Studying Music Online

Watch a short video with our Student Advisors discussing Berkleemusic’s Certificate Programs. These multi-course online programs provide students with:

• Solid qualifications and marketable skills for success
• 1-3 years of extensive training with Berklee faculty
• Berklee-certified credentials for their resumes

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Hey there, Liam McCormack, Student Advisor at Berkleemusic here! As we are approaching our Fall Term, starting on Sept 28th, I wanted to take a moment to speak about one of my favorite courses that Berkleemusic offers online, the Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies online songwriting course.

I was a Songwriting major at the Berklee College of Music and I am very familiar with the content in the Tools and Strategies course. In fact, it was Berklee’s exemplary Songwriting curriculum that really drew me to the college. This course is a wonderful introduction into the world of lyric writing and instructs students on brainstorming lyrical ideas, developing rhyming structures, and many of the other subtleties that go into crafting lyrics to communicate a certain emotion and/or story.

Through experimenting with different rhyme patterns, line lengths, syllable stresses, and much more—you will learn how to take your lyrical ideas and creatively map them out to make your song the best it can be for your listener.

In addition to all the great advice and tools you will pick up in the course, you will also benefit immensely from the feedback coming your instructor and your fellow students. As a songwriter, I can recount many times where I have spent hours and hours on a song and then a listener makes a comment or asks a question about the lyrics–and that feedback opens a whole new creative perspective that inspires further revisions and lyrical improvements.

Lyric writing is a form of expression. Expressing a certain emotion–expressing your unique perspective–perhaps through a narrative story, or simply a catchy sing-a-long chorus.

The Lyric Writing: Tools & Strategies course enables you to channel and organize your thoughts and feelings into a catalog of accessible and imaginative songs. Have fun with it!

I hope you check out this  course and many of our other exciting Songwriting courses.

Liam McCormack here. I am a Student Advisor at Berkleemusic. Welcome to Studying Music Online, our new advisor blog, where you’ll get the inside scoop on what’s happening at Berkleemusic, in and out of the online classroom.

I know that many of you have spoken to us via phone and email, but I wanted to give you a bit more insight into our Advising team and all of our responsibilities at Berkleemusic.

Within our Advising team, there are two sides: Recruitment and Retention.

The Recruitment Advisor’s main responsibilities are to educate potential students about the many details of the Berkleemusic online learning experience. For example, how our courses function, which course is best for the student’s goals, how financing works, our affiliation with Berklee College of Music, our certificate programs, and more.

The Recruitment Advisors keep in touch with the student as they make decisions about their enrollment plans, answering any questions along the way, up until the point where the student actually enrolls in a course or certificate program.

At that point, the student is assigned to a specific Retention Advisor.

The student’s Retention Advisor is now their permanent Advisor contact at Berkleemusic. The Retention Advisor’s responsibilities are to help the student with any questions about our academic policies, help them pick courses for the future, guide them through scheduling their certificate programs, check in on them throughout their studies to see how things are going, etc.

The Recruitment and Retention team all work in the same space in our office which allows our tight knit group to communicate with ease and assist our students throughout their Berkleemusic experience.

I hope this insight is informative and helpful to you and I encourage you to contact the Advisors with any questions you may have!