Comments on: Roger Brown, Berklee College President http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/roger-brown-berklee-college-president/ News at the speed of Bluegrass! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:15:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Harper http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/roger-brown-berklee-college-president/comment-page-1/#comment-31985 Brad Harper Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:57:08 +0000 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/roger-brown-berklee-college-president/#comment-31985 Resophonic Guitar is one of the greenest instruments and it's just now hitting a huge growth period in terms of players, quality/performance of instruments and overall interest. The shortage of experienced or qualified instructors (players too) could definitely be an obstacle for an adequate curriculum or oversight - especially at the caliber that Berklee would demand. In ten years, the acoustic music scene will most likely lend itself to advanced studies for a broader range of instruments. Resophonic Guitar is one of the greenest instruments and it’s just now hitting a huge growth period in terms of players, quality/performance of instruments and overall interest. The shortage of experienced or qualified instructors (players too) could definitely be an obstacle for an adequate curriculum or oversight – especially at the caliber that Berklee would demand.

In ten years, the acoustic music scene will most likely lend itself to advanced studies for a broader range of instruments.

]]> By: frogged210 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/roger-brown-berklee-college-president/comment-page-1/#comment-31981 frogged210 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:46:13 +0000 http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/roger-brown-berklee-college-president/#comment-31981 It's great that they added mandolin and banjo as principal instruments, but can you have dobro or lap steel as a pricipal instrument of study? This is just my bias as a dobro player, but I feel like so many bluegrass bands are bass, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and banjo, leaving out the dobro, and now it seems like Berkeley is going to create even more bands like this! Not that you need a dobro to make great bluegrass, but i just feel like you don't have that "full" bluegrass sound without one. Basically, my first thought when reading this article was "oh, the premiere music school in the nation is letting in mandolin and banjo, but not dobro. Typical" I could be wrong; i know that teach lap steel classes, but I'm not sure if they take it as a principal instrument. If they do, maybe squareneck reso is in the same category. It’s great that they added mandolin and banjo as principal instruments, but can you have dobro or lap steel as a pricipal instrument of study? This is just my bias as a dobro player, but I feel like so many bluegrass bands are bass, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and banjo, leaving out the dobro, and now it seems like Berkeley is going to create even more bands like this! Not that you need a dobro to make great bluegrass, but i just feel like you don’t have that “full” bluegrass sound without one.
Basically, my first thought when reading this article was “oh, the premiere music school in the nation is letting in mandolin and banjo, but not dobro. Typical” I could be wrong; i know that teach lap steel classes, but I’m not sure if they take it as a principal instrument. If they do, maybe squareneck reso is in the same category.

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