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How to Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists

Playlists have become the ultimate music discovery tool, helping artists reach new audiences and boost their streams. From algorithmic to editorial, getting your music on a Spotify playlist is a marketing tactic artists need to hack. Learn how to navigate the process and maximize your chances of your music landing on a playlist.

A screenshot of the Berklee Online Ear Trainer VR game, which shows two mallets that are drumming a rhythm and the points earned for doing it correctly.

Berklee Online Brings Ear Training to Virtual Reality with New Game

Improving your musical ear doesn’t have to feel like a chore. Berklee Online’s new virtual reality (VR) Ear Trainer makes practicing rhythm, harmony, and scale degrees a fun and immersive experience.

A dancer stands against a background of smartphones, holding the scales of justice aloft to symbolize copyright in the age of TikTok dances

Can You Copyright Choreography? Inside the Murky Legal Landscape of TikTok Dances

By Ale Gil

Navigating copyright infringement and protecting your choreography in the era of TikTok dances is becoming increasingly important. See how Berklee Online instructors advise you on laying down the law when trying to get your dance to trend.

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Newsweek Ranks Berklee Online No. 5 on List of America’s Top Online Schools 2025

Berklee Online is a chart-topping college! When it comes to online education, Berklee Online reached the No. 5 spot on Newsweek and Statista’s 2025 list of America’s Top Online Schools.

An illustration shows the side profile of a woman's head, and inside her mind we see that she is thinking of how she plays her oboe.

Mental Practice Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide for Musicians

As a musician, not all of your practice will be on your instrument. Some of it will be in your head, and some of it may even be on objects that just look like your instrument. We call this mental practice, and in this excerpt from Barbara LaFitte’s Practicing Techniques for Musicians course, the former principal oboist in the Boston Ballet Orchestra shares tips on how to practice your instrument when you just aren’t able to actually play your instrument.

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Keyboard Rigs for Live Performance: Choosing the Right Setup

Creating the perfect keyboard rig for live performances is all about matching your setup to the gig at hand, whether you’re playing a cozy club, a grand corporate event, or embarking on a nationwide tour. With the help of Adriana Balic (Berklee course author and keyboardist for P!nk), learn how to choose the right keyboard rig to ensure your performance is seamless and stress-free, no matter where you’re playing.

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Nathaniel Harder Taps Berklee Online Classmates to Score ‘Thank You, Places!’ Soundtrack

By Ale Gil

After completing Berklee Online’s Film Scoring grad program, Nathaniel Harder turned to a reliable resource—the talented classmates he met in his courses—to score a 31-song soundtrack for the dark comedy Thank You, Places!

Elvis Presley, pictured here in uniform, was assigned to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, West Germany.

Beyond Elvis: 15 Musicians Who Served in the Military

Explore the surprising military backgrounds of some of music’s biggest stars. From Elvis to Jimi to Sturgill, we take you through the journeys of legends who swapped their stage clothes for uniforms—like Shaggy in the Marine Corps and Johnny Cash decoding Soviet messages—before (and sometimes while) making their marks on the music world.

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Remembering Steve Morse

Steve Morse was a legendary music journalist, having served as the senior rock critic for the Boston Globe for three decades, and on the nominating committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was also a Berklee Online instructor, who put all of his heart into his Rock History course. He passed away after a brief illness in October of 2024.

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BOB’s Got Your Back: How Berklee Online’s New Chatbot is Changing Music Education

Music education and technology are constantly evolving together, and Berklee Online’s newest development, a chatbot named BOB, is a testament to that. And before you ask, BOB stands for Berklee Online Bot.