Whats Happened to Brent Street

OK...

So I said I would only write one, but just another one.

There has never been over a hundred students in a class. And saying that is giving people the wrong impression. There has, opver the passed years been 100 students accepted into the full time course, but when that happened those 100 students were split into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, so there was never more that 35 in a class and each class was approached by the teachers with the level that the students were at. And a teacher teaching a Beginner Singing class (fot those students who have NEVER sung before) can't exactly whip out an Aria for an entire class and expect results.

It is understood by Brent Street that it is very hard to teach singing to Full Time students as it is often alloted in group classes. It is, from the very beginning of the year encouraged that the students who are not strong singers to take private singing classes. A massive variety of singing teachers are available at Brent Street at ay time druing the week. Yes, this is extra money but if you're hungry enough... you'll do it.

To me it clearly comes down to the individual. You have the best teachers available to you whether or not you want to admit that , or whether you are just too ignorant or indeed young to acknowledge that. If you chose to make the most out fo your year at full time, which includes struggling with cash and going to private singing classes and extra pro classes as well as seeing shows and gigs, and if you chose to push your way to the front of each class then yes, full time will pay off.

As for the standard of the graduation concert. I dare anyone to show me a better concert than Brent Street. Anywhere in Australia. The Advanced classes that come out of Brent Street are brilliant, every year they are. For some of the other people that do the course... hey, you can't draw blood from a stone. If you're not that talented to make an impression... you're just not that talented. If you are one of those untalented people... you should still be pushing yourself to be the best you can be... and brent Street can still do that... they may not be able to make you a star... but they can make you better than you ever were before. Nowhere else can offer that to a student.

STUDENTS CANNOT SING AT ED5! Even if they have had more one on one lessons from thier teachers... they are still bad singers. Watch that graduating concert and seriously compare it to Brent Streets and you will find the better studio. Not one featured singer at ED5 nailed a single song... not one. They were singing songs far outside of their ability and with little technique training. And yes that is a teaching feaux pas and a mistake that Brent Street teachers very rarely make.

For those on this website bagging the studio... obviously you were one of the lazy ones at the back too busy bitching about how much more flexible or what not so and so is. You were the one's who didn't see the facility for what it is and couldn't see what was in front of your face and as a result have ended up back in Adelaide...

So much more stuff to be said... but some people just don't get it... and at the end of the day some people never will. If you're a bitter ex staffie, a bitter ex student or a bitter ex drop out... you are the people who help feul the fire... a fire which has been burning for many years but has never been able to bring the place down. Brent Street still stands and always will. Even if it is just a dancing school (and it is clearly so much more) it is still the best there is and if people don't want to be part of that it is there parogative.

It upsets me that people can't see that. And I'm not a Brent Street kid I'm not someone who had been around the place my whole life. I showed up for full time from out of state and it was everything I could have hoped for... becasue I made it everything I wanted... for those who didn't... you missed out. Spedning your time worrying about cliques and bitchiness did make full time a waste of time... and it's all your own faults. Not Brent Street's.

Take care everyone...