Learn various music composition techniques and resources that will help you get started as you write your own piece of music.

Learn the 10 scales that cover 95 percent of all jazz improvisation situations with the help of Gary Burton.

Berklee Online music arrangement course instructor and author Jerry Gates shares five tips to help you become a music arranger.

Tony Trischka’s list of collaborators includes Pete Seeger, Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, and Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, so it’s no surprise that he has been called “perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world.” 

Beth Denisch’s new book presents practical ways to use counterpoint in today’s musical industry, whether you’re writing rock songs, film scores, EDM tracks, or any type of music.

In order to use chord substitution as a reharmonization technique, you must understand the division of the seven diatonic chords.

The modes have provided fertile musical soil for jazz composers since the late 1950s. In effect, modes can be viewed as displacements of the major scale.

In jazz, you will encounter only seven kinds of diatonic seventh chords (from major, melodic minor, or harmonic minor keys). This article will show you how to voice lead smoothly and easily between these chords and their variations.

Learn how to master the major and minor music modes with this excerpt from Berklee Online’s Music Theory 201 course by Paul Schmeling.