| It has been proven that the best way to learn is | | | | captures it. |
| by actually doing. You could learn how to be a | | | | Courses typically include a written curriculums and |
| sportscaster or a DJ with on-the-job training if | | | | training guides. Some of the classes include: Voice |
| you get a mentor who is already in the radio | | | | and Speech Development, Commercial Announcing |
| profession. This allows you to learn the skills | | | | and Copywriting, Voiceovers, Sports Broadcasting, |
| necessary in a real radio station, and also | | | | Writing News Broadcasting, Disc Jockey or Talk |
| experience time on air. | | | | Show Host, and Weather Reporting. |
| The radio broadcasting industry has schools that | | | | Howard Parker is now making millions as a |
| train you to become a radio broadcaster, | | | | voice-over artist. Bell started out working at Taco |
| program director, voice-over artist, or promotions | | | | Bell, but it was a recording school with a mentor |
| director. Assignments include in-studio lab training in | | | | program where he got started. |
| an on-air radio station with equipment that is | | | | "The mentor program worked. It put me with |
| state-of-the-art. The radio program is taught | | | | real radio pros, and so I stuck to them like glue |
| one-on-one, in private sessions, in real radio | | | | and learned as much as I could," said Bell. |
| stations with real radio professionals that takes | | | | What's more, the tuition can even be funded by |
| each student through the course curriculum. No | | | | student loan program like Sallie Mae, the nation's |
| experience is necessary. | | | | leading lender of student loans. The costs for |
| With the music business moving more and more | | | | mentor recording schools run from $2,875 for |
| online, it is vital to any up and coming musician to | | | | one smaller school in Ohio, to $7,450, which is the |
| learn as much about the music recording side of | | | | best value and available in all 50 of the United |
| the business as they can. Music recording schools | | | | States. Colleges or university music recording |
| were designed to impart all this knowledge and | | | | schools cost from $20,000 to $140,000. Students |
| experience on an accelerated but flexible schedule | | | | agree, they learn more when they get a mentor |
| so that even hard working musicians can learn | | | | and in one-on-one situations, not in a crowded |
| more information. For example, they will learn | | | | classroom. Most good mentor program |
| how it is the music producer who guides and | | | | carriculums take about seven months to |
| shapes the sound, while an audio engineer | | | | complete. |