Classics: Harmony Bundle - Learn Melody, Chords and Arrangement for Electronic Music
Learn Music Theory & Make Better Music About the Harmony Bundle How can you stand out as a producer? It starts with a solid foundation in music theory. If your melodies, chord chan ges or arrangements aren't working, your music won't work, no matter how good your other producing skills are. This bundle includes 3 courses covering all the foundations of music theory. These courses are designed for electronic music producers - we are going to take the perspective of someone working inside a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) - like Logic, Ableton Live, FL Studio. No additional software required to use this bundle. Use with any DAW. You Will Learn to: Finish More Tracks Faster: escape the 8-bar loop, understand modern arrangements that excite listeners from beginning to end. Write amazing chord progressions: chords, scales, from the basics to complex progressions. Create Original Melodies: learn the process for making melodies that capture listeners' attention + Much More What You Get Course: Better Arrangements Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions Course: How To Write Melodies BONUS: Dreamy Song Starters Midi Pack - 50+ Midi Files Learn Writing Chords and Progressions pmlApiHelpers.replaceThumbnailWithHtml("handcytcont", "handcyt", ``) About this Course Do you have problems coming up with good sounding chords and progressions? Then this Step by Step guide is for you! Write chords. Starting with basics of harmony & chord progressions, you'll learn how to write awesome chord progressions for your own music. Practical. This course is made for electronic music producers, offering many practial examples and writing sessions for different styles. Detailed. It's like being together in the studio. We are commenting and explaining every step in detail, so you can follow along. What you will learn from this course Part 1: You are going to learn the basics of harmony and chord progressions. Part 2: You will learn how to come up with great sounding harmonies and chord progressions and how to find voicings "that work" in your own compositions and make them sound more interesting. Part 3: You will find practical writing sessions for different styles such as Deep House, Melodic Deep, Future Bass, EDM, Summer Vibes, Progressive House and Techno. Along the way, we are going through many nice sound examples and sharing a lot of our specific composition knowledge and experience. Course Curriculum Introduction: Harmony & Chord Progressions 1 - Introduction to the Course / Downloads (2:00) Western Harmony Basics Part 1 2 - Overview and Definition of a Chord (3:19) 3 - Example: Chords vs. Melodies - Its about the Instruments! (2:13) 4 - Intervals (7:01) 5 - What is a Scale? C Major Scale (9:56) 6 - Triads - Thirds & Fifths, Minor vs Major, Being in "Key" (7:48) Western Harmony Basics Part 2 Free Previews 7 - The Diatonic Chords of C Major (6:24) 8 - Roman Numerals and Scale Degrees (6:53) 9 - Inversions (11:54) Free Preview 10 - Transposing (5:38) Free Preview 11 - The Natural Minor Scale (2:04) 12 - Relative Minor, Circle of Fifths (3:19) Types of Chords 13 - Sevenths Chords (7:43) 14 - Added Tone Chords (8:59) 15 - Sus Chords (4:19) 16 - Example: Sus Chords (4:18) 17 - Chord "Finder" (1:44) 18 - Power Chords (5:32) 19 - Arpeggios (3:12) Chord Progressions Free Previews 20 - Chord Substitution (7:16) 21 - Example: Chord Substitution (5:26) 22 - Voicing (9:36) 23 - What makes a "good" Chord Progression? (6:21) Free Preview 24 - Analysis of a "good" Chord Progression (7:09) Free Preview 25 - Borrowed Chords (2:21) 26 - Parallel Minor - Chord Borrowing (2:26) 27 - Parallel Major/Minor Scales - More Chord Borrowing (5:21) 28 - Secondary Dominants (6:01) 29 - Diatonic Passing Chords (3:47) 30 - Chromatic Passing Chords (4:24) 31 - Modulation (2:32) Examples: Chord "Magic" 32 - Chord Magic (1) - Analysis and Examples (8:00) 33 - Chord Magics - Sound Example 1 (1:42) 34 - Chord Magics - Sound Example 2 (0:35) 35 - Chord Magics - Sound Example 3 (0:49) 36 - Chord Magics - Sound Example 4 (0:34) Bonus - Writing Sessions - Part 1 Free Preview 37 - Writing a Melody with the C Major Scale (Francois) (23:07) 38 - Writing a EDM-ish Melody with the A-Minor Scale (Francois) (11:30) Free Preview 39 - Creating an EDM Chord Progression and Melody (Tom) (22:33) 