BERKLEE COLLEGE SONGWRITING AND ARRANGING LESSONS

Pentatonic Scale for Songwriters
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Do you love blues, rock or rhythm and blues songs, but don't know how to write one? Berklee College of Music faculty and successful songwriter Jimmy Kachulis, teaches you how to write blues, rock, rhythm and blues songs by adding certain chords and notes to your compositions.
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Arranging Bass Notation
Author: Suzanne Dean
Lesson description
Berklee College of Music faculty member Suzanne Dean explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section (drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards). This lesson discusses bass range, transposition and notation.
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Blues Progressions in Songwriting
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Don't chain your melody to the chord changes in your composition. Set your melody free with the major pentatonic scale. Berklee College of Music faculty and successful songwriter Jimmy Kachulis teaches you how.
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Effective Rhyming
Author: Pat Pattison
Lesson description
Pat Pattison, a veteran songwriter, has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest how to write truly great lyrics. The exercises in this lesson will help you eliminate some trial and error and start writing better lyrics more quickly and efficiently.
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Blues Lesson Songwriting
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Berklee College of Music faculty and successful songwriter Jimmy Kachulis, teaches you how to write great songs. In this lesson, he explains how a major pentatonic blues scale can be used in a melody over any major chord progression.
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Repetition Techniques for Building Song Sections
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Explore different repetition techniques in songwriting with Berklee College of Music faculty member Jimmy Kachulis. You'll learn when to use exact, varied, and internal repetition and how each enables you to build effective song sections.
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Basic Melody In Songwriting
Author: Jack Perricone
Lesson description
Berklee College of Music faculty member and successful songwriter Jack Perricone shares lessons from the songwriting curriculum he teaches at Berklee. In this lesson, he teaches some of the tips and techniques of writing hit songs.
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Rhyming Basics
Author: Pat Pattison
Lesson description
This lesson has a very specific purpose: to help you find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing. Make rhyme work for you and your lyric writing will greatly improve.
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Writing a Chorus
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Learn how to write a great chorus for your song with this lesson from Berklee College of Music faculty member Jimmy Kachulis. You'll explore ways to set a title and create a chorus that your audience will remember.
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Basic Lyrical Elements
Author: Pat Pattison
Lesson description
Pat Pattison, a veteran songwriter, has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest how to write truly great lyrics. The exercises in this lesson will help you eliminate some trial and error and start writing better lyrics more quickly and efficiently.
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Using Voicings in Music Arrangements
Author: Jerry Gates
Lesson description
Berklee College of Music faculty member Jerry Gates teaches you how to use the drop-2 mechanical voicing technique in your arrangements, when you want a slightly larger sound or because the range of the melody goes high enough to warrant making the structure larger.
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Power Chord Progressions in Songwriting
Author: Jimmy Kachulis
Lesson description
Berklee College of Music faculty member Jimmy Kachulis shows you some of the powerful chord progressions in songwriting.
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