These videos from Berklee Online’s Artist Management course offer a wide-ranging look at today’s music industry, covering everything from finding the right manager and lawyer to understanding sync licensing and AI’s impact. Featuring insights from industry professionals, they highlight the key decisions artists face when building sustainable, successful careers.

In music mastering, loudspeakers, room acoustics, and our ears play pivotal roles in shaping what we perceive as quality sound. In this excerpt from the Berklee Online course Audio Mastering Techniques, professors Marc-Dieter Einstmann and Jonathan Wyner discuss the importance of these three components.

Ken “Pooch” Van Druten has worked as front of house engineer and production master behind Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Justin Bieber, Iron Maiden, KISS, Guns N’ Roses, Linkin Park, and many more. In this course excerpt he details exactly what an average day (and night) on the job is like. Spoiler: It’s anything but average!

Choosing the correct microphone for the job is key to achieving excellent mix results. Nowhere is this more apparent than when you’re miking a drum kit for a live show. In this course excerpt from the Microphone Techniques for Live Sound Production course, you’ll learn the right way (and some of the wrong ways) to mic a drum kit.

These voice leading examples provide guidelines to help you learn how to compose so each voice moves smoothly from note to note, while you create rich harmonic changes.

In this 12-part video series, Berklee Online course author Amanda Monaco teaches you the fundamentals of intermediate guitar.

We all have dynamic lives that cannot be predicted. So how do we hold onto our goals? The answer is simple. It is not so important to hold onto goals as it is to actually have goals.

Learn to craft dynamic bass grooves using a method called the question-and-answer technique.​

In order to use chord substitution as a reharmonization technique, you must understand the division of the seven diatonic chords.