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Master Certificate

Theory, Harmony & Ear Training

8 Courses (24 credits)

$9,560
Complete certificate tuition
(Plus Registration Fee $150)

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Maximize your performance, writing, arranging, improvisation, and music comprehension skills by developing your foundational knowledge in the areas of music theory, arranging, harmony, and ear training. Through interactive activities, hands-on lessons, and transcription exercises, you'll acquire a firm understanding of the inner workings of these principal concepts and become well versed in applying this knowledge to your own music.

You’ll gain a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music, and learn to write effective jazz, pop, and rock-influenced pentatonic and modal melodies as well as master anticipations and articulations that will give your music the necessary sound and "character" to fit these styles. You’ll develop your knowledge of scales, intervals, chords, and arranging techniques, learn how to hear things in music that you never have before, and transfer these techniques and skills into your own projects and performances.

The Master Theory, Harmony, and Ear Training certificate also offers three elective courses in areas including production, songwriting, and arranging that will allow you to apply your theory, harmony, and ear training background to a number of different music making disciplines.

Substitutions may be requested for electives. Please contact our Continuing Education Registrar at registrar@berkleemusic.com or call (617) 747-2146 to see if your request suits the overall academic requirements for your chosen program.

Required Courses

BME-101 Music Theory 101
Paul Schmeling (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Get the musical foundation you need to take your skills to a higher level. Learn to read, write, really listen…and put theory into practice every day!

BME-115 Basic Ear Training 1
Roberta Radley, Matt Marvuglio (12 weeks, 3 credits)
This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to notate basic rhythms and better identify the different parts of a song.

BME-201 Music Theory 201
Paul Schmeling (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Become a more effective player and writer by furthering your music theory background. Learn more complex chords, progressions, and rhythms to open up your understanding of the elements that help put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock.

BME-110 Getting Inside Harmony 1
Michael Rendish (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Use harmony creatively in your playing and writing. Learn to hear and modify chord progressions, improvise effectively from chord to chord and deepen your understanding of music's inner workings.

BME-301 Music Theory 301
Paul Schmeling (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Prepare yourself for any future musical endeavor and gain a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music in this advanced music theory course.

3 Elective Courses

Recommended Electives

Please contact our Continuing Education Registrar to request elective substitutions.

BMW-101a Music Notation Using Finale
Jonathan Feist (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Create great-looking music quickly and easily with the powerful Finale music notation software, and learn techniques to maximize speed, control, and accuracy.

BMW-103 Music Notation Using Sibelius
Tom Rudolph (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Learn to create lead sheets, choral and instrumental scores, drum maps and guitar notation, and explore many other ways to use Sibelius for your own personal and professional needs.

BME-120a Harmonic Ear Training
Roberta Radley (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Put your harmonic theory into practice. Learn techniques that will improve your performance, arranging, and compositional skills by refining your ability to really hear and recognize what is going on within the chord progressions.

BME-111 Getting Inside Harmony 2
Michael Rendish (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Take your harmonic development to the next level by gaining a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitution, and chromatically altered chords.

BMP-100 Berklee Keyboard Method
Paul Schmeling (12 weeks, 3 credits)
Learn the Berklee approach to keyboard in this 12-week course. Master the basics of technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts including interpretation of lead sheets and improvisation.