Songwriter Shane Adams with a guitar over his shoulder next to a bridge

Songwriting Tips with Shane Adams

The most important quality in songwriting is melody. In this video tutorial, Shane Adams provides songwriting strategies for making your melodies stronger.

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6 Red Flags to Watch for before Signing with a Manager, Agent, or A&R Rep

Now more than ever it is important that artists arm themselves with business smarts and knowledge to avoid falling into a bad or even predatory business deal.

5 Ways to Stop Writing the Same Old Song

When songwriters write with any regularity, it’s natural to reach a point where many of our songs sound similar. Here are 5 ways out of a songwriting rut!

Berklee Online student Eirini Tornesaki singing into a microphone in a recording studio.

Vocal Recording: 10 Tips for a Successful Studio Session

Recording vocals is more stressful than most other instruments, because the quality of the recording depends on so many factors that are all up to you!

Using Melodics to Make Music Practice Not Feel Like Practice

The key to the Melodics approach is making practice fun and productive, and Sam Gribben is adamant that five minutes of practice each day will pay dividends.

How to Market Your Music

Creating an album or planning a tour is only half the battle. An effective multi-channel, diversified, and integrated music marketing campaign helps make sure the right people buy and engage with you.

Fraser T. Smith Produces Cover of Foo Fighters’ ‘Times Like These’

Berklee Online student and Grammy-winning producer Fraser T. Smith is helping to raise money to combat the coronavirus with a new cover of the Foo Fighter’s hit “Times Like These.”

Funk and R&B Guitar Tutorial with Thaddeus Hogarth

Berklee Online guitar instructor Thaddeus Hogarth demonstrates the importance of the pentatonic scale in funk and R&B music.

Commercial Appeal

The music industry is in such rough shape that some of your favorite bands have resorted to selling automobiles.

A set of headphones on a table.

What is Reverb in Music?

Reverb should be applied as a parallel effect, on a bus, in the send/aux return position.