Developing Your Musicianship
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Developing Your Musicianship at Coursera Overview
Duration | 17 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Developing Your Musicianship at Coursera Highlights
- 20% started a new career after completing these courses.
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Developing Your Musicianship at Coursera Course details
- 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.
- Samy Elgazzar, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a successful composer, will be your Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course.
Developing Your Musicianship at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to Developing Your Musicianship
Welcome to the Course
A Note From Your Teaching Assistant
Connect with Your Classmates
Join the Discussion!
Course Resources
Earn A Course Certificate
What Are Your Goals?
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: Why Are Harmony and Ear Training Important?
Important Definitions
Structure of the Major Scale
Sharps and Flats
Major 2nd and 3rd Intervals
Major 2nd and Major 3rd Interval Practice
Tonal Center
Berklee Student Performance: Boston Marathon, "I Don't Have a Song for That"
Lesson Review and Assignment Overview
Join Your Study Group
Write the C Major Scale
The Major Scale
SELF ASSESSMENT: Write The C Major Scale
PARTICIPATION: Find and Share a Song in C Major
Major and Minor Triads
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: What's Your Story?
Review from Lesson 1
Perfect 4th and Perfect 5th Intervals
Interval Practice: Major 2nds, Major 3rds, Perfect 4ths, and Perfect 5ths
Building Major and Minor Triads
I IV V Chord Progression
Berklee Student Performance: "Najat 1958"
Lesson Review and Assignment Overview
Weekly Practice
Join Your Study Group
Writing and Practicing Major Triads
Major and Minor Triads
SELF ASSESSMENT: Writing and Practicing Major Triads
PARTICIPATION: Writing Major Chords
Minor Pentatonic Scale
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: Advice for Studying Music
Review
Major 6th and Major 7th Intervals
Building and Singing the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Berklee Student Performance Spotlight: "Work In Progress"
Lesson Review and Assignment Overview
Weekly Practice
Join Your Study Group
Identifying Intervals
Minor Pentatonic Scale
SELF ASSESSMENT: Identifying Intervals
PARTICIPATION: Identifying Intervals
Major and Dominant Seventh Chords
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: Audition Tips
Review
7th Chords
Dominant 7th Chords and Blues Progression
7th Chords Practice
Berklee Student Performance: "New Kind Of Dirty"
Lesson Review and Assignment Overview
Weekly Practice
Join Your Study Group
Identifying the Blues Progression
Major and Dominant Seventh Chords
SELF ASSESSMENT: Identifying the Blues Progression
PARTICIPATION: Identifying the Blues Form
Song Form
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: What Career Does Your Major Prepare You For?
Review and 7-3-5 Chord Voicing
AABA and Blues Song Forms
4/4 and 3/4 Time Signatures
The Chord Chart
Berklee Student Performance: "Chuk for Chick"
Lesson Review and Assignment Overview
Weekly Practice
Join Your Study Group
Writing a Chord Chart
Song Form
SELF ASSESSMENT: Writing a Chord Chart
PARTICIPATION: Writing a Chord Chart
Practicing What You Know and Moving Forward
Berklee Faculty/Student Spotlight: What Do You Like Most About Berklee?
The Major Scale Beyond C
Review: The Major and Minor Triad, Major 7th and Dominant 7th Chords
Composing a Blues Riff Tune Using the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Practicing What You Know and Moving Forward
Berklee Student Performance: "La Musica No Se Toca"
Weekly Practice
Join Your Study Group
Review
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