Berklee
The Singer Songwriter Specialization
Berklee

The Singer Songwriter Specialization

Write, perform, and record original music. Learn how to transform your ideas and emotions into songs that are uniquely you

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Erin Barra
Thaddeus Hogarth
Pat Pattison

Instructors: Erin Barra

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2 months at 10 hours a week
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What you'll learn

  • The basics of playing the guitar, including chords, scales, strumming and picking patterns.

  • How to sing in your preferred genre and style healthfully, using proper breathing and vocal techniques.

  • Basic songwriting tools and techniques to augment your songwriting.

  • How to record, edit, and mix music productions that include MIDI and audio to create professional sounding recordings of your music.

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Specialization - 4 course series

Guitar for Beginners

Course 122 hours4.8 (2,235 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify string names and numbers and read music notation, tablature, chord block diagrams, and fretboard maps

  • Practice picking, finger picking, and strumming patterns

  • Play various chords including major and minor triads, open, barre, and pose chords

  • Read and play a lead sheet

Skills you'll gain

Category: Guitar
Category: Guitar scales
Category: Music notation
Category: Tablature
Category: Guitar chords

Singing Popular Music

Course 210 hours4.5 (156 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify and practice using appropriate breathing technique while singing.

  • Identify and practice using your head voice, mix voice, and chest voice while singing.

  • Learn healthy ways to perform powerful singing/belting.

  • Incorporate improvisation techniques in your singing style.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Popular Music
Category: Music
Category: Singing
Category: Belting
Category: Breathing Techniques

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

Course 315 hours4.8 (848 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define and identify the point of view, form, and the "who, what, where, when, and how" in a song

  • Identify whether a lyric is stable or unstable through the use of line lengths, number of lines, stressed and unstressed syllables, and melody

  • Utilize the various rhyming techniques to evoke specific emotions in a song and define the difference between Assonance and Consonance rhyme

  • Use phrasing to clarify your ideas

Skills you'll gain

Category: Music
Category: Songwriting
Category: Music recording
Category: Poetry

Introduction to Ableton Live

Course 413 hours4.8 (1,099 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Navigate Ableton Live

  • Program MIDI drums and instruments

  • Record and edit audio, including working with preexisting audio loops

  • Create a piece of music using MIDI and audio within Ableton Live

Skills you'll gain

Category: MIDI programming
Category: File Management
Category: Audio Recording
Category: Ableton
Category: Music Making

Instructors

Erin Barra
Berklee
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