Tech Music Schools

Location: London, UK Website: http://www.techmusicschools.co.uk/ Deadlines:   5th of September for Autumn intake                  1st of March for Spring intake                  Various dates for Summer School courses. Tech Music Schools is world renowned music schools that have been training musicians for 25 years - always innovative, always at the cutting edge. The Group of schools - Drumtech, Vocaltech, Guitar-X and Keyboardtech, provides the optimum learning environment for all students. They are dedicated to the art of teaching with a commitment to excellence and achievements. And that means great teachers, great facilities and of course great gear from the world's leading musical instrument manufacturers. Tech Music Schools offer several diploma and certificate courses with different duration, Bachelor and Master courses as well as summer courses in Drums, Vocals , Guitar, Bass and Keyboard . You can find the list of courses and descriptions on our programmes page. Tuition fees: One Year Diploma courses :                 £ 5295 Three Month Certificate courses:        £ 1950 Master Performance (MA) courses:     £ 6450 Certificate of Higher Education courses:     £ 3225 Two Year Diploma of Higher Education:       £ 3225 per year Popular Music Performance (Bachelor of Music) courses:     £ 3225 per year Summer School:     £ 295 per week Entrance requirements: The applicants for three month and one year diploma/higher diploma courses must send in a demo as a recorded CD or mp3. The demo guidelines can be accessed by the application form. For Master Performance and degree courses the students are required to take an audition. If applicant cannot come to London, Tech will send an exam pack to a nominated teacher (by the student) who must be capable of supervising and scoring the audition. The pack is then returned to Tech without the student knowing the result. Musical requirements are as follows: One Year Diploma courses:    Practical: Intermediate  & Theory: Beginner/Intermediate Three Month Certificate courses:    Practical: Intermediate &  Theory: Beginner/Intermediate Master Performance (MA) courses:    Practical: Advanced  & Theory: Intermediate/Advanced Certificate of Higher Education courses:    Practical: Intermediate &  Theory: Beginner/Intermediate Two Year Diploma of Higher Education:    Practical: Advanced  & Theory: Intermediate/Advanced Popular Music Performance (Bachelor of Music) courses:    Practical: Advanced  & Theory: Intermediate/Advanced Summer School:    Basic level of playing/singing ability Accommodation: The most popular option is to find a shared house with other students from Tech Music Schoola. You would normally have your own room and share kitchen and bathroom facilities with your housemates. Sharing a house has the advantages of keeping costs down and being a good way of meeting people. Techs' will put you in touch with other students who are looking ot share accommodation and you can also check their websites messageboard. You could also go look into sharing a house with people outside the school and there are also various organisations who can help you to find a home stay accommodation. Also, available to all students is "Paragon" - Thames Valley University's student halls of residence.