Music courses in singapore
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rufus9549
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i don think that there are any music courses that teach u how to play music instruments in the course is just that in the course, if u know how to play one is a added bonus as some modules tat they teach if u know how to play a music instrument u might understand the module better or easier
ShredNoob
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from what I know from friends who are in SP Music & Audio Tech, Lasalle etc.
They do teach you the piano and music theory in SP Music Audio Tech, but apart from that there are core modules like sound engineering, physics related and stuff. Not my forte.
For Lasalle you have to have at least a Grade 5 ABRSM music theory if I'm not wrong, you have to know your intrument well for Laselle.
Nafa requires grade 8 ABRSM in theory and they have a wide range of musical intruments and different performing arts there like Ochestra and stuff.
They do teach you the piano and music theory in SP Music Audio Tech, but apart from that there are core modules like sound engineering, physics related and stuff. Not my forte.
For Lasalle you have to have at least a Grade 5 ABRSM music theory if I'm not wrong, you have to know your intrument well for Laselle.
Nafa requires grade 8 ABRSM in theory and they have a wide range of musical intruments and different performing arts there like Ochestra and stuff.
To be exact, they teach you keyboard skills. Don't go in and expect to be a Grade 5 pianist within 2 semesters. It's impossible and I find the system in DMAT bad. :/
But, there's a lot of music theory.
Hmm, we don't have any Physics course. :/ It's just half-semester Acoustical Science and a half-semester Mathematics.
At diploma level, they can only teach you the 'jack of all trades, master of none' way. They want to expose you to the many aspects within the field of music and audio technology and for you to eventually find your own niche.
Just curious though, do they give you internships in SP like in your final year or something?
Just curious though, do they give you internships in SP like in your final year or something?
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teraslasch
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coming from a current 2nd yr dmat (soon 3rd yr), i think dmat is a great course, it is really diverse and you are exposed to many different things, if u are just into performance, dmat is definitely not the place for you.
<daydreamer>
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DMAT? or RP?
This decision definitely depends on what you want to do in music, fellow musician. You can look at many different aspects and think of what you want to do.
SP's DMAT, by which the three different students from different tiers have replied (though I can't identify you all!), is more or less an introductory course - but if you choose to dig into the wealth of information its lecturers have, their experiences and do some research at the SP BizIT Library, you're going to learn a whole lot more too. This diploma is aimed to show you where exactly in the different fields of music are you most appealed to. For me, my weakest interest was business but my strongest interests were in music technology and music production. Songwriting wasn't for me, arranging wasn't too good but doing music to film was better.
The only downside would be that people would enter based on O Level results and not by talent. I was one of those O level entries and am only the top by luck, really. My piano skills are humble or none, but I could study and learn and pick up what I was interested in.
One more thing - try not to do what I did and take the grades so seriously that you lived for the assignments. I feel like I could've learnt so much more if I took half the time rotting in a mindblock to read in the library. Yeah, some regrets.
Also, RP has Sonic Arts, I believe. It's something different, exploring more of audio than music. But if we're talking Berklee-like education, the only bet you'll find is SP's DMAT.
(If all else fails, SAE.)
-<dd> Mabel
This decision definitely depends on what you want to do in music, fellow musician. You can look at many different aspects and think of what you want to do.
SP's DMAT, by which the three different students from different tiers have replied (though I can't identify you all!), is more or less an introductory course - but if you choose to dig into the wealth of information its lecturers have, their experiences and do some research at the SP BizIT Library, you're going to learn a whole lot more too. This diploma is aimed to show you where exactly in the different fields of music are you most appealed to. For me, my weakest interest was business but my strongest interests were in music technology and music production. Songwriting wasn't for me, arranging wasn't too good but doing music to film was better.
The only downside would be that people would enter based on O Level results and not by talent. I was one of those O level entries and am only the top by luck, really. My piano skills are humble or none, but I could study and learn and pick up what I was interested in.
One more thing - try not to do what I did and take the grades so seriously that you lived for the assignments. I feel like I could've learnt so much more if I took half the time rotting in a mindblock to read in the library. Yeah, some regrets.
Also, RP has Sonic Arts, I believe. It's something different, exploring more of audio than music. But if we're talking Berklee-like education, the only bet you'll find is SP's DMAT.
(If all else fails, SAE.)
-<dd> Mabel
BleedsNoMore
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RP's Sonic Arts focuses in audio AND in music theory and composition as well.. i think if u were to ask me, things that are learnt in SP are not that much of a difference as compared to that of in RP..