40 - Writing Tropical Summer House Chords and Melody in Amin (Tom) (29:19) 41 - Writing a Future Bass Track from Scratch (Tom) (39:10) 42 - Writing Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch (Tom) (27:34) Bonus - Writing Sessions - Part 2 43 - Bonus Session: Writing Chords & Melody in the Style of "Snake" (16:49) 44 - Writing Session #1 - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno (30:16) 45 - Writing Session #2 - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno with Moog Bass (22:56) 46 - Writing Session #3 - Hirajoshi Scale (7:59) 47 - Writing Session #4 - EDM Progressive House "Dramatic" Progression in F-Minor (8:23) 48 - Writing Session #5 - Melodic Deep in Style of Caribou, Clawz SG, Anjunadeep (G# Minor) (33:15) 49 - Writing Session #6 - Chords & Melody in the Style of Blomqvist, Bohmer, Melodic Deep (14:49) 50 - Writing Session #7 - Chords & Melody using the Approach of Deadmau5 (9:42) 51 - Turning "Havana" Into A New Chord Progression And Melody - (Session with Alex) (16:12) 52 - Writing Session (No Comment) - Chords in the style of Armas, Dinka, EDX, Nore En Pure (9:28) 54 - Writing Session #8 - Writing 6 Chord Progressions (by ear) with Francois (31:04) Write Better Melodies, Make Better Music pmlApiHelpers.replaceThumbnailWithHtml("mfytbgcont", "mfytbg", ``) About this Course Do you have problems writing catchy Melodies? Then this Step by Step guide is for you! Write melodies. Starting with the basic concepts around melodies, you'll learn how to come up with awesome melodies for your own music. Practical. This course is made for electronic music producers, offering many practial examples and writing sessions for different styles. Detailed. It's like being together in the studio. We are commenting and explaining every step in detail so you can follow along No extra software required. What you will learn from this course Part 1: We are going to learn the basic concepts around melodies, making use of many examples. Part 2: We will take a deeper look into scales and modes as starting points for more advanced and intentional melody writing. We will learn how to come up with great melodies, using different scales and modes, "that work" in your own compositions and make them sound more interesting and unique. Part 3: You will find practical writing sessions for different styles such as Deep House, Future Bass, EDM, Summer Vibes, Progressive House and Melodic Deep / Techno. Along the way, we are going through many nice sound examples and sharing a lot of our specific composition knowledge and experience. Course Curriculum Introduction: Melody Course Free Previews Introduction (1:06) Free Preview Looking At Some Common Melody Problems (6:51) Free Preview Downloads Refresher: Music Theory & Harmony 1 - What is a Scale and the C Major Scale (9:56) 2 - The Natural Minor Scale (2:04) 3 - Relative Minor, Circle of Fifths (3:19) 4 - Triads - Thirds & Fifths, Minor vs Major, Being in "Key" (7:48) Melody Basics 1 - Definition of A Melody (using 3 Examples) (8:38) 2 - The Intervals Part 1 (9:56) 3 - The Pentatonic Scale - Start here to Simplify your Scale Life (6:45) 4 - A Minor - A Minor Pentatonic (4:46) The Foundations of Great Melodies - Part 1 1 - Melody Foundations 1: Tell a Story (5:20) 2 - Melody Foundations 2: Range (3:02) 3 - Melody Foundations 3: Q&A, Repetition & Variation (6:24) 4 - Melody Foundations 4: Steps, Skips, Leaps and Rhythm (9:24) 5 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody for Melodic Techno (16:46) 6 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody for EDM (6:59) The Foundations of Great Melodies - Part 2 Free Preview 1 - How to Establish a Tonal Center for your Melody (7:54) 2 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody - Summer Beat (8:49) 3 - The Tritone: An Example (3:14) 4 - The Intervals Part 2 - Properties (11:59) 5 - Intervals: The Millennium Whoop (3:18) 6 - Beginner Scale Trick: Transpose to a Scale you know well (3:27) 7 - How to find Chords for any Melody (15:22) Free Preview 8 - Practical Session: Writing a simple Melody - Pop/Future Bass (11:54) Using Modes To Set The Mood 1 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 1 (8:05) 2 - Modes Example: Dorian (9:08) 3 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 2 (9:17) 4 - Modes: Fundamental Concept 3 (3:42) 5 - Modes Example Lydian + The Gist (7:41) 6 - Modes: Sum Up