Tag Archives: PULSE

Outreach at its best

Hey everyone! Nazli here (pronounced Nazla)…I’m new to the PULSE department at Berklee. I am the administrative assistant.  My newness is so new that I’ve only had one staff meeting so far! At my first meeting, I learned about the recent travels of our Director, Dan Newsom. Dan had just returned from a site visit [...]

Send us your Tunes!

If you’ve seen Take 5, Rising Star, and other PULSE videos, then you already know what a large role music plays in the production of the PULSE videos.  As you can imagine, we listen to and create a lot of music in search of just the right tone for the project at hand. Now, we [...]

Partnership with Otis Redding Singer Songwriter Camp

This Past Week Berklee City Music traveled to the Otis Redding Singer Songwriter camp in Macon Georgia. There they shared the PULSE music method with the students as part of their curriculum for the week. Other artists involved in the week were Gwen Hughes, Mike Hinton, Lefty Williams, Caroline Aiken, Charlie Wooton and Rafael Pereira. [...]

Take 5 Episode 4

Maybe it’s the raw emotion of this episode. Maybe it’s the intimacy of the backstage accounts. Or maybe it’s the excitement leading up to the Blowout concert. We can’t say for sure. But whatever it is about Episode 4 of Take 5, it’s caused the thing to spread like wildfire within and outside of the [...]

From the Intern’s Desk: Practice Journal

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently working on custom practice materials for the PULSE Practice Journal. The Practice Journal is an array of documents that help with keeping an organized and efficient practice routine, as well as resources to help with notation and performance. Here are some sample guides from the Practice Journal. [...]