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Those of you who follow the page, know that I’m big on education. And while that might seem to be a surprise to some who knew me as a kid, it’s always been true, really, it’s just that my insatiable curiosity wasn’t always directed toward what is taught in school.

My guess is, that if you’re hear reading this, you often find yourself in the same boat, so from time to time, I like to cover some of the music and engineering schools out so you’re informed as to what music business education options are available to you.

Today, I wanted to take a quick look at Ex’pression College of Digital Arts in Emeryville, California. Emeryville is home to Pixar Studios and is a stone’s throw from Berkeley and San Francisco. Yeah!

Ex’pression offers Bachelor’s Degrees in a number of disciplines including: Sound Arts, Game Art and Design and Motion Graphic Design.

From the Ex’pression website: “Expression’s Sound Arts Program provides students with the knowledge and skills to help shape the cutting edge of audio design and creation. The focus is hands-on experience needed to land audio and music engineering jobs, and access to digital audio equipment and software. Training in the Sound Arts Program at our school prepares students for the challenges of music recording, audio engineering, audio post-production for film and television, video games, live sound, MIDI production, studio management, and multi-media non-linear editing. Learn to use leading edge music and audio production software, such as Pro Tools.”

MusicBusinessPage.com has partnered with Ex’pression to allow our readers fast and simple access to their free information kit. You can learn more about their Sound Arts, Motion Graphics or Game Art and Design by filling out this super-quick form. Maybe you’ll end up working at Pixar!

Here are a few of Ex’pression’s famous alumni and faculty:

• Spencer Nilsen (School President) - Video Game Music Composer
• John Scanlon (Sound Arts Program Director) - Sound Engineer
• Yael Braha (Motion Graphic Design Program Director) - Graphic Designer, Filmmaker
• Jack Douglas (Teaches Studio Etiquette) - Record Producer

Like most other schools offering recording engineering degrees or Bachelor degrees in the music business, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts has a rolling admissions policy, which means that instead of thinking you have to wait until fall to go to school, they’ll take your application now. And in my book that’s a great deal.

To learn more about any of the Ex’pression degree programs and receive your FREE information packet for each program, request info on the next page, and click SUBMIT. You’re only as close to your dream as the action you take. Get started on your dream career today and lay down some thumpin’ beats at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, today!

More music business degree programs are available at the below schools where you can:

Learn video production by the beach at sunny Platt Media Arts College, San Diego
Rock out with the cats at Video Symphony TV & Film School in Burbank, California
Hang your hat with legendary songwriters in music city at International Academy of Design & Technology

Special thanks to all of our college sponsors, including Ex’pression, for helping to sponsor MusicBusinessPage and keep our great content alive for yet another generation of aspiring music business professionals!

One of my great interests in life is learning about cultures different from my own, and when I was just beginning to get my feet wet with knowledge about the music industry, one of my more favorite sections to read in Billboard, was the International section. If you’re at all like me, and dream of yourself mixing records and working with bands in foreign lands, then you should take a look-see at the School of Audio Engineering (SAE), the world’s first school to offer “practical audio education” as SAE refers to it.

SAE Institute, the world’s largest media arts and sciences academy, operates 46 schools on four
continents, four of which are in the good old US of A. Today we’re going to take a quick look one of SAE’s more recent campuses: SAE Atlanta. Facilities at the SAE Atlanta location were built by world-renowned studio builder Michael Cronin of Michael Cronin Acoustic Construction, and occupy a 17,500-square-foot building above the Hard Rock Cafe in downtown Atlanta. The campus has more than 20 studios and workstations, including a 5.1 surround sound mixing theater featuring a Digidesign ICON control surface and ProTools HD system, housing the most advanced professional audio and multimedia technology
systems available.

Every new student receives an Apple laptop computer, audio interface, and Pro Tools M-Powered, BIAS Peak and Logic Express software to further enhance and encourage each individual’s educational experience.

Why I like SAE for its international vibe is that it is headquartered in Byron Bay, Australia and has a network of 47 campuses all over the world, opening up opportunities for study abroad, and international connections that almost never exist in traditional engineering school environments. If you’re at all interested in working overseas in the entertainment industry, I would encourage to take a serious look at SAE by requesting information about their schools.

SAE offers diploma and full degree programs in audio, multimedia, digital filmmaking, animation and gaming. SAE is part of the SAE Technology Group, which also owns and operates leading mixing console manufacturer AMS Neve, Studios 301 (with locations in Sydney and Byron Bay, Australia, Cologne, Germany, Studios 301 is a collective group of state-of-the-art recording and mastering facilities), the Computer Graphics College and Qantm College.

They have a rolling application deadline, which means that instead of thinking you have to wait until fall to go to school, they’ll take your application now. And in my book that’s a great deal.

To learn more about any of the SAE campuses and receive your FREE information packet about the school, fill your information in their quick form on the next page, and click SUBMIT. You’re only as close to your dream as the action you take. Get started on your dream career today and lay down some thumpin’ beats at SAE Atlanta

Learn recording engineering by the beach at sunny SAE Miami

Rock out with the cats at SAE Los Angeles

Hang your hat with legendary songwriters in music city at SAE Nashville

If you’re at all inclined to consider a career in the music industry, you should take a look at some of the music and engineering schools that are geared toward helping you get started in the entertainment business.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, getting a degree in music is certainly not a necessity to forward yourself up the career ladder in music and entertainment, but what a good school can do for you is help you snag good internships. And, that is not something your typical career counselor at your typical 4 year college will have the first clue about. Trust me, I was one!

For some people, getting a great internship is part of the hustle involved in getting started in music, for others not yet attuned to how to get ‘em and keep ‘em, a program like the one at Full Sail can help. Here are two videos with Full Sail’s President Gary Jones that might provide some insight into the program.

Full Sail Interview #1 with Gary Jones, Full Sail President
(this vid highlights the program in a nutshell and talks about the stuff you learn)

Full Sail Interview #2 - with Gary Jones, Full Sail President
(this vid highlights the campus facilities and talks about gaming and famous grads)

Full Sail has also been named one of the top three entertainment media colleges by Shift Magazine alongside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 1) and New York University (No. 2); Electronic Gaming Monthly named Full Sail one of the top five Game Design Schools in the world; and Rolling Stone Magazine recently named Full Sail one of the “Best Music Programs” in the country, in addition to one of the “Best Music Business Departments” in the Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide.

What I like about the program at Full Sail is that it pays attention to the business side of music as well as the fun stuff like artist management and the history of rock’n’roll in it’s Entertainment Business Bachelor of Science degree. The school also offers a Master’s program for those of you already through their undergrad programs.

The days of being able to place yourself at the top of the music industry heap with just a good ear and a long track record in radio and/or promotions, is not the norm any longer. Even record label internships, which you used to be able to get just by asking, it seems, require you to be in college so you can get credit. So instead of suffering through a degree program you have no passion for, check out something like Full Sail. I think you might be pleased by what they have to offer.