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About the Course

After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training. The course will introduce you to new key signatures, including minor tonalities, and how they are constructed. You will train your ear to hear minor intervals and 7th chords. You will learn how to build 7th chords, and how to build common chord progressions. You will also learn the major pentatonic scale and how to construct melodies using this scale. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform an 8-measure composition using popular chord progressions and the Major pentatonic scale. Just like Developing Your Musicianship I, the course is designed to impart the joy of creating music and sharing it with others....

Top reviews

RS

Jul 7, 2020

This is a helpful, top class programme. Do it at a flexible pace. The instructor is excellent and the assignments make sense. I learn about chord progressions, chord charts, and F and G major scales.

MA

Jul 28, 2019

Instructor is charming, didactic, and very fun to listen. Concepts are explained gradually and clearly. You definitely need some prior knowledge, so don't take this as your first music course.

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By Gilberto S

Jan 10, 2018

EXCELLENT COURSE

By Arie O

Sep 17, 2017

excellent course

By Jorge D

May 10, 2020

Great professor

By Gustavo L

Oct 13, 2019

It helped a lot

By brian b

Aug 19, 2019

Still studying.

By Sofia R F

Nov 9, 2018

perfect course.

By Luuk S

Apr 19, 2019

Simply amazing

By Jon P

Oct 7, 2018

Awesome stuff!

By 陈雨寒

Jan 15, 2020

我非常享受这个过程,谢谢!

By Marc Z

May 21, 2019

Great course!

By Mayara S F M

Jun 12, 2017

Great Course!

By ANGELO C D

May 4, 2019

NICE PROJECT

By WIlliam R

May 5, 2020

good stuff!

By Sveinbjorn O

Feb 4, 2019

Cool stuff.

By Sudha S

Jun 22, 2023

Excellent

By Michael F

Jan 7, 2021

Fantastic

By ANYELO A M P

Jul 30, 2020

I love it

By Gabriel M P

Oct 8, 2017

Amazing!!

By Rai S S

Feb 13, 2019

rocks!!!

By Théo T

Jan 7, 2019

Amazing!

By khush

Nov 3, 2018

Awesome

By SeeinTan

Sep 18, 2017

Great!

By Bruno O H

Jan 16, 2021

great

By Luisa F N

Feb 7, 2017

GOOD

By JD B

Jun 27, 2019

The content of this course is well put together and valuable. The teacher is fun and upbeat as well.

However, this course is not for beginners. I've been studying music for over 4 years and I discuss a lot of what I learned through this course with my piano teacher and vocal coach. I needed further explanation and demonstration on the subjects covered in the course. Someone who is new to music would most likely find this course difficult to pass. This is definitely for more advanced people you know a good bit of basic music theory etc