Beginner to Advanced Music Writing
Music composition lessons are enjoyable even though they are challenging. By starting with the basics, you’ll be able to make steady progress as a composer to build your own musical language.
These lessons are completely tailored to your style of writing and goals and features customize course content. Your musical composition skills will be honed-in with practice writing a variety of different musical pieces. As you find your unique musical voice and get more comfortable using the available tools, your sense of music writing will become more natural and you will develop the confidence to experiment with new techniques.
What Students Learn
The first step to becoming a composer is learning how to read music and understand what all of the various symbols mean. As you study a range of styles and genres of music, you'll discover what devices composers are using and how to integrate that into your own music. You'll become familiar with the fundamental rules in music writing and theory, including chord progressions, relationship between seemingly polarizing music patterns, rhythmic structure, attractive melody creation, and more.
Plain paper and pencils will first be used to write pieces. Students will then move onto modern technology featuring software to help guide students through the process of selecting appropriate chords and elements. Computer and the correct software is needed for home use is required for composition lessons.
Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Music Composition Lessons
Beginner Composition Lessons
Explore your inspiration or learn more about music. You will learn all the basic musical skills to build a strong foundation for writing future pieces. In beginner lessons, some of the following topics are often covered:
- Music theory introduction
- Musical notation
- Molding and manipulating melody
- Lyric writing
Intermediate Composition Lessons
Learn more compositional techniques to improve your writing abilities and to expand your ideas. As you learn musical tricks and theories, you'll acquire new tools that allow you add more textural elements to your pieces. The topics covered include the following and more:
- Architecture of music
- Micro and macro devices used
- Chord progression functionality
Advanced Composition Lessons
Advanced lessons are intended for students with a thorough musical background and previous experience with music writing. At this level of mastery, you'll work on developing and polishing your personal style, upgrade old pieces, and expanding your genres of writing. Topics covered highly depend on individual interests and goals, but often include:
- Experimenting with fusing different genres together for a new sound that still harbors your unique voice
- Collaborating with musicians and recording studios to create demos of your own music to market and sell