This course is designed for those interested to learn the basics of composing music, using the piano to do so, building interesting chord progressions, learning the fundamentals of music theory, and much more.
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Who this course is for:
- Beginner and intermediate; composers, producers and songwriters who feel stuck with their music theory, writing and piano skills
What you’ll learn:
- Unleash your composing and songwriting with tools to unblock the writing process and generate material with ease
- Express yourself and your musical ideas fluently, at the keyboard and DAW
- Use extended music theory without reading a line of music
- Compose different styles of music: filmic, classical, jazz and mainstream through a fundamental understanding of harmony
- Build interesting chord progressions and choose from hundreds of other options when something doesn’t sound quite right
- Teach others the fundamentals of music theory and composition and keep teaching yourself well
- Much, much more in terms of the granular details
Requirements:
- No prior knowledge is required to take this course
The aim of this course is to give you a powerful and extensive compositional vocabulary, from the ground up – right up to advanced music theory, chords and harmony. And it does it all through a practical, hands on experience of theory at the piano, and it’s all accessible without having to read any music. Many composers, producers and songwriters feel restricted by their lack of ability and knowledge of music theory at the piano. Without doubt, one of the greatest things you can do to supercharge your composing and songwriting abilities is to gain greater technique and experience in modern day harmony at the piano.
For the beginner, this course takes you from literally ground zero into the building blocks of what makes music work, right up to advanced harmony – without skipping a beat. You’ll learn to write a wealth of different material at the piano and start your composing journey off right with a powerful skill set at the piano. For the intermediate composers, producers and songwriters who are already serious about their craft but feel restricted by never really getting their head around piano and theory – this course covers almost everything you need to know. It’s built from thousands of hours of experience in private teaching with composers, producers and songwriters with a highly experienced teacher. For those of you who feel your writing ability is held back by your piano, arranging, compositional strategy and harmonic knowledge this course is completely designed for you. And even if you’re basically semi-pro, but think your piano technique, voicings and harmonic knowledge are missing a trick, I still know the course will be of value to you. We cover extended Jazz Harmony, thematic writing, non-diatonic chord relationships and more.
Our Promise to You
By the end of this course, you will have learned to compose music with the piano through keyboard theory.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - Introduction | |||
| Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| Overview Of The Course | 00:00:00 | ||
| Preliminary Things | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - Up And Running With Chords And Melodies | |||
| The Grid | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Chromatic Scale | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating A Major Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating Chords Inside Of A Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Naming Notes On The Piano | 00:00:00 | ||
| Assignment: Simple Ambient Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Example: Simple Ambient Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - Gravity: Harmonic Centers | |||
| Establishing Gravity With Keys | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Circle Of Fifths: Major Key Gravity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Creating A Minor Scale And Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Circle Of Fifths: Minor Key Gravity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Learning All Keys | 00:00:00 | ||
| Assignment: Transposing Chords And Melodies | 00:00:00 | ||
| Get Composing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4 - Piano Technique: The Key To Fluency | |||
| Technique And Fluency At The Piano | 00:00:00 | ||
| Hand Positions And Fingerings | 00:00:00 | ||
| Wandering Hands Backing Tracks | 00:00:00 | ||
| Assignment: Wandering Hands Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Example: Wandering Hands Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 5 - Diatonic Harmony: Chords And Progressions Inside Keys | |||
| Introduction To Chords In A Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Analysing 1000+ Tunes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Common Chord Progressions And Conventions | 00:00:00 | ||
| 30% Different – Changing Standard Chord Progressions | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chord 5 In A Minor Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harmony Cheat Sheet: Stage 1 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 6 - Melody Over Harmony | |||
| Tension And Resolution | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chord Tones | 00:00:00 | ||
