Berklee Educators
How to Play Slap Bass
One of the most challenging aspects of playing slap bass is maintaining an even, full, clear sound. Keep on practicing these exercises and you’ll notice significant improvement in your slapping.
Piano Voicing Techniques
Understanding the basics of piano voicings and the use of common tensions is a first step in creating effective orchestrations of reharmonized melodies.
Modal Harmony in Jazz Composition
The modes have provided fertile musical soil for jazz composers since the late 1950s. In effect, modes can be viewed as displacements of the major scale.
Voice Leading for Guitar
In jazz, you will encounter only seven kinds of diatonic seventh chords (from major, melodic minor, or harmonic minor keys). This article will show you how to voice lead smoothly and easily between these chords and their variations.
Funk and Rock Drum Rhythms
In this lesson for drummers, learn how to play basic funk beats with notation by Berklee Online percussion instructor Larry Finn.
