Berklee College offers online music lessons.Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts, with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,900 students and a 2004 faculty of approximately 430. recently announced the launch of Berklee Shares, a new program providing free online music lessons and encouraging musicians to share and distribute these music lessons online. The Berklee Shares lessons are available at no charge and are made up of a growing catalog of MP3 files, QuickTime movies and PDF files derived from curriculum developed at the college by its faculty. Berklee is committed to providing music education that is widely available to the music community around the world. The Berklee Shares program is designed to create an open exchange of ideas for musicians everywhere, as well as evangelize e·van·gel·ize v. e·van·gel·ized, e·van·gel·iz·ing, e·van·gel·iz·es v.tr. 1. To preach the gospel to. 2. To convert to Christianity. v.intr. To preach the gospel. the Internet as a means to gain unprecedented access to quality education. "Berklee Shares was born out of Berklee College of Music's commitment to furthering music education through innovative means," said Dave Kusek, associate vice president. "Offering free education on the Internet and through file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. networks underscores the college's core belief that these channels are an effective way to openly distribute meaningful educational content to a global audience." The Berklee Shares program launched with more than eighty music lessons spanning instrument performance, music production and technology, songwriting and arranging, music business and careers, music education and music improvisation. The number of lessons offered will increase over time. The project uses licenses provided by Creative Commons An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not required at all. , a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. based at Stanford Law School  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . . For more information contact the Berklee College of Music at www.berklee.edu. |
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