Berklee Keyboard Method
Master the basics of Keyboard technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts including blues progressions and playing three part chords in this 12-week course. Through exercises that explore the interpretation of lead sheets and chord symbols, the Berklee Keyboard Method will help you to improve your performance, harmonic vocabulary, and composition/arranging skills. By the end of the course you will be able to improvise over a lead sheet while comping chords with their appropriate voicings.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand how to read treble clef, bass clef and play simple melodies on the grand staff
- Understand accidentals and play the black keys on the keyboard
- Increase your ability to read and play different notes simultaneously
- Understand and play melodies with major and minor triads in right hand
- Understand voice leading triads
- Understand a lead sheet and play chords and bass with left hand
- Add three-part chords to your playing
- Understand altered 9ths, 13ths and Blues progressions
Ready to Enroll? |
Online Summer Term Starts June 25th
Course Info
| For-credit tuition: $1,400 |
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Non-credit tuition: $1,200 Add 6 CEUs: $25.00 |
| Credits: 3 |
| Duration: 12 weeks |
| Catalog #: BMP-100 |
Course Faculty 
| Paul Schmeling Master pianist, interpreter, improviser and arranger, recently retired as chair of Berklee's piano department. | |
| Dave Limina Assistant Professor in the Piano Department at Berklee. | |
| Ross Ramsay Faculty in the Piano department at Berklee College of Music. | |
Student Comments
“I loved this course! I not only learned piano, but I also got a refresher on chord structure and voice leading. This helped tremendously with my improvising. This is a skill I was seriously lacking and this course got me started on it.” - Elizabeth Kramer
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Berklee College of Music is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
