Courses
Investment Principles for the Professional Musician
This course focuses on the personal investment portfolio.
The Private Studio Teacher
Aspects of private studio teaching including pedagogy, literature, technology, and business considerations. Philosophy and attitudes essential to the successful private instructor.
Entrepreneurship
A study of the concepts, skills, and practices of entrepreneurship with the goal of preparing the student to realistically deal with the essentials of setting up a business in the music industry in
Music Career Planning Seminar
Development of career goals from musical interests and aspirations, and behaviors that will foster and enable the transition from student to professional.
Final Project Seminar
A seminar in which students receive individualized guidance in the preparation and completion of their graduation project.
Professional Music Internship
Monitored and evaluated professional work experience in a retail, entrepreneurial, or corporate environment matched to the student's individual career goals.
Movement for Musicians 1
This class is designed to offer fundamentals ofmovement and dance for musicians.
Managerial Finance
This course provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of finance. Various techniques of analysis that reveal the relationships of risk, return, and value are demonstrated.
Music and Life of Bob Marley
This class meets for 2 hours each week dividing class time into two equal segments where the instructor lectures, taking students on a chronological tour of the significant events in Marley's
Improvisation Concepts Workshop 1
This multipurpose course provides an opportunity for students to participate in a "nonstylistic" improvisational environment as a means to explore musical communication and develop improv
Improvisation Concepts Workshop 2
This multipurpose course is a continuation of Improvisation Concepts Workshop 1, and provides a "nonstylistic" improvisational environment as a means to explore musical communication and
Professional Performance Internship
Monitored and evaluated professional work experience for the performance major. Upon completion of the internship, students will submit a project/portfolio.
Directed Study in Improvisation
This course is a high-level playing class that explores the various melodic roles of the instruments.
Global Jazz Forum
This course is a seminar style assembly for the student body of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
The Music of Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
This course will engage students in the musical and lyrical analysis in the varied styles of Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds.
Music Director Production Techniques
This course will study all aspects of professional-level concert production.
Fundamentals of Improvisation for Bass
Application of scales, modes, arpeggios, and passing tones to improvisation on the bass. Study of repertoire and recordings is utilized to discuss and analyze major bass styles and performers.
Concepts for Jazz Bass Lines
A systematic approach to forming well-defined bass lines.
Electric Bass Performance Styles
A performance history of the electric bass from the 1950s to the present.
Jazz Masters of the Bass
Students will transcribe and perform solos and lines of major bass players in jazz. Projects chosen to reflect many different styles found throughout the history of jazz.