What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Specialization - 5 course series

Throughout this specialization, you will engage in various activities to help you produce music in your home studio. You may use most DAWs and whatever equipment you have at your disposal to create high-quality music recordings. By the end of this specialization, you will have a fully-produced song that is ready for your audience.

Led by award winning songwriter and Berklee College of Music professor Scarlet Keys, you’ll learn to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audience will remember as well as experiment with new chords to break out of any harmonic rut. Whether you are new to writing music or are looking for new ideas to change up your songs, this class will teach you how to make deliberate choices with your harmonies and melodies to best emulate the emotions you want your audience to feel. You will start by discovering common chord progression and tying specific emotions to each chords in a scale. Then you will practice changing the harmonic and melodic rhythm of a song to better highlight important lyrics. Finally, you will learn to create melodic hooks and simple techniques to help you generate new melodic ideas.

Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics

Songwriting: Writing the Music

The Art of Vocal Production

Producing Music in the Home Studio