
which always progress with time. Thirdly, Production & Engineering
students are given business studies unique to the
recording/distribution business which are not covered as business
studies in the Schillinger program.
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 Diploma
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
Matriculate(TM) online technology gives students the unparalleled
flexibility to design the exact program they need by sequencing seven
basic areas called "Modules": Performance & Improvisation, Schillinger
System/LineWriting/Music Business, Advanced Improvisation,
Melody/SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration,
Media Composition & Scoring and Music Production & Engineering. Each
Module consists of 4 microsemesters of concentrated studies.
At the start of each microsemester, US School of Commercial Music
students receive a large package of customized materials covering all
their study subjects. Projects are recorded and returned to the college
via the internet for rapid feedback. According to Professor Amaral of
USSCM, "Choice and flexibility are great reasons to choose USSCM for
your commercial music education." He continued, "USSCM has an approach
unlike any other: · It mixes proprietary materials with the best of
published materials, which are evaluated and upgraded twice yearly. ·
There are no distracting non-music 'academic' subjects, such as English
or History. · There is no internal competition for resources between a
'bricks and mortar operation' versus 'online' · USSCM has only one
agenda: a student's rapid progress on a "microsemester" pace, rather
than keeping him or her in a too-lengthy "semester" program. · Students
work in all four rhythm section instrumental areas each microsemester.
· Students record homework in each subject. · Feedback about homework
is greatly facilitated by online communication and often seems
immediate. · USSCM tuition is realistic, with generous scholarships and
discounts. · USSCM programs offer students a level of choice and
customization very difficult to achieve and manage with a 'classroom'
model of course delivery."
US School of Commercial Music is the most economical way to acquire the
knowledge and skills 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 may 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, student peers are seldom
professionals. In comparison with many other schools and other
approaches to commercial music study, USSCM exposes each student to a
higher quality of music information, better accompaniments and
professional presentations, because it upgrades materials on a
semi-annual basis, with the primary requirement that it be the best
information and most effective presentation available. By rising above
the typical noise in music education, USSCM saves its students time,
money and energy.
At www.usschoolofmusic.com, prospective students may read about course
offerings, initiate inquiries, design their program, determine tuition
costs, scholarship elgibility, financing options and aid, fill out and
submit their application, print their learning agreement for faxing,
and much more. Also from the college homepage, students, alumni and
industry professionals may access several useful resources: Music
Industry News, USSCM News, MI Jobs, USSCM Forum and USSCM Internet
Radio.
For more information, please contact US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com info@usschoolofmusic.com 617-666-4839
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"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
|
Tuesday, April 22. 2008
"Master Music At Home(TM)"
Professor John Amaral, Director
US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
|
Monday, April 21. 2008
[News] [PR 3] 4/21/08 NEW DIPLOMA PROGRAM MODULES ANNOUNCED BY US SCHOOL OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC
The new modular structure makes possible comprehensive customizable
program choices.
NEWARK, Delaware - Monday, April 21, 2008 - USSCM announced today several new
Diploma Program Modules. According to the USSCM catalog, the
descriptions of the modules are:
Performance & Improvisation (P&I) Module 4 microsemesters: In the
USSCM Performance & Improvisation Program, you will acquire a firm
foundation in such essential areas of music as:
Eartraining, the skill to know and musically name what it is you are
hearing. Harmony, the skill to recognize the harmonic sequences and
practices associated with historical musical styles. Notation, the
art of clearly writing music which will be played by yourself and
others. Arranging, the art and skill of creating modern charts for
performance by small groups or as overdubs. Instrumental Technique,
the art of rapidly acquiring skill on your primary and secondary
instruments. Improvisation, the art of real-time composition on your
primary and secondary instruments. Ensemble Training, the essential
experience of playing with other great professional musicians through
the exclusive USSCM Faculty Minus One(tm) process. Repertory, the
experience of exposure to and immersion in a wide variety of commercial
musical styles. (design your program now)
"Continue your program by choosing up to six other professional areas:
The core categories of study in each of the subsequent modules remain
the same (Eartraining, Harmony, etc.), but with increasing
sophistication; to these are added the relevant module materials for a
well-rounded program.
