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Lauren Davis Music BusinessAn accomplished music business attorney with a past client list that includes the Allman Brothers, the Psychedelic Furs, and Tim Collins (Manager of Aerosmith).

Matt Marvuglio PerformanceThe Dean of the Performance Division at Berklee College, he is a virtuosic flutist and composer who has traveled extensively, pre-miering his compositions. He has presented clinics for the National Flute Association, and the International Flute Convention in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Paul Schmeling Performance, Music TheoryRecently retired as chair of the piano depart-ment, he is co-author of the Berklee Practice Method: Keyboard (2001) and Instant Keyboard (2002) and the author of Berklee Music Theory: Book 1.

David Mash ProductionAuthor and VP for Information Technology at Berklee College of Music, he founded the nation’s first music synthesis department and developed the Center for Technology in Music Instruction. He has also scored award-winning digital films, and appeared on such programs as CBS Evening News, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

Roberta Radley Performance, Music Theory

Roberta Radley is Assistant Chair of the Ear Training Department at Berklee College of Music, as well as co-author of the Department Core Curriculum Ear Training 1-

4 books. She is also the author of the Harmonic Ear Training DVD on Berklee Press.

David Kusek Music BusinessAuthor, music futurist, lecturer, co-developer of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), and VP of Berklee Media

Michael Bierylo Production

A musician and producer who has completed film, video, and multi-media scores for clients including Hasbro Interactive, Nintendo, MSNBC, Nickelodeon, VH1,

Martha Stewart Living, and Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure

Michael Rendish HarmonyFounding chair of Berklee’s Harmony Department, he has composed, orchestrated, and conducted some 30 film scores, and was an arranger and guest conductor of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra of the 50th Jubilee Concert in honor of the King of Thailand.

Michael Hamilton Songwriting, ProductionWrote and produced hip-hop pieces for guest artists such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Warren G, Method Man, Diddy, and Mystical. He has produced recordings for Interscope, Island Def Jam, and BGP Records.

Ben NewhouseProductionAuthor, music supervisor, and composer on dozens of television shows, films, and stage productions for media corporations including ABC, FOX, MTV, and Disney, he has arranged movie themes, and scored for full-length fea-ture films using Digital Performer.

Daniel ThompsonProductionAn author, independent writer/producer, and recording engineer, his credits include work for major films and television programs, includ-ing ER, The Sopranos, Swim Fan, The Sweetest Thing, Melrose Place, Touched By An Angel, Soul Food and CSI Miami.

Jeff Baust ProductionA composer, audio engineer, educator, and multi-instrumentalist, he has created scores for ESPN, NESN, Avid, Sony, Polaroid, Sharp, Reebok, Lotus and others.

Pat PattisonSongwritingAuthor, clinician, and Berklee Professor of Lyric Writing and Poetry

Eric BeallMusic BusinessVice President, Creative at Sony/ATV Music, former Creative Director for Zomba Music Publishing, as well as a songwriter and record producer

Larry Baione GuitarChair of the Berklee College of Music Guitar Department. He has studied with Lenzy Wallace, Mick Goodrick, Bill Harris, William Leavitt, Bucky Pizzarelli, and Jim Hall, and received a Downbeat Hall of Fame Scholarship award.

George Howard Music BusinessProducer, musician, entrepreneur, and for-mer President of the large independent label Rykodisc. Currently an Assistant Professor and Executive in Residence in the College of Business Administration at Loyola University.

Jimmy Kachulis Songwriting

A composer, arranger, and con-ductor, he has worked with great artists like George Coleman, Jon Hendricks, Eric Gale, John Lewis, and Martha Reeves, and

his compositions have been featured on scores from The Sopranos to Touched By An Angel.

Rick Peckham GuitarAssistant Chair of Berklee’s Guitar Department, he is an internationally known jazz guitarist, clinician, composer, and writer. He has per-formed with George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi, Mike Gibbs, and recorded with the jazz collec-tive Um, featuring John Medeski.

Suzanne Dean ArrangingAn arranger, educator, composer, keyboardist, and vocalist, she has released two albums on Nova Records, and worked as an orchestrator on the television series Jake and the Fatman.

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ProductionMusic Business and Technology27 credits

New independent music enterprises are spring-ing up and becoming successful everyday. Independent artists and labels are carving out profitable niches in the new music market place with vertically integrated businesses; finding talent, producing artists, recording, mixing and mastering, as well as marketing, promotion, publishing and distribution. This industry-wide entrepreneurial spirit is provid-ing great opportunity for individuals with a wide range of skills. This 9-course program is designed to cover music production and the music business in great detail with a focus on developing students for a future in the newly evolving music industry.

The business and entrepreneurial component of the program examines the key elements of the music and recording industry, including the role of labels, publishers and distributors. It examines areas such as the administration of copyrights, performance rights organizations, and the role of the different players involved in both the creative and business aspects of your career. You’ll also explore the future of music and the music business, and evaluate how cur-

CERTIFICATE PROGRAMSif you are truly passionate about pursuing music, Berkleemusic’s certificateprogramsprovidesolidqualificationsandmarketableskillsforsuccess.Ourcer-tificateprogramsprovideuptothreeyearsofextensivetrainingwiththefacultyofBerkleeCollegeofMusic,inawidevarietyofdisciplines.Whetheryouwanttooperateasuccessfulstudio,mastertheartofsongwritingandlyricwriting,ormaximizeyourperformance,arranging,improvisation,andmusiccomprehen-sionskills,Berkleemusic’scertificateprogramsprovidethein-depthknowledgeyou’llneedtoachieveyourgoals.

Master Certificate Programs A premium 8- to 12-course programs of study, master certificates are available in Arranging, Music Business & Technology, Music Production & Technology, Producing, Songwriting, Theory, Harmony, and Ear Training, Songwriting & Guitar, and Production & Guitar.

Professional Certificate ProgramsAdd to your credentials and acquire a thorough background in your area of interest with these 5- to 6-course programs of study. Professional certificates are available in Arranging, Electronic Music Production and Sound Design, Harmony and Ear Training, Songwriting, and Studio Production.

Specialist Certificate Programs Explore a new interest, or fine-tune your skills, with these intensive 3- to 4-course programs of study. Specialist certificate programs are available in Arranging, Ear Training, Electronic Music Production, Home Recording, Lyric Writing, Music Business, Music Technology for Teachers, Songwriting, Studio Production, Theory and Harmony, and Recording and Production for Guitar.

rent and developing changes, technologies, innovations, and trends might directly affect your own plans. You’ll look at issues such as digital rights management and alternate forms of marketing, and discover successful strategies for creating, promoting, and distributing music in the emerging digital market. You will culti-vate a vast understanding of music production, artist development and arranging concepts with specific training on music software currently revolutionizing the world of music composi-tion and performance. This two-year program is a must for anyone who is passionate about music and serious about furthering their career in the music industry.

Required Courses• Music Business 101• Legal Aspects of the Music Industry• Inside the Record Industry• Music Publishing 101• The Future of Music and the Music

Business• Desktop Music Production• 3 Courses from Music Business and

Technology Electives

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Become a truly great producer/engineer. This is Berkleemusic’s most comprehensive course of study, focusing on every aspect of music production, from the technology, software and hardware available today, to the core music theory necessary to arrange and compose great music. In three years with Berkleemusic, you will immerse yourself in the art of music pro-duction, learning about the physics of sound, getting the best performances out of musicians, studio set-ups, MIDI, microphone techniques, mixing, mastering, music and recording equip-ment, sampling, sequencing, plug-ins and much, much more.

The program starts you out with the audio recording application of your preference, ProTools, Logic, SONAR or Digital Performer. You will learn how to plan your projects, as our instructors walk you through preproduction, production, and postproduction. You’ll learn about Reason and Abelton Live. With Reason you’ll explore its rack of virtual instruments, effects, mixers, built-in sequencer and patching system, and learn real-world production setups and techniques used by today’s top producers. Utilizing this audio sequencing software as a sequencer that you can play like an instrument, Ableton Live will allow you to remix and pro-duce contemporary styles of music, including hip-hop, industrial pop/rock, and house. This program’s elective selection will introduce you to areas such as music publishing. music pro-motion and marketing, and core music theory — from arranging to harmony — all essential knowledge for artists looking to create excep-tional work. This course is for those dedicated to a career in music production. It is an inten-sive program that will equip you with all of the tools of the trade and an industry-recognized qualification.

Required Courses• Critical Listening• Desktop Music Production• Pro Tools 101• Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools• Producing Music with Ableton Live• Producing Music with Reason• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate• Sampling and Audio Production• 4 Courses from Music Production and

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Electronic Music Production9 credits

Set up your home studio and learn to record, mix, and create incredible electronic sounds using software, synthesizers, and samplers. With hands-on lessons and projects, you’ll master concepts like digitization, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, and MIDI, and gain a firm understanding of the processes and techniques behind desktop music production. From there, you’ll study programming, manipulation, and creation of unique instruments and sounds. The Specialist Electronic Music Production certificate covers the basics of electronic recording and examines the in-depth principles associated with sam-pling and sequencing.

Topics include imitating acoustic instruments, programming single and multi-sample pro-grams, and extending sampler programs using synthesis, a technique that is used extensively in dance music, hip-hop, and many other pop-ular musical genres.

Required Courses• Desktop Music Production• Sampling and Audio Production• Sound Design for the Electronic Musician

Home Recording9 credits

Turn your home studio into a professional music production house with this 3-course program. You will learn how to record, mix, and produce great music with the help of Berklee’s renowned faculty and their masterful production techniques. The Home Recording Specialist certificate will introduce you to con-cepts including studio set-up and equipment optimization. You’ll master comprehensive recording concepts with the audio software of your choice: Pro Tools, Logic, SONAR, Cubase, or Digital Performer, and learn all aspects of sound recording, from setup to mix-down. You’ll also gain a foundation in practical skills that include microphone place-ment and editing techniques. Once you have your studio up and running, you’ll work with Reason and Abelton Live. With Reason you’ll explore its rack of virtual instruments, effects, mixers, built-in sequencer and patching sys-tem, and learn real-world production set-ups and techniques used by today’s top producers. With Abelton Live you’ll remix and produce contemporary styles of music, including hip-hop, industrial pop/rock, and house utilizing this audio sequencing software as a sequencer you can play like an instrument. In the courses you’ll interact and collaborate with others students and discuss the components that con-tribute to the production of great music, as

Producing 24 credits

You’ll increase your music production knowl-edge, skills, and experience when you become fully immersed in the techniques and curricu-lum developed by the production department at Berklee College of Music. Our Production Masters Certificate Program gives you a com-plete understanding of the concepts and production techniques, from fundamental-to-advanced, that you’ll need to create, produce, and record professional-sounding arrange-ments using the software and sequencers in Pro Tools, Abelton Live, and MIDI.

Become more adept at producing both elec-tronic sounding arrangements as well as arrangements with a more organic, natural feel. Gain a substantial background in Abelton Live, and learn the various producing and mix-ing techniques you can use with this program to produce various contemporary electronic music styles. Plus, you’ll receive direction on re-arranging live samples on the fly that is essential for the performing musician. You’ll come to understand how these programs can work together seamlessly, and with the inclu-sion of three elective courses you’ll acquire the freedom and flexibility to take your production skills in any direction you wish.

Required Courses• Critical Listening• Producing with Pro Tools• Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate• Producing Music with Ableton Live• 3 Courses from Producing Electives

Electronic Music Productionand Sound Design14 credits

Begin by setting up your own home studio and working with basic audio mixing and signal processing. From there, you’ll explore the art of sampling and audio production in detail, from the sampler’s parts and functions, and the different ways these versatile tools can be used, to the creation of unique instruments and sounds.

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you’ll learn the basics of how synthesizers work, master sound design concepts, and move on to more advanced sound creation and manipula-tion techniques that you can transfer to any hardware or software synthesizer. You’ll also become adept at producing electronic-sound-ing arrangements, as well as arrangements that have a more natural, organic feel, using MIDI sequencing software including Logic and Reason. Through hands-on lessons and proj-ects, you will collaborate with other students and your professor in our community-based learning environment.

Required Courses• Desktop Music Production• Sampling and Audio Production• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate• Sound Design for the Electronic Musician• Production Workshop

Studio Production 15 credits

Learn to create, produce and record music using the software and sequencers in Pro Tools, Abelton Live, and Reason. Gain an understand-ing of how these software programs enable you to produce professional-sounding music in a number of styles. You’ll develop your Pro Tools proficiency and technical training, and thoroughly explore the capabilities of MIDI sequencing using Reason.

The Professional Studio Production certificate also presents you with the information neces-sary to learn producing and mixing techniques for contemporary electronic music styles, including hip-hop, industrial, pop/rock, and house. You’ll learn to re-arrange live samples on the fly, and how to apply these production and mixing tools to a number of different software programs. Through discussions with your pro-fessor and fellow students on the components that contribute to the production of great music, you’ll also learn to become a more effi-cient and knowledgeable producer.

Required Courses• Critical Listening• Pro Tools 101• Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate

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Develop a firm Pro Tools foundation, and learn how to record, mix, and produce great music with the help of Berklee’s renowned faculty and their masterful production techniques. The Specialist Studio Production certificate will introduce you to concepts including studio set up and equipment optimization. You’ll become proficient at recording in Pro Tools and receive technical training in sound recording, from setup to mix-down. You’ll also gain a founda-tion in popular topics that include microphone placement and editing techniques.

Once you have your studio up and running, you’ll investigate more advanced Pro Tools mixing and mastering techniques, including parallel compression, reverb parameters, com-pression, and other vital mastering techniques. You’ll become a well-rounded producer by collaborating with others and discussing the components that contribute to the production of great music, as well as conducting detailed analysis of selected class productions.

Required Courses• Critical Listening• Pro Tools 101• Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

Music Production using Reason 24 credits

The curriculum in this program is developed and certified by Berkleemusic and Propellerhead

Software and was designed to provide a holistic educational approach to music and music pro-duction. This certification provides a powerful credential for any resume, as well as the practi-cal skills necessary to pursue musical ideas and reach your creative potential using Reason. A joint certification from Berkleemusic and Propellerhead Software assures educational integrity and industry credibility.

In this program you’ll gain a well-balanced understanding of music production with prac-tical approaches to each step in the process. You’ll work with renowned Berklee College of Music production faculty and collaborate with other musicians and producers from around the world, exchanging ideas and methods. You’ll gain a substantial background in Reason, and learn the various producing and mixing techniques you can use with this program to produce various contemporary electronic music styles.

In addition, you can choose from a wide array of elective courses to customize your education-al outcomes to meet your own specific goals in music. Whether it’s songwriting, film scoring, remixing, or arranging, there’s definitely some-thing here for you. With Music Production using Reason, you’ll learn to produce profes-sional music using the most creative tool on the planet, with curriculum from the best music college on the planet.

Required Courses• Critical Listening• Desktop Music Production• Producing Music with Reason• Sampling and Audio Production• Sound Design for the Electronic Musician• 3 Courses from Music Production using

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well as conducting detailed analysis of selected class productions. You’ll get constant feedback and recommendations from renowned Berklee faculty, and following the course, you’ll be producing professional sounding music and pushing your home studio set-up to the limits.

Required Courses• Recording and Producing in the Home

Studio• Producing Music with Reason• Producing Music with Ableton Live

Music Technology forTeachers8 credits

Music Education Professor Stefani Langol, Music Production faculty members Michael Moss and Mike Bierlyo, and TI:ME founder/Vice President of Berklee College of Music, David Mash will provide you with the founda-tional knowledge necessary to incorporate the tools of technology into your instruction.

The Technology for Teachers certificate will help you build a solid base of music technology knowledge and skills. You’ll learn how to record digital audio, use a sequencer, mix multi-track projects, work with loops, use effects, and pro-duce finished recordings as CDs or MP3s.

The practical skills you acquire will enable you to choose the right tools to develop advocacy materials to support your program, produce your students’ music, create practice and per-formance tracks for your instrumental or vocal groups, and begin a digital portfolio assessment strategy.

You’ll gain a firm understanding of the tools of music technology, through a combination of listening, recording, practice activities, and projects. By mastering fundamental music technology concepts, you’ll enhance your music program and become a valuable resource to your school.

With transferable college credit and CEUs available for all of the courses in our cer-tificate programs, you can fulfill your State’s certification and professional development requirements while enhancing your music technology skill set.

Best of all, you can do all of this from the com-fort of home, with no commuting to a specific location, and no arranging for child care, or nights/weekends away from home. Learn the tools of music technology, earn professional development credits, and do it all around your schedule.

Pat Pattison, Online Songwriting Instructor, is an author, clinician and Berklee Professor of Lyric Writing and Poetry whose students have composed for major artists and written Number 1 songs. At Berklee, he developed the curriculum for the only songwriting major in the country. His books, including Songwriting:

Essential Guide to Rhyming and Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure, are recognized as definitive in their genre, and have earned many ecstatic reviews. His clinics are attended by songwriters all over the country, and his articles appear regularly in a variety of industry publications.







