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Matthew
Brennan is the owner of Graveyard Recordings, a professional DJ
and Club Promoter and a graduate of The Five Towns College School with
a degree in Audio Recording and The Music Business. As a degree holding
graduate of
a traditional school, Mr. Brennan is standing by to offer you and your
family first hand knowledge of why The Recording Connection might be a
better choice than what the music industry calls " those other diploma
mill traditional schools"
Shawn
Thompson has been with Recording Connection for over two years
and can answer just about any question a parent or guadiarn might have
about our program. With extensive knowledge of our eduational
construct, Shawn is happy to help you and your family collect the
information you need to make a smart decision.
John
Stauffer, our Placement Coordinator, is a 20 year veteran of the music
industry, an audio
engineer, music producer and artist that has to date, recorded two
professional records, and played as a professional session player on
many more. Once acepted into our program, but before you have paid a
dime, Mr,. Stauffer will be dealing directly with your son, daughter or
dependent. John looks forward to providing your loved one with expert
knowledge on how to break into the business, and how to get the
most from his/her educational experience with The Recording Connection.
James
(Jimi) Petulla is the proud father of two sons and two
dogs. A successful film
writer, producer and former
radio broadcaster, Petulla came up with his take on the
mentor/apprentice method of education while working as an instructor
for the world famous and now defunct Columbia School of Broadcasting.
He believed that the people who worked there were great but that
overall it was not effective and, in fact, worse. They trained students
and then dumped them into the job market with a piece of paper that was
worth nothing because the students had no real world experience.
Petulla visualized an opportunity and asked himself how he could help
capable students get paying jobs in the entertainment business. The
next day while visiting an audio engineer friend in his San Jose,
California studio, Petulla asked him if he had ever hired a student
from one of these schools. Laughing, his friend said, “No, because they
don't know the job. My own assistant had no experience, but I trained
him so now I know he knows his stuff."
Brian
Kraft got his start at 18 years
of age working for Yvonne Troxclair At Warner Bros. Records in Burbank,
California where he learned the music business from the legendary
executive John Beug (Producer: The Eagles, Eric Clapton, President
Rhino Records). Kraft then left Warner Bros. and worked as a
co-producer on music videos and commercials for Julian Temple's Nitrate
Films and Limelight Films, Inc. It was there that he met the late great
music video director D.J. Webster (Amy Grant, Chevrolet, The Beach
Boys). Webster took Kraft under his wing and mentored him in the art of
directing and the business of producing. After Webster's passing, Kraft
went on to direct music videos and live concerts for Jane's Addiction,
Cypress Hill, and Ozomatli.

If you would like to read more student
success stories, please click here.
With the troublesome state of our
economy, the high cost of education, and the multitude of schools to
choose from, it can be a daunting task to know which choice is
best. This is especially true when it comes to media
schools.
We believe education is fundamentally about getting you a job. Now
let's be clear here. We can't and don't promise anyone a job or a
career. No school can do that.
What we can and do deliver is a
consistant track record of high career placement. Over 23 years, we've
placed, on average, over 70% of Recording Connection's graduate in
music industry careers.
There are four reasons for this:
1) We don't accept everyone who enrolls. In fact, if our mentors
don't think your kid has what it takes to make it, they won't accept
him.
2) We solve the old Catch 22 of can't
get a job without experience and can't get experience without a
job. Because your kid will be learning music recording in a real
recording studio, instead of a classroom, and sitting in on real
recording sessions with paying clients, he simultaneously will be
getting the kind of job experience necessary to get a job in the
business.
3) We solve the "it's who you know"
riddle too. Since the student sits shotgun with their mentor in
his recording studio, they will come face-to-face with dozens of music
and audio industry 'players' that no classroom environment can provide.
3) We put your kid in the right place
at the right time. This means if your kid works hard, has passion
and talent enough to be the kind of student his mentor would hire, then
he will be exposed to a multitude of job opportunities.
Case in point. Recently, one of our students went to his initial
mentor interview. Our mentor was initially impressed with his
drive and passion. During the course of the interview, the
prospective student revealed that his true desire was to build and
design recording studios. Co-incidentally, our mentor had a
friend who built recording studios and was in need of an
assistant. So, before his first class, this Recording Connection
student was already hired.
HERE ARE VIDEO TESTIMONIALS OF THIS
MENTOR AND THIS STUDENT
Doug Maxwell
- Recording Connection Mentor
PLAY VIDEO
Sebastian Hove -
Recording Connection Student
PLAY VIDEO
Now obviously this result is a bit
unusual. However, our courses are designed to teach our students what
they need to know to get a job in the music recording industry
TODAY! Technology in the music industry is ever changing, and
because our mentors, (your kid's teachers) are actively working in the
music industry--it's how they support themselves--you can be assured
your kid will be learning the latest techniques on cutting edge
equipment, and the most modern technology.
Tuition for The Recording Connection Course is $7450. This amount
covers everything. There are no additional costs, unless you
choose to finance, in which case there will be interest charges.
For those who want to finance the
Recording Connection tuition fees, we offer several options.
Sallie Mae offers good interest rates, long term financing, low
payments, and the option to borrow more than the tuition fees to cover
living expenses, etc. For more information on Sallie Mae
Financing, click here.
For those who don't qualify for Sallie
Mae, the Recording Connection offers many other, flexible credit
options with more additional options opening up regularly. For
more information please give us a call at 800.755.7597 and we'll be
happy to go over them with you.
We believe that an investment in the
Recording Connection is an investment in you--the student. While
nobody likes to be in debt, there are many occasions where financing
your education make sense. Not only can it help you get started
earlier, but there are benefits of positive debt where not only are you
investing in your future, but your simultaneously building, or
rebuilding your credit rating.
If we, and our mentors, believe you are
qualified to be a student, we will do our best to find a financial aid
package that you can qualify for while keeping within your
budget. We look forward to helping you achieve your dreams.