REQ: Thinkspace Education How To Write Music

How To Write Music gives you a process for writing effective music.

Whether you are just starting out or looking to take your skills to the next level, it explores the fundamental skills that underpin every great piece of music whether it’s a song or a film score, string quartet or video game sounds track.

Writing effective tunes, developing interesting chord progressions, using rhythm and texture, structuring your ideas into a piece of music – these are the skills every composer or songwriter needs to master. If you’ve ever struggled with the blank sheet of paper or started 50 ideas never to finish any of them, this course gives you a framework for approaching composition that will help you write better music.

This course was rated #1 on Udemy, now back home at ThinkSpace, it’s even better with more examples, more course text and more content.


Tune writing, chord progressions, rhythm, texture and structure and much more.
6 hours of engaging and entertaining video tutorials.
Bonus unit on music theory.
Fully interactive course text packed with examples.
Learn a process for writing music and songs.
Real-time composing demonstrations complete pieces from scratch.

Course Content
What Will I Learn?
You’ll start by learning a range of techniques for getting started and developing the spark of an idea into something more substantial. The we dive in and look at the foundations of every piece of music in much more detail, tune writing, chord progressions and harmony, using rhythm and texture. Finally we look at the different ways you can structure your music. You’ll learn a process that ensures you find it easier to start writing and you turn more of your ideas into finished pieces.

Turning a 3 note motif into a fully developed catchy tune.
Alternative approaches to chord progressions
Using technology to write music.
Scoring demonstrations – watch complete pieces of music come to life.
Ways to get started when facing the dreaded blank sheet of paper.
Look again at all the skills you take for granted, skills that will do 100 times more for your music than a new sample library!
What Problems Does This Course Solve?
I want to write music but I have no idea where to start.
I always play other people’s songs and I just want to write one of my own.
I’ve been writing music for years but there’s something holding me back, I never completely nail it.
I come up with dozens of ideas but just can’t turn any of them into a finished piece.
If any one of those sounds like you, then dive in. Don’t worry we have a no hassle money back guarantee if it’s not right for you. So what have you got to lose? I guarantee this course will do far more for your music than a load of new gear or software!

Who Is This Course For?
Musicians who want to start writing music.
Intermediate composers who need to refocus on the fundamentals of their music to get to the next level.
Songwriters who want to break out of the same old chord progressions and melodic lines and find something genuinely new

Course Structure
Getting Started:
Where ideas come from and how to take a spark and develop it into viable musical unit.

How To Improvise:
The foundation of most song writing and composition but something most people never really learn.

Build Better Chord Progressions:
A system for creating effective chord progressions quickly and simply .

Going Deeper:
Writing music using suspensions, extensions and more.

Melody:
What makes a great tune and 5 things to help you get started.

Melodic Development:
Taking a simple short idea and turning it into a really satisfying and memorable theme.

Working with Rhythm:
A range of techniques for adding rhythm interest – how rhythm works alongside chord progressions and melodic development.

Structure:
The key to building interest and emotion, how to take a 15 second idea and turn it into a really effective 3 minute piece of music.

Texture:
There are so many different ways to say the same thing in music. In ‘Texture’ we look at a range of approaches to arrangement, instrumentation and more.

Dynamics:
Using dynamics, density and volume to build impact