Online Course – Certified Professional Songwriting Internship from Berklee College of Music

Write, arrange, and produce your own original songs. Use songwriting tools and techniques to bring your musical ideas to life.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בכתיבת שירים מקצועית של Berklee College of Music

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Music arrangement
  • Songwriting
  • Music production

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Songwriter
  • Music producer
  • Music processor
  • Musician
  • Artistic Director
  • Songwriting teacher
  • Independent musician
  • Demo Producer

Expertise – Series of 4 Courses

This expertise will provide both beginning and experienced songwriters with strategies and practices for developing hit songs. Berklee’s award-winning songwriting faculty has selected four comprehensive courses, each focusing on a different element of the song, to help you flesh out your musical ideas.

Course content

  • At first, with the lyrics and melody, you will learn how to create thought-provoking ways to express the emotions you want to convey.
  • From here, you will develop your song into a balanced musical arrangement with full accompaniment.
  • The final project will take you through the process of producing your demos using Ableton Live, one of the most exciting digital audio workstations (DAWs) on the market today.

Hands-on Learning Project

During this specialization, you will participate in various activities that will help you make informed decisions about your music.

  • Starting with using effective rhyme structures.
  • Until the construction of evocative melodies and harmonies.
  • You will refine your musical ideas into a perfect song.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Songwriting

Writing text

  • Course 1 • 15 hours • 4.8 (871 ratings)
Course Details
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Define and identify the point of view, form, and the “who, what, where, when, and how” in a poem
    • Identify whether a text is stable or unstable through line length, number of lines, stressed and unstressed syllables, and melody.
    • Use different rhyming techniques to evoke certain emotions in a poem and understand the difference between assonant and dissonant rhyme
    • Use phrasing to clarify your ideas.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Songwriting
  • Category: Music Recording
  • Category: Poetry

Writing music

  • Course 2 • 11 hours • 4.9 (52 ratings)
Course Details
  • What you’ll learn:
    • If your notebook is full of unused lyrics and you’re having trouble finding inspiration for music, this course is for you.
    • Whether you’re an experienced songwriter looking for new ideas or a beginner songwriter learning to read music, this course will guide you to a rich source of songwriting options.
    • Under the guidance of brilliant writer and Berklee School of Music professor Scarlett Keys, you will learn to build powerful, sensual melodies that your audience will remember.
    • Also try new chords to break free from a harmonic routine.
    • You’ll start by discovering common chord progressions and attaching specific emotions to each chord in the scale.
    • Practice changing the harmonic and melodic rhythm of a song to emphasize important words.
    • You will learn to create melodic patterns and simple techniques that will help you generate new melodic ideas.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Melodic freestyles
  • Category: Songwriting
  • Category: Harmony
  • Category: Melody

Arrangement for songwriters

  • Course 3 • 8 hours • 4.4 (76 ratings)
Course Details
  • What you’ll learn:
    • You’ve created a song. You’ve written the lyrics, decided on the melody, and maybe even recorded a simple demo. Now what?
    • If you have a basic knowledge of how to use a digital audio workstation (DAW) and are passionate about being a songwriter, this course will help you take your song from a simple recording on your phone to a polished song ready to record in the studio.
    • You will learn from two songwriting professors at Berklee School of Music, Bonnie Hayes and Sarah Brindle.
    • They will show you how to arrange original songs on a digital workstation.
    • You will learn tools to increase your listeners’ emotional response and expand your understanding of instrumentation and how to add sounds to your song without distracting from the most important aspect: the singer.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Arrangement
  • Category: Songwriting
  • Category: Writing

Introduction to Ableton Live

  • Course 4 • 13 hours • 4.8 (1,104 ratings)
Course Details
  • What you’ll learn:
    • Navigate Ableton Live
    • Design drums and MIDI instruments
    • Record and edit audio, including working with existing loops
    • Create a musical composition using MIDI and audio within Ableton Live
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: MIDI Programming
  • Category: File Management
  • Category: Audio recording
  • Category: Ableton
  • Category: Music Creation

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