Music Composition Bundle: Composition & Film Scoring 1 & 2

• Write and Compose music using proven techniques and tips
• Create their own music using software, or good old pencil and paper.
• Generate musical ideas through creativity exercises
• Tools of the trade: Software
• Tools of the trade: Pencils and fine paper
• How do you start?
• The process
• Program music and metaphors
• Character sketches
• Writing through canon
• Form
• Binary, Ternary, and Rondo forms
• Starting with a plan
• Graphic form representations
• Triads, and basic rules of harmony
• Chord progressions
• Inversions
• Song analysis
• Melody writing
• Why Tension and Release?
• Long Term and Short Term Tensions
• Using Form for Tension and Release
• Forms that Create Drama
• Sonata Form
• The 4 Elements of Form
• Example: Mozart, Moonlight Sonata
• Composing with Sonata Form
• Modern Uses of Sonata Form
• Example: Muse, Butterflies and Hurricanes
• Tension and Release with Meter
• Compound Meters
• Meter Signatures
• Alternating Compound and Duple Meters
• Using Rhythm for Altering Expectations
• Rhythmic Patterns
• Pattern Obfuscation
• Example: Philip Glass, Truman Show Soundtrack
• Example: Allen, Aporia
• Using Harmony for Tension and Release
• Consonance and Dissonance
• Prolonging Dominant
• Emphasized Resolution
• Pedal Tones
• Moving “Pedal Tones”
• Example: Aphex Twin, Ventolin
• Combining Multiple Techniques
• Example: Mozart, Sonata in C
• Example: Allen, Angel of Repose
• Film Music and Tension Cues
• Composing for Films

Who this course is for:

• Anyone in any country who is ready to start their professional music career by learning everything they need to know about how music composition works and the film scoring industry.
• Anyone interested in learning to write music for fun, or as a potential new career