How to express your ideas and emotions through a song?

Berklee College of Music, offers an online course songwriting, which teaches you to write songs and to express your ideas and emotions through songs.

Course Name: Songwriting

About course:
This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple "yes" and you'll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view.

The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You'll learn to use your tools to enhance your message-to work compositionally at the same time you're developing your ideas.

You'll be working both lyrically and musically, though musically it's not necessary that you either read music or play an instrument. If you play, great, and you'll be encouraged to play and record your musical responses to the assignments.

Course format:

• The course consists of video demonstrations.
• You will be asked to listen to songs that demonstrate key concepts.
• There are 21 songs in total referenced in the course, candidates have to access them.

Duration: 6 weeks of study

Timings: 6 to 8 hours of work / week

Taught in: English

To apply, click here.