JC
2020年10月12日
This is an excellent course, perfectly planned, motivating and inspiring. The teachers are impressive an there is a lot to learn in this course. I highly recommended. Thanks so much for this course!
AM
2020年6月26日
This course provides me to learn more about song arrangements and helping to my ongoing projects.
Thanks Coursera and my Mentors Sarah Brindell and Bonnie Hayes.
創建者 Cecile S
•2020年9月19日
On the positive note, the course had me tackle writing with the Logic Pro X, but what I really need is a course on LogicPro, not how to add horns or violins to a song. The course seems to address rock musicians. I have much experience playing Blues and Jazz. The sensibility of these genres is very different.
The course took me way longer than a few hours a week, as described in the weekly lessons. But that's due to my lack of knowledge with the software.
I was rather disappointed as I found the videos self evident. I have a master's degree in music and I was expecting the content to be deeper. Now I understand that most songwriters are not theoreticians.
I was mainly disappointed with the lack of support through the forum. Through the duration of the course, I entered many questions and never received answers or feedback. Only the final project was reviewed with "add more instruments". Which I had already done. To satisfy this request, I doubled a cello line with violins an octave higher. That would not be what I call positive feedback. The music has its demands. Too much is the enemy of the good. But musicality and taste are definitely a matter of personal taste . II attempted to find out who had written this comment. Was it from a student or the instructor? Anonymous feedback!
It would seem facil to put out a few videos (that in itself is not easy) and let students grade each other with no input from instructors.
Wish you had a course on Logic Pro X. I search but did not find
I know I am very demanding and critical. Overall it was a rewarding experience. Thanks
創建者 Sylvain L
•2022年10月1日
This course is actually more of a masterclass, structured around conversations with music teachers and musicians.
While this could have been an interesting format, the quality of the content is uneven and remains a bit abstract . For example, it would have been useful to have more concrete case studies like the ed sheeran NYT video.
All in all, I'm not sure it's worth the investment, unless you go through it at the back of studying Pat Pattison's 'Writing the Lyrics' and Scarlet Keys' 'Writing the Music' (both of which I strongly recommend).
Finally, the coursera UX for this course is outdated and cumbersome. And the peer-review system needs a complete overhaul.
4 stars for the course, minus one star for the substandard UX.
創建者 Saeed S
•2020年1月6日
a good course which gives an overview of the arrangement prequisites.
創建者 Vedyakova A K
•2020年6月29日
This is a very informative course for songwriters of various skill levels. It is suitable for beginner songwriters as well as for those who are active as a songwriter for a long time. This course will also be useful to composers of the academic direction of music, since many methods and theoretical information intersect with classical courses such as arranging, theory etc.
創建者 Paul S
•2022年2月21日
This course took my songwriting to a different level and I now better understand how to arrange my songs to sound more professional
創建者 William A B
•2020年6月21日
The content, the invited artist and the elements are all that you need to start songwriting
創建者 Florian G
•2020年10月19日
The tutors are good and nice and I like the interviews. Unfortunately, the teaching materials and methods are a bit outdated. I don't know any musician that is working without a DAW. The handwritten arranging charts and absolutely (boring) standard instruments doesn't help to excite the listener anymore. Nowadays you should use way more electronic stuff in your songs and get the right groove and instruments with modern VSTs. Every DAW I know has the same basic functions so that there is no reason to ignore modern music producing and arranging methods. I also missed some extra or insider tips from the tutors experience. There are many YouTube channels that are more interesting and to the point for free.
創建者 Socks W
•2021年2月14日
Pretty embarrassing for a Berklee course. The captions are full of errors, one video was filmed over Zoom with no professional backgrounds or lighting, and a number of quiz questions were literally impossible to answer because the videos preceding them hadn't provided the necessary information. There are nuggets of good info in here, but most of it feels disorganized and directionless. Would not recommend investing time or money in.
創建者 Richard
•2020年6月6日
I did not find this course to be beneficial whatsoever. The information presented is solely in a self-learning mechanism where the videos are senseless talk and reading material is left for the learner to cover.
創建者 Yoga A S H
•2020年5月14日
It was such a good journey! The material taught are holistic and proven to be very significant for newbie songwriters like me. The teachers are enthusiastic and comprised of exceptionally good musicians from whom I learned a lot. Although the course could be improved by adding musical effects outside the instrumental sections such as ambiences, risers, etc, the course had done a great job at covering the basics and the many popular intrumental part of song arrangement. Keep up the good work!
創建者 Swedborg C
•2021年11月23日
Maybe you can add some sort of recommended bibliography, or some charts (PDF) on ranges, techniques and standard uses of music instruments included in videos and readings. However, I enjoyed a lot your material, and it's perfect as a secondary material for my class students.
創建者 Juan C C
•2020年10月12日
This is an excellent course, perfectly planned, motivating and inspiring. The teachers are impressive an there is a lot to learn in this course. I highly recommended. Thanks so much for this course!
創建者 Ashwin D M
•2020年6月27日
This course provides me to learn more about song arrangements and helping to my ongoing projects.
Thanks Coursera and my Mentors Sarah Brindell and Bonnie Hayes.
創建者 Ishan D
•2020年12月2日
A phenomenal course for every music aspirant. It really helped me to arrange my song in very creative way. Thank you Bonnie and Sarah!!
創建者 Arturo D Á B
•2020年12月18日
Amazing course! You will understand concepts on a practical way. It pushes you to work with a lot of style and structure.
創建者 George B H
•2021年3月14日
excellent course, I learned a lot more in this class than I have learned in workshops or reading.
創建者 Luis R G
•2020年6月16日
Great course, it's short but you can learn lot of things, specially recomended for beginners.
創建者 Wee C Y
•2022年1月11日
I learnt more than I expect..... Worth all the time for this course!
創建者 Mario A
•2021年9月5日
Great course, I loved it! Very usefull for songwriters
創建者 Beautiful M
•2022年7月11日
That was a great course, especially for beginners.
創建者 Sharmond S
•2021年4月21日
Great Instructors. I gained a lot from this course.
創建者 Pedro C
•2020年4月23日
Very well organized, from beginning to end.
創建者 George K A J
•2022年6月13日
FANTASTIC COURSE. WISH IT NEVER ENDED.
創建者 朱大帅
•2020年1月29日
very useful course!
創建者 Joaquim C
•2020年4月12日
Great course!