Schillinger System of Musical Composition ("Schillinger") Module 4
microsemesters: The world-famous Schillinger System is the advanced
tool for music analysis and generation that has been used very
successfully by such songwriters as George Gershwin, such improvisors
as Howard Roberts and a great many Hollywood film composers; for
example, it was the Schillinger System that Gershwin used to compose "I
Got Rhythm," and which HR used to develop the vocabulary of his
well-known solo style.
USSCM has modernized the Schillinger System for today's composers and
improvisors who wish to have a special professional edge in their
understanding of melodic and rhythmic development (which is perhaps the
most important shaping force in music). In the Schillinger Program,
USSCM brings the Schillinger System up to date; within the SSMC Module,
students also cover and compare such esoteric systems as JS Bach's
System of Chordscales, the George Russell Lydian Chromatic Concept,
Bill Leavitt's Melodic Chordscale System, Charlie Parker's System of
Jazz Improvisation, and several other useful approaches. To elect
Schillinger, you should have a working fluency with the subjects
covered in Melody/Songwriting/Linear Counterpoint and be prepared to
rapidly realize your work and record it as MP3 audio files.
Concentrations which require Arranging / Orchestration or Media Scoring
also require Schillinger. It should be noted that SSMC is a helpful
tool; not a major concentration.
Because every professional musician is a small business, the
Schillinger Module now includes music business courses such as
economics, financial management and investments, as they apply to the
music business. The Schillinger Module is the most appropriate one to
incorporate business studies, because its study stimulates the
mathematical functions of the brain.
Advanced Improvisation (AI) Module 4 microsemesters: In Performance &
Improvisation, we have laid the technical and stylistic groundwork
which includes Standards, Duke/Miles, Classics/Ballads, Latin/Bossa.
Advanced Improvisation continues, with the development of skills for
further important styles: Blues, Bebop, Fusion, Modern Jazz, etc.
Stylistic repertoire is continued appropriately in all the other
modules. While building repertoire, we continue the subject structure
outlined in Performance & Improvisation above, but the content becomes
increasingly advanced, covering all sorts of improvisational approaches
and theories applicable to modern commercial music.
Melody, Songwriting & Linear Counterpoint (MSLC) Module 4
microsemesters: To elect MSLC, you should have a working fluency with
Commercial Music Eartraining, Harmony, Notation, MP3 Recording
Techniques, a substantial Performance Repertory of important Commercial
Music styles, experience with Performance & Improvisation in Ensemble
settings and familiarity with the fundamentals of Arranging, all of
which are features of the USSCM P&I Module.
as you build upon your P&I foundation, in the MSLC Module you will
acquire powerful techniques of melodic and thematic analysis with which
to explore a substantial but focused library of important music.
Equipped with new analytical skills and musical conditioning, you will
then turn to linguistic analysis and apply it to both rapid song
composition and real-time improvisation.
Finally, as an essential component of the development of a personal
style, you will explore the balance between the vertical and linear
aspects of music through the creation of a wide range of projects from
modern 'chorales' to contemporary 'fugues'. In the MSLC Module, not
only songwriters and composers, but also guitarists and keyboardists
will benefit from a full elaboration of these techniques on their
primary and secondary instruments.
Business courses included in the SongWriting Module include Selling and
Sales, which are essential professional tunesmith activities.
Arranging / Orchestration (A/O) Module (prerequisite: Schillinger
System Module) 4 microsemesters: Students who elect A/O should have a
working fluency with the concepts of the MSLC and SSMC Modules. In the
USSCM A/O Program, you will acquire dexterity in your creative use of
the mechanics of ensemble expression within various musical settings
and production situations.
You will acquire the techniques of Jazz Composition, Arranging for
Large Ensembles, Writing for Strings and Principles of Orchestration.
