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Online Courses

• Lyric Writing: Tools and Strategies

  Generate more and better ideas. Express them in compelling and original ways.

• Lyric Writing: Writing From the Title

  Make your writing process more efficient and your lyrics more effective. Learn how to find a powerful and effective song title, and discover how to build lyrics, develop the rhythms of your song sections, create contrasting sections and ideas to re-color your chorus based on that title.

• Lyric Writing: Writing Lyrics to Music

  Get the most out of your lyrics by learning how to combine them accurately and effectively with melody.

• Songwriting Workshop: Writing Hit Songs

  Move your listeners and express yourself more effectively by crafting your songs the way hit writers do.

• Songwriting Workshop: Melody

  Learn to construct strong, expressive melodies that your audiences will remember.

• Songwriting Workshop: Harmony

  Learn how harmony can help you to articulate the essential meaning of a song, and the best ways to adapt chords and progressions to suit your unique songwriting style and ideas.

• Commercial Songwriting Techniques

  Learn to write for commercial success by reproducing the time-tested characteristics of hit songs while maintaining your own unique voice.

• Hip-Hop Writing and Production

  Learn the techniques that hip-hop producers use to create hit songs. Learn writing and production considerations unique to hip-hop, how to analyze and recreate different styles of hip-hop, and how to use this foundation to produce your own songs using Propellerhead’s Reason software.

• Film Scoring 101

  Create original music to accompany a visual medium by learning fundamental to more advanced film scoring techniques.

• Arranging 1: Rhythm Section

  Essential learning for anyone interested in arranging music for a band, Arranging 1: Rhythm Section explores all aspects of writing and arranging for the rhythm section.

• Arranging: Small Ensemble and Horns

  Develop your writing and arranging skills for smaller bands and larger ensembles and learn techniques that can be applied to both live instrumentation or sequenced/sampled sounds.

• Arranging: Advanced Horn Writing

  Take your arranging abilities to the next level of development by studying more advanced techniques for voicing chords, orchestration, articulations, and background lines.

• Music Notation Using Finale

  Create great-looking music quickly and easily with the powerful Finale music notation software, and learn techniques to maximize speed, control, and accuracy.

• Music Notation Using Sibelius

  Learn to create lead sheets, choral and instrumental scores, drum maps and guitar notation, and explore many other ways to use Sibelius for your own personal and professional needs.

• Music Theory 101

  Get the musical foundation you need to take your skills to a higher level. Learn to read, write, really listen…and put theory into practice every day!

• Music Theory 201

  Become a more effective player and writer by furthering your music theory background. Learn more complex chords, progressions, and rhythms to open up your understanding of the elements that help put the groove in jazz, pop, blues, and rock.

• Music Theory 301

  Prepare yourself for any future musical endeavor and gain a professional command of the mechanics of contemporary music in this advanced music theory course.

• Getting Inside Harmony 1

  Use harmony creatively in your playing and writing. Learn to hear and modify chord progressions, improvise effectively from chord to chord and deepen your understanding of music's inner workings.

• Getting Inside Harmony 2

  Take your harmonic development to the next level by gaining a solid footing in more advanced principles including melodic and harmonic tension, chord substitution, and chromatically altered chords.

• Basic Ear Training 1

  This practical approach to ear training will help you build your confidence as a performer by teaching you how to notate basic rhythms and better identify the different parts of a song.

• Harmonic Ear Training

  Put your harmonic theory into practice. Learn techniques that will improve your performance, arranging, and compositional skills by refining your ability to really hear and recognize what is going on within the chord progressions.

• Arranging: Contemporary Styles

  Learn to create your own original grooves by analyzing, writing, sequencing and recording the rhythms and styles that have influenced western contemporary music.