12 Best Songwriting Courses on Coursera
We compared 12 Songwriting courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $49.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including Berklee College of Music and Howard University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 12
- Price range
- $49.00 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "songwriting" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Songwriting: Writing the Music
Offered by Berklee College of Music
If your notebook is full of unused lyrics and you’re struggling to find inspiration for the music, this course is for you. Whether you are an experienced songwriter looking for new ideas or a beginning songwriter learnin...
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Songwriting: Writing, Arranging, and Producing Music
Offered by Berklee College of Music
This specialization will provide aspiring and established songwriters with the strategies and practices to develop hit songs. The award-winning Berklee Songwriting Faculty have selected four comprehensive courses, each o...
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Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics
Offered by Berklee
There’s a songwriter lurking somewhere inside you, peeking around corners, wondering if it’s safe to come out. Now it is. This course is an invitation to let your inner songwriter step into the sunlight. All it takes is...
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Music Production: Crafting Award-Worthy Songs
Offered by Howard University
In the Music Production: Crafting Award-Worthy Songs specialization, develop the mindset and confidence of an award-winning producer by producing songs that meet the highest musical standards of the industry, across musi...
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Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom
Offered by Berklee
Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom explores approaches to teaching popular music from culturally rich communities in the United States. Students in the course will learn teaching methods that engage youth with the b...
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Produce & Write in Ableton Live: Write Music in Any Genre
Offered by Skillshare
By the end of this course with Future Skills, you will be able to write compelling harmony parts in Ableton Live, design rich layered arrangements across genres, and shape professional mixes using EQ, compression, and re...
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The Singer Songwriter
Offered by Berklee
Do you have a song in your heart that you want to share it with others? In the Singer/Songwriter specialization, you will learn all the skills you need to write, perform, and record your own original music. You’ll begin...
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The DIY Musician
Offered by Berklee
With social media platforms and powerful recording technology at your fingertips, it’s easier now than ever before to create music and share it with your fans. But where do you begin and how do you get started? This spec...
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Writing and Producing Music in Your Home Studio
Offered by Berklee
Are you an aspiring songwriter or producer? Do you have a list of song ideas you want to professionally record and put out into the world? If so, this specialization is for you. The Writing and Producing Music in Your Ho...
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Music Creation Essentials: Theory, Writing, and Production
Offered by Skillshare
This Specialization is intended for aspiring musicians, producers, and songwriters seeking to develop strong foundations in music theory, melody writing, and modern production. Through three courses led by Julian from Fu...
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El Músico Moderno
Offered by Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo & Berklee
La industria de la música está sufriendo enormes cambios, y como consecuencia de ello, los músicos necesitan aumentar sus habilidades en varias áreas diferentes para triunfar. El Programa Especializado para el Músico Mod...
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O Músico Contemporâneo
Offered by Berklee
A indústria da música está passando por uma enorme mudança e, como resultado, os músicos precisam cada vez mais de habilidades em diversas áreas para suceder. A Especialização em O Músico Contemporâneo é projetada para p...
$49.00listed price
Best Songwriting Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Songwriting: Writing the Music | Coursera | Berklee College of Music | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Songwriting: Writing, Arranging, and Producing Music | Coursera | Berklee College of Music | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Songwriting: Writing the Lyrics | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Music Production: Crafting Award-Worthy Songs | Coursera | Howard University | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Teaching Popular Music in the Classroom | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 6 | Produce & Write in Ableton Live: Write Music in Any Genre | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | The Singer Songwriter | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 8 | The DIY Musician | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 9 | Writing and Producing Music in Your Home Studio | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Music Creation Essentials: Theory, Writing, and Production | Coursera | Skillshare | $49.00 | View → |
| 11 | El Músico Moderno | Coursera | Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo & Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 12 | O Músico Contemporâneo | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 12 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $0.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Berklee College of Music and Howard University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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