Berklee College offers online music lessons - PrivateLessons.com: leading studio marketing network for private music teachers - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, Feb-March, 2004

Berklee College of Music 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 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 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, a nonprofit corporation based at Stanford Law School.

For more information contact the Berklee College of Music at www.berklee.edu.