Modulation 101: Berklee Online Instructors on How to Leap into a Key Change
Modulation can inject a song with a jolt of interest, but it takes skill to make a key change work. Be advised, songwriters: Use modulation in moderation. And learn from these Berklee Online instructors, sharing their favorite songs to feature key changes.
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Melodic Shapes in Music Arranging
Music arranger Jerry Gates explains how to create music arrangements for linear, circular, and square melodic shapes in this excerpt from his course “Arranging: Woodwinds and Strings.”
How Student Shelbie Rassler Created the Viral “What the World Needs Now” Video
Shelbie Rassler, a senior composition student at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a Berklee Online student, orchestrated a video of 75 of her peers performing “What the World Needs Now.” She shares how she did it.
5 Skills You Need to Become a Music Arranger
Berklee Online music arrangement course instructor and author Jerry Gates shares five tips to help you become a music arranger.
Kip Winger Talks Grammy Nomination and Berklee Online Experience
Kip Winger humbly refers to himself as “a rock guy who had some hits in the ’80s,” which is only part of the picture.
Arranging for Horns with Jerry Gates
Jerry Gates’s work as an arranger, orchestrator, composer, and producer have been featured worldwide, on the concert stage and for TV shows and commercials.
