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The Fundamentals of Musical Composition
Course • 94 lessons5.0 average rating (67 reviews)Learn to compose music with a simple, repeatable, and powerful process. No more waiting on inspiration. Build a solid foundation for writing and understanding melody, harmony, form, and accompaniment.
$100
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Composing in Sonata Form
Course • 34 lessons5.0 average rating (13 reviews)Learn to take simple 8 measure themes, and develop them into complete pieces. In this course, we'll use sonata form as a vehicle for developing your skills as a composer.
$100
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Art of Composing Community
Community • 20197 membersLooking for feedback on your compositions? Have questions about composing? This is the place to post them.
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Fundamentals Preview: Build Your Composition Vocabulary
Course • 30 lessons4.8 average rating (251 reviews)This course is the first 4 modules from the full Fundamentals Course. You'll learn to compose pieces with the vocabulary of music. It covers the basics of chords, scales, harmony, and melody, and how to start using them.
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Monthly Membership
Bundle • 5 learning productsThe Art of Composing Monthly Membership gives you access to "The Fundamentals of Musical Composition", and "Sonata Form".
$40 / month
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Bonus: Composing Workouts
Course • 12 lessonsNot sure what skills to work on today. Pick a random workout composing workout.
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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 wo...
Read MoreWith 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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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 pr...
Read MoreThe 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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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 ...
Read MoreA 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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