Make Melodies Like A Pro TUTORiAL
P2P | 09 July 2019 | 546 MB
Music Theory Cheat Shortcut to songwriting mastery Become Better at melodies and chords in 5 minutes !!
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Music Theory Cheat Shortcut to songwriting mastery Become Better at melodies and chords in 5 minutes !!
When learning about Music Theory most people start with scales, modes and chords and then sort of.. stop. This makes you miss out on of the most exciting parts of Theory: Form. In this course we’re going to check out not only those all important scales and chords, but also Functional Harmony, which is a system that categorises Chords into their unique “functions”. This will allow you to build chord progressions that evoke specific emotions, creating a story in which you’re the writer, you can steer the story into any direction depending on the mood you want to create: in whatever type of music you produce!
This class will introduce you to the theory of music, providing the skills needed to read and write standard music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and introduce some basics of listening.
Understanding song form is essential to songwriting. Learn all how to enhance the power of your songs with music theory expert… Think about it: You can’t design a successful building without understanding architecture. So, it makes sense that if you trying to write a hit song, you’ve got to understand the basics of song form. In this 4th in a series of Music Theory tutorials by macProVideo’s expert theorist, Gregg Fine, you’ll learn how absolutely necessary the knowledge of song form is to writing great songs and the songwriting process. You see, there is more to songwriting than simply inspiration. It’s an art that has been developed and refined for thousands of years. And, like any kind of art, there are tools and techniques you can employ to refine the artistic results. In this tutorial you’ll explore all the major pop/rock and R&B song forms including AAA, AABA and the Verse-Chorus formats. You see how the different forms function. You’ll understand how some forms are best for different kinds of storytelling. You’ll also learn about the anatomy of a song, and how different sections are designed to the elevate the listener’s experience and enhance to power of your song’s emotional impact.
Chords infuse music with color and emotion. Learn the theory and magic behind creating chords in this Harmony tutorial by Master Composer and Arranger Gregg Fine. If melody is the story of a song, then harmony is the feeling behind the story. To create songwriting magic, you need to know both. In this Harmony tutorial by chordiologist Gregg Fine, get the whole story of harmony and learn how you can enhance the color and emotion of your tunes. Harmony starts with triads: the basic building blocks for chords. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to combine intervals to change the nature and color of the chords in your productions. Watch and listen as Gregg shows how to build major, minor, diminished and augmented chords, along with their inversions. You’ll also see and hear how added tones can add a new dimension to simple chords.
Ever wonder why certain melodies stick with you forever while others trigger an intense emotional response? Why does this happen? Well, it’s not accidental! In this tutorial you’ll learn the theory and the art of melody writing… Melodies are magical. They’re what we remember and love most about the music. And, they are the foundation of every kind of music from ancient Gregorian Chant to Hip Hop. In this entertaining tutorial by composer Gregg Fine, you’ll learn how melodies are constructed and discover all the parameters of melody making beginning with notes and scales. Next you’ll see how major and minor scales are constructed with their unique patterns of whole- and half-steps. From there Professor Fine demystifies accidentals: those odd little symbols that live alongside musical notes on the page. After that there’s a section where you’ll get into musical intervals: those vibrating building blocks of melody and harmony! Then Gregg modulates it up a key or two by focusing on some exotic scales like Pentatonic, Blues, Octatonic and Augmented.
Have you ever wondered how the musical scale came about? Or why certain pitches sound better together than others? “Music Theory”, by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, is a comprehensive course in the study of music. Much more than just memorization of musical terms and definitions…this course explains the “why”.