Home Study Version Now Available!
For the first time, we're releasing our video and supplemental PDFs so you can have this advanced study option to do at your own pace. You get all seven video lessons with PDF supplemental training containing your homework assignments. These seven video lessons and material in the book are roughly the equivalent of a semester's worth of work in college, again, that you do at your own pace.
Please note: this is NOT an academic theoretical approach. Initially, you'll do all your work with just the Dorian mode. From there, all the remaining modes are open to you.
Please note: I do NOT teach RULES! I teach PRINCIPLES that you can apply to ANY style of music. Once you've learned to apply these principles, you then have the skill to write music on demand - in as many different music styles you know: classical, jazz, Rap, you name it!
That's why this is a practical course for songwriters, arrangers, and composers who want to:
improve their melodic skills
expand their melodic language by learning to write modally
learn how to harmonize their song
learn how to create a starting bass line
learn how to create a counterline above and below the melody
learn how to create interesting harmonizations
learn how to improvise
(for jazz players) learn how to apply chord scales in jazz and other styles
You will:
write and record all your work
apply concepts with exercises
apply concepts to a maximum of five different songs, preferably from different styles
You'll need:
to budget 2-4 hours per week preferably have vocal samples to record your work so that all examples with a vocal/choral sound
Required Text: Alexander Publishing Edition of Counterpoint by Fux
Week 1
Lesson 1 - melodic movement and song analysis
Lesson 2 -Two-voice motion
Week 2
Lesson 3 - Implied harmony
Lesson 4 - Four modes
Week 3
Lessons 5-6 - One against one
Week 4
Lessons 7-8 - Two against one
Week 5
Lessons 9-10 - Four against one
Week 6
Lessons 11-12 - Syncopation
Week 7
Lessons 13-14 - The whole pie |
