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Past Course SpotlightsBerkleemusic's online course catalog currently features more than 50 individual courses, from six to twelve weeks in length, in areas including production, guitar, songwriting, business, theory & harmony, and performance.
Build your musical foundation brick by brick in Berklee Professor Emeritus Paul Schmeling's Music Theory 101. “Having this fundamental knowledge allows you to better understand basic musical concepts,” Schmeling says. “It allows you to converse with other musicians and communicate through written music. It’s all about musical literacy.”
The CEO of a multi-million-dollar record store chain, a DIY singer/songwriter, a former radio executive, a soldier in Iraq, even Scott Underwood from the band Train — they’ve all taken Berkleemusic’s “The Future of Music and the Music Business” course.
When it comes to getting signed, talent is only half the battle; the other half is having a plan. Former Rykodisc President and A&R man George Howard can show you how to cut through the clutter and get heard.
The tools Berklee Songwriting professor Pat Pattison presents in his 12-week course are intended to help songwriters come up with new, creative, and meaningful ideas—helping songwriters avoid writer’s block, remain productive and fresh through daily writing exercises, and take their songwriting up a notch. “There’s no substitute for doing a little bit of something every day,” says Pattison. “And that’s what my course asks students to do.”
Become a more versatile blues soloist and rhythm guitarist in several styles, keys, and at varying tempos and grooves. Learn pentatonic and blues scales, turnarounds, and chords, and listen to mind-blowing examples from some of the greatest stylists. Watch video demonstrations and get personalized feedback from instructor and Berklee professor Mike Williams, who teaches blues with personality and soul.
Learn scales to improve your agility over the entire fretboard. In “Guitar Scales 101” Berklee Guitar Department chair Larry Baione shows you how playing scales will make you a better player, whether you have only a year on the guitar or you’ve been playing chords since Led Zeppelin I first came out on vinyl.
Gain a greater understanding of two key elements of music production by learning the Berklee approach to mixing and mastering using the Pro Tools software.
For all those people who have picked up a few tricks from their musical friends but are lost when it comes to working out more sophisticated songs on their guitars, Rick Peckham has the online course for you.
David Franz, instructor, Pro Tools maestro, and author of the best-selling Recording and Producing in the Home Studio, designed Recording and Producing in the Home Studio especially for home recordists who want nothing but the best for their recordings.
Pro Tools 101 is ideal for many levels of Pro Tools users, from those who have already played around with the software, to those who still haven’t broken the cellophane on the packaging yet.
Berklee professor Kai Turnbull shows you how to invent new ways of making music using Ableton’s brand-new Live 5 software, a specialized music production software that allows you to spontaneously compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit your musical ideas—in real-time.
Does the idea of supporting yourself writing songs make you more than a little nervous? It can be done, and no one knows better than Eric Beall, Vice President of A&R at Sony/ATV and author of the Berkleemusic online course “Music Publishing 101,” a twelve-week online course that will empower songwriters to take control of their own careers by acting as their own publisher.
Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, Arranging 1 explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section.
“Producing with Pro Tools” gets you up and running with Pro Tools digital recording software, the choice of today’s recording industry pros. “For some it’s a great way to start off, and for others, it’s a great way to fill in a lot of holes,” says course author David Franz. “The course is full of tips, tricks, and shortcuts from a power user—stuff you might not find on your own.”
It seems like everyone is recording at home these days. Bands are recording their own demos to seek gigs and deals with labels, and even completing independent releases that they can distribute on CD. If you feel like you’re the only one who’s missing out on the DIY revolution, Berkleemusic’s online Desktop Music Production course can help you launch your own home recording assault.
If you've heard terminology like tonic, subdominant and dominant, but were never sure exactly what it means, Paul Schmeling is here to help. Musicians and songwriters who take his online course, Music Theory 201 will gain a thorough understanding of more intricate music theory concepts, from rhythmic anticipation to tension notes.
Create your own unique sound by learning how to select, combine, and arrange guitar effects used by the pros, the qualities and attributes of different amps, and the characteristics of the instrument itself.
"Reason is an amazing piece of software, because it’s a virtual studio in a single application,” says Erik Hawkins, who teaches the online course, Producing Music with Reason.
Create compelling songs by learning to identify the production elements that contribute to a well balanced, artful and professional-sounding mix.
Although there are a number of user-friendly tools now available for recording and producing music with the guitar, the real trick is to find the right combination of equipment and techniques to complement your music and playing style. In this online course students will study the gear and processes that guitarists and producers use to create a wide variety of sounds, as well as learn how to produce more professional-sounding recorded compositions.
Writing Music with Finale is an online course aimed at helping musicians of all levels to use Finale to create clear notation very quickly. In twelve weeks, it covers the tools necessary for most types of notation, from lead sheets to rhythm-section and orchestral arrangements.
A thorough understanding of harmony is a must have for anyone who wants to develop their voice creatively, or for performance purposes. But while harmony may be a fundamental property of all musical expression, it is also one of those concepts that can be a bit hard to grasp.
With unlimited tracks, support for surround sound, 64 bit mastering tools, and sample-accurate editing of audio and MIDI, Digital Performer is the program of choice for professionals for studio recording, film scoring, live performance, and remixing.
The best musicians have not only mastered the scales and techniques on their instrument - they also possess a broad knowledge of musical styles from around the world that they incorporate into their songwriting and improvisations. Dan Moretti’s online course will increase your style vocabulary and performance skills and help you to incorporate the styles and grooves that have influenced contemporary music into your own playing.
Take a lesson from Neil Leonard, who draws on two decades of experience with the Internet and other computer technology for his online Berkleemusic course, Web Design for Musicians. Not only is the Internet now a vital tool for musicians, but the good news is that it's also a means of communicating that can be mastered easily and cheaply, if you know the basics.
If words like "MIDI" and "sequence" are mysteries that you want to unravel-join Berklee professor Michael Moss for MIDI Sequencing Basics, a three-week course that introduces beginners to MIDI sequencing. You'll also learn to create natural-sounding MIDI arrangements using Reason, a music synthesis and sequencing software program. |
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