{"id":20939,"date":"2024-06-11T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/?p=20939"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:13:24","slug":"courtney-harrell-on-her-own-secret-for-navigating-the-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/courtney-harrell-on-her-own-secret-for-navigating-the-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Harrell on Her Own Secret for \u2018Navigating the Music Industry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-secret-behind-courtney-harrell-s-versatile-career-and-success-as-a-songwriter-and-producer\">The Secret Behind Courtney Harrell\u2019s Versatile Career and Success as a Songwriter and Producer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney Harrell\u2019s credits in the music business represent such a wide range of experience that her career reads like the tracklist on the ultimate industry mixtape: each hard-won achievement is a song in a different tempo, key, and genre. At the age of 15 she began studying music with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berklee.edu\/city-music\" target=\"_blank\">Berklee\u2019s City Music<\/a> program, and attended undergrad on a full scholarship. She has co-written songs that have been sung by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/4l2mIyCJ0ShPju77huhD9H?si=b5e4f33046b04c5a\" target=\"_blank\">Mary J. Blige<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0vyQdRbRJRRY8GGuM8eVVI?si=bf8e257acce2416c\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/5OL0HH0rTsiJNAMWonCF8F?si=9a168cfda5dc4a6b\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, and more. She has written music featured in shows like <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tunefind.com\/show\/greys-anatomy\/season-13\/38148\" target=\"_blank\">Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/a><\/em> and movies like <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0XgyAhZ70xUnFpoPVEX9yM?si=ed2926f6d777406e\" target=\"_blank\">Think Like a Man<\/a><\/em>. She has taught music in public schools. She has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnlegend\/status\/14852637644\" target=\"_blank\">toured with John Legend as a background singer<\/a>. She was a semi-finalist on <em>The Voice <\/em>(watch her amazing audition below!), and now she\u2019s a producer on <em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>. She says she has been able to build such a versatile r\u00e9sum\u00e9 by following her inner compass, which she refers to as \u201cthe snap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Voice 2016 Blind Audition - Courtney Harrell- &#039;Let It Go&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7wuJF2eNQ84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><strong>During Courtney Harrell\u2019s 2016 audition for <em>The Voice<\/em>, she gained the attention of Blake Shelton, and Alicia Keys, the latter of whom literally smashed her red button!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtney says she was first able to identify \u201cthe snap\u201d when working with vocal coach <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/gonickcooper.komi.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Cooper<\/a>. At the time she was at a crossroads in her career. She had penned a number of hits for well-known artists, but because of the nature of streaming service payment models, the royalties weren\u2019t sufficient enough to keep her afloat. She lost her house. She was preparing to launch her career as a singer, but then she lost her voice. Nodules had developed on her vocal cords, so the sessions with Cooper were essential, if she wanted to continue.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/masterclasses?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-link-from-article\" target=\"_blank\">TAKE A LOOK AT UPCOMING MASTERCLASSES<\/a><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo Nick did this exercise with me where he had me close my eyes and I needed to follow his voice from the other side of the warehouse,\u201d she recounts. \u201cAnd then he was snapping as he was talking to me.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says experiencing the snap in the echo of Cooper\u2019s studio was a revelation because although she was able to hear what the vocal coach was saying, she could feel the snap inside of her body, which was much more valuable. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018If you don\u2019t learn how to master this in your life, you won\u2019t be able to learn how to pivot when your voice is doing something that it shouldn\u2019t be doing.\u2019 And essentially I was healed, which as evidence of that is being on <em>The Voice<\/em>,\u201d she says. \u201cI would liken my career to that: It\u2019s like listening to someone chatting, \u2018This is what you need to be doing,\u2019 But that snap is like, \u2018Nope, I\u2019m over here. I\u2019m over here and this is where you need to be.\u2019 Everyone was saying, \u2018This is how you make it,\u2019 but that\u2019s not how I made it. I made it by paying attention to, \u2018but now I\u2019m over here.\u2019 And so sometimes that \u2018over here\u2019 for me was teaching kids in Boston Public Schools.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so coincidentally, the most recent hit that Courtney Harrell co-wrote is called \u201cSNAP.\u201d Recorded by Rosa Linn and released in 2022, the song currently has more than 1.3 billion streams on Spotify. And the way that Courtney Harrell came to co-write it came from following her own snap. She was working in casting for <em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> at the time, and she had reached another crossroads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/76OGwb5RA9h4FxQPT33ekc?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had said, \u2018Listen, if you want me on this team, I have to have my hands on the talent. I cannot give it over to people who don&#8217;t know what they\u2019re doing,\u2019\u201d she recalls. \u201cThis was the year before I stepped into the producer role, and similar to now, I was like, \u2018I need to get away and I need to write,\u2019 and I got a call about going to Armenia to teach young musicians how to write a pop hit. And I was like, \u2018okay, I don\u2019t know what the heck I\u2019m going to do in Armenia, but it is an answered prayer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says while she was teaching, Rosa Linn came up with the idea for \u201cSNAP,\u201d which leans into different meanings of the word \u201csnap\u201d than the snap that guides Courtney Harrell. The song is about people giving the narrator unwanted advice to just snap her fingers and get over her heartache, but if she has to hear one more person say that, she just might, well, snap. But with this many streams, you probably know what the song is about already.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe genesis of that record is hers,\u201d says Harrell about Rosa Linn, \u201cit\u2019s just me helping her bring it to life, which I think is aligned with what <a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/masterclasses\/get-heard-promoting-yourself-navigating-the-music-industry?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&amp;pid=&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-link-from-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">this class<\/a> is supposed to be about. It\u2019s finding ways to communicate what it is that you have to say to the world, and finding ways to frame it, whether that\u2019s in a song, when you\u2019re recording that song, or whether you\u2019re in the and boardroom, trying to pitch to your team why they need to do whatever you feel that they need to do. It\u2019s the same skill, just framing it differently.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Harrell mentions \u201cthis class,\u201d she\u2019s talking about the masterclass that she is teaching with Berklee Online on August 5, entitled <em>Get Heard: Promoting Yourself &amp; Navigating The Music Industry<\/em>. In it she\u2019ll detail how \u201cthe snap\u201d has led her to trust her instincts in a way that has paid off in a notoriously difficult-to-navigate industry.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to make sure the students are prepared because there really is no preparing for this business unless you get out there, and most people are selling snake oil,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not what you think it is. Let me tell you what it really is and how to best prepare yourself for it. I\u2019m grateful for this because it\u2019s a chance for me to go back and say what I wish someone had said to me.\u201d <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> producer Courtney Harrell discusses how following something that she calls \u201cthe snap\u201d helped guide her through the wild variety of her music career and how it informed <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Get Heard: Promoting Yourself &#038; Navigating The Music Industry (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/masterclasses\/get-heard-promoting-yourself-navigating-the-music-industry?campaign_id=7010Z000001ZkQgQAK&#038;pid=&#038;utm_source=takenote&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-link-from-article\" target=\"_blank\">Get Heard: Promoting Yourself &#038; Navigating The Music Industry<\/a><\/em>, her new Berklee Online masterclass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9564,35,9588],"tags":[9416,9417,9419,9415],"class_list":["post-20939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-features-articles","category-instructor-profiles","category-music-career-advice-articles","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-berklee-city-music","tag-rosa-linn","tag-the-voice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - 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