Methods & Theory
While intuition is a powerful resource, it can be daunting to delve into the freedom of a blank page with musical intuition alone. In addition to refining your intuition & musical ear, our lessons equip you with compositional methods, tools, and music theory — resources to draw upon alongside your ear.
Sifting for Golden Seeds
In your lessons, you'll learn how to start a piece of music with a single seed. This is a small unit of inspiration, such as a chord, two notes, or a single word. From this seed, you'll learn how to develop long-form works, which seamlessly grow out of the starting material.
Guided Composition Exercises
Every time you write a piece of music, you learn something new. For new composers, however, finding your first notes can be a daunting task. To help build confidence in your voice and find musical footing, we'll start with a series of 60 second composition exercises. These exercises start small: a solo piece. You'll move to a duet, then a quartet, voice & piano, and various other ensemble types, giving you a strong grasp on writing for a variety of instruments.
Demystifying Music Theory
In our lessons, we'll demystify the intricacies of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form. Using the music you love as examples, you'll begin to understand how music works behind the scenes. Armed with music theory, the open-ended task of composition becomes a lot less intimidating.
Sifting for Golden Seeds
In your lessons, you'll learn how to start a piece of music with a single seed. This is a small unit of inspiration, such as a chord, two notes, or a single word. From this seed, you'll learn how to develop long-form works, which seamlessly grow out of the starting material.
Guided
Composition Exercises
Every time you write a piece of music, you learn something new. For new composers, however, finding your first notes can be a daunting task. To help build confidence in your voice and find musical footing, we'll start with a series of 60 second composition exercises. These exercises start small: a solo piece. You'll move to a duet, then a quartet, voice & piano, and various other ensemble types, giving you a strong grasp on writing for a variety of instruments.
Demystifying
Music Theory
In our lessons, we'll demystify the intricacies of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form. Using the music you love as examples, you'll begin to understand how music works behind the scenes. Armed with music theory, the open-ended task of composition becomes a lot less intimidating.
