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Music training courses and schools

School: Berklee College of Music
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Arranging: Small Ensemble and Horns
Course Format: Online
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: Small Ensemble and Horns 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/arr...
 

Basic Ear
Course Format: Online
Become a more interactive and confident musician by learning 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 measure music. You’ll learn to notate basic rhythms and pitch, and understand the relationships between notes by using the solfege method. Through...
 

Commercial Songwriting Techniques
Course Format: Online
For over a decade, course author Andrea Stolpe has written for the commercial music industry, including songs performed by Faith Hill and Josh Gracin. Her online course, Commercial Songwriting Techniques is a perfect combination of theory and concrete skill building that focuses songwriters on the key element of writing a hit song: creating patterns of content that will help to create memorable...
 

Getting Inside Harmony 1
Course Format: Online
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 creatively in your playing and writing. Through a combination of activities (listening, thinking, visualizing, vocalizing, writing, and playing), you’ll open your...
 

Getting Inside Harmony 2
Course Format: Online
A firm harmonic foundation and the ability to aurally recognize chord progressions is indispensable 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 typically found in popular ...
 

Harmonic Ear
Course Format: Online
Whether you’re playing your instrument, composing, arranging, improvising, or transcribing, the ability to quickly and effectively recognize chord progressions is a necessity for the serious 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 chan...
 

Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies
Course Format: Online
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 one 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...
 

Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title
Course Format: Online
Lyric Writing 2 will teach you how the professionals 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 powerf...
 

Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music
Course Format: Online
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 emotion 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 compo...
 

Music Notation Using Finale Workshop
Course Format: Online
Learn to write professional-standard notation using Finale, the world’s best selling music notation software. This course makes it easy to notate your arrangements and compositions, from basic notes and rhythms to more advanced markings. Through hands-on lessons and workshops, you’ll understanding the subtleties of notation, as well as explore the fine points of lead sheets, vocal/cho...
 

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