Best songwriting Courses Online
We compared 20 Songwriting courses currently listed on Coursera and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $199.99. 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.
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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The 5 Most Powerful Songwriting Exercises...Revealed!
Concise, digestible, and radically practical!Like you, we love learning new things and acquiring new skills to get us closer to our vision for our music — but we don’t love long-winded courses, padded out with informatio...
$149.99listed price -
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Songwriting Control: Songs schreiben Masterclass
Möchtest du gerne deine eigenen Songs schreiben? Oder hast du schon etwas Erfahrung und möchtest dein Songwriting auf das nächste Level heben?Dann ist SONGWRITING CONTROL genau das richtige für Dich!In diesem Kurs zeigt...
$199.99listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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Songwriting & music production in cubase
Cosa ci può offrire una canzone?L’analisi di una canzone, e la sua riproducibilità esecutiva, è molto importante. Attraverso essa scopriremo tutti quegli elementi utili per il nostro apprendimento e ci daranno quella “gi...
$29.99listed price -
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Songwriting For Guitar | Essential Chords & Progressions
Welcome to Songwriting For Guitar | Essential Chords & Progressions!This course takes everything you've learned about scales, chords, and the fretboard and turns it into actual songs — giving you a repeatable pr...
$89.99listed price -
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7 Secrets to HIT Songwriting
When Clay Drayton instructs songwriters, he comes from a place of experience and longevity. He doesn't want you to be a “1 Hit Wonder”. You will learn the secrets of writing songs that have the potential to become...
$49.99listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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How to Make A Song Melody in 30 Minutes Like A Rock Star
There are many ways of How to write a song. This course in particular focuses more on the melody creation first. A course inpired from the songwriting skill of the legendary singer-songwriter Sia Furler. Reveals the Poss...
$19.99listed price -
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Learn How To Freestyle Rap, Rap Like A Pro, And Write Lyrics
It doesn't matter if you've never even thought of learning how to freestyle rap or don't know how to begin rapping, as this step by step program unlocks the freestyle rapping skills you've always had inside of you... UPD...
$199.99listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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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...
$49.00listed price -
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Music Production Masterclass: Write Songs In FL Studio 20
This class is for anyone who'd like to produce music.You'll learn everything you need to master FL Studio, including writing songs with vocals, using Vital VST, mixing and mastering.You'll also learn how to:Use this know...
$19.99listed price
What the prices here tell you
The 20 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $199.99, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $180.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. 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 and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 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.
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