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Recent additions to our course catalog.

• Rock History

  Steve Morse

  Discover the history of rock ‘n’ roll in more detail than you can imagine from the people that lived it. Learn about the musical and business trends in rock, major technological innovations, the prime innovators, and the historical context that has seen rock alternately flourish and struggle over the past 60 years.

• Music Licensing

  Alex Holz and Scott Sellwood

  Learn how to make money through creative licensing of your music! In this course, you’ll discover how to create new avenues for placement of your own music, identify current opportunities for your copyrights, and how to use online resources to introduce your music to music supervisors, ad creatives, video game producers, and more.

• Microphone Techniques

  Andy Edelstein

  Effective microphone techniques resulted in some of the most iconic music ever committed to tape. Consider Phil Spector’s signature “Wall of Sound,” which relied heavily on appropriate microphone techniques, or Led Zeppelin’s iconic recording of John Bonham’s drums on “When the Levee Breaks,” recorded with a stereo microphone on the second floor stairway at Headley Grange Studio. Whether your sessions feature a single vocalist or rapper, metal trio, or large big-band jazz ensemble, the ability to get good sounds is essential to producing competitive results.

• Creative Writing: Finding Your Voice

  Pat Pattison

  Creative Writing: Finding Your Voice is designed to help you write clearly and strongly in your own unique voice, bringing your full self to your writing process every time you write.

• Music Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

  Mehdi Hassine

  Learn all the steps and tools necessary to create a high-quality audiovisual experience, including how to assemble, enhance, and maximize the use of video, audio, and graphic content.

• Project Management for Musicians

  Jonathan Feist

  Working in the music industry involves a never-ending series of projects. These projects come in all sizes, budgets, and levels of complexity, but for each, setting up a process for planning, executing, and monitoring your work is crucial in achieving your goals. Project Management for Musicians will provide you with an overall approach, with many specific tools, to help you successfully complete your music industry-related projects

• The Language of Film and TV

  Lori Landay

  Gain a thorough understanding of film and television, and learn to communicate effectively with directors, producers, and others involved in the production of these media.

• Composing and Producing Electronic Music

  Loudon Stearns

  Composing and Producing Electronic Music will teach you the necessary tools and techniques to create contemporary electronic music in a variety of styles, including drum and bass, trance, glitch, dub, electro, minimal, downtempo, house, and techno. If you are musician interested in adding an electronic flavor to your production, or an electronic producer interested in moving your pieces to the next level, this course is for you!

• Gary Burton: Jazz Improvisation

  Gary Burton

  Learn the art of Jazz improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world. Learn different types and styles of compositions from the perspective of the improviser, and take an in-depth look at how mental, harmonic, and melodic processes contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo.

Faculty Comments

"The Berkleemusic online school allows me the opportunity to present my course concepts and lessons that I've developed over the past 20 years simultaneously to students all over the world. I' m thrilled to be involved in building this vibrant online community" -Roberta Radley, Assistant Chair in the ear training department at Berklee College of Music, and online instructor of Harmonic Ear Training.