Winter Term Starts January 11th!   Contact Us 1-866-BERKLEE (USA) or +1-617-747-2146 (INTL)
spacer

Online Winter Term Starts January 11th



spacer 		spacer
Specialist Certificate

Songwriting

3 Courses (9 credits)

$3,585
Complete certificate tuition
(Plus Registration Fee $150)

payment_options
The Specialist Songwriting certificate is designed to benefit musicians of all levels, from relative beginners to professional songwriters who are looking for new ideas to enhance their work.

You'll submit your songs and receive feedback from your classmates and the professor, and engage in practice exercises and examples that are based on popular hit songs. Each course presents a set of tools which will help you generate more and better ideas and provide you with the harmonic and melodic tools to help you build effective song sections. You will also learn a ten-step process to reproducing the time-tested traits of successful songs while still maintaining your unique voice – a practice critical to the success of any songwriter.

Required Courses

BMW-133 Songwriting Workshop: Harmony
Jimmy Kachulis (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Learn how harmony can help you to articulate the essential meaning of a song, and the best ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit your unique songwriting style and ideas.

BMW-131 Songwriting Workshop: Melody
Jimmy Kachulis (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Learn to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audiences will remember.

BMW-125 Commercial Songwriting Techniques
Andrea Stolpe (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Learn to write for commercial success by reproducing the time-tested characteristics of hit songs while maintaining your own unique voice.