A musician sitting at a piano generating song ideas.

Song Ideas: 20 Tips for Songwriting Inspiration

Berklee Online course author Andrea Stolpe provides 20 tips to help you jumpstart your songwriting process and generate song ideas.

Band Name Ideas to Stand Out on Google

You know what SEO means, right? Search Engine Optimization: Optimize your band name for the search engines! Don’t pick something ungoogleable!

A musician with their guitar sitting on a bridge.

How to Write a Bridge to a Song

The problem with bridges is we’re often more clear about what we don’t want them to be than what we do.

John Escobar who teaches ambisonics at Berklee.

Ambisonics with Berklee’s John Escobar

In this series, Berklee Online instructor John Escobar discusses the key points in understanding ambisonics, specifically what ambisonics are, how to capture them, and what to do with them in post-production.

Psychoacoustics in Music Production course author Susan Rogers.

Learn Psychoacoustics with Susan Rogers

In this video series, Berklee Online’s Susan Rogers discusses some of the principle ideas of Psychoacoustics.

Learn Architectural Acoustics with John Storyk

John Storyk began his career in the late 1960s, building Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix. In this tutorial, he teaches you all about architectural acoustics.

Learn Music Business with John Kellogg

This series of videos from Berklee Online instructor John Kellogg will help introduce viewers to key contemporary concepts in the music industry.

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.

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!

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Songwriting Techniques Using Destination and Object Writing

With these songwriting tips from Berklee Online instructor Andrea Stolpe, learn how to write lyrics using the destination writing technique.