Projects include writing and realizing scores of various size ensembles
and studio orchestras.
Media Scoring (MS) Module (prerequisites: Schillinger System (S) and
Arranging/Orchestration (Ork)) 4 microsemesters: USSCM students who
elect Media Scoring will have achieved, as a prerequisite, the subjects
covered in P&I, MSLC, SSMC, A/0 and, as an important byproduct of their
studies, a practical understanding of the recording and overdubbing
process. In the MS Program, you will take your skills to the next level
as you learn how to synchronize musical recordings to visual media such
as film, video, etc. You will accomplish projects in several important
Commercial Music forms and styles, including Jingles (the art of
musical merchandising), Commercials (the art of audiovisual
persuasion), Trailers (coming attractions) and Filmscores (the art of
enhancing the audience's emotional experience of a movie).
By artfully blending the skills of the arranger, composer, performer
and engineer, today's film, video and CD-ROM composers are specialists
who command good salaries and have interesting work in the fastest
growing area of the music business. Multimedia composers are found
everywhere the visual and aural arts meet.
Music Production & Engineering (MPE) Module 4 microsemesters: For
maximum flexibility, the MP&E module may be added to any USSCM program,
or taken right after P&I.
USSCM's philosophy is to train musicians first and engineers second,
because engineers who are musicians understand the needs of clients and
the intricacies of the medium much better than those who don't play.
Secondly, USSCM aims for its students to understand the underlying
principles of the sciences of vibration, acoustics and electronics so
that they can make informed purchase decisions and acquire the skills
to use music technology despite changes in the technological terrain
which always progress with time. Thirdly, Production & Engineering
students are given business studies unique to the
recording/distribution business which are not covered as business
studies in the Schillinger program.
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 Diploma
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
Matriculate(TM) online technology gives students the unparalleled
flexibility to design the exact program they need by sequencing seven
basic areas called "Modules": Performance & Improvisation, Schillinger
System/LineWriting/Music Business, Advanced Improvisation,
Melody/SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration,
Media Composition & Scoring and Music Production & Engineering. Each
Module consists of 4 microsemesters of concentrated studies.
At the start of each microsemester, US School of Commercial Music
students receive a large package of customized materials covering all
their study subjects. Projects are recorded and returned to the college
via the internet for rapid feedback. According to Professor Amaral of
USSCM, "Choice and flexibility are great reasons to choose USSCM for
your commercial music education." He continued, "USSCM has an approach
unlike any other: · It mixes proprietary materials with the best of
published materials, which are evaluated and upgraded twice yearly. ·
There are no distracting non-music 'academic' subjects, such as English
or History. · There is no internal competition for resources between a
'bricks and mortar operation' versus 'online' · USSCM has only one
agenda: a student's rapid progress on a "microsemester" pace, rather
than keeping him or her in a too-lengthy "semester" program. · Students
work in all four rhythm section instrumental areas each microsemester.
· Students record homework in each subject. · Feedback about homework
is greatly facilitated by online communication and often seems
immediate. · USSCM tuition is realistic, with generous scholarships and
discounts. · USSCM programs offer students a level of choice and
customization very difficult to achieve and manage with a 'classroom'
model of course delivery."
US School of Commercial Music is the most economical way to acquire the
knowledge and skills 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 may 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, student peers are seldom
professionals. In comparison with many other schools and other
approaches to commercial music study, USSCM exposes each student to a
higher quality of music information, better accompaniments and
professional presentations, because it upgrades materials on a
semi-annual basis, with the primary requirement that it be the best
information and most effective presentation available. By rising above
the typical noise in music education, USSCM saves its students time,
money and energy.
At www.usschoolofmusic.com, prospective students may read about course
offerings, initiate inquiries, design their program, determine tuition
costs, scholarship elgibility, financing options and aid, fill out and
submit their application, print their learning agreement for faxing,
and much more. Also from the college homepage, students, alumni and
industry professionals may access several useful resources: Music
Industry News, USSCM News, MI Jobs, USSCM Forum and USSCM Internet
Radio.
