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Lesson 1: Rediscovering Pop and Rock
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Lesson 2: Brazilian Grooves, Part 1: Samba

Style Characteristics of Samba

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Typical Samba Grooves
For-credit tuition: $1,400
Discussion: Explore Samba Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
Listening Analysis
Credits: 3
Discussion: How Would You Analyze the Scores?
Duration: 12 weeks
Assignment: Write Your Grooves
Catalog #: BMW-150

Lesson 3: Brazilian Grooves, Part 2: Bossa Nova

Style Characteristics of Bossa Nova Course Faculty

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Dan Moretti
Discussion: Songs with Mixed Influences Professor in the
Assignment: Write Your Grooves Contemporary Writing
and Production
Lesson 4: Blending Brazilian Rhythms department at Berklee
College of Music.
Style Characteristics of Blended Brazilian Rhythms
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Discussion: How Would You Describe the Mix of Influences? Course Preview
The best musicians have not only
Assignment: Write Your Grooves
mastered the scales and
Lesson 5: Introduction to Afro-Cuban Styles techniques on their instrument -
they also possess a broad
Style Characteristics of Afro-Cuban Rhythms
knowledge of musical styles from
Typical Afro-Cuban Grooves around the world that they
Listening Analysis incorporate into their songwriting
and improvisations. Dan Moretti’s
Discussion: How Would You Analyze the Scores?
online course will increase your
Assignment: Write Your Grooves
style vocabulary and performance
Lesson 6: Blending and Mixed Influences: Midterm skills and help you to incorporate
the styles and grooves that have
Listening Analysis influenced contemporary music
Midterm Project into your own playing. Read more

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Lesson 7: Soul Music Foundations

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Style Characteristics of Soul “This course taught me about the

correlations and relationships
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between many modern styles of
Discussion: Politcal and Historical Events That Influenced Soul music. I left with a solid
Music foundation in so many different
Assignment: Write Your Grooves genres which has certainly
benefited my writing.” - C. Jago
Lesson 8: Motown and Northern Soul

Style Characteristics of Motown and Northern Soul

Listening Analysis
Discussion: Comparing Motown and Stax- and Muscle-Shoal
Soul
Assignment: Write Your Grooves

Lesson 9: James Brown, "What Is Funk?"

Style Characteristics of James Brown Funk

Listening Analysis
Discussion: Civil Rights Movement and the Development of
Funk
Assignment: Write Your Grooves

Lesson 10: 70's and 80's Funk

Style Characteristics of 70's and 80's Funk

Listening Analysis
Discussion: Does Funk Have Mostly a Dance or Listening
Function?
Assignment: Write Your Grooves

Lesson 11: Contemporary Styles, Hip-Hop

Style Characteristics of Hip-Hop

Listening Analysis
Discussion: Trends in Dance Music
Assignment: Write Your Grooves

Lesson 12: Final Project and Portfolio Review

Final Project
Discussion: Limits (if any) to Mixing Style Influences
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