Courses on Composition

Learn Practical Skills and Critical Theory

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  • Practical Theory

    Fill in the gaps of your music theory, and refresh your creativity. Each course has a comprehensive workbook, lesson videos, exercise videos, and bonus audio.

  • Save Time and Effort

    Stop the endless fishing on youtube for tutorials. Step by step, build a collection of powerful but simple techniques to quickly create finished pieces that sound like the music you love.

  • Feedback

    Feedback can make the difference between getting stuck and finishing pieces. When you purchase a course, you can send in your coursework for clear guidance on how to make progress and improve your composing.

Course Reviews

5 star rating

Worth money on its own

K F

With a 'minor' exception of piano shots too fast or not optimized for visual comm this stuff is a mind opener to say the LEAST. I discovered two or three words the meanings of which I had completely wrong until today. It also clarifies why it's a must to understand what some expressions like intervals mean ...because in music they mean more than just one thing i.e. either a distance or a spectrum within it that is not necessarily the congruent spectrum for a same distance elsewhere etc.

With a 'minor' exception of piano shots too fast or not optimized for visual comm this stuff is a mind opener to say the LEAST. I discovered two or three words the meanings of which I had completely wrong until today. It also clarifies why it's a must to understand what some expressions like intervals mean ...because in music they mean more than just one thing i.e. either a distance or a spectrum within it that is not necessarily the congruent spectrum for a same distance elsewhere etc.

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5 star rating

Awesome!

Matthew Tolman

The best composition lesson in the world. It is definitely better than the old, dried up, "couldn't teach someone how to get out of a box" jacked up music professors I had in college!

The best composition lesson in the world. It is definitely better than the old, dried up, "couldn't teach someone how to get out of a box" jacked up music professors I had in college!

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5 star rating

A practical start-up kit

Peter Wood

A very useful and practical introduction that has already got me composing short melodies. I particularly like the advice to apply limitations - this simple advice overcomes the problem I had of being overwhelmed by endless possibilities and not getting anywhere. Now I start with something very simple and then embellish.

A very useful and practical introduction that has already got me composing short melodies. I particularly like the advice to apply limitations - this simple advice overcomes the problem I had of being overwhelmed by endless possibilities and not getting anywhere. Now I start with something very simple and then embellish.

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