For more information, please contact US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com info@usschoolofmusic.com 617-666-4839
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Sunday, April 20. 2008
[News] [PR 2] 4/20/08NEW DIPLOMA PROGRAMS ANNOUNCED BY US SCHOOL OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC
An expansive restructuring has resulted in comprehensive student-customizable offerings with increased relevance to individual goals.
NEWARK, Delaware - Sunday, April 20, 2008 - US School of Commercial Music is pleased to announce today the restructuring of its Diploma Programs so that students can choose custom study programs to acquire the musical backgrounds they need to achieve their personal musical goals. Nine typical programs are listed on the USSCM website, but students are free to design their own using helpful online tools (see http://www.usschoolofmusic.com/catalog/musicianType.html). Typical programs are:
DIPLOMAS
Performance Diploma
Songwriting Diploma
Arranging & Orchestration Diploma
Multimedia Composition Diploma
Music Production & Engineering Diploma
Composer-Performing Artist Diploma
Professional Arranger Diploma
Professional Composer Diploma
Professional Musician Diploma
Another approach to constructing a USSCM program is to pick a musical persona called a "Concentration," such as:
Performer-Soloist
Performer-Sideman
Songwriter-Player/Performer
Performer-Singer/Songwriter
Arranger-Producer
Multimedia Scoring Composer
Music Production Engineer
Music Business Professional
No matter what the definition is, US School of Commercial Music has a program for every serious student of Popular music.
A fully-constructed USSCM program consists of a series of focused concentrations called "Modules," Each four-microsemester Module deals with a particular area of musical tools and experience. The following Modules are the 'heart and soul' of USSCM's programs:
MODULES
Performance & Improvisation
Schillinger System, LineWriting & Music Business
Advanced Improvisation
Melody/Songwriting & Linear Counterpoint
Arranging & Orchestration
Media Composition & Scoring
Music Production & Engineering
USSCM Diploma students also choose at least two Certificate Courses as electives. Students may choose from two to seven 4-microsemester modules, taken in the order of their preference. This sequencing changes the character of student's programs and tailors it to a personal requirements. First in the sequence for all programs is the "Performance & Improvisation" module, which is a requirement for all Diploma Program students. They may then choose their preferred order for the Advanced Improv, Songwriting-Linear Counterpoint or Schillinger System modules. The Schillinger System enhances various musical skills, suggests new creative possibilities and is prerequisite to Arranging/Orchestration, which is, in turn, prerequisite to MediaScoring. This approach allows students to design an academic program which best suits their skills and goals.
The first elective is taken between the 3rd & 4th microsemeters and second elective between the 7th & 8th microsemesters (MI FA and SI DO). The second octave of studies may include electives in the same way.
When students are ready to start their studies, they are encouraged to call to discuss their program design.
At the end of their studies, USSCM students are awarded a Diploma citing all the Modules and electives they have thus far accomplished. Students taking only Certificate courses are awarded a Certificate.
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 Diploma 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 Matriculate(TM) online technology gives students the unparalleled flexibility to design the exact program they need by sequencing seven basic areas called "Modules": Performance & Improvisation, Schillinger System/LineWriting/Music Business, Advanced Improvisation, Melody/SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration, Media Composition & Scoring and Music Production & Engineering. Each Module consists of 4 microsemesters of concentrated studies.
At the start of each microsemester, US School of Commercial Music students receive a large package of customized materials covering all their study subjects. Projects are recorded and returned to the college via the internet for rapid feedback. According to Professor Amaral of USSCM, "Choice and flexibility are great reasons to choose USSCM for your commercial music education." He continued, "USSCM has an approach unlike any other:
· It mixes proprietary materials with the best of published materials, which are evaluated and upgraded twice yearly.
· There are no distracting non-music 'academic' subjects, such as English or History.
