Introduction to Music Theory & Composing at the Piano

Full course here: http://leanmusician.link/piano-composition

0:22 The Grid
4:01 The Chromatic Scale
8:15 Creating a Major Key
13:53 Creating Chords Inside of a Key
22:15 Naming Notes on the Piano
28:02 Ambient Track Assignment
29:47 Ambient Track Example
35:06 Establishing Gravity with Keys
39:05 The Circle of Fifths | Major Key Gravity
46:21 Creating a Minor Scale
51:22 The Circle of Fifths | Minor Key Gravity
56:48 Learning All Keys
01:01:05 Transposing Chords & Melodies
01:05:14 Get Composing! :)
01:15:30 Introduction to Chords in a Key
01:24:14 Analysing 1000+ Tunes
01:28:27 Common Chord Progressions
01:38:42 30% Different
01:41:14 Chord 5 in Minor
01:45:33 Non-chord Tones
01:48:56 Chord Tones
01:52:04 Tension & Resolution

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.

This is an hour long excerpt from the full 8 hour course on Udemy.com. The aim of the full course is to give you a powerful and extensive compositional vocabulary, from the ground up - right up to advanced music theory, chords & 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.

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This course was designed for three types of musician, the beginner and intermediate

Producer
Composer (Film & Games)
Songwriter

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 skillset 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 & theory - this course covers almost everything you need to know. It’s built from thousands of hours (literally) of experience in private teaching with composers, producers & songwriters with a highly experienced teacher. For those of you who feel your writing ability is held back by your piano, arranging, compositional strategy & 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.

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At the end of this course not only are you going to feel more strong and fluent as a writer, you’re going to be able to solve critical problems on the fly whilst composing; things like:

‘Where do I start? How do I generate material?’

‘I have a chord progression, how do I make it more interesting?’

‘How can I make my chords sound more sophisticated?’

‘I have a chord progression, but I don’t know where to take it next’

‘What’s the musical science behind why that sounds like it does

‘I have chords, how do I add a bass line?’

‘I have a melody, how do I add chords?’

‘I have chords, how do I add a melody?’

‘I have a bass line, how do I add chords?’

‘My melodies sound a little dull, how can I make them more interesting?’

‘If my chords are going to stay the same, how can I make them sound different or more inspiring for the next section?’

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Full course here: https://jvteaching.com/udemy3

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At the end of this course, you’re going to be able to:

Express yourself and your ideas fluently

Know how to compose well & use extended music theory without having to involve yourself in reading music but by understanding simple patterns at the piano.

Unleash your writing with tools to unblock the writing process and generate material with ease

Be able to write anything from classical music, to jazz music to mainstream music - because the fundamental building blocks of harmony are largely the same.

Build interesting chord progressions and choose from hundreds of other options when something doesn’t sound quite right

Alleviate a lot of writer's block!

Have specific principles, techniques and formulas for making music work at your fingertips

Teach others the fundamentals of music theory and composition and keep teaching yourself so that you can learn and master piano more and more.

This course contains many piano tutorials on piano scales, piano chords, exercises and is the perfect way to learn piano online.

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