Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Musicology from Berklee Institute

Improve your skills as a musician. Deepen your understanding of music theory to develop your skills as a musician.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במוזיקליות של מכון ברקלי

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

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Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Jazz scales
  • Music theory
  • Understanding character boxes
  • Determination and discipline to practice
  • Improving personal composition
  • Musical instrument playing skills
  • Recognition with harmony
  • Using complex chords
  • Improving listening skills
  • Different jazz styles

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Musician
  • Teaches music
  • Songwriter
  • Music producer
  • Music processor
  • Artistic Director
  • A musician performs
  • Concert musician
  • Studio musician
  • Jazz musician
  • Classical musician
  • Electronic musician

Internship – 4-part course series

Develop your love and understanding of music with this specialization. Learn the fundamentals of music theory, including:

  • Major and minor scales
  • Chord scales
  • Poem forms
  • Chord qualities

In addition, you will practice developing a musical ear to hear and identify:

  • Different intervals
  • Chord progression
  • Chord qualities

Graduation project

You will directly apply the knowledge you have gained to write and perform a short musical piece. This specialization starts from the basics of music and progresses to more advanced concepts, providing you with the knowledge you need to improve your skills as a musician.

Applied Learning Project

In the final course, you will write and perform a 24-bar musical piece in the form of an AAB A song. This project will summarize the skills and knowledge you have acquired and give you an opportunity to show your development as musicians.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Developing your musicality

Course 1

  • 16 hours
  • 4.8 (1,268 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Build, sing, and play scales such as the major scale and the minor pentatonic scale.
  • Aurally identify musical steps such as the tonic second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh.
  • Build and play triads and third chords.
  • Write a chord progression in the style of I-IV-V in the key of C major and create a chord diagram.
The skills you will gain:
  • Category: Auditory recognition of musical intervals
  • Category: Auditory recognition of chords
  • Category: Reading Top Pages
  • Category: Piano
  • Category: Character reading

Musicality: Chord charts, diatonic chords, and minor keys

Course 2

  • 12 hours
  • 4.9 (549 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Identify minor intervals and sixth chords by ear.
  • Explain the relationship between a major key and the minor key associated with it.
  • Practice playing and writing in the keys of G major, D minor, and C major.
  • Write a chord chart.
The skills you will gain:
  • Category: Musical performance
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Musical composition
  • Category: Music Theory
  • Category: Piano

Musicality: Tensions, Harmonic Function, and Mode Alternating

Course 3

  • 10 hours
  • 4.9 (399 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Describe tensions in chords and their role.
  • Describe the concept of a harmonic function.
  • Auditory recognition of chord progressions and chord qualities.
  • Identify chords by changing modes in a piece.
The skills you will gain:
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Execution
  • Category: Musical composition
  • Category: Music Theory
  • Category: Piano

Developing Your Musicality: Final Project

Course 4

  • 9 hours
  • 4.9 (115 ratings)
Course Details
What you will learn:
  • Write a song in AABA style.
  • Practice and perform with your creation on your instrument.
  • Create a simple recording of yourself while you were writing the piece.
  • Develop your ear by identifying intervals, chords, and chord progressions.
The skills you will gain:
  • Category: Musical composition
  • Category: Characters
  • Category: Piano

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