Berklee Music is an online education platform started by the world-renowned Berklee College of Music. Berklee Music offers individual audio production courses that explore popular topics like Producing with Pro Tools, Producing with Ableton Live, Audio Mastering Techniques, Hip Hop Writing and Production, and Desktop Music Production for Mac. You can take each course for credit for $1,195 or noncredit for $995. Individual courses last 12 weeks, and instructors post new lessons each week. Students typically require five to eight hours to complete a weekly assignment.
In addition to individual courses, Berklee Music offers a variety of online certification programs. These are broken into three tiers:
Specialist (three courses for completion, $3,585 total tuition)
Professional (five to six courses for completion, $5,975 total tuition)
Master's (eight to12 courses for completion, $14,340 total tuition)
Start your exploration by visiting the Berklee Music website to view sample courses. You can pay per course and per term or pay total tuition in full.
Full Sail University offers an online Bachelor's Degree in Music Production. Courses cover popular topics like Audio Workstations, Digital Recording Theory, Audio Post-production, and Music Business Marketing. Students receive an Apple Macbook Pro and a Pro Tools MBox 2 recording device at discounted prices. Full Sail instructors distribute assignments on a weekly basis. You can expect to spend 25 to 30 hours per week completing assigned coursework.
To receive a Bachelor's Degree in Music Production, you'll need to accumulate 124 credit hours over eight semesters. The total cost of tuition is roughly $54,000. Explore Full Sail's online learning environment by using the Test Drive application on the university's website.
At Point Blank Online School, you'll discover a range of individual courses and course programs. Individual courses explore rudimentary audio production techniques used in popular software programs like Logic, Ableton Live, Cubase and Reason. Other courses explore intermediate and advanced production techniques used in specific electronic music genres, including minimal tech, dubstep and trance. Professional producers instruct students and critique weekly assignments via live video feed.
Courses last from four to 36 weeks. The cost depends on class duration, ranging from $504 for a four-week course to $2,460 for a 36-week course. You can make payments in full or divide them into monthly installments. Point Blank is certified by Apple, Native Instruments, and Ableton as a skills training center. It's also accredited by the British Accreditation Council.