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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Developing Your Musicianship by Berklee

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About the Course

Learn the basic concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music. If you have a passion for music and are curious about how it works, or if you are a musician who learned to play by ear without formal study, this course will provide you with an engaging introduction to key concepts and approaches needed to understand, create, and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes six lessons that delve into harmony and ear training—two areas of intensive focus for every entering Berklee student. The course will teach you the major scale and minor pentatonic scale, and how they are constructed. You will learn what intervals are, how to sing them, and how to find them in music. The course explores tonal centers and how to find the key a song is in, in addition to common time signatures such as 4/4 and 3/4. You will learn how to build chords—major and minor triads, and major and dominant seventh chords—and how to build a common chord progression—the I IV V. You will also learn how to recognize the blues and AABA song forms, and write a basic chord sheet to express your song ideas. In addition to the video lectures, each lesson features Berklee student performances and interviews. The students share their musical journey and offer advice for those wanting to study music. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform a riff blues tune using the minor pentatonic scale. Above all, the course is designed to share the joy of creating music and sharing it with others....

Top reviews

AG

May 20, 2021

This course is a incredible one to kick start as a musician , it allows one to grow and learn basic musical chords and notes, it gave me deep knowledge about the harmony, ear training and song form.

KH

May 30, 2021

Wonderful course! The instructor is great and the lessons are very well planned and with attainable learning goals. So much fun! I loved it so much I enrolled in the 4-course Specialization.

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By Johan J

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Sep 22, 2020

I loved it.

By Sveinbjorn O

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Feb 4, 2019

Cool stuff.

By Sofia R F

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Jul 23, 2018

very useful

By Arie O

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Sep 17, 2017

nice course

By Andrea V S H

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Oct 29, 2020

Fenomenal!

By Luana N M

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Oct 6, 2020

Amazing :)

By RAJSHREE N

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Aug 17, 2020

i loved it

By 陈雨寒

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Dec 26, 2019

very good!

By Daniel H

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Aug 3, 2018

Exellent!!

By Carlos S

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Apr 4, 2021

Excelente

By MILLER A M L

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Nov 23, 2020

Excelente

By Jhonny I

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Nov 13, 2020

very good

By ANYELO A M P

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Jul 28, 2020

Excellent

By Erick D A C G

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Apr 7, 2020

Amazing !

By FREDERICK O A

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Feb 13, 2018

Excellent

By Edwin C L

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Jun 5, 2017

Excellent

By ANGELO C D

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May 2, 2019

good one

By Carlos F N

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Jan 15, 2019

Awesome!

By Jon P

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Oct 5, 2018

Awesome!

By Andrés B O C

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Sep 7, 2017

great¡¡¡

By Henjo L

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Apr 18, 2017

Awesome

By SeeinTan

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Sep 18, 2017

Great！

By Rizqi A

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Aug 7, 2022

ntaps

By 15451

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Sep 14, 2019

太棒了！

By Paulo D G S C

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Sep 3, 2019

good