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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics by Berklee

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About the Course

There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is a simple “yes” and you’ll be climbing that windy hill, marveling at the view. If you haven’t written any or many songs, this course will show you an efficient, effective process for tailoring songs to express your ideas and emotions. If you have, you’ll look at your process differently, taking control of aspects of the process you may have not noticed. The course will start by examining the tools available to you, all revolving around the essential concept of prosody. You’ll learn to use your tools to enhance your message—to work compositionally at the same time you’re developing your ideas. You’ll be working both lyrically and musically, though musically it’s not necessary that you either read music or play an instrument. If you play, great, and you’ll be encouraged to play and record your musical responses to the assignments. If you don’t play, the course offers you a number of musical loops to work with. All you’ll have to do is sing your melodies over the loops. Assignments will ask you to post something for peer review—sometimes lyric lines or sections, sometimes melodies, sometimes both. None of it has to be polished. The course is about writing, not performing. Most important, you’ll have a lot of fun....

Top reviews

CS

Feb 12, 2021

This course helped me get over the hump of not being able to write songs. I want to thank Sir Pat for helping me organize my ideas and refine them so that I can tell good stories. Thank you sir!!

GH

Jan 15, 2021

I have been to dozens of workshops and have read dozens of books and have written hundreds of songs. I learned more in this course than in any of the workshops or books. This it top rated stuff!

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By Nick F

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Apr 4, 2023

This is an awesome course and really improved my songwriting confidence and technique. The instructor is interesting, and the master class videos are very compelling.

Unfortunately, the peer grading part of it utterly ruins the experience. You have to wait for someone to "grade" the final assignment and then if you don't pass it you are basically stuck in the course, unable to complete it. Considering writing my next song about being stuck in Coursera purgatory.

By Elece

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Apr 15, 2023

this review is on the other course I had tried to take with coursera. I went through one module and then I wanted to go back for the next lesson I could not log into the course. I tried to reach out for help, No one answers the phone and there is no real customer services number. I signed up for a trial and I was charged before the trial was over. I still don't know how to login back to canceal nor see my coursera. This was and still is extremly disappointing

By renata

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Apr 10, 2020

I canceled the course, and it appears that's its already canceled.

but I can still go to the course. and they didn't send me the cancelation mail.

when I o to ¨my courses´ it appears canceled so there nothing I can do!

can someone help me

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By Zoe T

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Oct 29, 2024

no one reviews your assignments so you can't complete the course !

By Blvck I

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Jul 26, 2024

I'm not very fond of the instructors teaching approach.