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Developing Your Musicianship,

After a tremendous response from learners on Coursera, Berklee Online has created a Developing Your Musicianship specialization, and this course is the second course in the series. If you have a basic knowledge of music theory or if you have completed Developing Your Musicianship I, this course will continue to help you understand key musical concepts, enabling you to create and perform contemporary music. Taught by Berklee College of Music professor George W. Russell, Jr., the course includes four lessons that delve into the next level of harmony and ear training. The course will introduce you to new key signatures, including minor tonalities, and how they are constructed. You will train your ear to hear minor intervals and 7th chords. You will learn how to build 7th chords, and how to build common chord progressions. You will also learn the major pentatonic scale and how to construct melodies using this scale. The course culminates with an assignment that asks you to compose and perform an 8-measure composition using popular chord progressions and the Major pentatonic scale. Just like Developing Your Musicianship I, the course is designed to impart the joy of creating music and sharing it with others.

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Rating 4.8★ based on 86 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours a week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Berklee, Berklee College of Music via Coursera
Instructor George W. Russell, Jr.
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Language English
Subjects Art & Design Humanities
Tags Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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Great Teaching , Really Beneficial :) I'm still loving it, but it should be mentioned somewhere that you have to be fluent with writing and reading a staff before taking this course.

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ear training

The course also goes into 7th chords and expands ear training to wider intervals and includes chords as well.

I love the ear training practicing as it has been very helpful for me.

Highs for the teacher and the ear training focus.

The ear training quizzes were very helpful !

The ear training was much appreciated.

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so much

I learnt so much about thestructure of chords and now really understand the meaning of Diatonic Chords.

I've grown so much musically thanks to this course and the professor..

Thanks so much for providing such a wonderful professor who understands both his material and his students well enough to prevent leaving even the most ignorant (Me!)

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for beginners

A fantastic and fun way to learn music for beginners.

very cool professor ..feel so happy and good to see you smile while teaching sir.it was great learning all the music concepts with you in musicianship 2very well designed.thank you The course is excellent for beginners who already have a basic knowledge of music theory.

The teacher is fun and upbeat as well.However, this course is not for beginners.

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music theory

EXCELLENT COURSE complicated music theory easy to understand and really enhancing your musicality.

I have zero Music Theory before entering this course, now I can automatically read the notes!

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very good

very very good course you learn a lot in it and your mind is open in an incredible way to music.

It´s an excellent course and the teacher is very good teacher.

george w.

I really enjoyed learning with Professor George W. Russell, Jr. who can get the best out of his students, moreover, his actitud contagious the passion about music, and his way for communicate is clear and fresh, that make easy to understand the concepts.

George W. Russell Jr. is such a fun and knowledgeable instructor, a real pleasure to learn with!

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professor george

Professor George Russell Jr. is fantastic.

Awesome As always great job,and thanks a lot to Professor George Jr., he makes everything so simple.

per week

A little more work than the first course in this series, but still pretty comfortable in terms of time committed per week.

It takes far more experience and more hours of work per week than just "3-5".

25 hours per week means: 1 hr practice per day, 1 hr study per day (that's 14 hrs per week) PLUS about 4-8 hours on average for the weekly project (more, for the final project).

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mr. russell

Mr. Russell is so concise and makes it SO EASY to learn.

Mr. Russell is definitely one of them.

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Rating 4.8★ based on 86 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours a week
Starts Jul 3 (43 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From Berklee, Berklee College of Music via Coursera
Instructor George W. Russell, Jr.
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Art & Design Humanities
Tags Arts And Humanities Music And Art

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