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You've written a few songs, but have now reached a plateau. This learning path can help you take your songwriting skills to the next level by exploring the fundamentals of good songwriting, and then expanding your mastery of harmony, rhythm, and chords. You can then learn how to take your songwriting to a professional level and build a career around your creative muse.

In this learning path,

  • Improve your foundational songwriting skills.
  • Explore rhythm, harmony, and chords as they apply to songwriting.
  • Build a fulfilling and profitable songwriting career.

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Hours 23
Instructors Julian Velard, David Franz, Cliff Goldmacher, Garrick Chow, Jake Versluis, Steve Rennie, Todd Howard, Yeuda Ben-Atar, Matt Piper
Language English
Subjects Art & Design

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Music Theory for Songwriters: The Fundamentals

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. However, no one has taught it in such a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way as we do here, using both keyboard and...

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Music Theory for Songwriters: Harmony

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music—but it can be kind of dry.Contents:Introduction1. Minor Keys and Modes2. Four-Note Chords and Beyond3. Key Centers,...

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Music Theory for Songwriters: Rhythm

Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way,...

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Songwriting Techniques with Chords

While it sometimes feels like our favorite songs appeared out of nowhere to mend our broken hearts or get our party guests on the dance floor, each one was carefully and...

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Write Think and Act Like a Professional Songwriter

Join professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher as he shares his insights on the songwriting process and on what it takes to make it in the music business as a songwriter. He begins...

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The Business of Songwriting: First Steps

When it comes to making money in songwriting, writing great songs is only part of the equation. In this course, author Garrick Chow introduces you to all of the major...

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20 Unofficial Rules of Songwriting

While there are technically no limits when it comes to songwriting, here are 20 "unofficial" rules that songwriters employ to make songs more engaging and memorable. And it's not...

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Learning Music Licensing

Licensing your music for use in video games, film, advertisements and other audio-visual contexts is one of the best ways for you to monetize your songwriting efforts. In this...

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An Insider's Guide to Today's Music Biz: 8 Music Publishing

One of the most important aspects of the music biz is music publishing. It can also be one of the most complicated parts of the business to understand, even for the most seasoned...

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Learning Songwriting: Pro Tools

Everyone writes songs in their own way. Some start with a melody or a beat, some start with a lyric. Whatever your starting point, you need to get your ideas down quickly, and...

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Learning Songwriting: Logic Pro

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Learning Songwriting: Ableton Live

Everyone writes songs in their own way. Some start with a melody or a beat; some begin with a lyric. Whatever your starting point, you need to get your ideas down quickly, and...

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Learning Songwriting: Reason (You were viewing this course)

Get your song ideas down before they disappear‚ with Reason. In this short course, musician Matt Piper demonstrates two types of workflows for writing, recording, and mixing a...

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From LinkedIn Learning
Hours 23
Instructors Julian Velard, David Franz, Cliff Goldmacher, Garrick Chow, Jake Versluis, Steve Rennie, Todd Howard, Yeuda Ben-Atar, Matt Piper
Language English
Subjects Art & Design

Careers

An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).

Xamarin-Forms app written in C#, WPF $58k

Drums & Rhythm Instructor $65k

Manager, Marketing & Communications (Written Content) $74k

Rhythm Section Bassist $84k

System QA Engineer, Harmony Remotes $119k

Cardiac Rhythm Management Sales, Therapy Sales Specialist Manager $149k

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