MUSICOLOGY

Learn to analyze songs, identify the structures and patterns that work best, and why. In this course, you’ll learn the techniques writers use to craft songs. Whether you’re a relative beginner or an experienced songwriter, you’ll learn how to brainstorm ideas, compose tunes and express yourself more effectively in words and music. Combining technical principles with pure creative expression, this hands-on course will help you find your voice, sharpen your craft and create songs listeners will appreciate and remember.

This course enables you to:

• Master 3 modules of songwriting – (1) Lyrics (2) Melody and (3) Harmony

• Write better lyrics using professional methods. Use better phrasing, song structures, song ideas rhyme structures and several other techniques which professional songwriters use as ‘secrets’.

• Write lyrics that demand your audience’s attention

• Compose melodies that your audience wants to hear again & again. Apply techniques used by professional composers & hit-makers.

• Compose tunes using ‘pro’ secretslike ‘Phrasing’, ‘repetition’, ‘neighboring & passing notes’ etc

• Make effective use of scales & modes in melody making

• Compose rhythm / harmony that establish your song

• Use ‘pro’ techniqueslike ‘building song sections’, ‘progressions’, ‘creating contrast’ & ‘harmonic variations’ etc.