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Electronic Music Production using Reason 9 credits

The curriculum in this program is developed and certified by Berkleemusic and Propellerhead Software. This certification provides a powerful credential for any resume, as well as the practi-cal skills necessary to pursue your creative ideas and reach your creative potential using Reason. A joint certification from Berkleemusic and Propellerhead Software assures educational integrity and industry credibility.

In the world of electronic music, new tech-niques and new technologies are constantly revising the state of the art, and getting seri-ous about a career means staying on top of the very latest trends. In Berkleemusic’s Specialist Certificate in Electronic Music Production using Reason you’ll learn how to create amaz-ing-sounding, professional-quality electronic music in your home studio, and gain the skills and versatility to stay ahead of the competition. From the nuts and bolts of sampling and MIDI sequencing, to developing hip-hop drum and bass grooves and mastering the principles and techniques to create mash-ups, stereo master remixes, a cappella remixes, and multi-track remixes, this program will make you a com-plete electronic music producer using Reason, ready for vinyl, club, radio, and anywhere else you want to go.

Required Courses• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate• Hip-Hop Writing and Production• Remixing with Pro Tools and Reason

Music Creation using Reason 9 credits


To be a producer in today’s competitive envi-ronment means staying on top of the latest trends in technology, equipment, and studio technique. But it also means training yourself to hear, understand, and replicate a nearly infinite variety of sounds, styles and techniques. In the Specialist Certificate in Music Creation using Reason, you’ll work with world-class Berklee faculty and classmates from around the globe to gain a solid background in production basics and the art of creating music using Reason.

learn the ways that professional songwriters put these elements together to create memo-rable hit songs. With frequent writing exercises and hands-on workshops, your writing process will become more direct and efficient, and your lyrics more vivid and meaningful.The Songwriting Masters Certificate Program also allows you to enhance your songwriting skills in a number of different areas by offering three elective courses that cover theory, har-mony, arranging, or writing, all indispensable skills for the accomplished songwriter.

Required Courses• Songwriting Workshop: Hit Song Forms• Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies• Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music• Songwriting Workshop: Melody• Songwriting Workshop: Harmony• The Songwriter’s Seminar• 3 Courses from Songwriting Electives

Contemporary Writing and Production 15 credits

Writers of commercial music are more in demand than ever before, but in order to succeed in the songwriting business a writer needs more than just solid writing chops. The Contemporary Writing and Production certifi-cate program will help you master the roles a writer needs to know: that of producer, arrang-er, and songwriter.

By the end of the Contemporary Writing and Production certificate program, you’ll not only have a multi-faceted skill set, rich in arranging, writing, and production skills, but a competi-tive edge to set you and your music apart from the crowd.

Required Courses• Desktop Music Production• MIDI Sequencing Intermediate• Arranging 1• Style Writing for Performers and Arrangers• Hip-Hop Writing and Production

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Required Courses• Critical Listening• Desktop Music Production• Producing Music with Reason

Sound Design using Reason 9 credits


In classes taught by award-winning Berklee instructors, the Specialist Certificate in Sound Design using Reason will give you a complete overview of how music is written, recorded, mixed, and mastered using Reason, with a focus on sampling, sequencing, sound design, and building your own synth patches from the ground up. Along the way you’ll have the opportunity to share ideas with classmates working in a wide range of genres from around the world.

Required Courses• Producing Music with Reason• Sampling and Audio Production• Sound Design for the Electronic Musician

SongwritingSongwriting25 credits

Become a master in the art of songwriting and lyric writing with our Master Songwriting cer-tificate. This extensive program arms you with the tools needed to develop your ideas into complete, engaging, effective songs. You’ll take a detailed look at the individual elements that make up lyric writing and songwriting, and







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top producers. You’ll then move on to study Ableton Live’s audio sequencing software, and master the creative tools and techniques required to remix and produce contemporary styles, including hip-hop, industrial pop/rock, and house. The program ties all the production and guitar knowledge together by teaching you to identify the production elements and proper mixing techniques that contribute to a well bal-anced, artful, and professional-sounding mix.

The Production and Guitar Master certificate also allows students the flexibility to direct their own studies by allowing the choice of three electives in a variety of different disciplines and software including Pro Tools, MIDI, Digital Performer, and more.Required Courses• Critical Listening• Desktop Music Production• Getting Your Guitar Tone• Recording and Producing for Guitarists• Producing Music with Ableton Live• Producing Music with Reason• 3 Courses from Production and

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Songwriting and Guitar25 credits

Berkleemusic’s Songwriting and Guitar Master certificate program is the perfect match of time-tested tools, theories, techniques, and applications that you can use immediately to hone your craft and become a more success-ful and well-versed songwriter, guitarist, and performing musician. Developed by the award-winning faculty of Berklee College of Music and based on the school’s curriculum, this extensive certificate program will provide you with an arsenal of ideas and concepts that are designed to develop a more complete songwrit-er – not only the most effective ways to write engaging and memorable lyrics, melodies, and harmonies, but the best ways to translate these compositions to the guitar.

You’ll start by getting your guitar skills up to speed, and taking a detailed look at different forms of guitar amplification through the use of the AmpliTube 1 amp modeling software. You’ll learn to identify and incorporate various sounds produced through selecting, program-ming and arranging effects, and study the characteristics of hollow body versus semi-hol-low body and solid guitars. The program moves

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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 that will help you gener-ate more and better ideas and provide you with harmonic tools to build song sections. You will also learn effective ways to develop melodies over common modes and chords into complete songs.

Required Courses• Songwriting Workshop: Hit Song Forms• Songwriting Workshop: Melody• Songwriting Workshop: Harmony

GuitarProduction and Guitar25 credits

Gain a vast knowledge of music production with a concentration on guitar in this compre-hensive and wide-ranging certificate program. Berkleemusic’s Production and Guitar Master certificate program provides students with an extensive background in music production while focusing on perfecting the sound from the guitar, amplifier, and effects units. The program also focuses on studio recording techniques for the guitar, as well as other instruments. You’ll start by setting up your own studio and learn-ing how to produce great-sounding recordings of your music at home using Reason, Logic, or SONAR. Once you’ve got your home studio together, you’ll take a look at the sound pos-sibilities available to you on the guitar.

You’ll learn to create your own unique guitar sound through selecting and arranging vari-ous effects used by the pros, the qualities and attributes of different guitar amplifications, and the characteristics and sounds produced through the use of hollow body versus semi-hollow body and solid guitars. Following this, you’ll learn how to record great guitar sounds in the studio by examining direct-line guitar recording, microphone types, characteristics, and placement; as well as the intricacies of mixing, equalization, compression and reverb. You’ll master Reason’s rack of virtual instru-ments, effects, mixers, built-in sequencer and patching system, and learn the real-world pro-duction set-ups and techniques used by today’s

Songwriting14 credits

Become a truly accomplished songwriter by learning to write articulate lyrics and distinctive choruses and melodies, and match lyrics and music together into great songs your audience will remember. The Professional Songwriting certificate guides you through a variety of lyric and songwriting techniques that successful writers use to maximize their skills and develop their craft.You’ll learn to develop creative song ideas and overcome writer’s block, enhance the emo-tional intent of your lyrics, and create strong, focused songs that perfectly blend your lyrical ideas with powerful melodies. You’ll become a more complete and effective songwriter with constructive feedback on your songs from your classmates and your professor, and learn to mas-ter the tools that can allow you to express your ideas in more compelling and original ways.

Required Courses• Songwriting Workshop: Hit Song Forms• Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies• Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music• Songwriting Workshop: Melody• Songwriting Workshop: Harmony

Lyric Writing9 credits

Sharpen your lyric writing skills under the expert guidance of author and teacher Pat Pattison, and discover the techniques that have helped his students win Grammy Awards and write Number 1 songs.

Pat’s Specialist Lyric Writing certificate presents techniques used by hit songwriters to develop powerful lyrical ideas. Learn how to make your lyrics more vivid and memorable, as well as ways to accurately match the rhythm of your lyrics with the rhythms of your melody. By making your writing process more efficient, and your lyrics more effective, you’ll create engaging lyrics and songs that your audience will remember.

Required Courses• Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies• Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title• Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music

Songwriting8 credits

Master Songwriter Jimmy Kachulis has helped thousands of songwriters develop and maxi-mize their songwriting skills. His Specialist Songwriting certificate is designed to benefit musicians of all levels, from relative beginners, to professional songwriters who are looking for



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the fundamental building blocks for any seri-ous guitarist interested in adding expression, depth, and feeling to their playing. The Guitar Skills certificate program builds the foundation you’ll need to advance these essential concepts, and provides the knowledge necessary to devel-op your technique and hone your skills in any given style.

You’ll begin the program by learning Berklee’s approach to the construction of chords and chord voicings, and gain a greater feel for the guitar by learning how to visualize chord structures anywhere on the neck. You’ll gain an extensive chord vocabulary, including tri-ads and basic seventh chords, which will prove invaluable in pursuing any style of music. You’ll then compliment your chord knowledge by learning the major, minor, Pentatonic, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales.

You’ll improve your form, control, feel, and sense of harmony by learning blues song forms, basic rhythm guitar technique, and the licks of classic blues stylists. The program wraps up by providing students with a step-by-step approach to improvisation: You’ll learn to develop your solos by studying the licks of legendary players, and to phrase your riffs and play ‘in the pocket’ through rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic rep-etition.

Required Courses• Guitar Chords 101• Guitar Scales 101• Blues Guitar Workshop 1• Basic Improvisation

Recording And Production For Guitar10 credits

Advance your desktop music production skills with a concentration on guitar in this inten-sive 4-course program. The Recording and Production for Guitar specialist certificate pro-gram will provide you with all of the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music, while also focusing on perfect-ing your guitar sounds and expanding your guitar recording techniques background. The program starts by teaching you the proper way to set up your own studio, and how to pro-duce great-sounding recordings of your music at home using Reason, Logic, or SONAR. You’ll then gain an insight into production concepts including digitization, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, and MIDI.

Once you’ve got your home studio and pro-duction skills together, you’ll take a look at the sound possibilities available to you on the guitar. You’ll learn to create your own unique

guitar sound through selecting and arranging various effects used by the pros, the qualities and attributes of different guitar amplifications, and the characteristics and sounds produced through the use of hollow body versus semi-hollow body and solid guitars. Following this, you’ll learn how to record great guitar sounds in the studio by examining direct-line guitar recording, microphone types, characteristics, and placement; as well as the intricacies of mix-ing, equalization, compression, and reverb.

To round out your learning, you’ll study the roles of the producer and engineer in the recording process, and learn mixing, mastering, and editing techniques that will enable you to polish your demos and incorporate your guitar knowledge into professional sounding finished recordings.

Required Courses• Desktop Music Production• Getting Your Guitar Tone• Recording and Producing for Guitarists• Recording & Producing in the Home

Studio

Recording and Production For Guitar With Pro Tools10 credits

Develop a firm Pro Tools foundation with a focus on guitar production. Study with Berklee’s renowned faculty and get great guitar sounds live and in the studio, and learn how to edit and mix tracks with superior quality. This Specialist certificate will introduce you to concepts including studio set-up and equip-ment optimization. You’ll become proficient at recording in Pro Tools and receive training in sound recording, from setup to mix-down. You’ll also gain a foundation in popular topics that include microphone placement, amp mod-eling software, and digital editing techniques.

Once you have your Pro Tools studio up-and-running, you’ll learn how to craft your own unique sound from the electric guitar by taking a detailed look at different forms of amplification, the sounds produced through selecting, programming and arranging vari-ous effects, and the characteristics of the guitar itself. Following this you’ll learn how to record great guitar sounds in the studio by examining direct-line guitar recording, microphone types, characteristics, and placement; as well as the intricacies of mixing, equalization, compres-sion, and reverb.

To round out your learning, you’ll study more advanced Pro Tools mixing and mastering tech-niques, including parallel compression, reverb parameters, compression, and other vital mas-tering concepts. You’ll become a well-rounded

on to cover Berklee’s approach to the construc-tion of chords and chord voicings, where you’ll gain more freedom and a greater feel for the instrument by learning how to visualize chord structures anywhere on the neck of the guitar. You’ll then delve into the intricacies of lyric writing and songwriting, and learn the ways that professional songwriters put these ele-ments together to create memorable hit songs.

Required Courses• Getting Your Guitar Tone• Guitar Chords 101• Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies• Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music• Songwriting Workshop: Melody• Songwriting Workshop: Harmony• 3 Courses from Songwriting and

Guitar Electives

Guitar 11 credits

To become a truly accomplished guitarist, you first have to master the basics. Players that have an intimate understanding of chords, scales, blues and rock, and improvisation techniques are more comfortable in different musical situ-ations, and are more dynamic, expressive, and well-rounded guitarists. This extensive pro-gram provides students with a wide array of tools and the knowledge necessary to develop their technique and gain a greater feel for their instrument.

The program begins by detailing Berklee’s approach to the construction of chords. In Berkleemusic’s rich learning platform, which feature Flash movies, interactive quizzes, instructional videos, guitar tablatures, and practice mp3 tracks, students will learn to con-struct and play triads and basic 7th chords, as well as look at inversions and different chord voicings, the basic foundations guitarists use to write or perform in any number of differ-ent styles. With personalized instruction and comments from Berklee’s world-renowned gui-tar instructors, students will gain an extensive chord vocabulary, which will prove invaluable in pursuing any style of music.

Required Courses• Guitar Chords 101• Guitar Scales 101• Blues Guitar Workshop 1• Classic Rock Guitar Workshop• Basic Improvisation

Guitar Skills7 credits

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producer by conducting detailed analysis of selected class productions and collaborating with others to discuss the components that contribute to the production of great music.

Required Courses• Producing with Pro Tools• Getting Your Guitar Tone• Recording and Producing for Guitarists• Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

ArrangingArranging24 credits

Construct captivating arrangements in a num-ber of different styles with confidence, and equip yourself with the most effective chord scale choices for your arrangements. You’ll master invaluable skills that can be applied to both live instrumentation and sequenced/sam-pled sounds. The Master Arranging certificate will expand your proficiency and equip you with the knowledge to write and create engag-ing arrangements for diverse instrumentations, from the rhythm section of a small band (bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards), to a large ensemble or vocal group.

You’ll learn how to design your own compelling grooves and style mixes, and how to effectively incorporate them into your arrangements in a powerful and dynamic way. With the addition of three electives covering a wide array of foun-dational theory, production, and writing skills, you’ll gain the flexibility and knowledge neces-sary to create dynamic arrangements.

Required Courses• Arranging 1• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Arranging 2• Style Writing for Performers and Arrangers• Arranging 3• 3 Courses from Arranging Master Electives

Arranging15 credits

Equip yourself with the most effective chord scale choices for arranging and improvising,

and learn arranging and orchestration tech-niques for a variety of contemporary styles. These skills apply to both live instrumentation and sequenced/sampled sounds.

The Professional Arranging certificate will allow you to learn basic arranging for the rhythm sec-tion, as well as more advanced orchestration techniques including 2, 3, 4 & 5 part writing. You’ll master the mechanics of chord progres-sion patterns and find the notes that work best with each chord in the progression. You’ll also learn to create and apply your own grooves and style mixes to your arrangements with the same techniques used by many successful contempo-rary artists and producers in a number of styles, including rock, pop, soul, R&B, Brazilian, Afro Cuban, funk, and hip-hop.

Required Courses• Arranging 1• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Arranging 2• Style Writing for Performers and Arrangers• Arranging 3

Arranging9 credits

Learn arranging and orchestration techniques that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sequenced/sampled sounds. With the Specialist Arranging certificate, you’ll learn how to arrange for the rhythm section (bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards) by studying rhythm section notation, melody and chord adaptation, intros and endings, articulations, and dynamics.

You’ll then move on to larger ensemble arrangements including trumpet, trombone, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. You’ll also investigate more advanced concepts, including the creation of effective background lines, and ways to approach chords as applied to horns, vocals, unison, and 2, 3, 4 & 5 part writing. Discover how to pick and choose the arranging techniques that work best for you.

Required Courses• Arranging 1• Arranging 2• Arranging 3

Theory, Harmony & Ear TrainingTh eory, Harmony & Ear Training25 credits

Maximize your performance, writing, arrang-ing, improvisation, and music comprehension skills by developing your fundamental knowl-edge 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 knowl-edge to your own music.You’ll learn songs more easily than ever before and acquire the skills necessary to transpose them on sight. By developing your knowledge of scales, intervals, chords, arranging, and lead sheets, you’ll 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 the-ory, harmony, and ear training background to a number of different music making disciplines.

