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How to Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists

Playlists have become the ultimate music discovery tool, helping artists reach new audiences and boost their streams. From algorithmic to editorial, getting your music on a Spotify playlist is a marketing tactic artists need to hack. Learn how to navigate the process and maximize your chances of your music landing on a playlist.

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Mental Practice Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide for Musicians

As a musician, not all of your practice will be on your instrument. Some of it will be in your head, and some of it may even be on objects that just look like your instrument. We call this mental practice, and in this excerpt from Barbara LaFitte’s Practicing Techniques for Musicians course, the former principal oboist in the Boston Ballet Orchestra shares tips on how to practice your instrument when you just aren’t able to actually play your instrument.

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Can You Copyright Choreography? Inside the Murky Legal Landscape of TikTok Dances

Navigating copyright infringement and protecting your choreography in the era of TikTok dances is becoming increasingly important. See how Berklee Online instructors advise you on laying down the law when trying to get your dance to trend.

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Arooj Aftab on ‘Vulture Prince,’ Grammy Noms, Genius.com, and Berklee

Arooj Aftab began getting notice with a viral cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” more than 15 years ago, but with two Grammy nominations, she has finally arrived. Her “Vulture Prince” album is a stunning work that frequently reaches transcendence.

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Loudon Stearns

Loudon Stearns is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, a course author and instructor at Berklee Online, and an active media artist. He focuses on the latest electronic music styles and music-technology innovations, showing students how to analyze contemporary styles and use the latest music technology in their own works. For Berklee Online, he teaches Composing and Producing Electronic Music 1 and 2, which he authored; Sylvia Massy: Creative Approaches to Recording and Producing Music, co-authored with Sylvia Massy, Chrissy Tignor, and Chris Johnson; and four Ableton Live courses—Fundamentals, Sampling, Non-Linear Creative Strategies and Composition, and Synthesis and DSP—all co-authored with Erin Barra.



An electronic musician composing house music on a synthesizer.

How to Make Electronic House Music at Home

By Loudon Stearns

As many of us are confined to our homes and searching for feel-good music, what better time than now to explore house music? Loudon Stearns shares the elements needed to produce a house song.

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