Learning how to write and create music effectively will dramatically improve the quality of your music and the speed you create it
In this course, you will gain a deep understanding of Music Theory as well as techniques and formulas to use when creating your own electronic music. What we learn in this course can help give you more ideas for your songs and can give you options to use in your composition.
You'll learn the beauty and the power of music theory that's used by professionals today.
With over 8-hours of videos, this music course is
What makes me qualified to teach you?
Learning how to write and create music effectively will dramatically improve the quality of your music and the speed you create it
In this course, you will gain a deep understanding of Music Theory as well as techniques and formulas to use when creating your own electronic music. What we learn in this course can help give you more ideas for your songs and can give you options to use in your composition.
You'll learn the beauty and the power of music theory that's used by professionals today.
With over 8-hours of videos, this music course is
What makes me qualified to teach you?
My name is Tomas, and I have a MMus Masters Degree in Music Production and a BA(Hons) Degree in Music Composition. I’m also the creator of some of the world's most popular music production courses - with over 300,000 students and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones:
Really great teacher of music theory, taught exercises into great depth but explained exercises simply, recommend it to anyone who has never studied music theory before - Milo C.
Very useful lectures which provide me a lot of information and improve my skills dramatically. His teaching method also helps me easily to understand. Thank you so much Tomas. - Huy N.
It helps a lot, I recommend it for beginners who have never learn anything about music. The lessons are enjoyable and there's a lot of examples about composing. - Alessio P.
What is this Music Theory course all about?
This Music Theory course will cover such topics as:
• Major scales,
• Minor scales
• Major chords
• Minor chords
• Diminished chords
• Chord progressions
• Modulation
• Relative majors
• Relative minors
• Modes
• Song analyses
• Deconstructed several tracks
• Writing a song from a drum beat
• How to write a song from a chord progression
• How to write a song from a melody
• How to write melodies
• How to write harmonies
• How to work out keys and scales
• Pentatonic scales
• PDF eBook included in this course too.
• And more
What you'll learn in this course will improve your music theory skills and can also help improve your songwriting abilities in any Digital Audio Workstation.
Learn to love music theory and create electronic music with these easy-to-learn techniques.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and we'll see you in lesson 1.
Cheers,
Tomas.
In this video, I give you a quick overview of what you are going to learn in this Music Theory for Electronic Producers course.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, you will learn about how to use Udemy's user interface so that you can get the most out of this course.
Attached to this article, is the downloadable PDF Guidebook for this course.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain some of the music theory terminology that will be used in this course and what the different music theory terms actually mean.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about the keyboard layout on your Digital Audio Workstation and how you can work out the different notes on the keyboard.
Knowing the notes of a keyboard is essential for knowing about music theory and for writing your own music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain the techniques used to work out a major scale and how you can easily do this for any musical key.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain what Perfect 5ths are and how you can use them for writing harmonies for your own music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain what 3rds are and how you can tell the difference between major 3rds and minor 3rds.
I also explain why you should use 3rds for writing your own music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain what chord progressions are and how to write your own.
I also show you some of the most common chord progressions used in music today!
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain what Perfect 4ths are and how you can use them for writing harmonies for your own music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write chords and also invert these chords.
Creating chords and using inversions are essential to learn for creating your own electronic music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write chords and also invert these chords.
Creating chords and using inversions is an essential to learn for creating your own electronic music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain what chords progressions are and how to write your own.
I also show you some of the most common chords progressions used in music today!
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I go into more detail about inversions and how you can use inversions to improve some of your chords for your own electronic music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about 7th chords and explain the different types of 7th chords and how you can use them in your own electronic music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about more chord extensions, such as 9th and 11th chords and how you can use them when creating your own electronic music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about suspended chords and how you can use them in your own electronic music to create suspension.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I explain the circle of 5ths diagram and how you can use this to work out relative majors, minors and modulation.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about minor scales and the patterns and techniques used so that you can work out any natural minor scale.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about the chords and how to build chords in the natural minor scale.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about the other two minor scales, which are the Harmonic and Melodic Minor scales and what they can be used for. I also show you patterns and techniques so that you can work out these scales.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write a song starting by writing chords and then adding a melody.
This technique is very common and in this lecture, we use some of the patterns and techniques used from the previous lecture for building a song from chords.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write a song starting by writing a melody and then adding the chords.
This technique is also very common and in this lecture, we use some of the patterns and techniques used from the previous lecture for building a melody.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how you can use arpeggios to add more movement and countermelodies to your songs.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write bass parts for your own music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to write bass riffs and also how you can adapt your melodies.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the chords the way I did.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the chords like this.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the melody the way I did.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I arranged the way I did.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you another one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the chords like this.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you another of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the melody the way I did.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you another one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the chords like this.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you another one of my tracks and I deconstruct and show and show you how and why I wrote the melodies and arranged the track.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to create a song starting from a drum beat and then building a track from there.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what modes are and how you can use them for your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Ionian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to create a song starting from a chord progression and then building a track from there.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to create a song starting from a melody and then building a track from there.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I show you how to create a song starting from a melody and then building a track from there.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Dorian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Phrygian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Lydian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Mixolydian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Aeolian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the Locrian mode is and how it is different from a major scale.
I also explain how you can work out how to use this mode for writing your music.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I give an on-screen example in Ableton Live and I show you how you can use the Dorian mode to create your own track and also how it's different from a regular major scale.
In this Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers lecture, I talk about what the major and minor Pentatonic scales are and how you can use them.
I also give an on-screen example of the major and minor Pentatonic scales and how to use these scales with either a major or minor chord progression.
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