Required Courses• Music Theory 101• Basic Ear Training 1• Music Theory 201• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Berklee Keyboard Method• 3 Courses from Theory, Harmony & Ear

Training Master Electives

Harmony & Ear Training14 credits

Advance the creativity of your playing and writing, and hear elements of music like never before, by learning to apply the foundational skills behind writing, reading, listening, and recognizing chord progressions to your own music. The Professional Harmony and Ear Training certificate presents a combination of activities and lessons designed to help you internalize music and develop a firm under-standing of the inner workings of harmony and ear training.You’ll work through transcription exercises using contemporary music examples to build up your knowledge of scales, intervals, chords, and lead sheets. You’ll also come to better understand the relationships between notes



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using the solfege method. With these practi-cal tools and techniques, you will be able to learn songs more easily and transpose them on sight.

Required Courses• Music Theory 101• Basic Ear Training 1• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Berklee Keyboard Method• Harmonic Ear Training

Music Theory9 credits

Before you can become an amazing songwriter, player or producer, you need to first master the mechanics of contemporary music. The Music Theory Specialist Program, developed by Berklee Professor Emeritus Paul Schmeling, provides the knowledge and concepts, from fundamental to advanced, to prepare you for any musical endeavor or opportunity.

The skills you learn in the Music Theory Specialist Program will provide you with the structure you need to turn your musical impulses into concise information that you can share with anyone. You’ll leave the program with a concrete musical foundation in rhythm, chords, scales, and progressions, and the musi-cal tools ready at your disposal to create your next music project with ease.

Required Courses• Music Theory 101• Music Theory 201• Music Theory 301

Ear Training8 credits

Whether you’re playing your instrument, com-posing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions and harmony is a necessity for any musician. The Specialist Ear Training certificate begins by examining harmony and the rhythms and pulses that drive and measure music. It presents transcribing exercises that use contemporary examples to help you inter-nalize the music. You’ll study the relationships between notes using solfege and engage in a combination of listening, thinking, visualiz-ing, vocalizing, writing, and playing activities designed to equip you with the best chord and scale choices for arranging and improvising.

Required Courses• Basic Ear Training 1• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Harmonic Ear Training


Th eory and Harmony9 credits

Professor Emeritus Paul Schmeling and Professor Michael Rendish, founding chair of Berklee’s Harmony Department, will provide you with the foundational knowledge neces-sary to read, write, and understand music’s inner workings.

The Specialist Theory and Harmony certifi-cate will help you create a solid base of musical knowledge and deepen your understanding of rhythm, scales, chord progressions, harmony, and keyboard techniques. You’ll learn how to use scales, intervals, and chords; write a mel-ody; hear and modify chord progressions; and build your knowledge of chords and lead sheets through the keyboard. You’ll also gain a firm understanding of the inner workings of har-mony in a broad range of contemporary styles, through a combination of listening, thinking, visualizing, vocalizing, writing, and playing activities. By mastering these fundamental concepts, you’ll advance the creativity in your playing and writing and learn to hear the ele-ments of music like never before!

Required Courses• Music Theory 101• Getting Inside Harmony 1• Berklee Keyboard Method

Music BusinessMusic Business and Technology27 credits

New independent music enterprises are spring-ing up and becoming successful everyday. Independent artists and labels are carving our profitable niches in the new music market place with vertically integrated businesses; finding talent, producing artists, recording, mixing and mastering as well as marketing, promotion, publishing and distribution. This entrepreneurial spirit in the industry is pro-viding great opportunity for individuals with a wide range of skills. This 8-course program is designed to cover music production and the music business in great detail with a focus on developing students for a future in the new evolving music industry.

You’ll increase your music production knowl-edge, skills, and experience when you become fully immersed in the techniques and curricu-lum developed by the Music Production & Engineering department at Berklee College of Music. This part of the program gives you a complete understanding of the concepts and production techniques, from fundamental-to-

advanced, that you’ll need to create, produce, and record professional-sounding arrange-ments using the software and sequencers in Pro Tools, Abelton Live, MIDI and Reason.The business and entrepreneurial component of the program examines the key elements of the music and recording industry, including the role of labels, publishers and distributors. It examines areas such as the administration of copyrights, performance rights organizations, and the role of the different players involved in both the creative and business aspects of your career. You’ll also explore the future of music and the music business, and evaluate how cur-rent and developing changes, technologies, innovations, and trends might directly affect your own plans. You’ll look at issues such as digital rights management and alternate forms of marketing, and discover successful strate-gies for creating, promoting, and distributing music in the emerging digital market. You will cultivate a vast understanding of music production, artist development and arranging concepts with specific training on music soft-ware currently revolutionizing world of music composition and performance. This 2-year program is a must for anyone passionate about music and serious about furthering their career in the music industry.


Business• Desktop Music Production• 3 Courses from Music Business

and Technology Electives

Music Business18 credits

Given the shifting landscape of the music industry, the more business-minded musicians are, the better prepared they’ll be to take on an active role in guiding their careers and allowing their music to reach the widest-possible audi-ence. Similarly, for those who aspire to work or start their own music-related firms (be they labels, management companies, publishing companies, etc.) the chances of success in these firms increases exponentially with a solid music business foundation. The Music Business Professional Program provides students with a detailed background in key areas of the music industry, and a plan for success developed with Berklee’s seasoned experts in their respective fields.

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Berkleemusic Alum Rick Breen Joins Kurzweil

Shortly after receiving his Master Certificate in Production from the Berkleemusic online extension school, Rick Breen has landed a job with Kurzweil Music systems.

“Berkleemusic’s Master Certificate program provided me with the training and credentials I needed to achieve a new career in music technology,” remarked Breen. “I was able to find a position where I could leverage my software engineering background and my Berklee training to get into a top music technology company.”

Breen joins Kurzweil Music Systems, makers of Kurzweil digital pia-nos, synthesizers, keyboard/workstations, and other such products, as a software engineer.

“Getting this position with Kurzweil would not have been pos-sible without the training I received through Berkleemusic,” Breen explained. “In fact, the manager said he picked my application out of a pile because he noticed the Berklee Master Certification on my resume. My software engineering background was essential, of course, but the Berklee Master Certification set me apart from the other appli-cants.”

To earn his Master Certificate, Breen completed courses in Producing with Pro Tools, Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools, MIDI Sequencing, and Producing Music with Ableton Live, among others.

“I am so impressed with the program, the experience, the people, the instructors, the challenge, and all the excellent material,” added Breen. “I learned so much, met so many interesting people, and explored so many new areas of music technology and production. Thanks to Berklee, I have a completely different outlook on music and music technology.”


ate on a day-to-day basis. Students will study the symbiotic relationship between the record-ing, music publishing, and live performance businesses, and learn about the career oppor-tunities that are available within these different segments. Students will gain critical market-ing and positioning advice on how to prepare themselves, their music, and their bands, and master the skills necessary to produce, market, and distribute their own music.


Business• Music Industry Entrepreneurship

Music Business9 credits

Gain an insider’s point of view on the record and publishing business, and explore new ways to create, promote, and distribute music. The Specialist Music Business certificate begins by looking at the functions of a traditional record label, including the promotions, marketing, A&R, and publicity departments, how these departments are structured, what they will and won’t do for an artist, and how the depart-ments work together to promote a new release. You’ll then take an in-depth look at the world of music publishing, and learn a step-by-step guide to setting up your own publishing com-pany.

Topics covered include administration of copyrights, the role of performance rights organizations, and how to prepare a function-ing accounting system for your catalog. The program wraps up by examining the future of music and the music business, and evalu-ating how current and developing changes, technologies, innovations, and trends might directly affect your own plans. You’ll look at issues such as digital rights management and copyright, and discover successful strategies for creating, promoting, and distributing music in the emerging digital market.

The Specialist Music Business Program is useful for artists who wish to sign to a label or release their music themselves, and for music business professionals who are interested in starting their own label or publishing company.

Required Courses• Inside the Record Industry• Music Publishing 101• The Future of Music and the Music

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or MP3! Let accomplished musician, sound designer and Berklee professor Michael Bierylo guide you through the challenges of setting up your own home studio, sampling, basic audio mixing, and more. With hands-on lessons and projects, you’ll master concepts like digitiza-tion, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, MIDI, and everything you need to turn your PC into a virtual multitrack studio.

And, get a free copy of SONAR 4 Producer Edition software, valid for the entire length of the course, and an educational discount on Reason 3.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Choose the right tools to produce your own

music• Plan and configure home studio hardware

components• Develop musical ideas using MIDI and

digital audio software• Edit and create your own synthesizer

sounds• Use samples and sample loops in a variety

of musical settings• Mix multitrack audio projects• Understand and use standard audio effects• Make a final master of an audio project

suitable for distribution

ProducersLearn the concepts, techniques, and technologies of the studio and home producer. Desktop Music Production for MacMichael Bierylo and David Mash 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-101a

Gain all the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music. Even if you begin this course with little or no under-standing of desktop production, you’ll end it with a quality master recording ready for CD or MP3! Let accomplished musician, sound designer, and Berklee professor Michael Bierylo guide you through the challenges of setting up your own home studio, sampling, basic audio mixing, and more. With hands-on lessons and projects, you’ll master concepts like digitiza-tion, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, MIDI, and everything you need to turn your Mac or PC into a virtual multitrack studio.








Desktop Music Production for PCMichael Bierylo, Steve MacLean, & David Mash 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-101b

Gain all the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music. Even if you begin this course with little or no under-standing of desktop production, you’ll end it with a quality master recording ready for CD

Sound Design for the Electronic MusicianMichael Bierylo and David Mash 3 Credits - 12 weeks BMPR-102

Learn to create your own electronic sounds for musical productions using the software syn-thesizers provided with Reason and the Korg Legacy collection. By working through a series of practical, hands-on activities, you’ll gain an understanding of the skills necessary to produce and replicate the electronic sounds common in today’s modern music. This course begins by introducing you to the basics of how synthesiz-ers work, sound design concepts, and how to program a wide variety of synthesizers. From there, you’ll explore more detailed aspects of sound creation and manipulation, including imitating acoustic instruments, FM, oscillator sync, ring modulation, and advanced modula-tion; techniques that you can transfer to any hardware or software synthesizer.

By the end of this course, you will:• Use control signals and understand control

signals in Reason’s Subtractor• Understand digital samplers• Understand modulation and MIDI control• Build complex sounds and create sonic

gestures (macrosynthesis)• Understand the basic sound design ele-

ments of visual media

Sampling and AudioProductionDavid Doms 3 Credits - 12 weeks BMPR-160

The development of sampling technology has spurred vast changes in the way music is cre-ated, produced, and performed. This course begins by taking you through the basics of the sampler’s parts and functions, and looks at some of the different ways this versatile tool can be used. You’ll use the NN-XT sampler in Reason to examine more in-depth principles associated with sampling, including program-

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MIDI Sequencing BasicsMichael Moss 1 Credits - 3 weeksBMPR-140

Gain an essential understanding of MIDI sequencers, sound modules, and audio systems in this three-week course. With hands-on les-sons and downloadable examples, you’ll learn how to create natural-sounding MIDI arrange-ments using the Reason music synthesis and sequencing software. You’ll also learn how to record parts, use different sounds, effects, and devices including a mixer, sound modules, a drum machine, and effects such as reverb and EQ. These critical skills will help you create music using any MIDI sequencing system, beyond this course. You should have some knowledge of music theory and notation to get the most from these lessons.

By the end of this course, you will:• Use a basic MIDI system—sequencer,

sound modules, drum machine, keyboard, and audio system

• Create MIDI-sequences that sounds natural and musical, rather than computer-gener-ated

• Record single parts and overdubs using dif-ferent sounds

• Create sequences with multiple parts.• Use basic functions of Reason software—

sound modules, drum machines, effects, recording, editing, and saving data, and more

MIDI Sequencing IntermediateMichael Moss 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-141

Learn to create musical-sounding MIDI arrangements by producing in two divergent styles: electronic dance music and blues. This course will provide you with a firm under-standing of the roles of the various instruments and arrangements used in the creation of dance and blues music, and will explore the whole creative process of writing these styles of music using MIDI. You will gain an analytical ear by analyzing recordings to find what makes these styles unique, and will become adept at pro-ducing both electronic-sounding arrangements as well as arrangements that have a more natu-ral, organic feel. You’ll thoroughly explore the capabilities of MIDI sequencing technology and learn effective processes and approaches to production. By the end of this course you will

ming single and multi-sample programs, digital signal processing, and extending the sampler program using synthesis — techniques that are used extensively in dance music, hip-hop, and many other musical genres. You’ll also learn to create unique instruments and sounds, and use them effectively — a benefit for all producers and engineers, as well as performing musicians. By the end of the course, you will be able to create fully functional sampler programs with your own source material, as well as prepare an audio project based entirely on the use of sampling and samplers. And, you’ll get an edu-cational discount on Reason 3.0.

To be successful in this course, you should have good computer skills, know how to configure your computer for sound, and have a MIDI keyboard.

Pro Tools 101Digidesign and Andy Edelstein 3 Credits - 10 weeksBMPR-130

Get on track to become a Pro Tools Operator from home, with the help of Berklee’s music production faculty. Pro Tools 101 focuses on the foundational skills needed to learn and function within the Pro Tools environment. Using real-world examples and frequent hands-on assignments, the course teaches the skills needed to record, edit, and mix on a basic level, using a Digidesign Pro Tools system.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Start up, configure, and navigate a Pro

Tools session• Use the main Pro Tools windows and cus-

tomize displays• Record audio into a Pro Tools session• Create audio regions and edit tracks• Import audio files and regions• Perform punch and loop recording• Create and edit fades and crossfades• Create stereo mixes within Pro Tools• Process audio using basic AudioSuite plug-

ins• Use basic Pro Tools MIDI features• Record, edit, and complete a full mix of an

original Pro Tools project from scratch

Producing with Pro ToolsDavid Franz 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

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Prepare yourself to be a great producer using Pro Tools software in your home studio. This course teaches Berklee’s renowned production techniques and will provide the vital skills you need to know. This course introduces you to recording in Pro Tools and provides technical

training in sound recording, from setup to mix-down. Plus, you’ll get more detailed discussions and animations of technical terms, and a chance to talk gear, studio configurations, and philoso-phies of production, even speaker placement, monitor mixes, and acoustics for your studio. You’ll become a better, more professional pro-ducer, when working on your own music and the music of others.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Set up and run recording sessions in your

home studio• Utilize basic Pro Tools recording tech-

niques, such as sends, returns, and busses for recording through an effect

• Place microphones properly to capture superior sounds

• Record with reverb, delay, compression/expansion, and equalizer plug-ins

• Use all editing tools and modes in Pro Tools• Use fades and crossfades• Work with tracks, regions, and selections• Edit between playlists• Prepare your edited audio tracks for mix-

down• Set up MIDI in your studio and connect all

hardware and software• Create and edit real-sounding MIDI parts

and tracks• Input orchestral instruments, samples,

sound effects, and additional percussion

Mixing and Mastering with Pro ToolsJeff Baust 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-123

Gain a greater understanding of two key ele-ments of production by learning the Berklee approach to mixing and mastering using Pro Tools. Essential knowledge for engineers, producers, or hobbyists who have their own home studio up and running, this course pres-ents concepts that go beyond basic EQ and panning. Students will be exposed to more advanced mixing and mastering techniques, including parallel compression, understanding reverb parameters, and compression techniques in mastering. You’ll view demonstrations of engineers engaged in the processes, and by mixing and mastering Pro Tools sessions that are provided in the course, you will be able to hear, compare, and discuss the different mixes of your classmates. Also included for the duration of the course is the Waves S1 Stereo Imager, as well as the Masters Bundle plug-in from Waves (Over $1200 in plug ins, available only for the duration of the course). Tools included in the Masters Bundle include the Linear Phase Equalizer, Linear Multi Band, and the L2 Ultramaximizer.

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notes, and modal and pentatonic scales. With this level of music theory, there will be prac-tically no barriers between you and the music you want to create.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Read and write rhythms that include trip-

lets and swing eighth notes• Write and analyze diatonic chord progres-

sions in minor• Read and write rhythms that include six-

teenth notes in a double time feel• Construct modal scales and identify by

sound• Construct pentatonic scales and identify by

sound• Write a pentatonic melody over a basic

blues progression• Understand and use slash chords and bass

pedal points

Arranging 1Suzanne Dean 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

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Arranging 1 explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section. Part of Berklee’s required core curriculum, Arranging 1 will teach you how to write for the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards) and create killer arrangements that really groove. This course directs you on everything you’ll need to create an effective arrangement; including rhythm section notation, adaptation of the melody and chords, intro’s and endings, articulations and dynamics, and how to create an emotional contour throughout the arrange-ment. Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, you’ll discover how to pick and choose the techniques that work best for you, and how to put them all together in a way that will get everyone moving!