· There is no internal competition for resources between a 'bricks and mortar' operation versus 'online'
· USSCM has only one agenda: a student's rapid progress on a personal "microsemester" pace, rather than keeping him or her in a too-lengthy "semester" program.
· Students work in all four rhythm section instrumental areas each microsemester.
· Students record homework in each subject.
· Feedback about homework is greatly facilitated by online communication and often seems immediate.
· USSCM tuition is realistic, with generous scholarships and discounts.
· USSCM programs offer students a level of choice and customization very difficult to achieve and manage with a 'classroom' model of course delivery."
US School of Commercial Music is the most economical way to acquire the knowledge and skills 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 may 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, student peers are seldom professionals. In comparison with many other schools and other approaches to commercial music study, USSCM exposes each student to a higher quality of music information, better accompaniments and professional presentations, because it upgrades materials on a semi-annual basis, with the primary requirement that it be the best information and most effective presentation available. By rising above the typical noise in music education, USSCM saves its students time, money and energy.
At www.usschoolofmusic.com, prospective students may read about course offerings, initiate inquiries, design their program, determine tuition costs, scholarship elgibility, financing options and aid, fill out and submit their application, print their learning agreement for faxing, and much more. Also from the college homepage, students, alumni and industry professionals may access several useful resources: Music Industry News, USSCM News, MI Jobs, USSCM Forum and USSCM Internet Radio.
For more information, please contact
US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com
info@usschoolofmusic.com
617-666-4839
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US School of Commercial Music
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Sunday, April 20. 2008
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US School of Commercial Music
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Sunday, April 20. 2008
[News] [PR 1] 4/20/08COMMERCIAL MUSIC CAREER TRAINING THAT'S COMPETITIVE AND AFFORDABLE
NEWARK, Delaware - Sunday, April 20, 2008 - When talented young people seek advice about careers in commercial music, only a few schools may first come to mind. But such education is generally expensive and historically only places about 10% of its graduates within the Music Industry. That's quite a gamble!
US School of Commercial Music offers an alternative for precocious self-starters the opportunity to get a first-class commercial music college education at home by leveraging the best features of online technology to improve the learning experience. USSCM is a leader in distance learning that has roots going back to the beginning of the 20th century. Today, it is the only distance learning institution which offers complete Diploma programs in Commercial music.
USSCM students record all their homework and send it as soon as it's finished for immediate feedback by seasoned professional musicians. This introduces two efficiencies into the learning process which are unique to USSCM: students get plenty of audio recording experience right from the beginning of their studies and, even more importantly, they get feedback about their work while it is still fresh in their minds. The USSCM approach has many other advantages, which are discussed on the school's website.
There are two common issues students and guardians face: the cost of tuition and whether the student can make a decent living in music. USSCM costs only a fraction of an equivalent college's tuition, on the order of 10% of the typical cost. While there are several components to the latter issue, such as the intangibles of talent and determination, the low cost of USSCM makes finding out whether one 'has what it takes' a much less financially-risky venture. Since USSCM issues diplomas not degrees, the primary focus is music; there are no distracting general education requirements -- which shortens the learning time. For those who feel the need, this can leave time and money for getting a business together or working on another degree after you develop your trade competency.
USSCM Director, John Amaral, has said, "We often recommend that students first get themselves together musically, then get college-level training in business, because every career musician is a small-business."
There is one final point that is worth mentioning: commercial music is taught at only a few schools, despite what claims may be made! Students should be advised to study at an institution known for training professional commercial musicians, not a typical music school, which generally have traditional, conservatory approaches.
Here is a comparison of typical tuition costs. The second number in each group includes living expenses: Berklee (8 semesters) $88,000/$136,000
USSCM (12 microsemesters) $10,125/$10,125
GIT (16 quarters) $80,000
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 Diploma 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 Matriculate(TM) online technology gives students the unparalleled flexibility to design the exact program they need by sequencing seven basic areas called "Modules": Performance & Improvisation, Schillinger System/LineWriting/Music Business, Advanced Improvisation, Melody/SongWriting & Linear Counterpoint, Arranging & Orchestration, Media Composition & Scoring and Music Production & Engineering. Each Module consists of 4 microsemesters of concentrated studies.
