November 10, 2003
Playin' in the Band
The musicians and musician wannabees among you might be interested in the Berklee College of Music's new offering of free music related instructional material.
The offering includes material in areas like Songwriting & Arranging, Bass lessons, Production & Technology and more. I'm not a musician and can not vouch for the material though I'm sure it is no where near the depth and quality that you'd get attending their regular classes.
Chris Lehman speculates as to why they would provide this free material:
Several reasons, I can imagine... one, it only increases Berklee's visibility as it recruits students. Two, many of the lessons are then linked to DVDs that Berklee Press sells, so it will, I am sure, drive their publishing division, which is cool, and three, maybe they actually want to see more people become musicians than they know can come to their school, and this is a way to achieve that goal.
No matter what the reason...this is cool stuff.
Via Professor Lessig.
Posted by Steve on November 10, 2003
