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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. Samy Elgazzar, a graduate of Berklee College of Music and a successful composer, will be your Teaching Assistant (TA) for the course....

Top reviews

KA
Apr 13, 2020

Hands down the best music theory course I've ever taken. I had trouble with understanding theory in the past, but this course has made it so incredibly easy. I'm so happy with the results!

PK
Jul 5, 2020

This course has been extremely helpful for me to get started on learning music theory. The course material is top quality (video, study guides, assignments etc.) Highly recommended!

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By P V

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Jul 22, 2020

The course is wonderful!!!

By henry j c g

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Sep 30, 2019

excelente el profe george.

By Fernando C G d C

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Nov 6, 2017

GREAT! THANK YOU VERY MUCH

By Camilo A C P

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Aug 23, 2016

Great Teacher and Pianist!

By Rashmita S

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Jun 6, 2020

It was an amazing session

By Rhenius T

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Jul 5, 2020

nice i have learned alot

By Owens H

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May 4, 2020

Very good online course!

By Arthur S d M

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Jun 12, 2019

Amazing!!!! I love it!!!

By gaurav t

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Oct 8, 2017

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Music Tutor, Thanks.

By James I A

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Nov 18, 2020

Very easy to understand

By Ronaldo R

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Dec 26, 2016

This is a great course.

By Hamidreza H O

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Mar 24, 2019

Thanks for everything.

By Yann C

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Mar 7, 2017

Excellent. thank you.

By Faelmar O

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Oct 26, 2020

What a great course.

By MayTweTarMyintAung

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Oct 25, 2020

It was great and fun

By Varghese G

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Jun 3, 2020

Great for beginners!

By David A P C

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May 27, 2020

I loved this course!

By María J C B

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Jan 25, 2018

I loved this course!

By Jenalyn L

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Dec 13, 2020

Such a fun course!

By Xingchun W

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Oct 14, 2017

very great course!

By Mauricio M P R

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Oct 1, 2020

completo material

By Carlos R F

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Aug 2, 2020

Valuable content!

By David S

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Jul 17, 2020

I love everything

By Christina B

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Jun 3, 2019

Learned so much!!

By Magda A

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Oct 31, 2017

Excelente maestro

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