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Gary Burton, Sarah Brindell, Bonnie Hayes, Krystal Banfield, and David Alexis

In the Music Education for Teachers specialization, you will explore ways of integrating popular music into your teaching. You'll begin by learning from two highly experienced teachers, Krystal Banfield, the Vice President of Educational Outreach for Berklee College of Music, and David Alexis a Berklee Professor and long-time instructor for the Berklee City Music Program. They will take you through their process of incorporating popular music, improvisation, arranging, and music technology into the classroom while still fulfilling the common core learning standards.

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In the Music Education for Teachers specialization, you will explore ways of integrating popular music into your teaching. You'll begin by learning from two highly experienced teachers, Krystal Banfield, the Vice President of Educational Outreach for Berklee College of Music, and David Alexis a Berklee Professor and long-time instructor for the Berklee City Music Program. They will take you through their process of incorporating popular music, improvisation, arranging, and music technology into the classroom while still fulfilling the common core learning standards.

You'll continue with a deeper dive into these topics that will help you build your popular music curriculum. In Jazz Improvisation taught by Grammy-winning Gary Burton, you'll learn how to use improvisation as language and story-telling. You'll also learn how to use a variety of chord scales, modes, and improv techniques. Next, in Arranging for Songwriters taught by renown Berklee faculty Bonnie Hayes and Sarah Brindell, you'll learn how to create arrangements of songs. Finally, in The Art of Music Production, taught by producer Stephen Webber, you'll learn how to begin to record music in a meaningful, yet approachable way.

This specialization will give you the tools you'll need to develop effective, relevant, and compelling lessons for your classroom, online learning space, or private lesson instruction.

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Three courses

Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom

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Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom explores approaches to teaching popular music from culturally rich communities in the United States. Students will learn methods that engage youth with improvisation, technology, songwriting, arranging film score, and writing for small bands.

Jazz Improvisation

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Learn the basic concepts of improvisation, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo.

Arranging for Songwriters

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You’ve created a song, now what? This course will help you take your song from a simple recording to a fully arranged song ready for the recording studio.

Learning objectives

  • Create a toolkit to teach popular music through improvisation, songwriting and music technology
  • Use a variety of scales and improvisation techniques to create effective and compelling improvisations
  • Arrange songs to better communicate your emotional intentions
  • Record a musical production

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