By the end of this course, you will:• Know the parts of a song and be able to

analyze a lead sheet• Understand drum notation• Understand bass notation in Swing, Bossa

Nova, Samba, Latin, Pop/Rock, and Funk styles

• Understand guitar and keyboard notation

Producing Music with ReasonErik Hawkins 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-175

With a rack of virtual instruments, effects, mix-ers, a built-in sequencer, and a patching system that emulates real-world hardware setups, Reason provides a nearly complete produc-tion environment for producers and engineers. Producing Music with Reason presents a broad

have gained the ability to compose music and arrange instruments in a variety of different musical styles using MIDI sequencing.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand a bass line and apply that style

in Reason• Assemble ReDrum patterns in a song• Add vocals to your dance track• Prepare samples and use samples in your

project• Understand the blues style and blues instru-

ments and apply them in MIDI• Produce, mix, and master your track

Music Theory 101Paul Schmeling 3 Credits - 12 weeks

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Pitch. Rhythm. Scales. Intervals. Chords. Harmony. If you’re serious about music, these are fundamental concepts you need to under-stand and master. Music Theory 101 will set you on your way. After more than 40 years at Berklee, Professor Emeritus Paul Schmeling has helped countless students build a solid base of musical knowledge. And he’ll do the same for you, supported by class discussions, interac-tive tools, and personalized feedback that will help you put these theories into practice every day. Join our community of beginning learners for engaging, hands-on activities that will help you read, write, and truly hear the elements of music like never before. Enroll today!

By the end of this course, you will:• Read and write musical notation• Play notes on a piano keyboard• Use scales, intervals, and chords• Write a melody

Music Theory 201Paul Schmeling 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-201

Continuing on from the concepts presented in Music Theory 101, this course will further develop your background in music theory and provide you with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be a more effective writer and player. You’ll master the fundamental concepts of rhythm and harmony and learn more com-

plex chords, progressions, and rhythms that will open up your understanding of the elements that together contribute to put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock. You’ll study topics including rhythmic anticipations, articulation markings, swing eighth notes, and sixteenth notes in double time feel; diatonic chords, harmonic function, melodic and harmonic ten-sions, as well as modal and pentatonic scales. You’ll understand why chords move from one to another the way they do; and learn to better analyze and write harmonic progressions and different rhythmic styles. Through ear training exercises, musical examples, and personalized feedback from your instructor, you’ll be able to analyze, read, write, and listen more effec-tively, as well as understand the fundamental knowledge essential to the beginning studies of harmony.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand rhythmic anticipation and

articulations• Understand triplets, swing, and straight

eighth notes• Understand diatonic triads and seventh

chords• Identify modal scales• Be knowledgeable on basic tensions and

pentatonic scales

Music Theory �01 Paul Schmeling 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-301

Establish a toolkit of musical expertise that will prepare you for any musical endeavor or oppor-tunity. This advanced music theory course provides you with a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music. You’ll learn to write effective jazz, pop, and rock-influ-enced pentatonic and modal melodies as well as master anticipations and articulations that will give your music the necessary sound and “char-acter” to fit these styles. You’ll explore harmony related topics such as diatonic, natural/melod-ic, minor, and slash chords, which will help you to select the appropriate harmonic tensions to add color, character, and sophistication to your music. You’ll also master triplets, swing eighths, and sixteenth notes in double time feel, as well as topics related to improvisation and melody including chord scales, avoid notes, approach

ThecoursesatBerkleemusichavebeengreat.WhereIliveinPakistan,courseslikesongwriting,arranging,andDesktopMusicProductionarenotavailableatall.Takingthesecoursesonlinehashelpedmegrowasamusician,andhavehelpedmeprepareforBerklee’sundergraduateschool. – A.Aftab

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1�overview of this versatile software’s capabili-ties, and the techniques you’ll need to learn to operate it effectively. The course covers sam-pling, sound design and sequencing basics, and guides you from the fundamentals of mixing and mastering to more advanced problem solv-ing techniques that will improve your overall productions. You’ll learn to create your own unique sounds, and because the program’s parts closely parallel much of the setups used by today’s top producers, you’ll also learn por-table skills that you can transfer to a number of different software and hardware setups.

By the end of this course, you will:• Develop a custom sound library• Understand simple and advanced samplers• Compose using a pattern sampler• Know how to make and use a good hook• Use song structure in your project• Mix and master your final project

Producing Music with Digital PerformerBenjamin Newhouse 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-170

Producing with Digital Performer provides you with a complete look at this powerful audio/MIDI music production tool. You’ll learn properly set up your studio, record and edit audio and MIDI, and how to effectively use the program’s various effects. You’ll famil-iarize yourself with Digital Performer’s tools and functions, the techniques necessary to develop your dynamic and phrasing ideas, and

the ways by which you can transform these ideas into complete musical projects ready for CD or MP3. This course includes multimedia instructions on how to use Digital Performer, including many Digital Performer projects, for you to analyze and explore. No matter what level of knowledge you have of sequencing or music technology, this course will provide you with everything you’ll need to know about how to create music using Digital Performer.

By the end of this course, you will:• Set up Digital Performer studio and setup

files• Understand MIDI recording and editing

techniques and use MIDI editing windows• Create, edit and, mix your audio• Analyze a song and deliver your final mas-

tered project

Producing Music with Ableton LiveKai Turnbull 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-180

Master the creative tools and techniques required to remix and produce contemporary styles, including hip-hop, industrial pop/rock, and house music using Ableton’s Live audio sequencing software, a sequencer you can play like an instrument. Unlike other sequencing software, Live allows you to create sequences in real time, on stage, with a DJ, or while remix-ing in the studio. While learning to use it, you’ll also acquire production and mixing skills that you can use in a wide variety of applica-

tions. You’ll learn Live’s interface, work within its various views to record and edit audio, and explore Live’s unique real-time recording and mixing capabilities. By the end of this course, you’ll know how to compile live sets from audio clips, loops, or samples in real time.

Recording and Producing in the Home StudioDavid Franz 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-127

Beginning with an existing demo or new song idea, this course will teach you the art of music production, engineering, and record-ing, regardless of the recording devices and software programs you are using. You’ll start by learning the basics of recording and produc-ing, and how to configure your home studio for optimal results. You’ll study the roles of the producer and engineer in the recording process, and learn mixing, mastering, and edit-ing techniques that will enable you to polish your demos into professional sounding fin-ished recordings. You’ll examine and evaluate songwriting concepts critical to the production process, and by receiving constructive feedback from your fellow songwriters, engineers, mix-ers, and producers, you’ll create an exceptional professional sounding master recording.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Know the basics of producing and record-

ing and how to set up your studio• Understand the producer’s and engineer’s

specific roles in the studio• Identify and use specific recording tech-

niques• Understand and use MIDI production

techniques• Complete your project using specific edit-

ing, mixing, and mastering techniques in postproduction

Critical ListeningDan Thompson 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

popularBMPR-162

No matter how good a song is, or how accom-plished the musicians playing it are, the wrong mix can leave an otherwise beautifully crafted song sounding unprofessional and unpolished. Critical Listening provides recording musicians and aspiring producers and engineers with a better sense of the mixing process, and devel-ops the ability to hear and identify the key features of a well balanced, artful, and profes-sional-sounding mix.

Through weekly training drills, analysis of classic recordings, and comparative studies of

Daniel M. Thompson, Online Instructor of Critical Listening, is Assistant Chair of Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught advanced pro-duction, as well as mix techniques and audio technology for over a decade. An independent

writer/producer and recording engineer, his credits include work for major films and television, including ER, The Sopranos, Swim Fan, The Sweetest Thing, Melrose Place, Touched By An Angel, Soul Food, and CSI Miami, to name just a few. Daniel Thompson’s new book, Understanding Audio (Berklee Press, 2005), is the required textbook for Berklee College of Music’s MP&E Audio Technology classes, and will soon be required at numerous music production and engineering programs throughout the coun-try and abroad. He is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

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cepts required to create a cohesive Web site to showcase and promote your work. Whether you’re interested in creating a Web site for your band, yourself, or are just curious about audio and the Web, this course will provide you with a broad overview of the tools and techniques used in Web authoring.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Write HTML code to create Web pages• Prepare audio for the Web• Edit and display graphics on a Web site• Use Web authoring tools to create Web

pages• Apply effective design concepts to your site• Upload your Web site to the Internet• List your Web site on popular search

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Recording and Producing for GuitaristsRandy Roos 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-124

The world’s best professional engineers and producers use a wide array of tools and tech-niques to get a precise sound in the studio and to seamlessly integrate the guitar in with the other instruments in a mix. Recording and Producing for Guitarists explores the possibili-ties available to guitarists through the advent of powerful and affordable recording and pro-duction tools, and the ways by which they can be integrated into your own music. You’ll ana-lyze the differences between recording direct with effect and no effect, and the sounds and effects available using amplifier modeling technology. You’ll discuss microphone types, characteristics, and placement, as well as the intricacies of mixing, including equaliza-tion, compression, and reverb. Additionally, the course engages in several recording proj-ects that, among other things, introduce the AmpliTube 1 plug-in effects, which emulate the stomp box, delay, reverb, and the para-metric equalizer. While this course is essential to any guitarist interested in expanding their recording and production skills, producers and engineers that have an intermediate level of guitar background and the capability to play simple melodic and chordal parts over basic chord changes will also benefit.

In this course you will:• Gain an understanding of direct recording

and signal matching• Work with amplifier emulation with the

provided AmpliTube 1 software• Learn to properly record an amp with a

microphone• Design guitar parts, work with different

guitar textures and orchestration

• Master various mixing techniques• Integrate various effects into the recording

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All the greatest electric guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, The Edge, John Frusciante, Steve Vai, among many others - have built their career on a tone that is completely their own, comprised of not only their mastery of the notes on the fret board, but the sounds they create through an intimate knowledge of the tools of their craft. Getting Your Guitar Tone will help you and your band to create your own unique voice by presenting a detailed, global perspective of the electric guitar that’s made up of three dis-tinct parts: the guitar, the amplifier, and the effects. You’ll start by examining the guitar itself, and how tones are produced from dif-ferent woods, pickups, and body styles. After taking a look “under the hood,” you’ll learn to re-create classic Marshall, Vox and Fender style amp sounds through the use of the new award-winning amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube 2, and take a detailed look at various effects used by the pros – including compression, chorus, flangers, delay, reverb, equalization, and wah-wah. By the end of the course, you will have gained the ability to best utilize your guitar and amp and effects in a way to create a unique sound - as well as emulate a wide range of classic and contemporary guitar tones.

In this course you will:• Understand the factors that determine the

guitar’s tone characteristics• Learn how to get great amp-driven guitar

sounds and expand your sonic parameters with effects

• Learn the controls of leading guitar ampli-fier styles using the amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube

• Identify how effects are categorized, and how each pedal works to change your sound

• Recognize the sounds of effects on record-ings

• Develop your own personal setups for recording and live performance

Hip-Hop Writing andProductionMichael Hamilton 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-170

From its beginnings in the Bronx in the 70’s, hip-hop has grown into a global phenomenon that today generates hundreds of millions of

different styles of mixing, you’ll learn to identify width and depth, frequency range, dynam-ics, and the different mix approaches used in various musical genres. You’ll learn to hear and identify techniques such as panning, alternate types and uses of reverb, delay, compression, phasing/flanging/chorus, and different types of distortion. The course also explores vari-ous types of instruments and arrangements, distinguishing between Telecasters, Strats, and Les Paul guitars, single versus dual coil pick-ups, direct versus miked acoustic and electric guitars, tremolo versus vibrato, Rhodes versus Wurlitzer electric pianos, and more. The course will also take you through the steps to turn your listening space into a more critical listen-ing environment. Whether you are a recording musician looking to ready your music for CD, or an aspiring producer or engineer, you’ll not only learn what elements are most important in a mix, what sort of arrangements you should be working towards, and how to optimize your mix to make your song as compelling as pos-sible; in the process, you’ll open your ears up to a whole new level of music listening and awareness.

By the end of this course, you will:• Hear width and depth, frequency range,

dynamics and the different mix approaches used in various musical genres

• Identify techniques such as panning, alternate types and uses of reverb, delay, compression, phasing/flanging/chorus, and different types of distortion, distinguish between different instruments, pickups, miked versus direct acoustic and electric guitars, and what mixing approach might be most appropriate for your music

• Optimize your listening setup into a more critical listening environment

Web Design for MusiciansNeil Leonard 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMPR-155

Having a Web site is an essential tool for musi-cians. Your site serves as a place where fans, promoters, and musicians check you out. Visitors can hear your latest tunes, follow your band’s schedule, read about you, and even order stuff. This class provides an entry point for Web authoring specifically designed for the needs of musicians, producers, entrepre-neurs, and educators. You’ll begin by licensing a domain name and signing up with a hosting service. You’ll work through a series of practical, hands-on activities using Audacity, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop, HTML, and Dreamweaver and learn how to prepare audio for the Web, basic graphics concepts, and how to assemble a site using a variety of tools. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the critical underlying con-

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1�By the end of the course, you will:• Analyze and express an understanding of

various dramatic situations• Demonstrate a facility with fundamental

and advanced scoring techniques• Create a musical concept and score several

visual sequences of varying content• Understand the expectations of professional

scoring and identify a variety of scoring opportunities

GuitaristsBecome a more well rounded and articulateguitarist

Guitar Chords 101Rick Peckham 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

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Many beginning guitarists have learned the basics of open and moveable chord shapes, but aren’t sure how or why the individual notes within the chord work so well together, or the ways by which they can expand this chord knowledge to unlock the fret board of the guitar. Guitar Chords 101 presents Berklee’s approach to the construction of chords, a method that focuses less on the shape of an individual chord, and more on the notes that the chord is based around. Students will learn to construct and play triads and basic 7th chords, as well as look at inversions and different chord voicings, the basic foundations guitarists use to write or perform in any number of different styles.

Students will gain more freedom and a greater feel for their instrument by learning how to visualize chord structures anywhere on the neck of the guitar. The course offers a rich learning platform, featuring Flash movies, interactive quizzes, instructional videos, guitar tablatures, and practice mp3 tracks to get the notes under your fingers as quickly as possible, while allow-ing you the portability to practice wherever you get a few minutes with your guitar. Students will also benefit from personalized instruction and comments from Berklee’s world-renowned guitar instructors on their weekly assignments, as well as through weekly live chats. By the end of the course, students will be able to add more dynamics and expression to their playing and gain an extensive chord vocabulary, which will prove invaluable in pursuing any style of music.Guitar Scales 101Larry Baione 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-121

Scale study is a fundamental building block to guitar mastery. Accomplished guitarists use scales to add color, mood, depth, and feeling to their playing. When you hear an amazing solo

dollars a year worldwide in record sales, and provides the rhythmic and vocal underpin-nings for songs by rock artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kid Rock, and Rage Against the Machine. This course will teach you the tech-niques that hip-hop producers use to create hit songs, and how to incorporate these skills into your own music. You will study writing and production considerations unique to hip-hop—from its distinctive drum beats and bass lines, to its use of vocals, samples, and instru-mentation. The course will explore hip-hop’s history and the artists responsible for growing the genre into what it is today, including the Sugar Hill Gang, Run-DMC, Queen Latifah, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, P. Diddy, and others. You will learn how to analyze and recreate dif-ferent styles of hip-hop music, and then use this foundation to produce your own songs using Propellerhead’s Reason software. You will develop drum and bass grooves, build arrange-ments, and apply the techniques that lead to complete hip-hop productions. The tools and strategies you learn in this course can be applied to the production of any musical style.

You will learn to:• Use writing and production criteria to

analyze and recreate hip-hop songs• Program your own drum beats and loops

using Propellerhead’s Reason software• Create bass, guitar, keyboard, and horn

parts for hip-hop arrangements• Use proper mic placement and production

techniques for recording rap vocals• Apply hip-hop mixing and mastering tech-

niques to your songs

Remixing with Pro Tools and ReasonErik Hawkins 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-185

Remixing is more popular today than ever, driven by the rise of electronic music (from dance to hip-hop), the proliferation of afford-able remixing tools (such as powerful laptop computers and comprehensive music creation software programs), and, of course, the Internet (distribution of bootleg remixes). But behind this craze lies a serious craft. An accomplished remixer needs to master not only the techni-cal and analytical side of remixing, but also the creative side – the ability to hear a song’s pos-sibilities beyond its original arrangement and musical style.

In this course, students will produce four remixes based on different types of source material: stereo master, a cappella, breakout tracks, and a multi-track Pro Tools session. The course utilizes Digidesign’s Pro Tools (version 7.0 and higher) and Propellerhead’s Reason

(version 3.0 and higher) software programs - industry standards that top artists and pro-ducers use for recording, editing, mixing, and sound creation. As the course progresses, each remix will increase in its complexity and level of difficulty. By the end of the course, students will learn practical applications that go beyond just remix production, from producing origi-nal material to thinking of ways for an artist to reach new audiences.

