Distance Learning / Online Music Courses

US School of Commercial Music:
Based in Somerville, MA, US School of Commercial Music (USSCM) is the only online college of music that offers worldwide study, leading to Certificate & Diplomas in contemporary music training.

Distance Learning Music Training Programs:
Distance learning music training through US School's international correspondence programs. 

Each distance learning music student at US School selects an instrumental major: guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, violin, voice, drums, or horns such as trumpet or saxophone - as well as a concentration in performance, arranging, songwriting, multimedia scoring, or music production engineering, which includes record producing and acoustics. 

Jazz, popular and other current commercial music styles form the backbone of the curriculum.

In your US school program, you will start from your individual level and strengthen basic skills; achieving a solid foundation in eartraining, (solfege or solfeggio, perfect pitch / absolute pitch, relative pitch, intervallic pitch, voicing structures and chord progression recognition), sightreading and music theory, after which you will build a practical understanding of melody and harmony, composition, counterpoint and orchestration.

Diploma Programs:
- Multimedia Composition
- Performance Diploma
- Songwriting Diploma
- Arranging & Orch Diploma
- Music Production Engineering

Diploma Programs for Professionals:
- Professional Composer
- Professional Arranger
- Composer-Performing Artist
- Professional Musician

Instrumental Concentrations:
- Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Drums, Percussion and more.

Most USSCM students choose Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Drums for an instrumental major. All students, regardless of their major, receive training with each of these four rhythm section instruments.

Or you may major in any contemporary melodic instrument; experienced vocalists, string or horn players may major on their own instrument, but also will complete the rhythm section instrumental training.

Certificate Programs:

Universals:
- Personality Resonance Practicum for Performers, Songwriters & Composers
- Relative Pitch Eartraining
- Perfect Pitch Conditioning

Trainings:
- Vibrational Sensitizing for Musicians
- Emotional Development for Musicians
- Physical Conditioning for Musicians
- Spiritual Evolution for Musicians
- Intellectual Training for Musicians

Workshops:
- SuperChops for Soloists
- SuperChops for Guitarists
- Chordology for Guitarists
- Chordology for Keyboardists

Intensives:
- Performance Boot Camp