Learn how harmony can help you to convey the essential emotion of a song to your audience, and the best ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit your unique songwriting style and ideas.
Learn to make the most effective settings for your melodic, harmonic and lyrical ideas. Move your listeners and express yourself more effectively by crafting song sections and complete songs the way hit writers do.
Studying with Berklee’s accomplished songwriting faculty, you'll delve into lyric writing, melody, harmony, theory, arranging, and strategies employed by some of the all-time great songwriters.
Learn techniques for writing original songs in a variety of musical styles—techniques that have propelled Berklee alumni to write number one songs and win Grammy Awards. In this program, you will develop skills to create song structures, harmonies, melodies, and lyrics that support and enhance the ideas that you want to express.
Learn how harmony can help you express your songwriting ideas—using chords and chord structures the way that professional songwriters do.
The Songwriter’s Workshop series is a new approach to writing hit songs designed for songwriters at all levels, from beginners to professional songwriters who are looking for new ideas to spice up their work. Each book in the series presents a set of tools for writing songs, with practical practice exercises.
The Songwriter’s Workshop: Harmony teaches the fundamental harmony techniques used in today’s hit songs, together with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own songs. Quit wrestling with writer’s block, and learn to make the songwriting process easy, fun, and intuitive.
Learn how to:
The included play-along CD provides a perfect accompaniment to help you practice your songs.
“The tools in this book are essential to any tunesmith and should be studied in great detail. This book will shine a new light on those who aspire to write great songs. Raw talent, tenacity and a strong belief in yourself can only be strengthened by the lessons taught here.”
—Robert Lee Castleman, GRAMMY® Award-winning Songwriter for Allison Krauss, Alan Jackson, and others
“This simple, straight-forward, and extremely helpful book explains and analyzes harmony, a musical topic that is anything but simple and straight-forward. Once again, Jimmy Kachulis has provided songwriters of all levels with effective and productive tools to express themselves.”
—Phil Galdston, GRAMMY-nominated Songwriter for Celine Dion and Vanessa Williams
“The Songwriter’s Workshop: Harmony is a supernova in a universe of penlights. Through simple and inspiring techniques, Jimmy Kachulis teaches both the tinkering songster and seasoned artisan how to revolutionize their songwriting.”
—Shane Adams, Multi-GRAMMY-nominated Music Educator, Producer, Songwriting Guru
Jimmy Kachulis teaches songwriting and lyric writing at Berklee, conducts clinics nationwide, and has helped thousands of songwriters develop and…