Learn the essentials for music-making.
What you will learn
Explore where ideas come from and how you can reliably create your initial creative spark.
Understand how chord progressions work, why theyβre important, and how harmony informs the other aspects of a composition.
Understand how melodies are linked to the chord progression, and how you can use different techniques to create themes and motifs.
Understand how to give your music its own rhythmic identity and how rhythm applies to melody, harmony, and structure.
Understand how to develop a great sound, complete with a composition demo that uses texture to breathe new life into your music.
Explore different ways you can structure your music ideas across a whole composition and give you some blueprints to get started.
Why take this course?
About this course
“Foundations of Making Music” is taught by Emmy-nominated composer Guy Michelmore (Marvel, The Jungle Book) and delivered to you by ThinkSpace Education – a leader in online music education.
Who is this course for?
This free micro-course is for beginner composers who are looking for a solid foundation to build their skills further and learn about the core music fundamentals. By the end of this course you will be equipped to make better music and have fun doing it!
What will you learn?
Across five modules, we will cover the following music fundamentals: writing melodies, building chord progressions, creating interesting rhythms and textures, structure and form, and developing musical ideas. Here are the breakdowns of each module in this course:
Introduction and Workflow
Harmony and Chords
Melody
Rhythm
Texture
Structure and Form
Course Wrap-Up
How will you learn it?
We provide engaging video content and course texts. We also have a range of tasks and interactive assignments (called MinusONEs) downloadable project files to complete, so there are plenty of practical opportunities for you to implement your learning along the way.
What will you need?
Any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and an eagerness to learn!
We hope you enjoy this course –Β happy composing!