The Vocabulary of Composition

I've been searching around for online resources to help me learn more about music composition and thanks to all the free content available on YouTube and various educational sites I've kept my purchases to a minimum. But I guess as they say, you get what you pay for! In contrast, I found your free introduction or teaser to be a surprisingly good balance of useful information for a wide variety of skill levels while still maintaining a clear and rapid path toward a comprehensive understanding. I guess what i'm trying to say is that much of what I learned for free on the internet is tastefully compressed into your teaser while also including advanced elements that I have yet to see anywhere else. Obviously I'm pretty intrigued. I just finished your introduction when this chance to review popped up. I don't know how much your course costs but judging from the intro I bet it's worth it.

Amazed at how a simple chord progression can be made into a lovely piano piece.

This is the best course I've ever seen of its kind. I can't thank you enough. Everything you said spoke directly to my needs: feeling lost, disorientated and unable to design a systematic method to follow to actually progress in my songwriting. Thank you so much.

I've been composing for many years but this course took me back to basics and served as a reminder of the fundamental building blocks in composition. I feel like it has refocused my approach to composing. Jon explains everything very clearly and I'm sure I will revisit this course again in future.

Explanations are excellent and paced well for someone who has basic understanding of tonal music, has started composing with underwhelming results, and would like to know how to progress.

This course is excellent for developing vocabulary and practicing composition, but for me it falls short because there is limited opportunity for having each compositional attempt critiqued and for advice on what to do and to not do in the future, based on my work.

Very easy to follow and learn in a step-by-step manner. This is great!

Thank you so much for giving me the fundamentals I needed to get started composing!

The lessons are very easy to grasp. In a sequential order of grade, very precise and interesting.