At the start of each microsemester, US School of Commercial Music students receive a large package of customized materials covering all their study subjects. Projects are recorded and returned to the college via the internet for rapid feedback. According to Professor Amaral of USSCM, "Choice and flexibility are great reasons to choose USSCM for your commercial music education." He continued, "USSCM has an approach unlike any other:
· It mixes proprietary materials with the best of published materials, which are evaluated and upgraded twice yearly.
· There are no distracting non-music 'academic' subjects, such as English or History.
· There is no internal competition for resources between a 'bricks and mortar' operation versus 'online'
· USSCM has only one agenda: a student's rapid progress on a personal "microsemester" pace, rather than keeping him or her in a too-lengthy "semester" program.
· Students work in all four rhythm section instrumental areas each microsemester.
· Students record homework in each subject.
· Feedback about homework is greatly facilitated by online communication and often seems immediate.
· USSCM tuition is realistic, with generous scholarships and discounts.
· USSCM programs offer students a level of choice and customization very difficult to achieve and manage with a 'classroom' model of course delivery."
US School of Commercial Music is the most economical way to acquire the knowledge and skills 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 may 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, student peers are seldom professionals. In comparison with many other schools and other approaches to commercial music study, USSCM exposes each student to a higher quality of music information, better accompaniments and professional presentations, because it upgrades materials on a semi-annual basis, with the primary requirement that it be the best information and most effective presentation available. By rising above the typical noise in music education, USSCM saves its students time, money and energy.
At www.usschoolofmusic.com, prospective students may read about course offerings, initiate inquiries, design their program, determine tuition costs, scholarship elgibility, financing options and aid, fill out and submit their application, print their learning agreement for faxing, and much more. Also from the college homepage, students, alumni and industry professionals may access several useful resources: Music Industry News, USSCM News, MI Jobs, USSCM Forum and USSCM Internet Radio.
For more information, please contact
US School of Commercial Music
www.usschoolofmusic.com
info@usschoolofmusic.com
617-666-4839
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US School of Commercial Music
617-666-4839
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Saturday, April 19. 2008
[In review] 4/19/08 BIRDCAT 1
FROM Prof. John Amaral (above with Kevin Eubanks of the Tonight Show
with Jay Leno) for US School of Commercial Music (www.usschoolofmusic.com)
Dear fellow online Musician,
These days, you have several opportunities for professional training in
the Music Industry. Please consider making USSCM online learning your
preferred choice.
I'm writing to tell you about the exciting, better way we have
developed to teach and train the skills and knowledge required of a
professional musician or serious musical hobbyist. We think it's better
than many of the other choices you may have. Here's why:
In the simplest of terms, USSCM uniquely offers...
· Complete wide-ranging programs that are fun, thorough and exciting!
· Special relevant courses unavailable elsewhere.
· Better, more up-to-date materials, technologies and assignments.
· Nearly-instant feedback on each assignment via the internet.
· Incomparably thorough hands-on music making experience.
We enjoy helping musicians progress rapidly to their full potentials
and feel this is particularly relevant in today's world. USSCM's
programs are far more affordable than those of other schools, on or off
the internet. In fact, no other music college offers full programs on
the web. If you, or someone you know, may benefit from a college-level
program in contemporary music, please come see at
www.usschoolofmusic.com, where you can also build programs, calculate
tuition and sign in to receive the USSCM newsletter.
After that, please get back to me and I will be happy to personally
answer your remaining questions, hopefully as a USSCM applicant.
Thank you very much for your kind attention.
Best wishes,
Professor John Amaral, Director director@usschoolofmusic.com
617-666-4839 US SCHOOL OF COMMERCIAL MUSIC
PS: If you are an internet-savvy professionally trained musician
seeking work, please ask to see our employment listings.
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