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.

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!

Producer Sean Slade Recalls an Explosive Recording Session with Lou Reed

Producer and Berklee Online course author Sean Slade tells how a recording session he did with Lou Reed blew up, literally!

‘We Shall Overcome’: E. Michael Harrington on Freeing a Civil Rights Song to Public Domain

High profile copyright expert E. Michael Harrington tells the tale of bringing the Civil Rights-era anthem, “We Shall Overcome” into the public domain.

Combat Rock: Berklee Online Student Fights Military PTSD One Track at a Time with Vet-Traxx Project

Eric Lewis, a 20-year veteran of the United States Navy, has faced the sort of difficulties through his life and career which might be unfathomable to a civilian. But music was there with him.

Prince Charles Alexander on Hip-Hop and Recording the Notorious B.I.G.

Prince Charles Alexander may have engineered some of the most iconic rap recordings of the ’90s, but it wasn’t until he listened to the Notorious B.I.G. that he realized how much it mattered.

Berklee Onsite 2018 Social Media Recap

On Friday June 1, 2018, we welcomed nearly 300 attendees to the Berklee campus in Boston, MA for our fourth annual Berklee Onsite music conference.

Susan Rogers on Recording with Prince

Susan Rogers—who teaches the graduate course Psychoacoustics in Music Production for Berklee Online—worked as Prince’s staff engineer from 1983-1987. She discusses an average day with Prince.

Rock On, Berklee Online Class of 2018!

Berklee Online’s Class of 2018 is full of inspirational students, many of whom took unlikely paths to get here.

Pete Muller gets Mega-Meta about Music, and talks BerkleeNYC

When people ask Pete Muller what he does for a living, he’ll usually tell them that it depends on the day.