By the end of the course, students will learn to:• Identify the differences between an original

and remixed version of a song• Legally obtain material for remixing• Employ ReWire effectively• Use Pro Tools’ Beat Detective• Use Pro Tools’ tick-based audio tracks• Perform flawless tempo changes• Compose new tracks that fit perfectly over

the original song• Remix practically any type of source mate-

rial• Build DJ friendly songs• Produce professional sounding remixes• Prepare remixes for manufacturing and

distribution

Film Scoring 101 Donald Wilkins 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-160

Today, more than ever, music fulfills a vital role in feature films, documentaries, and television shows. The works of Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) and David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) are almost as well known for their musical components as they are for their visual content, thanks to their scores by Mark Mothersbaugh and Angelo Badalamenti. Drawn from Berklee College of Music’s film scoring curriculum, Film Scoring 101 guides you through the process of creating original music to accompany a visual medium. The course begins by focusing on the aesthetics, terminology, procedures, and technical aspects of film scoring. As the course progresses, you’ll apply these skills towards your class project of scoring a short film. By using a broad range of techniques including click tracks, spotting, scoring under dialogue, free timing, and the creative use of overlap cues, you’ll learn how to develop a dramatic concept for your score and how to synchronize it seamlessly to visual events. You’ll also learn some invaluable self-promotion tips, such as creating an effective scoring demo and ways to collaborate on scor-ing projects. If you are a composer drawn to the challenges and rewards of professional scor-ing assignments, this course is for you.

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Rick Peckham, Online Instructor of Guitar Chords 101, is an internationally known jazz guitarist, clinician, composer, writer and Assistant Chair of the Berklee College of Music Guitar Department. He has performed with George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi, Mike Gibbs,

and Dave Liebman, and recorded the album Stray Dog as a member of the notorious jazz collective Um, led by trombonist Hal Crook, and occasionally featuring organist John Medeski. He organized the college’s honorary doctoral tributes to Roy Haynes, Joe Zawinul, Jack DeJohnette, and John Scofield, and has been integral to the development of Berklee’s ear training and musicianship curricula.


guitar’s tone characteristics.• Learn how to get great amp-driven guitar

sounds and expand your sonic parameters with effects.

• Learn the controls of leading guitar ampli-fier styles using the amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube.

• Identify how effects are categorized, and how each pedal works to change your sound.

• Recognize the sounds of effects on record-ings.

• Develop your own personal setups for recording and live performance.

Recording and Producing for GuitaristsRandy Roos 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-124

The world’s best professional engineers and producers use a wide array of tools and tech-niques to get a precise sound in the studio and to seamlessly integrate the guitar in with the other instruments in a mix. Recording and Producing for Guitarists explores the possibili-ties available to guitarists through the advent of powerful and affordable recording and produc-tion tools, and the ways by which they can be integrated into your own music. You’ll analyze the differences between recording direct with effect and no effect, and the sounds and effects available using amplifier modeling technology. You’ll discuss microphone types, characteris-tics, and placement, as well as the intricacies of mixing, including equalization, compression, and reverb. Additionally, the course engages in several recording projects that, among other things, introduce the AmpliTube 1 plug-in effects, which emulate the stomp box, delay,

reverb, and the parametric equalizer. While this course is essential to any guitarist interested in expanding their recording and production skills, producers and engineers that have an intermediate level of guitar background and the capability to play simple melodic and chordal parts over basic chord changes will also benefit.

In this course you will:• Gain an understanding of direct recording

and signal matching• Work with amplifier emulation with the

provided AmpliTube 1 software• Learn to properly record an amp with a

microphone• Design guitar parts, work with different

guitar textures and orchestration• Master various mixing techniques• Integrate various effects into the recording

process Blues Guitar Workshop 1Michael Williams 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-122

Guitarists who know the blues have a natural advantage over those that don’t. No matter what style they chose to play – jazz, rock, clas-sical – having a blues background provides guitarists with a foundation in form, con-trol, feel, and harmonies that can be used to advance their playing in any genre of music. Blues Guitar Workshop begins by teaching the 12-bar blues harmony, basic rhythm guitar technique, and the pentatonic and blues scale in the open position up the neck. You’ll learn to incorporate some of the nuances of the masters into your playing — from doubling the bass over a shuffle in the style of Buddy Guy, to combining major and minor pentatonic scales in the style of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker. Through call and response exercises and play-

by Frank Zappa or Robert Fripp, you can be sure that these players are directly referencing their extensive knowledge and internalization of scales. Guitar Scales 101 will help you to organize the often-ambiguous guitar fretboard, and provide you with the knowledge to con-fidently navigate the instrument and develop your technique. The course begins by looking at the major and pentatonic scales, and how these scales work at different points up the neck. You’ll then learn to construct and play blues, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales in all keys, and apply these scales to performance-based weekly musical examples and practice exercises. With weekly assignments that you can record and upload to your professor for review, you’ll greatly improve your single-line technique, and gain a firm understanding of the possibilities available within the guitar’s fretboard.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Construct and play two-octave major scales

in all keys, in two different fretboard posi-tions

• Construct and play pentatonic, blues, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales in most keys

• Effectively use these scales in your own playing

• Develop good guitar technique through scale exercises

Getting Your Guitar ToneDan Bowden 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-123

All the greatest electric guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, The Edge, John Frusciante, Steve Vai, among many others - have built their career on a sound that is completely their own, com-prised of not only their mastery of the notes on the fret board, but the sounds they create through an intimate knowledge of the tools of their craft. Getting Your Guitar Tone will help you and your band to create your own unique voice by presenting a detailed, global perspec-tive of the electric guitar that’s made up of three distinct parts: the guitar, the amplifier, and the effects. You’ll start by examining the guitar itself, and how tones are produced from dif-ferent woods, pickups, and body styles. After taking a look “under the hood,” you’ll learn to re-create classic Marshall, Vox and Fender style amp sounds through the use of the amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube 1, and take a detailed look at various effects used by the pros – including compression, chorus, flang-ers, delay, reverb, equalization, and wah-wah. By the end of the course, you will have gained the ability to best utilize your guitar and amp and effects in a way to create a unique sound - as well as emulate a wide range of classic and contemporary guitar tones.

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Establish a toolkit of musical expertise that will prepare you for any musical endeavor or oppor-tunity. This advanced music theory course provides you with a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music. You’ll learn to write effective jazz, pop, and rock-influ-enced pentatonic and modal melodies as well as master anticipations and articulations that will give your music the necessary sound and “char-acter” to fit these styles. You’ll explore harmony related topics such as diatonic, natural/melod-ic, minor, and slash chords, which will help you to select the appropriate harmonic tensions to add color, character, and sophistication to your music. You’ll also master triplets, swing eighths, and sixteenth notes in double time feel, as well as topics related to improvisation and melody including chord scales, avoid notes, approach notes, and modal and pentatonic scales. With this level of music theory, there will be prac-tically no barriers between you and the music you want to create.








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ArrangersMaster the Fundamentals of MusicConstruction


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Continuing on from the concepts presented in Music Theory 101, this course will further develop your background in music theory and provide you with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be a more effective writer and player. You’ll master the fundamental concepts of rhythm and harmony and learn more com-plex chords, progressions, and rhythms that will open up your understanding of the elements that together contribute to put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock. You’ll study topics including rhythmic anticipations, articulation markings, swing eighth notes, and sixteenth notes in double time feel; diatonic chords, harmonic function, melodic and harmonic ten-sions, as well as modal and pentatonic scales. You’ll understand why chords move from one to another the way they do; and learn to better analyze and write harmonic progressions and

ing in other grooves and tempos, you’ll learn to pace your solos to create tension and release — a technique mastered by all the greatest gui-tarists. You’ll learn to reuse the concepts and musical elements to expand your musical foun-dation and enhance your ability, whether you’re trying to bring a blues sound to your playing or adding more depth and feel to any other style.

In this course you will:• Learn to play several styles of rhythm guitar,

and solo over 8 and 12-bar progressions in E, G, and other keys, with varying tempos and grooves, including shuffles, straight eighth, and slow blues

• Play pentatonic and blues scales in five posi-tions up the neck, and use those fingerings while soloing

• Play turnarounds, and use solo pacing and call and response techniques

• Play over minor blues progressions• Learn the techniques and licks of classic

stylists, such as T-Bone Walker, Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, and Magic Sam, whether you’re trying to bring a blues sound to your playing, or interested in add-ing more depth to your own style

Classic Rock Guitar WorkshopJoe Musella 2 Credits - 6 weeks BMP-125

Learn composition, melodic soloing, chords, and licks in the styles of the classic rock gui-tar masters: Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Gilmour, and Page. This course begins with a primer on the blues foundation of rock, covering minor pentatonic scales, 12-bar blues chords and rhythm, and licks and scale sequences over the 12-bar blues. Then every week, students will study the selected works of a different classic rock master, including Clapton’s “Crossroads,” Hendrix’s version of “Red House,” Gilmour’s “Comfortably Numb,” Beck’s “Scatterbrain,” and Page’s “Good Times Bad Times.” Through this analysis, students will learn methods of improvisation, phrasing, scales, chords, rhythms, fretboard mastery, and sound con-ception that are essential classic rock guitar techniques.

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Film Scoring 101 Donald Wilkins 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-160

Today, more than ever, music fulfills a vital role in feature films, documentaries, and television shows. The works of Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) and David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) are almost as well known for their musical components as they are for their visual content, thanks to their scores by Mark Mothersbaugh and Angelo Badalamenti. Drawn from Berklee College of Music’s film scoring curriculum, Film Scoring 101 guides you through the process of creating original music to accompany a visual medium. The course begins by focusing on the aesthetics, terminology, procedures, and technical aspects of film scoring. As the course progresses, you’ll apply these skills towards your class project of scoring a short film. By using a broad range of techniques including click tracks, spotting, scoring under dialogue, free timing, and the creative use of overlap cues, you’ll learn how to develop a dramatic concept for your score and how to synchronize it seamlessly to visual events. You’ll also learn some invaluable self-promotion tips, such as creating an effective scoring demo and ways to collaborate on scor-ing projects. If you are a composer drawn to the challenges and rewards of professional scor-ing assignments, this course is for you.

By the end of the course, you will:• Analyze and express an understanding of

various dramatic situations• Demonstrate a facility with fundamental

and advanced scoring techniques• Create a musical concept and score several

visual sequences of varying content• Understand the expectations of professional

scoring and identify a variety of scoring opportunities

Berklee Keyboard MethodPaul Schmeling 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMP-100

Master the basics of Keyboard technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts, including blues pro-gressions 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, har-monic 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 differ-ent 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

Basic Ear Training 1Matt Marvuglio2 Credits - 6 weeksBME-115

This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to really hear what is going on in the band while you are performing. The course focuses on the melody and bass notes and examines the harmonies, rhythms, and pulses that drive and measures music. You’ll learn to notate basic rhythms and understand the relationships between notes by using the solfage method. Through transcription exer-cises and the study of contemporary songs from artists such as Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Led Zeppelin, you’ll learn to build an aware-ness of what’s happening around you when you are playing, and become a more interactive and confident musician.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Conduct basic rhythms• Identify different time signatures and notate

basic rhythms• Identify different key signatures and tran-

scribe what you hear• Understand tonic, subdominant, and domi-

nant relationships• Identify the difference between major and

minor tonic• Identify primary triads in major and minor• Recognize A B elements in song form• Apply the moveable Do system to perfor-

mance and composition

Harmonic Ear TrainingRoberta Radley 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-120a

Whether you’re playing your instrument, com-posing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions is a necessity for the seri-ous musician. Harmonic Ear Training details a

step-by-step “vertical” (from the root up) and “horizontal” (using the song’s key as a reference point) approach to hearing chord changes and progressions. By engaging in a variety of solfege exercises and voice-leading demonstrations, as well as weekly assignments that involve transcribing contemporary music examples, students will learn to internalize the music and identify chords and progressions with ease and confidence. Put your theory background into practice, and learn the practical techniques and ear training exercises that will work for you in your musical life every day.

By the end of this course, you will:• Use a step-by-step approach to identify all

types of chords and progressions quickly and easily

• Gain a solid foundation in ear training to enhance all your musical pursuits

• Apply practical techniques and exercises to improve your performing, composing, arranging, transcribing or improvising skills


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Arranging 2Jerry Gates 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-131

Whether you are writing for jingles, soundtracks, or pop songs, knowing how to write/arrange for smaller bands and larger ensembles is cru-

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2�study techniques for voicing chords, orches-tration, articulations, and background lines. You’ll also learn advanced topics of harmony, such as tension substitutions and lower inter-val limits, knowledge that you can use to create more expressive and captivating music for both live instrumentation or sequenced/sampled sounds.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand four-part soli and four-way

close• Define and understand mechanical voicings• Use and understand approach chords• Understand low interval limits, spread voic-

ings (five-part and internal lines)• Understand mixed voicings (2, 3 & 4 parts)• Define and understand emotional contour

Getting Inside Harmony 1Michael Rendish

awardwinner3 Credits - 12 weeks

BME-110

You’ve been in music for years. You know how to play, but you’re ready for more. Getting Inside Harmony 1 will help you with the next step: Learning harmony so that you hear and recognize chord progressions and use them cre-atively in your playing and writing. Through a combination of activities (listening, thinking, visualizing, vocalizing, writing, and playing), you’ll open your ears and deepen your under-standing of the inner workings of harmony in a broad range of contemporary styles. You’ll find that you learn songs more easily and can transpose them on sight. And you’ll be able to equip yourself with the best chord scale choices

for arranging and improvising. Mastering the mechanics of harmony’s chord progression pat-terns is an indispensable tool for both players and writers, and will help improvisers, compos-ers, and arrangers deepen their understanding of the inner workings of a broad range of con-temporary styles, including standard tunes, popular music and jazz.

By the end of this course, you will:• Recognize different chord types and stan-

dard chord progression patterns• Find the notes that work best (as melody

and as harmony) with each chord in the progression

• Create keyboard accompaniment voicings that will allow you to learn and experiment with any chord progression.

• Improvise effectively from chord to chord• Spot and repair faulty or incomplete chord

progressions often found on many lead sheets

• Modify the chord progression in a way that will enhance the character of the music and reflect your own musical expression

Getting Inside Harmony 2Michael Rendish 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-111

A firm harmonic foundation and the ability to aurally recognize chord progressions is indis-pensable to writers and arrangers, and a necessity for musicians interested in understanding the art of improvisation. Getting Inside Harmony 2 takes you to the next step in your harmonic development: You’ll move beyond the standard chord patterns and harmonic progressions typ-ically found in popular music, and gain a solid footing in more advanced principles, including melodic and harmonic tension, chord sub-stitution, and chromatically altered chords. You’ll examine secondary dominants, dimin-ished seventh chords (and their substitutes), standard chord patterns and their variations, minor key harmony, and modulation. You’ll study the inner workings of each progression to be sure it gets into the “inner ear,” and equip yourself with the most appropriate chord scale for each chord. Through keyboard chord voic-ings and voice-leading exercises, you’ll gain an understanding of the musical tools that go beyond the demands of a particular musical style, and develop a greater sense of control in your writing — by the end of the course you’ll find you’re in a position to actually contribute your personal touch to the development of any number of musical styles!

cial to your success. Arranging 2 explores the properties of the trumpet, trombone and alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and approaches the techniques and melodic embellishments that will give you a basic understanding of writing/arranging for these horns as a section. You will focus on applying writing processes for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-part horn combinations; skills that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sampled or synthesized sounds. One can’t write effective sequenced parts without knowing what real players would characteris-tically play on these instruments. This course will provide you with a greater understanding of the possibilities and sounds that the horns as a section can add to your arrangement.

By the end of this course, you will:• Learn to identify chord symbols• Understand trumpet and trombone instru-

mentation• Understand the instrumentation break-

down of saxophones• Write within a given key and transpose to

fit a specific instrument (unison writing)• Understand and complete an arranging

process• Understand melodic development• Write two-part and three-part soli sections

Arranging �Jerry Gates 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-132

Learn more advanced arranging techniques for the rhythm section and horn section. You’ll learn unison, 2, 3, 4, and 5-part writing, and

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Roberta Radley, Online Instructor of Harmonic Ear Training, is Assistant Chair in the Ear Training Department at Berklee College of Music. A Berklee graduate with a degree in composition, she joined the fac-ulty in 1976. Since then, Radley has taught

a wide range of ear training classes, using innovative methods to help students hear music more analytically, and earning rec-ognition for Outstanding Achievement in Music Education from Berklee College of Music. Co-author of the Department Core Curriculum Ear Training 1-4 books, as well as author of the Harmonic Ear Training DVD on Berklee Press, Roberta has trav-eled widely on behalf of Berklee, holding scholarship auditions, working with affiliated schools, and presenting seminars across the U.S. and internationally. Additionally, Roberta is an active performer as a pianist and vocalist and is an experienced private piano and voice instructor.





