A lesson in the many ways that studying music composition isn’t just for music composers…
It’s for anyone who wants to take their musicianship to the genius level!
Because learning how to compose teaches you fundamental lessons in how music works… and knowing how music works is the foundation of every artistic performance. Let’s go!
Learning How to Compose…
… teaches you that…
- An enormous diversity of music can be made by using just a small number of simple Patterns combined in interesting ways.
- Music is a unique Language with its own vocabulary and grammar.
- Musical Patterns (form, meter, rhythm, harmony, melody, scales, chords, chord progressions, embellishments, etc.) should not be conceived as nouns, but as VERBS. In other words, it is not about what a musical pattern is called, but by what that musical pattern does.
- “One-note-at-a-time” is not the way that musicians compose, improvise, and perform written music anymore than fluent English speakers speak one-syll-able-at-a-time.
Learning how to compose music
will absolutely transform your relationship with music…
The profound understanding and skills you develop
from learning how to compose will elevate your performances…
from merely competent renditions to artistic expressions.
Learning how to compose music
transforms you from a mere CONSUMER of music
into a CREATOR of music!
learn more… Composition Lessons: Music Theory & Music Practice
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