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The 20th century offers composers a wide range of technical opportunities. Anyone wishing to compose in a more simple style ...

First we look at how Wagner made use of the chromatic harmony that we found in Schubert's work. After looking closer at some ...

Compose music using Rhythm Theory: Beat Division, Accents & Creative Time Feels! Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ...

Once you have a few simple progressions under your fingers, you can begin to compose with them. In this video, we use I-IV-I and ...

In this episode, I talk about the basic idea, and why it's such a useful way to start your themes.

We have seen how harmony became more complicated in the 19th century. In this video we go on to look at jazz harmony in the ...

This is the most important step in the more advanced stages of composition: writing a song in the style of Schubert, using the ...

Download my handwritten notes and support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/must-know-chords-111414440 In this ...

Once I can identify the harmony of a phrase I can reduce it to a skeleton. This will be the basis of my creative work.

What is your total creative output as a composer? Are you composing enough music to uncover the good ideas? Today's video is ...

In this vlog, I show the techniques I talked about in the previous video on sketching. If you're interested in learning to compose, ...

Composing is a lot easier when you can play an instrument proficiently, however, piano is particularly useful for composers.

How do melodies work? We separate them into their tiniest fragments, examining phrases and cadences. We look for repeated ...

This talk continues from the last, expanding the simple arrangement into a piece for unaccompanied choir, first in a homophonic ...

This is the first talk about arranging, limited to the type of small ensemble that might have been found in the middle ages.

Putting snippets and skeletons together we can use elements of any composition to create new pieces.

This video makes a detailed harmonic analysis of Schubert's song "Schäfers Klagelied," pointing out augmented triads, ...

This talk begins with a definition of tonality and then goes on to look at the tonality of folk songs and simple melodies. Children's ...

This last talk shows how Mozart used material by J.C.Bach, whom he admired very much, to compose his first piano concerto.

In this MuseScore 4 tutorial, we cover the basics of score writing, including how to enter notes, articulations, and text items.

In this talk we apply the techniques of analysis to a larger composition, observing how small elements are used in a wider ...

Beginning with children's songs we look at typical structures that composers have used in the past, and which we can use today ...

What are harmonic inversions? If you're not using them, you run the risk of writing very boring progressions and pieces. But they ...

In this video I'll show you how inverted chords can be used to achieve smooth voice leading in your guitar composing. Get my ...

Watch me compose as quick as I can in five minutes. The goal of this episode is to just show you what it's like to sit down and write ...