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By the end of the course, you will:• Identify all standard chord progression pat-

terns and be able to suggest a vast number of musical re-harmonization possibilities for each of these patterns

• Apply appropriate chord substitution to a song’s progression

• Use a wide range of non-diatonic, chro-matically altered chords and derive their appropriate chord scales

• Work within all forms of minor key tonality

Basic ImprovisationMatt Marvuglio and Ed Tomassi 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-110

Learn the solo riffs and licks of the masters: Jimmy Page, BB King, Charlie Parker and oth-ers, and how to develop your own! “What notes do I play?” is the first question that comes to mind when a musician is asked to improvise. The answer is easy: Notes that are within the key! Basic Improvisation is designed to get you to develop your solos, and organize your thoughts and playing with the sounds around you, through a step-by-step approach that applies to all styles and any instrument. You’ll begin by looking at the 12-Bar Blues form and the pentatonic scale, and gain a greater feel for phrasing your riffs and playing ‘in the pocket’ by studying rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic repetition. You’ll transcribe, record, and sub-mit for instructor review excerpts of solos from legendary players from many different genres (BB King, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Jimmy Page, Louis Armstrong and others). You’ll develop an understanding of the inflexions, feel, and nuances of these different players and their improvisation techniques — knowledge you can incorporate into your own playing regard-less of your primary instrument.

By the end of the course, you will:• Learn a step-by-step approach to impro-

visation that applies to all styles and any instrument

• Improve your playing in character and tone and become more confident in your soloing ability

• Learn to transcribe other instruments and learn the techniques and nuances of the masters on your own instrument

• Become a more natural and spontaneous stage musician

Style Writing for Performersand ArrangersDaniel Moretti 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-150

Learn how to write and record for the rhythm section (drums, percussion, bass, guitar, key-boards, and melody) in a number of styles including: rock, pop, soul, r’n’b, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, funk, and hip-hop. Increase your style vocabulary and performing skills, and cre-ate your own great grooves and style mixes in the same fashion as many successful contem-porary artists and producers. This is essential learning for instrumentalists interested in song-writing, composing music for soundtracks, jingles, music beds, and film work. By the end of the course, you will have a greater knowledge of styles, improved performance skills, and an impressive portfolio of recordings and arrange-ments that will enhance your songwriting and production skills and impress potential clients.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand contemporary styles and their

applications in today’s music world• Recognize style influences and create your

own grooves using a root approach• Expand your musical language stylistically

through leaning identifiable rhythms

Writing Music with FinaleJonathan Feist 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-101a

Learn to write music with Finale, the world’s best selling music notation software. Through hands-on lessons and workshops, you’ll learn the essential skills needed to create profession-al-looking music with this versatile notation tool. The course will make it easy to add notes and rests, time and key signatures, clefs, lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, expressions, and staffs to your arrangements and compositions. Then, you’ll explore more complex techniques that will speed up your process dramatically. By the end of the course, you will have mastered the most powerful functions of this versatile tool, and learned the techniques used by the most experienced, accomplished music engrav-ers and writers.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Use Finale to create most kinds of nota-

tion, including great-looking lead sheets, orchestral scores, arrangements, and teach-ing/analytical materials

• Enter notes, lyrics, chord symbols, articula-tions and expressions, and create scores with multiple staves

• Master dozens of shortcuts to dramatically speed up your music entry, score layout, part copying, and more

• Perform advanced notation, such as nota-tion for guitar, keyboard, and percussion, as well as notation of your own invention


From its beginnings in the Bronx in the 70’s, hip-hop has grown into a global phenomenon that today generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year worldwide in record sales, and provides the rhythmic and vocal underpin-nings for songs by rock artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kid Rock, and Rage Against the Machine. This course will teach you the tech-niques that hip-hop producers use to create hit songs, and how to incorporate these skills into your own music. You will study writing and production considerations unique to hip-hop—from its distinctive drum beats and bass lines, to its use of vocals, samples, and instru-mentation. The course will explore hip-hop’s history and the artists responsible for growing the genre into what it is today, including the Sugar Hill Gang, Run-DMC, Queen Latifah, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, P. Diddy, and others. You will learn how to analyze and recreate dif-ferent styles of hip-hop music, and then use this foundation to produce your own songs using Propellerhead’s Reason software. You will develop drum and bass grooves, build arrange-ments, and apply the techniques that lead to complete hip-hop productions. The tools and strategies you learn in this course can be applied to the production of any musical style.







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SongwritersExpress yourself through words and music


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Continuing on from the concepts presented in Music Theory 101, this course will further develop your background in music theory and provide you with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be a more effective writer and player. You’ll master the fundamental concepts of rhythm and harmony and learn more com-plex chords, progressions, and rhythms that will open up your understanding of the elements that together contribute to put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock. You’ll study topics including rhythmic anticipations, articulation markings, swing eighth notes, and sixteenth notes in double time feel; diatonic chords, harmonic function, melodic and harmonic ten-sions, as well as modal and pentatonic scales. You’ll understand why chords move from one to another the way they do; and learn to better analyze and write harmonic progressions and

• Construct modal scales and identify by sound

• Construct pentatonic scales and identify by sound

• Write a pentatonic melody over a basic blues progression

• Understand and use slash chords and bass pedal points



By the end of this course, you will:• Understand how to read treble clef, bass

clef, and play simple melodies on the grand staff






progressions

Songwriting Workshop: Hit Song FormsJimmy Kachulis 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMW-130

Master songwriter Jimmy Kachulis has analyzed thousands of hits, identifying the structures and patterns that work best, and why. In this course, he’ll share the techniques successful writers use to craft vivid, memorable songs … and help you do the same. Whether you’re a relative beginner or an experienced songwriter, you’ll learn how to brainstorm ideas, over-come writer’s block, and express yourself more effectively in words and music. Combining technical principles with pure creative expres-sion, this hands-on workshop will help you find your voice, sharpen your craft, and create songs listeners will appreciate and remember.

different rhythmic styles. Through ear training exercises, musical examples, and personalized feedback from your instructor, you’ll be able to analyze, read, write, and listen more effec-tively, as well as understand the fundamental knowledge essential to the beginning studies of harmony.





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teenth notes in a double time feel

IcompletedthreeonlinecourseswithPatPattisonandmyfirstthreesongswereoptionedforcommercialrelease.Findingtimetogotoschoolwasimpossible,soonlinelearningwasmyonlyoption,andaterrificone. – J. Linderman, Solo Artist

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You will learn to:• Create memorable melodies• Use counterpoints effectively in song con-

struction• Develop melodic ideas over different modes• Incorporate melodies across chords into

different song sections

Lyric Writing: Tools andStrategies Pat Pattison 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

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Sharpen your lyric writing skills under the expert guidance of author and teacher Pat Pattison, and discover the techniques that have helped his students win Grammys and write Number 1 songs. In this course, you’ll learn how to generate better ideas, find the right words to express those ideas, and organize rhythms and rhymes into compelling verses, choruses, and bridges. Craft more vivid lyrics by mastering the elements of structure and the process of building great lyrical ideas into great songs. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned writer, this course will help you brainstorm ideas more freely and structure your lyrics more effectively.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Generate more ideas and better ideas for

your lyric• Find more interesting words to express your

ideas• Create rhythms with your words• Find better and more interesting rhymes• Create effective contrast between sections• Use the structures of your sections to

enhance the emotional intent of your lyric

Lyric Writing: Writing fromthe Title Pat Pattison3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-121

Lyric Writing 2 will teach you how the profes-sionals approach the construction of songs: By writing from a central idea (the title). Starting with a powerful and effective song title, you’ll learn to build complete lyrics from that title, explore how to set the title to the appropriate rhythm and tempo, and to place that title in the song’s different sections to create the most powerful impact. Through this approach, you will learn different ways to brainstorm ideas, work with a variety of lyric writing elements, and develop effective tools to create an emo-tional connection with your listeners.

By the end of this course, you will:• Find and develop a title• Understand what a title is and its function

in the song• Identify rhythm, pitch, and tempo of a title• Recognize and use different rhyming types• Develop verses and understand the func-

tions of various song sections• Identify contrasting sections and rhythms• Complete a polished lyric

Lyric Writing: Writing Lyricsto Music Pat Pattison3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-122

Placing that perfect lyrical idea into a melody without it sounding unnatural is a common obstacle to many songwriters. An unfortunate setting of a word or phrase can sink the emo-tion of the song, calling your listener’s attention away from WHAT you are saying to HOW you are saying it. Writing Lyrics to Music analyzes a variety of song forms to instruct you on key lyrical and melodic components: stressed and unstressed beats, rhyme positions, melodic sec-tions, and tone. You’ll work through different musical feels and time signatures, and discover how the natural shapes of the words follow the shape of the melody, ultimately creating a much more expressive composition. This is a “can’t miss” course — it’s bound to take your writing to the next level. It will also make you a more valuable co-writer.

By the end of this course, you will:• Identify stressed, non-stressed and second-

ary syllables in a lyric line• Write your own lyric patterns to match

musical patterns• Identify rhyme and hook positions within a

song• Define 3/4 and 4/4 writing styles• Create the melody, verse and chorus lyrics• Work with multiple note values and swing

time phrasing in 4/4 time• Work with bridges and pre-choruses• Gain independence and confidence in the

writing process


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Arranging 1 explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section. Part of Berklee’s required core curriculum, Arranging 1 will teach you how to write for the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards) and create killer arrangements that really groove. This course directs you on everything you’ll need to create an effective arrangement;

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Create memorable verses, prechoruses, and

choruses• Understand the structures behind the hit• Generate more and better ideas• Use notes, rhythms, and structures to sup-

port and enhance the emotional intent of your lyric

• Craft song sections that lock together into a unified whole

Songwriting Workshop:HarmonyJimmy Kachulis 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-133

This course presents the “power progressions” behind countless hit songs, and dozens of ways to adapt these progressions into your own personal songwriting. Whether you are an experienced songwriter looking for new ideas, or a beginning songwriter who can’t read music, this course will lead you to a rich source of songwriting possibilities. You’ll use techniques such as modulation and cadences to craft the essential dramatic architecture of your songs. By participating in a group of songwrit-ers, you’ll have the opportunity to share your work with others, get their feedback, and see different ways that these tools can be used, all under the mentorship of a master songwriter.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Generate a groove and chord colors• Identify five common key colors• Understand and build songs from power

progressions• Use melody and harmony for color• Use cadences and connecting songs with

cadences• Understand modulation in songs

Songwriting Workshop:MelodyJimmy Kachulis 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-131

In this class, songwriter/author Jimmy Kachulis reveals how to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audiences will remember. It begins with a focus on rhythm, showing how it can support the lyric’s meanings. Then, you’ll learn how the precise use of pitch can strengthen a melody, making it natural to sing, and supporting the lyric’s expressive goals and possibilities. You’ll learn effective ways to write melodies over common modes and chords, and develop these ideas into complete songs.

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2�including rhythm section notation, adaptation of the melody and chords, intro’s and endings, articulations and dynamics, and how to create an emotional contour throughout the arrange-ment. Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, you’ll discover how to pick and choose the techniques that work best for you, and how to put them all together in a way that will get everyone moving!






Whether you are writing for jingles, soundtracks, or pop songs, knowing how to write/arrange for smaller bands and larger ensembles is cru-cial to your success. Arranging 2 explores the properties of the trumpet, trombone and alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and approaches the techniques and melodic embellishments that will give you a basic understanding of writing/arranging for these horns as a section. You will focus on applying writing processes for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-part horn combinations; skills that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sampled or synthesized sounds. One can’t write effective sequenced parts without knowing what real players would characteris-tically play on these instruments. This course will provide you with a greater understanding of the possibilities and sounds that the horns as a section can add to your arrangement.

• Find the notes that work best (as melody and as harmony) with each chord in the progression





Style Writing for Performersand ArrangersDaniel Moretti 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMW-150

Learn how to write and record for the rhythm section (drums, percussion, bass, guitar, key-boards, and melody) in a number of styles including: rock, pop, soul, r’n’b, Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, funk, and hip-hop. Increase your style vocabulary and performing skills, and cre-ate your own great grooves and style mixes in the same fashion as many successful contem-porary artists and producers. This is essential learning for instrumentalists interested in song-writing, composing music for soundtracks, jingles, music beds, and film work. By the end of the course, you will have a greater knowledge of styles, improved performance skills, and an impressive portfolio of recordings and arrange-ments that will enhance your songwriting and production skills and impress potential clients.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand contemporary styles and their

applications in today’s music world• Recognize style influences and create your

own grooves using a root approach• Expand your musical language stylistically

through leaning identifiable rhythms


Learn to write music with Finale, the world’s best selling music notation software. Through hands-on lessons and workshops, you’ll learn the essential skills needed to create profession-al-looking music with this versatile notation tool. The course will make it easy to add notes and rests, time and key signatures, clefs, lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, expressions, and staffs to your arrangements and compositions. Then, you’ll explore more complex techniques that will speed up your process dramatically. By the end of the course, you will have mastered








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You’ve been in music for years. You know how to play, but you’re ready for more. Getting Inside Harmony 1 will help you with the next step: Learning harmony so that you hear and recognize chord progressions and use them cre-atively in your playing and writing. Through a combination of activities (listening, thinking, visualizing, vocalizing, writing, and playing), you’ll open your ears and deepen your under-standing of the inner workings of harmony in a broad range of contemporary styles. You’ll find that you learn songs more easily and can transpose them on sight. And you’ll be able to equip yourself with the best chord scale choices for arranging and improvising. Mastering the mechanics of harmony’s chord progression pat-terns is an indispensable tool for both players and writers, and will help improvisers, compos-ers, and arrangers deepen their understanding of the inner workings of a broad range of con-temporary styles, including standard tunes, popular music and jazz.


dard chord progression patterns

Michael Hamilton, Online Instructor of Hip Hop Writing and Production, has been writ-ing, producing, and recording music for over 20 years, and has had the pleasure of touring with multi-platinum recording artists Coolio and R&B recording artist Tyrese. Michael

wrote, produced, and performed original music as a member of the house band for the Viacom network TV show Live from LA, where he would perform with guest artists including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Faith Evans, Issac Hayes, and Jamie Foxx. Hamilton received his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee, and is currently an assistant professor in the contemporary writ-ing and production department.

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the most powerful functions of this versatile tool, and learned the techniques used by the most experienced, accomplished music engrav-ers and writers.







Having a Web site is an essential tool for musi-cians. Your site serves as a place where fans, promoters, and musicians check you out. Visitors can hear your latest tunes, follow your band’s schedule, read about you, and even order stuff. This class provides an entry point for Web authoring specifically designed for the needs of musicians, producers, entrepre-neurs, and educators. You’ll begin by licensing a domain name and signing up with a hosting service. You’ll work through a series of practical, hands-on activities using Audacity, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop, HTML, and Dreamweaver and learn how to prepare audio for the Web, basic graphics concepts, and how to assemble a site using a variety of tools. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the critical underlying concepts required to create a cohesive Web site to showcase and promote your work. Whether you’re interested in creating a Web site for your band, yourself, or are just curious about audio and the Web, this course will provide you with a broad overview of the tools and techniques used in Web authoring.



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From its beginnings in the Bronx in the 70’s, hip-hop has grown into a global phenomenon that today generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year worldwide in record sales, and provides the rhythmic and vocal underpin-nings for songs by rock artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kid Rock, and Rage Against the Machine. This course will teach you the tech-niques that hip-hop producers use to create hit songs, and how to incorporate these skills into your own music. You will study writing and production considerations unique to hip-hop—from its distinctive drum beats and bass lines, to its use of vocals, samples, and instru-mentation. The course will explore hip-hop’s history and the artists responsible for growing the genre into what it is today, including the Sugar Hill Gang, Run-DMC, Queen Latifah, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, P. Diddy, and others. You will learn how to analyze and recreate dif-ferent styles of hip-hop music, and then use this foundation to produce your own songs using Propellerhead’s Reason software. You will develop drum and bass grooves, build arrange-ments, and apply the techniques that lead to complete hip-hop productions. The tools and strategies you learn in this course can be applied to the production of any musical style.







Commercial Songwriting TechniquesAndrea Stolpe3 Credits – 12 weeksBMW-125

In this course you’ll learn a ten-step process to reproducing the time-tested traits of success-

ful songs while still maintaining your unique voice – a practice critical to the success of any songwriter. You’ll learn to control the con-nection to your audience through toggling – moving between detail and pulling back for a broader picture. You’ll also learn to use all of your senses—touch, taste, smell, sight, sound, and movement—as springboards for creativity in a process called destination writing. These enhanced descriptive skills will give you the power to determine the intensity of the expe-rience you create with your song lyrics. By focusing on a different song section every week you’ll also learn how to streamline your writing and create more descriptive songs in less time.

By the end of the course you’ll have three com-pletely written songs that are organized in a way that is accessible to the mainstream, as well as firm ideas for many future songs.

