Arranging for Songwriters Overview | Music Production | Bonnie Hayes | Sarah Brindell | Berklee

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In this course, Arranging for Songwriters: Instrumentation and Production in Songwriting, Sarah Brindell and Bonnie Hayes will teach you new tools to bring your songs to listeners in their most effective and emotional forms, whether in a live setting, recorded song demos, or in produced masters. You’ll broaden your understanding of instrumentation, keeping in mind the idea of prosody, in which all parts of a song work together to create an emotionally resonant whole. You’ll learn to consider which instruments best express the emotion and mood of the song, how groove and dynamics can support that emotion, and how to define the instrumental parts to emphasize the vocal and support lyric narrative. You’ll find new ways to engage listeners’ attention, by always having a musical conversation within the arrangement. You’ll also look at the effects of market and genre on arrangement choices, including ways to bridge the gap between preserving your artistic identity and engaging your listeners.

During this course, you will create arrangements and productions of complete and partial songs, drawing from works you’ve previously written or works written for the course. You’ll learn to listen not only to the song, but to the sound. And you’ll create recordings and arrangements that work considering both the layout of their sections and the treatment of frequency range and volume. You’ll use density and intensity to increase dynamics and momentum.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
Define and extend the concept of prosody from your songwriting to arranging and production
Communicate artistic ideas to musicians and engineers
Modify the order and length of song sections following a reasonable criterion
Select suitable tempos and keys for your music
Identify appropriate range and function of instruments
Adapt accompaniment parts to various contexts
Determine the relationship between instrumental palette and genre
Produce a song within a specific genre, and/or combine genres
Identify types of accompaniment functions as they support a lead vocal
Use density and intensity to create dynamic range and momentum
Use instruments in terms of function
Capture the best vocal performance
Create a vocal arrangement that will make your song stand out
Create arrangements that emphasize vocal performance
Collaborate effectively with other writers and musicians

About Bonnie Hayes and Sarah Brindell

Bonnie Hayes serves as the chair of Berklee’s Songwriting department. She has more than 35 years of experience as an educator, songwriter, producer, performer, and recording artist. During her career, she has been signed to five record deals and five writing deals, and toured as a side musician with Billy Idol and Cris Williamson. She has written songs for Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Bette Midler, David Crosby, Robert Cray, Adam Ant, and Booker T. & the MG’s, and produced more than 40 records. She designed and implemented the youth program for the Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco, and has taught piano, guitar, theory, songwriting, and composition to thousands of students at institutions throughout the US.

Sarah Brindell is a songwriter, arranger, producer, musician, and Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. With touring credits around the world, she has shared the stage and recorded with many renowned artists including Norah Jones, Carole King, and Raul Midon. Her original songs can be heard on many television shows including MTV’s Made. She conducts clinics nationwide and internationally, and continually helps thousands of students to reach their full potential as professional musicians and songwriters.



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