Berklee The Berklee Correspondance Course
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Essential Information About This Book
Essential Information About This Book
- A comprehensive and progressive course to master the fundamentals and reflexes of modern harmony, improvisation, and "dance band" arranging.
- Berklee Heritage : a method derived from the famous correspondence teaching developed since the 1950s, designed for effective remote learning.
- Updated edition : revision of the 1971 edition, with an approach still focused on musical practice.
- Online resources : a unique code (on the first page) provides access to activities and an answer key for numerous exercises.
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Summary of This Book
You are about to embark on a course of study designed to give you, in the shortest possible time, a complete understanding of the principles of modern harmony, improvisation, and dance band arranging. The Berklee Correspondence Course was designed to guide the student step by step, just like in a real curriculum: concepts clearly explained, targeted exercises, and application in concrete musical situations. The goal is to connect theory to the ear and the act of writing, in order to develop useful automatisms in composition, arranging, and improvised playing.
Historically, this program was developed in the 1950s to allow musicians to study remotely: lessons arrived by mail, then assignments were sent back to be corrected by Berklee instructors. This version, updated from the 1971 edition, preserves the "Berklee class" spirit while adding modern tools, notably online access to a large number of activities and an answer key via the included code. Altogether, it represents a solid resource for working on jazz writing, understanding functional and modern harmony, and refining arrangement choices in a group context.
With more than 300 pages, this book is aimed at musicians who want to structure their learning and build an overall vision: chord charts, progressions, chord colors, voice leading logic, and orchestration/arrangement principles, in a progression designed to save time without skipping steps.
Technical specifications
| Theme | Music theory | ||
| Language | English | Pages | More than 300 pages |
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Questions frequently asked
Is the Berklee Correspondence Course available in French?
Written in English, this book requires an understanding of the language to follow the explanations and exercises.
Does this Berklee book cover jazz harmony and improvisation?
The course addresses the principles of modern harmony, improvisation, and dance band arranging. The concepts of chord charts, chord progressions, and voice leading are included.
Does the book provide access to corrected exercises online?
An included code grants online access to numerous activities and answer keys. These resources supplement the exercises presented in the book. The content is based on an updated edition derived from the 1971 version.
Who is this Berklee method with over 300 pages intended for?
This edition of over 300 pages is aimed at musicians wishing to structure their study of writing, composition, and improvisation.
What arranging topics are covered in this course?
With principles of orchestration and arranging in a group context, the course connects writing choices to functional and modern harmony.