| Non-Chord Tones | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Feelings Of Different Intervals | 00:00:00 | ||
| Layering And Overlapping | 00:00:00 | ||
| Non-diatonic Tones | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Pentatonic Scale | 00:00:00 | ||
| Patterns: The Way To Think About Your Music | 00:00:00 | ||
| Assignment: Melody Writing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Example: Melody Writing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 7 - Structuring Harmony: Extending And Creating New Harmonic Sections | |||
| Roman Numerals In Analysis | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harmonic Structure | 00:00:00 | ||
| Repeating Harmony | 00:00:00 | ||
| Repeating Harmony Example Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Small Changes In Harmony | 00:00:00 | ||
| Varying Your Bass Lines | 00:00:00 | ||
| Modulation: New Centres Of Gravity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Composing 3 Different Sections | 00:00:00 | ||
| Different Sections Example | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 8 - Chord Voicings And Arrangement | |||
| Introduction To Voicing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Arpeggiation | 00:00:00 | ||
| Examples Of Arpeggiation In Context | 00:00:00 | ||
| Closed And Open Position Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| Inversions | 00:00:00 | ||
| Doubling | 00:00:00 | ||
| Dropping | 00:00:00 | ||
| Voice Leading | 00:00:00 | ||
| Grace Notes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Accompanying Singers Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Accompanying Singers Example | 00:00:00 | ||
| Orchestral String Writing Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Orchestral String Writing Example | 00:00:00 | ||
| Another Example Of Voice Leading | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harmony Cheat Sheet: Level 2 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 9 - Bass Lines | |||
| Bass Lines Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| Voice Leading And Passing Notes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bass Line Riffs | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 10 - Chromatic Harmony: Chords From Scratch | |||
| Introduction To Chords From Scratch | 00:00:00 | ||
| In Depth: Chords From Scratch | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Create Triads From Scratch | 00:00:00 | ||
| Suspension Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| Working Out The Key Of A Song | 00:00:00 | ||
| Modulation And Secondary Dominants | 00:00:00 | ||
| Pushing Out The Key Example Track | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 11 - Upper Structures | |||
| Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Create 7th Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| Diminished And Augmented 7th Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| How To Create 9th Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding 11th And 13ths To Your Chords | 00:00:00 | ||
| Upper Structure Composing Assignments | 00:00:00 | ||
| Upper Structure Composing Example | 00:00:00 | ||
| Upper Structure Re-harmonizing Example | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 12 - Reading Chord Symbols | |||
| How To Read Chords And Chord Symbols | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harmony Cheat Sheet: Level 3 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 13 - Problem Solving | |||
| Where Do I Start: Generating Material With Rules | 00:00:00 | ||
| Patterns, Patterns, Patterns | 00:00:00 | ||
| Problem Solving | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 14 - Harmonic Rhythm | |||
| Introduction To Harmonic Rhythm | 00:00:00 | ||
| Passing Chords And Reharmonization | 00:00:00 | ||
| Reharmonisation Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 15 - Melodic Rhythm | |||
| Melodic Rhythm | 00:00:00 | ||
| Phrasing And Space | 00:00:00 | ||
| Phrasing And Melodic Rhythm Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 16 - Accompaniment And Arrangement Rhythms | |||
| Standard Accompaniment Patterns With Commentary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Standard Accompaniment Patterns Without Commentary | 00:00:00 | ||
| Musical Layers And Alignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Adding Very Subtle Misalignment In Tracks | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Chord Progression Manual | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 17 - Advanced Melodic Colors | |||
| What Scales Go With What Chords? | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Blues Scale | 00:00:00 | ||
| Harmonic And Melodic Minor Scales | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Scale Omnibus | 00:00:00 | ||
| Paired Pentatonics | 00:00:00 | ||
| Modes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 18 - Chord Relationships And Thematic Writing | |||
| Introduction To Chord Relationships | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chord Relationship And Arpeggiation Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chord Relationship And Arpeggiation Example Breakdown | 00:00:00 | ||
| Writing Themes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 19 - Conclusion | |||
| Conclusion | 00:00:00 | ||
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