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helps you build your music foundation brick by brick. “Having this
fundamental knowledge allows you to better understand basic Contact Advisors
musical concepts,” Schmeling says. “It allows you to converse with
other musicians and communicate through written music. It’s all
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about musical literacy.”
For-credit tuition: $1,400
As one of Berkleemusic’s most popular online courses, Music Theory Non-credit tuition: $1,200
101 digs into the building blocks of music: pitch, rhythm, scales, Add 6 CEUs: $25.00

intervals, chords, and harmony, and illustrates how they flow Credits: 3
together to make a song work. As such, Schmeling’s class can help Duration: 12 weeks
patch spotty theoretical knowledge and lay the groundwork for Catalog #: BME-101
further study. “If a student picks up a book on improvisation over at
the local book store, and they haven’t had any kind of formal
training, they won’t have any basis for understanding what the Course Faculty

book’s talking about,” Schmeling says. “This course gives them that
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Master pianist,
In Music Theory 101, Schmeling tackles each musical topic by interpreter, improviser
and arranger, recently
breaking it down to bite-sized chunks, illustrating each topic with
retired as chair of
musical examples, and drilling the new skill with exercises and
Berklee's piano
weekly assignments. department.

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many topics he covers in his class, Schmeling begins his lesson on department at Berklee.
intervals by isolating perfect and major intervals. He starts with a
basic definition of both, offers examples of each, and demystifies ↓ Show More Course Faculty ↓
the difference between the two. Students then participate in an
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“Having this fundamental
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concepts,” Schmeling says. “It
allows you to converse with other
musicians and communicate
through written music. It’s all
about musical literacy.” Read
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“Music Theory 101 gave me a
solid foundation in basic music
theory and demystified a lot of
musical terms and ideas that I
always had had trouble with
trying to learn on my own.” –D.
Somerville

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