Broadway performer, Taylor Swift touring vocalist, and Berklee Online alum Kamilah Marshall will give the 2025 Berklee Onsite keynote address on May 30, 2025.

​In this excerpt from Anthony Vitti and Lenny Stallworth’s Slap Bass course, you’ll learn to craft dynamic bass grooves using a method called the question-and-answer technique.​

On May 30-31, Berklee Online will hold its eighth annual Berklee Onsite conference at the Berklee College of Music campus in Boston. Berklee Onsite 2024 is two days of workshops, panels, performances, and networking events, open to Berklee Online students and the music community at large.

Debbie Cavalier has led Berklee Online from an ambitious idea to the world’s largest online music school—and she did it with kindness at the core. Now, as she receives a top leadership honor, she reflects on her journey, from MIDI in the ’80s to AI in the classroom.

The brand new Berklee Real Book is a collection of more than 300 songs that have shaped the college’s curriculum, complete with insights from Berklee instructors. This release brings the Real Book full circle, tracing its roots back to the 1970s, when enterprising students compiled and distributed it under less-than-legal circumstances.

See Berklee Online songwriting instructors’ Grammy predictions for Song of the Year 2025, with insights on Chappell Roan, Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and more.

Berklee Online is a chart-topping college! When it comes to online education, Berklee Online reached the No. 5 spot on Newsweek and Statista’s 2025 list of America’s Top Online Schools.

Explore the surprising military backgrounds of some of music’s biggest stars. From Elvis to Jimi to Sturgill, we take you through the journeys of legends who swapped their stage clothes for uniforms—like Shaggy in the Marine Corps and Johnny Cash decoding Soviet messages—before (and sometimes while) making their marks on the music world.

Music education and technology are constantly evolving together, and Berklee Online’s newest development, a chatbot named BOB, is a testament to that. And before you ask, BOB stands for Berklee Online Bot.