<p>Hey all!</p>
<p>I'm a 17 year old from New Hampshire, just finished my Junior year. I'm in the process of touring schools, and beginning the common app and such. I'm in love with music, specifically the production and composition aspects of it. I've been actively at least 30-40 hours a week spending time working on my music on the computer, since around the age of 12. I was looking at a large selection of colleges that have curriculum and majors that best fit the description of what I am already doing. It would appear that the two majors that interest me as of right now are Music Business, and Music Technology. If I understand correctly, Music Business has to do with the management and marketing aspects of music, where as Music Technology includes Music Production, Recording Arts, and stuff like that? If anybody could clarify for me what types of realistic jobs, gigs in that nature that provide a sustainable living, after you get your bachelors in these majors. And what should I look at for colleges that have good internship programs and employment rates and stuff like that? Any Recommendations for schools?</p>
<p>I was looking at:
Berklee
Full Sail University
NYU Steinhardt School of Music
Vatterott College ex'treme Institute by Nelly
UCLA
University of Miami</p>
<p>If anybody has feedback on these schools, based on my explanation of what I do with my music...</p>
<p>I create a wide variety of music, such as hip hop, rap and R&B instrumentals, which I sell leases, and exclusive rights to rappers and songwriters. I also am finishing up my first electronic/electronica album which I will be uploading to different distributing sites, such as Beatport, itunes, spotify, etc. Aside from that I also create the occasional movie score and classical piano composition. I'm in the process of uploading my 195th completely mastered and published song to youtube, where in my peak I was receiving around 110-130,000 views per week, total across all of my songs. I'm also about to hit 10,000 subscribers. On my site, which is just a domain name redirect to a soundclick.com page, I have a "Buy Now" button that is attached to my paypal, which is attached to my bank account. On the side of it is my catalogue of my entire instrumental portfolio. Here directly artists can purchase any instrumental they want instantly. However leasing rights are limited, and they may want to purchase "exclusive rights", where they are required to contact me on my business email. From there we can agree on a price, and then I send track outs to be downloaded so the artist can take the instrumental to an engineer to be recorded, and the song to be mastered. Aside from the ability to buy beats off my site, soundclick also includes a charting system. I have placed in the top 20 of 1.8 million + 3 times in my career of a few years on this site, temporarily putting me ahead of some of the biggest hip hop producers in the game right now, such as Lex Luger, Johnny Juliano, Anno Domini, VybeBeats, etc. who have production credits with artists such as T-Pain, Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, Soulja Boy. Some Local Boston Rappers are opening up for a Logic show with my instrumental this Friday, in a large venue. I'm also working a few songs with two rappers signed to Iceh20records which is Raekwon, from Wu-Tang Clan's Label. Aside from that I am also currently working on getting a bigger portfolio that demonstrates what I can do as far as engineering/mastering vocals. I am in the process of starting a Hip Hop Label, that mainly supports some of the Local Artists around where I live. I have 5-6 local rappers and singers come to my home studio monthly to record songs, where our intentions are to collectively put out a various artists mixtape, and give it out for free across a large scale of hip hop distributing sites. For the label, I have 2 GFX, a logo completed, 2 Filmers, I'm the producer, and 11 artists. 2 of them being current berklee students from Philadelphia. I am also in the process of coding a website, and already have several sites created. I also have two investors willing to spend a couple grand on marketing once we finish our work and release it, and once polished also have two local venues willing to allow us to host our own shows...</p>
<p>...This is the aspect of me that makes me want to go for Music Business instead of producing or something. I feel as though there would be more work. I was wondering if I could get some feedback as to help me choose a major!</p>
<p>If somebody could help me in any way to get me out of the dark here I would be greatly appreciative!</p>
<p>P.S. if anybody would like to check out my work, feel free to check out some of the following links</p>