The Ultimate Guide: Music Composition Course is designed to take you from dreaming of composing to successfully composing. This is the starting line for anyone who wants to produce and create music. Whether you are creating for yourself in a home studio, collaborating with others or wanting to work professionally in this field, this course will bring your ideas on paper to life. This is a navigation guide to working with your Digital Audio Workstation. In this course, I’ll share with you a list of tasks to become familiar with as you start your journey. Familiarity with these tasks such as recording, copying, erasing, setting up your tracks, adding virtual instruments and creating virtual templates will speed up your process, allowing you to spend more time with creating music and less time navigating through technology. I’ll share with you the ways I make sketches and share my insights into how, why and to whom you write. We’ll look into motifs, which are the most important part of the melody and create one from scratch together and I’ll give you all my tricks to coming up with a great motif. The key components of this Guide are familiarity with your DAW, getting to know virtual instruments, increasing your work speed, composing efficiently and creating/composing on PURPOSE. This course has 13 Videos and over 6 hours of guidance. The Modules are listed below and include a wide array of exercises, tips and specific guidance.

You Are Unique

Modules 1, 2 and 3 are designed to embrace your uniqueness, which includes the skills you have, the knowledge, your thought process, your application and your emotion. All of these have tremendous impact on your creation. You Are Unique focuses on how to embrace who you are and utilize your strengths while developing your weakness in the ways you approach music.

• Learn Seven Approaches of Writing Music. 

• Explore in detail 3 Approaches: Rhythmic Structure, Melodic Structure & Harmonic Structure

• Introduce necessary tools for music composition, such as Chord’s Progression, Harmony Movement and Instrumentation.

• Choose your approach toward music composition.

• Building inner relationships between instruments.

• Develop your intuition, trust and feel for your creative process and output.

• Explore Piano/Keyboard as primary midi controller.

• Integration with LUNA music software from Universal Audio

**If this is your DAW, you’ll get loads of secrets about working specifically with LUNA, however, if this isn’t your DAW, you will still receive tremendous benefits, but you will need to translate the information into your software. Once you know the language of the software, you’ll have no problems working with any DAW.

Making Sketches

As a composer, one of the most important skills you can develop is communication. How you share your music with the world is based on how you communicate with everyone involved in your projects including musicians, engineers, etc. Everyone has different needs. That is why we have to develop your own language of communication that first makes sense to YOU and will be easily adopted by others. We want musicians to react to your writing with the intention you had when you wrote it. Making Sketches creates an opportunity to talk less and play more. In this video, we will talk about the 5 Types of Sketches in Writing.

Motif

Motif is the ‘Why’ of music’s existence, it stands out, catches your ear and creates the memory. The motif pulls you in and connects you with the piece. Expanding one’s music composition is dependent upon the development of the motif. It is one of the most powerful tools of creation. How do you find a motif? You feel it! Inside this 3 part video module, we will present the motif in 3 different stages. Stage 1 is the search. Stage 2 is to create the entire tune from the motif we discovered. Stage 3 is recording the tune into DAW with all the layers of instrumentation.

By creating inversions and rhythmic structure manipulation, we develop our motif through new chord’s progression and harmony structure.You witness the whole process of creation. We build melody movement, chord’s progression, instrumentation and arrangement from the motif of the moment. It’s a fascinating and inspiring process. At the end, we will listen the entire new piece of music based on our MOTIF!

Your Virtual Instruments 

Virtual instruments must be integrated as part of our life if we choose to compose music. They are powerful tools that help us to shape our imagination and develop the virtual reality of our music ideas, concepts and creations. Knowing the technical aspect of each is very important and will help us to shape our creation.

Inside this module, we’ll explore the ways to approach each instrument and apply your imagination into the technical capabilities of the instruments such as string’s quartet, acoustic guitar, piano,, acoustic bass etc. We demonstrate ways to expand your motifs between different instruments and learn how to embrace the sound of each example. You’ll gain specific guidance and tips how to turn everything around you into the sound, the sound of true inspiration.

Accidental vs. Royal Composer

Two different ideas. Accidental Composition versus Royal Composition. These are two different experiences. It’s important that we are aware of the two pathways toward creation, as they lead us in two different directions. This module explores the potential benefits and consequences of each. Composing or creating by accident can serve a purpose for your development, but it is difficult to replicate. Composing or creating royally aka on purpose brings intent to your creation and provides a foundation for expansion. We’ll break down how to get into the zone of Royal Composing and share the tools necessary to build your foundational skills.

Each Chord Has a Vibration

Is is very important to be familiar with the vibration of the chords you use when creating music, how to locate them on the keyboard and repeat them in different keys. We have a wonderful discussion about chord application and specific issues one might face when applying chords. During the slides we explore the relationship between the vibration or essence of a motion picture and the music. 

We organize your favorite chords into categories. We talk about them, explore the idea and find a way to have this insightful conversation.

• How to build chords

• How to use Chords

• Where to apply them

• How chord coexist with everything else

• Impact the chord have on your music

We introduce the concept of your personal LABORATORY. We talk about the importance of logic, curiosity, knowledge and action. We explore KEYS TO SUCCESS and also provide specific DEVELOPMENT FORMULA so can pursue your creation with more momentum and excitement.

You are wonderful creator with a one of the kind ‘sound of music’. We bring your vibration to the chords so you can vibrate with them AS ONE. Each chord has a vibration SO DO YOU!

DAW Fundamentals

It’s not important which DAW you have. They all do the same tasks. Choosing a DAW comes down to style, work flow, personality and budget. Every DAW will get you to your destination!

Secret #1:  DAW’s innately want to compose the music for you! It is a tool!

In this module, I share my list of tasks you must know and understand before you touch your DAW. Over the years, I have worked closely with 4 different DAWs. These tasks will save you the time I wasted when beginning. The time it takes to create a foundational understanding of your DAW takes away from the time you spend creating. This module is designed to simplify the process of working with a DAW and save you time, one of your greatest resources. You’ll be actively engaged in the process of dynamic, efficient and solid creation when it comes to your Digital Audio Workstation.

Secret #2: Your DAW shouldn’t hold you back from composing music!

Your beautiful composition should be enhanced by your relationship with your DAW. When you have a good relationship with your DAW your creative talent will shine through!

Making Templates

We want to be as productive as possible! Templates can serve us in working faster and more efficiently. We must remember templates are very personal. They create a foundation for our creativity to expand from. 

This module is all about how to create templates and what to include within them. In this video we discuss the basics so that you’ll be able to create templates that serve your creative purpose.

Royal Priorities

Becoming music composer is a giant task. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of data and insight. This can lead to us giving up on our dreams of making music. In Royal Properties, we’ll bring it all together. You’ll leave the course feeling encouraged and inspired to write. During this module, I’ll share suggestions to support you on the journey to becoming a composer and help you to recognize the pace, momentum and clarity to achieve your goals. You’ll be reminded why you said ‘yes’ to your instrument, to writing music and to taking the next step toward becoming a composer. THIS IS A JOURNEY that will never end, a beautiful trip around your own imagination.

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