You will learn to:• Streamline and accelerate your writing

process• Apply a 10-step songwriting strategy to any

new idea• Connect with and create a memorable

experience for your audience• Write even when you’re not initially

inspired• Discover your own unique writing style• Employ new patterns for content based on

memorable songs• Combine lyrics with music more effectively• Continue building on your catalog of three

completed songs and several developed ideas

Business ProfessionalsThink like an entrepreneur, work at a label, and understand management and publishing

Th e Future of Music and the Music BusinessDavid Kusek 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMB-140a

This 12-week course is about discovering suc-cessful strategies for future success in the music industry. Through discussions, interactive exercises, and interviews with music industry insiders, The Future of Music will challenge conventional thinking about the business of music, and will explore new ways of creating,

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2�promoting, and distributing it. Each week, we will examine an aspect of the music industry, reflect on changes that are affecting it, and evaluate how these changes, technologies, innovation, and powerful trends might directly affect your own plans. This course is essential for all artists, songwriters, and music business people seeking success in the future.

The music industry is at the heart of a Perfect Storm. Three massive low-pressure systems — the Internet, the introduction of digital music, and the advent of personal computer CD recording capability — have advanced and converged into an unprecedented file-sharing maelstrom. Over the past few years, music dis-covery and consumption have become some of the most popular uses of the Internet, and P2P file sharing has become a popular choice for tens of millions of music consumers. The proliferation of new artists and music overall is bigger than ever before, primarily as a result of the Internet, but there are a myriad of issues still at hand that need to be resolved.The Future of Music course will examine scenar-ios for the future from the perspective of what is working today and what will work tomorrow. The course will look into the landscape of art-ists, writers, managers, and publishers sitting in the center of an entirely new digital enterprise. It will evaluate traditional promotion and dis-tribution methods and the development of new ones. And, the Future of Music course will take an in depth look into what music fans really want, and how they want to receive it.

You will learn:• The Top 10 Truths that will guide the music

business in the future• How money is really made in the music

industry• The major forces at play in the music mar-

ket today and tomorrow• The way technology continuously trans-

forms the music business• New approaches to promotion that chal-

lenge conventional thinking• New business models for the future that

exploit digital distribution

Iwassurprisedwithhowdifferenttheonlineexperiencewasfromaregularclassroom.Youdon’tgetasmuchface-to-faceinteraction,butyoudogettheabilitytoseeeachother’sworkandthethinkingthatgoesintoit.Whenyouhavetowriteapaper,itisposted,soyougettoseeeverybodyelse’swork,andyoucancommentonit.Thatwasreallyvaluable–toseeotherpeople’sthoughts,andthentoseetheinstructor’scommentsontheirthoughts. – M. Dreese

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• Understand your music publishing and co-publishing options.

• Learn how the record industry operates, and how to use that information to best market yourself, your music and your band.

Music Publishing 101Eric Beale 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

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Authored by the Vice President, Creative at Sony/ATV Music, Music Publishing 101 pro-vides a step-by-step guide to setting up your own publishing company, including adminis-tration of copyrights, the role of performance rights organizations, and preparing a function-ing accounting system for your catalog. You’ll develop your own publicity plan, submit your songs to the instructor for critique, and register your songs with the copyright office. You’ll also learn how to market and promote your compo-sitions and writers by developing effective pitch and promotion strategies, and discover how to turn that stack of demos and lyrics in the closet into a real, independent business.Legal Aspects of the Music IndustryDon Gorder and Steve Masur 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMB-180

The business and creative sides of the music business are inextricably linked – no matter how proficient you are creatively, you need to think and operate like a business in order to remain successful. Music-related careers are affected by legal matters on a regular basis: from art-ist contracts, recording and music publishing agreements to copyright law, name protection and business organization. Legal Aspects of the Music Business examines all the legal issues artists, musicians, engineers, and producers encounter when building their careers, and presents a focused look at the important legal changes that have evolved as a result of the shift in the music business landscape. The course takes a real-world approach to explaining the legal issues that individuals working in the music business face today, including learning what your different players and team members do and when you’ll need them, how to set up and finance your own business, co-publishing and administration agreements, and digital rights management.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand the legal issues that are of spe-

cial concern to musicians and songwriters, With particular emphasis on copyright law, recording and music publishing agreements.

You will also benefit from interviews, quotes, and insight from music industry heavy-hit-ters such as: Steve Jobs, Courtney Love, Chris Blackwell, Reis Baron (Promotion, Internet and Advertising Manager, Sci Fidelity), Ron Stone (President Gold Mountain Entertainment, managers for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Beck, Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, and Beastie Boys) and others.

Inside The Record IndustryGeorge Howard 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMB-150

Whether your focus is on getting a record deal, or learning the skills necessary to produce, market, and distribute your music yourself, Inside the Record Industry demystifies the record industry, and offers realistic strategies for success to artists looking to get their music heard! George Howard, former president and head of A & R at the large independent record label Rykodisc, guides artists through the maze of today’s music industry, and provides critical marketing and positioning advice on how to prepare yourself, your music, and your band for the challenges of attracting a label’s atten-tion and keeping them interested. Even if you are not ready for a record deal, the knowledge presented in this course will help you to assem-ble your team to get your music heard by as many people as possible. A must for all serious musicians, you’ll learn to develop a killer demo package that is tailored to the A & R recipients mindset, understand how the various depart-ments work together at a label to market your music to retail, radio, and press, and the value and intricacies of publishing and licensing deals.

By the end of this course, you will:• Maximize your gigs and other activities

to make yourself more attractive to record labels

• Navigate through the complexities of con-tracts and royalty statements

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• Analyze a number of common contracts and agreements including producer, label and distribution agreements and club con-tracts.

• Understand the contractual relationships between artists and other parties, including managers, agents, producers, club own-ers, and investors, and when you’ll need to involve them in your own plans.

• Learn the legal and contractual changes that have evolved as a result of the shift in the music business landscape.

Music Business 101Lauren Davis 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMB-110

The business of music is a global multi-billion dollar industry comprised of a relatively small amount of individuals creating the music, and a whole lot of people doing everything else: working at labels, distribution companies, publishing companies, recording studios, art-ist management, promotion, producing, and legal counsel. If you are looking to further your career in the business end of the music industry, you cannot be successful without first understanding the entire industry as a whole. Music Business 101 presents a broad over-view of the recording and music industry, and explains how the various segments operate on a day-to-day basis: where monies are generated, who the key players are, how deals are made and broken, how to protect your interests, and new developments in digital technology that are changing the way that music is marketed, promoted, distributed, and heard. This course presents the career opportunities that are avail-able within the industry, and the knowledge you’ll need to achieve your goals.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand the structure of, and rela-

tionship between, the recording, music publishing, marketing and live performance industries.

• Learn about different career and income opportunities, and develop a strategy to break in and succeed in the music industry.

• Understand the business aspects involved in producing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing records.


Having a Web site is an essential tool for musi-cians. Your site serves as a place where fans, promoters, and musicians check you out. Visitors can hear your latest tunes, follow your band’s schedule, read about you, and even order stuff. This class provides an entry point for Web authoring specifically designed for the needs of musicians, producers, entrepre-neurs, and educators. You’ll begin by licensing a domain name and signing up with a hosting service. You’ll work through a series of practical, hands-on activities using Audacity, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop, HTML, and Dreamweaver and learn how to prepare audio for the Web, basic graphics concepts, and how to assemble a site using a variety of tools. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the critical underlying concepts required to create a cohesive Web site to showcase and promote your work. Whether you’re interested in creating a Web site for your band, yourself, or are just curious about audio and the Web, this course will provide you with a broad overview of the tools and techniques used in Web authoring.



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Music IndustryEntrepreneurship George Howard 3 Credits -12 weeksBMB-190

There has never been a better time to be a music entrepreneur. Fundamentally, entrepreneurs see problems and fix them. Given the state of today’s music business, the opportunities for an entrepreneur to succeed are as high as they’ve ever been. In few other businesses can someone with little to no capital or connec-tions go from a bedroom operation to affecting the culture on a large scale in such short order. Consider that Def Jam was started in a NYU dorm room; Electra Records was started in a St. John’s dorm room with $300; and influential current labels like Victory and Saddle Creek were both founded by young musicians with little more than passion and a vision. Starting a label is, of course, only one entrepreneurial goal. Today managers, booking agents, publish-ers, music technology innovators, and artists themselves can enter the music business almost effortlessly. With a web site and some business cards…you’re in business. However, with the low barriers of entry, the ability to succeed is all the more difficult. In order to give yourself the best competitive edge to reach the widest-possible audience, you MUST combine your passion for music with sound entrepreneurial principles.

Whether still in the conception stage, currently running your own music business, aspiring to work in the music industry, or anywhere in between, this course will focus your efforts and dramatically increase your chances of success. You’ll gain an understanding of the individual elements of a business plan, business structures, finance, marketing, management and organiza-tional behavior, and leadership. You’ll learn the entrepreneurial tools particular to the music industry that will help you to innovate and create new ventures, and be empowered to actualize with confidence your chosen vision in the music industry. By the end of the course, you will emerge with a cogent business plan applicable to many different ventures within the music industry.

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Author, producer, entrepreneur and musi-cian George Howard, Online Music Business Instructor, founded his first independent label, Slow River Records, in 1993. In 1999, he became president of Rykodisc, where he signed and/or guided the careers of artists including

Kelly Willis, Robert Cray, Josh Rouse, Catie Curtis, the Tom Tom Club, Future Bible Heroes, Chuck E. Weiss, as well as further developed Rykodisc’s catalog holdings, including Frank Zappa, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Morphine. His produc-tion credits include Kelly Joe Phelps, Chuck E. Weiss (with Tom Waits), Jess Klein, Matthew, and Peter Bruntnell. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Executive in Residence in the College of Business Administration at Loyola University and an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music.







�1The course is perfect for:• Performers wishing to treat their musical

ventures in a professional business manner• Songwriters who wish to act as their own

publishers• Those interested in creating production

companies• Aspiring artist managers, booking agents,

publicists, radio promoters, internet mar-keters

• Those interested in music merchandising• Those wishing to start their own record

label or publishing company• Those wishing to become more effective

marketers• Anyone currently working at a company

who feels underutilized

Music EducatorsFurther your Career in Music Education

Desktop Music Production for MacMichael Bierylo and David Mash 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-101a









the most from these lessons.

By the end of this course, you will:• Use a basic MIDI system—sequencer,

sound modules, drum machine, keyboard, and audio system

• Create MIDI-sequences that sounds natural and musical, rather than computer-gener-ated

• Record single parts and overdubs using dif-ferent sounds

• Create sequences with multiple parts.• Use basic functions of Reason software—

sound modules, drum machines, effects, recording, editing, and saving data, and more

MIDI Sequencing IntermediateMichael Moss 3 Credits - 12 weeksBMPR-141

Learn to create musical-sounding MIDI arrangements by producing in two divergent styles: electronic dance music and blues. This course will provide you with a firm under-standing of the roles of the various instruments and arrangements used in the creation of dance and blues music, and will explore the whole creative process of writing these styles of music using MIDI. You will gain an analytical ear by analyzing recordings to find what makes these styles unique, and will become adept at pro-ducing both electronic-sounding arrangements as well as arrangements that have a more natu-ral, organic feel. You’ll thoroughly explore the capabilities of MIDI sequencing technology and learn effective processes and approaches to production. By the end of this course you will have gained the ability to compose music and arrange instruments in a variety of different musical styles using MIDI sequencing.

By the end of this course, you will:• Understand a bass line and apply that style

in Reason• Assemble ReDrum patterns in a song• Add vocals to your dance track• Prepare samples and use samples in your

project• Understand the blues style and blues instru-

ments and apply them in MIDI• Produce, mix, and master your track

Pro Tools 101Digidesign and Andy Edelstein 3 Credits - 10 weeksBMPR-130

Get on track to become a Pro Tools Operator from home, with the help of Berklee’s music production faculty. Pro Tools 101 focuses on the foundational skills needed to learn and function within the Pro Tools environment.


Gain all the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music. Even if you begin this course with little or no under-standing of desktop production, you’ll end it with a quality master recording ready for CD or MP3! Let accomplished musician, sound designer and Berklee professor Michael Bierylo guide you through the challenges of setting up your own home studio, sampling, basic audio mixing, and more. With hands-on lessons and projects, you’ll master concepts like digitiza-tion, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, MIDI, and everything you need to turn your PC into a virtual multitrack studio.









MIDI Sequencing BasicsMichael Moss 1 Credits - 3 weeksBMPR-140

Gain an essential understanding of MIDI sequencers, sound modules, and audio systems in this three-week course. With hands-on les-sons and downloadable examples, you’ll learn how to create natural-sounding MIDI arrange-ments using the Reason music synthesis and sequencing software. You’ll also learn how to record parts, use different sounds, effects, and devices including a mixer, sound modules, a drum machine, and effects such as reverb and EQ. These critical skills will help you create music using any MIDI sequencing system, beyond this course. You should have some knowledge of music theory and notation to get

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Using real-world examples and frequent hands-on assignments, the course teaches the skills needed to record, edit, and mix on a basic level, using a Digidesign Pro Tools system.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:• Start up, configure, and navigate a Pro

Tools session• Use the main Pro Tools windows and cus-

tomize displays• Record audio into a Pro Tools session• Create audio regions and edit tracks• Import audio files and regions• Perform punch and loop recording• Create and edit fades and crossfades• Create stereo mixes within Pro Tools• Process audio using basic AudioSuite plug-

ins• Use basic Pro Tools MIDI features• Record, edit, and complete a full mix of an

original Pro Tools project from scratch


Learn to write music with Finale, the world’s best selling music notation software. Through hands-on lessons and workshops, you’ll learn the essential skills needed to create profession-al-looking music with this versatile notation tool. The course will make it easy to add notes and rests, time and key signatures, clefs, lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, expressions, and staffs to your arrangements and compositions. Then, you’ll explore more complex techniques that will speed up your process dramatically. By the end of the course, you will have mastered the most powerful functions of this versatile tool, and learned the techniques used by the most experienced, accomplished music engrav-ers and writers.







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Continuing on from the concepts presented in Music Theory 101, this course will further develop your background in music theory and provide you with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be a more effective writer and player. You’ll master the fundamental concepts of rhythm and harmony and learn more com-plex chords, progressions, and rhythms that will open up your understanding of the elements that together contribute to put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock. You’ll study topics including rhythmic anticipations, articulation markings, swing eighth notes, and sixteenth notes in double time feel; diatonic chords, harmonic function, melodic and harmonic ten-sions, as well as modal and pentatonic scales. You’ll understand why chords move from one to another the way they do; and learn to better analyze and write harmonic progressions and different rhythmic styles. Through ear training exercises, musical examples, and personalized feedback from your instructor, you’ll be able to analyze, read, write, and listen more effec-tively, as well as understand the fundamental knowledge essential to the beginning studies of harmony.



eighth notes

• Understand diatonic triads and seventh chords

• Identify modal scales• Be knowledgeable on basic tensions and

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Basic Ear Training 1Matt Marvuglio 3 Credits - 12 weeksBME-115

This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to really hear what is going on in the band while you are performing. The course focuses on the melody and bass notes and examines the harmonies, rhythms and pulses that drive and measures music. You’ll learn to notate basic rhythms and understand the relationships between notes by using the

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��solfage method. Through transcription exer-cises and the study of contemporary songs from artists such as Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Led Zeppelin, you’ll learn to build an aware-ness of what’s happening around you when you are playing, and become a more interactive and confident musician.


Whether you’re playing your instrument, com-posing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions is a necessity for the seri-ous musician. Harmonic Ear Training details a step-by-step “vertical” (from the root up) and “horizontal” (using the song’s key as a reference point) approach to hearing chord changes and progressions. By engaging in a variety of solfege exercises and voice-leading demonstrations, as well as weekly assignments that involve transcribing contemporary music examples, students will learn to internalize the music and identify chords and progressions with ease and confidence. Put your theory background into practice, and learn the practical techniques and ear training exercises that will work for you in your musical life every day.








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can’t write effective sequenced parts without knowing what real players would characteris-tically play on these instruments. This course will provide you with a greater understanding of the possibilities and sounds that the horns as a section can add to your arrangement.








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staff• Understand accidentals and play the black

keys on the keyboard• Increase your ability to read and play differ-

ent 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


progressions


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Whether you are writing for jingles, soundtracks, or pop songs, knowing how to write/arrange for smaller bands and larger ensembles is cru-cial to your success. Arranging 2 explores the properties of the trumpet, trombone and alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and approaches the techniques and melodic embellishments that will give you a basic understanding of writing/arranging for these horns as a section. You will focus on applying writing processes for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-part horn combinations; skills that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sampled or synthesized sounds. One

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A firm harmonic foundation and the ability to aurally recognize chord progressions is indis-pensable to writers and arrangers, and a necessity for musicians interested in understanding the art of improvisation. Getting Inside Harmony 2 takes you to the next step in your harmonic development: you’ll move beyond the standard chord patterns and harmonic progressions typ-ically found in popular music, and gain a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitu-tion, and chromatically altered chords. You’ll examine secondary dominants, diminished seventh chords (and their substitutes), stan-dard chord patterns and their variations, minor key harmony, and modulation. You’ll study the inner workings of each progression to be sure it gets into the “inner ear,” and equip yourself with the most appropriate chord scale for each chord. Through keyboard chord voicings and voice-leading exercises, you’ll gain an under-standing of the musical tools that go beyond the demands of a particular musical style, and develop a greater sense of control in your writ-ing - by the end of the course you’ll find you’re in a position to actually contribute your per-sonal touch to the development of any number of musical styles!







Having a Web site is an essential tool for musi-cians. Your site serves as a place where fans, promoters, and musicians check you out. Visitors can hear your latest tunes, follow your band’s schedule, read about you, and even order stuff. This class provides an entry point for Web authoring specifically designed for the needs of musicians, producers, entrepre-neurs, and educators. You’ll begin by licensing a domain name and signing up with a hosting service. You’ll work through a series of practical, hands-on activities using Audacity, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop, HTML, and Dreamweaver

and learn how to prepare audio for the Web, basic graphics concepts, and how to assemble a site using a variety of tools. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the critical underlying concepts required to create a cohesive Web site to showcase and promote your work. Whether you’re interested in creating a Web site for your band, yourself, or are just curious about audio and the Web, this course will provide you with a broad overview of the tools and techniques used in Web authoring.



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PerformersMaster the skills, concepts, and methodologies of performing music


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Continuing on from the concepts presented in Music Theory 101, this course will further develop your background in music theory and provide you with the foundational knowledge you’ll need to be a more effective writer and player. You’ll master the fundamental concepts of rhythm and harmony and learn more com-plex chords, progressions, and rhythms that will open up your understanding of the elements that together contribute to put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock. You’ll study topics including rhythmic anticipations, articulation markings, swing eighth notes, and sixteenth notes in double time feel; diatonic chords, harmonic function, melodic and harmonic ten-sions, as well as modal and pentatonic scales. You’ll understand why chords move from one to another the way they do; and learn to better analyze and write harmonic progressions and different rhythmic styles. Through ear training exercises, musical examples, and personalized feedback from your instructor, you’ll be able to analyze, read, write, and listen more effec-tively, as well as understand the fundamental knowledge essential to the beginning studies of harmony.





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Establish a toolkit of musical expertise that will prepare you for any musical endeavor or oppor-tunity. This advanced music theory course provides you with a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music. You’ll learn to write effective jazz, pop, and rock-influ-

Theinteractionwithstudentsandinstructoralikehasbeeninvaluable.I’mlearningpracticaltipsandtricksthatarehelpingmebecomefasteratwhatIdo.Ithasbeen,andcontinuestobe,aworthwhileexperienceandinvestment. – V. Mendoza, Berkleemusic Student, Solo Artist

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��enced pentatonic and modal melodies as well as master anticipations and articulations that will give your music the necessary sound and “char-acter” to fit these styles. You’ll explore harmony related topics such as diatonic, natural/melod-ic, minor, and slash chords, which will help you to select the appropriate harmonic tensions to add color, character, and sophistication to your music. You’ll also master triplets, swing eighths, and sixteenth notes in double time feel, as well as topics related to improvisation and melody including chord scales, avoid notes, approach notes, and modal and pentatonic scales. With this level of music theory, there will be prac-tically no barriers between you and the music you want to create.








pedal points


This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to really hear what is going on in the band while you are performing. The course focuses on the melody and bass notes and examines the harmonies, rhythms and pulses that drive and measures music. You’ll learn to notate basic rhythms and understand the relationships between notes by using the solfage method. Through transcription exer-cises and the study of contemporary songs from artists such as Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Led Zeppelin, you’ll learn to build an aware-ness of what’s happening around you when you are playing, and become a more interactive and confident musician.




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Whether you are writing for jingles, soundtracks, or pop songs, knowing how to write/arrange for smaller bands and larger ensembles is cru-cial to your success. Arranging 2 explores the properties of the trumpet, trombone and alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and approaches the techniques and melodic embellishments that will give you a basic understanding of writing/arranging for these horns as a section. You will focus on applying writing processes for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-part horn combinations; skills that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sampled or synthesized sounds. One can’t write effective sequenced parts without

• Identify the difference between major and minor tonic

• Identify primary triads in major and minor• Recognize A B elements in song form• Apply the moveable Do system to perfor-



Whether you’re playing your instrument, com-posing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions is a necessity for the seri-ous musician. Harmonic Ear Training details a step-by-step “vertical” (from the root up) and “horizontal” (using the song’s key as a reference point) approach to hearing chord changes and progressions. By engaging in a variety of solfege exercises and voice-leading demonstrations, as well as weekly assignments that involve transcribing contemporary music examples, students will learn to internalize the music and identify chords and progressions with ease and confidence. Put your theory background into practice, and learn the practical techniques and ear training exercises that will work for you in your musical life every day.









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knowing what real players would characteris-tically play on these instruments. This course will provide you with a greater understanding of the possibilities and sounds that the horns as a section can add to your arrangement.








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A firm harmonic foundation and the ability to aurally recognize chord progressions is indis-pensable to writers and arrangers, and a necessity for musicians interested in understanding the art of improvisation. Getting Inside Harmony 2 takes you to the next step in your harmonic development: you’ll move beyond the standard chord patterns and harmonic progressions typ-ically found in popular music, and gain a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitu-tion, and chromatically altered chords. You’ll examine secondary dominants, diminished seventh chords (and their substitutes), stan-dard chord patterns and their variations, minor key harmony, and modulation. You’ll study the inner workings of each progression to be sure it gets into the “inner ear,” and equip yourself with the most appropriate chord scale for each chord. Through keyboard chord voicings and voice-leading exercises, you’ll gain an under-standing of the musical tools that go beyond the demands of a particular musical style, and develop a greater sense of control in your writ-ing - by the end of the course you’ll find you’re in a position to actually contribute your per-sonal touch to the development of any number of musical styles!







Having a Web site is an essential tool for musi-cians. Your site serves as a place where fans, promoters, and musicians check you out. Visitors can hear your latest tunes, follow your band’s schedule, read about you, and even order stuff. This class provides an entry point for Web authoring specifically designed for the needs of musicians, producers, entrepre-neurs, and educators. You’ll begin by licensing a domain name and signing up with a hosting service. You’ll work through a series of practical, hands-on activities using Audacity, QuickTime Pro, Photoshop, HTML, and Dreamweaver

and learn how to prepare audio for the Web, basic graphics concepts, and how to assemble a site using a variety of tools. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the critical underlying concepts required to create a cohesive Web site to showcase and promote your work. Whether you’re interested in creating a Web site for your band, yourself, or are just curious about audio and the Web, this course will provide you with a broad overview of the tools and techniques used in Web authoring.



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Guitar Chords 101Rick Peckham 3 Credits - 12 weeks most

popularBMP-120

Many beginning guitarists have learned the basics of open and moveable chord shapes, but aren’t sure how or why the individual notes within the chord work so well together, or the ways by which they can expand this chord knowledge to unlock the fret board of the guitar. Guitar Chords 101 presents Berklee’s approach to the construction of chords, a method that focuses less on the shape of an individual chord, and more on the notes that the chord is based around. Students will learn to construct and play triads and basic 7th chords, as well as look at inversions and different chord voicings, the basic foundations guitarists use to write or perform in any number of different styles.

Students will gain more freedom and a greater feel for their instrument by learning how to visualize chord structures anywhere on the neck of the guitar. The course offers a rich learning platform, featuring Flash movies, interactive quizzes, instructional videos, guitar tablatures, and practice mp3 tracks to get the notes under your fingers as quickly as possible, while allow-ing you the portability to practice wherever you get a few minutes with your guitar. Students will also benefit from personalized instruction and comments from Berklee’s world-renowned guitar instructors on their weekly assignments, as well as through weekly live chats. By the end of the course, students will be able to add more dynamics and expression to their playing and gain an extensive chord vocabulary, which will prove invaluable in pursuing any style of music.

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��Guitar Scales 101Larry Baione 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-121

Scale study is a fundamental building block to guitar mastery. Accomplished guitarists use scales to add color, mood, depth, and feeling to their playing. When you hear an amazing solo by Frank Zappa or Robert Fripp, you can be sure that these players are directly referencing their extensive knowledge and internalization of scales. Guitar Scales 101 will help you to organize the often-ambiguous guitar fretboard, and provide you with the knowledge to con-fidently navigate the instrument and develop your technique. The course begins by looking at the major and pentatonic scales, and how these scales work at different points up the neck. You’ll then learn to construct and play blues, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales in all keys, and apply these scales to performance-based weekly musical examples and practice exercises. With weekly assignments that you can record and upload to your professor for review, you’ll greatly improve your single-line technique, and gain a firm understanding of the possibilities available within the guitar’s fretboard.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:• Construct and play two-octave major scales

in all keys, in two different fretboard posi-tions

• Construct and play pentatonic, blues, Dorian, and Mixolydian scales in most keys

• Effectively use these scales in your own playing

• Develop good guitar technique through scale exercises

Getting Your Guitar ToneDan Bowden 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-123

All the greatest electric guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, The Edge, John Frusciante, Steve Vai, among many others - have built their career on a sound that is completely their own, com-prised of not only their mastery of the notes on the fret board, but the sounds they create through an intimate knowledge of the tools of their craft. Getting Your Guitar Tone will help you and your band to create your own unique voice by presenting a detailed, global perspec-tive of the electric guitar that’s made up of three distinct parts: the guitar, the amplifier, and the effects. You’ll start by examining the guitar itself, and how tones are produced from dif-ferent woods, pickups, and body styles. After taking a look “under the hood,” you’ll learn to re-create classic Marshall, Vox and Fender style amp sounds through the use of the amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube 1, and take

• Play pentatonic and blues scales in five posi-tions up the neck, and use those fingerings while soloing

• Play turnarounds, and use solo pacing and call and response techniques

• Play over minor blues progressions• Learn the techniques and licks of classic

stylists, such as T-Bone Walker, Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, and Magic Sam, whether you’re trying to bring a blues sound to your playing, or interested in add-ing more depth to your own style

Classic Rock Guitar WorkshopJoe Musella 2 Credits - 6 weeks BMP-125

Learn composition, melodic soloing, chords, and licks in the styles of the classic rock gui-tar masters: Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Gilmour, and Page. This course begins with a primer on the blues foundation of rock, covering minor pentatonic scales, 12-bar blues chords and rhythm, and licks and scale sequences over the 12-bar blues. Then every week, students will study the selected works of a different classic rock master, including Clapton’s “Crossroads,” Hendrix’s version of “Red House,” Gilmour’s “Comfortably Numb,” Beck’s “Scatterbrain,” and Page’s “Good Times Bad Times.” Through this analysis, students will learn methods of improvisation, phrasing, scales, chords, rhythms, fretboard mastery, and sound con-ception that are essential classic rock guitar techniques.

Rhythm and Groove Guitar Bruce Bartlett3 Credits – 12 weeksBMP-126

The importance of the rhythm guitar cannot be underestimated. In the ‘groove’ genre, the greatest recordings of James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Herbie Hancock, Government Mule, John Scofield, Medeski, Martin and Wood, and Soulive demonstrate that a tight, grooving rhythm section is absolutely essential. Rhythm and Groove Guitar provides guitar-ists with a strong set of rhythmic and chordal tools that are the foundation of groove-based music, but can be used to further any style of music. You’ll start by expanding your chord knowledge and constructing original rhythm guitar grooves using Root 5, Root 6, Major7, Minor7, and Dominant 7th chords. By play-ing along with artist recordings, groove loops, and instructor-generated exercises, you’ll learn how to effectively use tension, muted rhythms, repetition, and chordal licks (hammer-on / pull off) to your advantage. The course then moves on to address more advanced rhythm tech-

a detailed look at various effects used by the pros – including compression, chorus, flang-ers, delay, reverb, equalization, and wah-wah. By the end of the course, you will have gained the ability to best utilize your guitar and amp and effects in a way to create a unique sound - as well as emulate a wide range of classic and contemporary guitar tones.


guitar’s tone characteristics.• Learn how to get great amp-driven guitar

sounds and expand your sonic parameters with effects.

• Learn the controls of leading guitar ampli-fier styles using the amp modeling plug-in, AmpliTube.

• Identify how effects are categorized, and how each pedal works to change your sound.

• Recognize the sounds of effects on record-ings.

• Develop your own personal setups for recording and live performance.

Blues Guitar Workshop 1Michael Williams 2 Credits - 6 weeksBMP-122

Guitarists who know the blues have a natural advantage over those that don’t. No matter what style they chose to play – jazz, rock, clas-sical – having a blues background provides guitarists with a foundation in form, con-trol, feel, and harmonies that can be used to advance their playing in any genre of music. Blues Guitar Workshop begins by teaching the 12-bar blues harmony, basic rhythm guitar technique, and the pentatonic and blues scale in the open position up the neck. You’ll learn to incorporate some of the nuances of the masters into your playing — from doubling the bass over a shuffle in the style of Buddy Guy, to combining major and minor pentatonic scales in the style of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker. Through call and response exercises and play-ing in other grooves and tempos, you’ll learn to pace your solos to create tension and release — a technique mastered by all the greatest gui-tarists. You’ll learn to reuse the concepts and musical elements to expand your musical foun-dation and enhance your ability, whether you’re trying to bring a blues sound to your playing or adding more depth and feel to any other style.

In this course you will:• Learn to play several styles of rhythm guitar,

and solo over 8 and 12-bar progressions in E, G, and other keys, with varying tempos and grooves, including shuffles, straight eighth, and slow blues

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niques, including syncopation, triplets, right hand techniques, and diatonic harmony. The rhythmic foundation you build in this course will help further your improvisational abilities in a duet setting, as well as strengthen your solo playing.

By the end of this course, you will learn to:• Create your own rhythms and grooves• Play in 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 12/8, 5/4, and 7/4

time signatures• Use chords such as altered dominant and

dominant chords with tensions in your rhythm playing

• Use picking lines, single-note rhythmic pat-terns, and double stops

• Progress from simple to complex rhythmic grooves

• Learn rhythmic exercises to strengthen both your right- and left-hand playing

• Use effects such as wah-wah to enhance your rhythm playing

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Master the basics of Keyboard technique and chord voicings, and gain an understanding of more advanced concepts, including blues pro-

gressions 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, har-monic 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.








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This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to really hear what is going on in the band while you are performing. The course focuses on the melody and bass notes and examines the harmonies, rhythms and pulses that drive and measures music. You’ll learn to notate basic rhythms and understand the relationships between notes by using the solfage method. Through transcription exer-cises and the study of contemporary songs from artists such as Dave Matthews, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, and Led Zeppelin, you’ll learn to build an aware-ness of what’s happening around you when you are playing, and become a more interactive and confident musician.




nant relationships• Identify the difference between major and

minor tonic• Identify primary triads in major and minor• Recognize A B elements in song form• Apply the moveable Do system to perfor-



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Whether you are writing for jingles, soundtracks, or pop songs, knowing how to write/arrange for smaller bands and larger ensembles is crucial to your success. Arranging 2 explores the proper-ties of the trumpet, trombone and alto, tenor and baritone saxophones and approaches the techniques and melodic embellishments that will give you a basic understanding of writ-ing/arranging for these horns as a section. You will focus on applying writing processes for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-part horn combinations; skills that can be applied to both live instrumenta-tion and sampled or synthesized sounds. One can’t write effective sequenced parts without knowing what real players would characteris-tically play on these instruments. This course will provide you with a greater understanding of the possibilities and sounds that the horns as a section can add to your arrangement.



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Whether you’re playing your instrument, com-posing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions is a necessity for the seri-ous musician. Harmonic Ear Training details a


Gain all the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music. Even if you begin this course with little or no under-standing of desktop production, you’ll end it with a quality master recording ready for CD or MP3! Let accomplished musician, sound designer and Berklee professor Michael Bierylo guide you through the challenges of setting up your own home studio, sampling, basic audio mixing, and more. With hands-on lessons and projects, you’ll master concepts like digitiza-tion, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, MIDI, and everything you need to turn your PC into a virtual multitrack studio.









step-by-step “vertical” (from the root up) and “horizontal” (using the song’s key as a reference point) approach to hearing chord changes and progressions. By engaging in a variety of solfege exercises and voice-leading demonstrations, as well as weekly assignments that involve transcribing contemporary music examples, students will learn to internalize the music and identify chords and progressions with ease and confidence. Put your theory background into practice, and learn the practical techniques and ear training exercises that will work for you in your musical life every day.





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