and Take Aways (4:22) 7 - Practical Session: Writing a Melody in F Phrygian (Festival Style) (14:16) Interesting Scales For Writing Melodies 1 - The Blues Scale (5:04) 2 - The Harmonic Minor Scale (2:16) 3 - The Hungarian Minor Scale (4:11) 4 - The Hirajoshi Scale (4:18) Bonus Videos - Writing Sessions #1 Free Preview 1 - Writing a Melody with the C Major Scale (Francois) (23:09) 2 - Writing a EDM-ish Melody with the A-Minor Scale (Francois) (11:32) Free Preview 3 - Creating an EDM Chord Progression and Melody (Tom) (22:35) 4 - Writing Tropical Summer House Chords and Melody in Amin (Tom) (29:21) 5 - Writing a Future Bass Track from Scratch (Tom) (39:12) 6 - Writing Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch (Tom) (27:36) Bonus Videos - Writing Sessions #2 Free Preview 1 - Writing Session - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno (30:16) 2 - Writing Session - Chords and Melody - Melodic Deep / Techno with Moog Bass (22:56) 3 - Writing Session - Hirajoshi Scale (7:59) 4 - Writing Session - EDM Progressive House "Dramatic" Progression in F-Minor (8:23) 5 - Writing Session - Uplifting Summer House Chords in C#-Minor (21:21) Free Preview Bonus Session: Writing "Snake" Chords & Melody (16:51) Get Out of the Loop and Finish Your Tracks pmlApiHelpers.replaceThumbnailWithHtml("dpwaphcont", "dpwaph", ``) About this Course Is easy for you to come up with creative ideas and good loops but you have some trouble turning them into a whole song ? Then this course is for you! We take you from basic musical structures, to genre specific standards for many types of modern electronic music like Techno, Future Bass, Pop, House and Melodic Techno. You will get a perfect starting point and a lot of practical tips & tricks for your productions. This course doesn't require any software. What you will learn from this course How to escape an 8-bar loop Understand the basic concept of modern music Professional tips to structure your song How to structure your song so that it will fit the requirements Practical approaches to turn your ideas into a full songs Understand the characteristics of each part of a working arrangement Tension & release Energy vs. release The pop form Concept of contrast Proportions The subtractive approach The culmination drop The minimal drop The fancy drop Verse - construction part The build up The bridge Course Curriculum Intro and Basics Free Preview Welcome and Introduction (1:19) Free Preview Downloads What is a Bar? (3:13) Part 1 - Foundations Free Previews The Pop Form (8:00) Free Preview Pop Form vs. Descriptive Arrangement (7:28) Concept of Contrast - Practical Tips (5:27) Concept of Tension & Release (2:27) Tension & Release - Practical Tips (3:11) Free Preview Proportions (2:02) Part 2 - Arrangement Elements Free Preview Build Up (4:28) The Drop (8:14) Free Preview Verse - Construction Part (3:15) Analysis of a Melodic Techno Track (9:34) Part 3 - Practical Sessions From an 8 Bar Techno Loop to Full Arrangement (25:49) From an 8 Bar Melodic Techno Loop to Full Arrangement (20:08) Part 4 - Bonus Sessions - Practical Practical Session - Arrangement Tips To Make Your Tracks More Interesting (Techno, Deep) (21:54) Studio Session - Arranging An 8 Bar Melodic Deep Loop Into A Full Song In Ableton (30:27) Studio Session - 7 Arrangement Tips (While Finishing a Classic Trance Track with Ableton Live) (39:53) BONUS: 50+ MIDI files Dreamy Song Starters Midi Pack What's Inside The package contains around 50+ high-quality MIDI files, including chord progressions (pads), plucks, arpeggios, leads, and bass midis. Check out the demo playback above, to get an idea, how the chords might sound. You don't need to have any specific software installed. MIDI Pack works with every DAW. Tutorial: How To Find Chords For Any Melody Watch Now Take Your Skills to the Next LEVEL Professional Tutors For over 5 years Production Music Live has created educational content for electronic music producers. Over 10,000 students have purchased our courses and 200,000+ producers subscribe to our channels on Youtube and Instagram. 12+ Hours of Lessons Over the course of 100+ lessons in arrangement, harmony, melodies and more you'll learn how to make original chord changes, catchier melodies, and arrangements that excite and engage your listeners. Great Pricing Similiar courses sell for hundreds of dollars, university courses in music theory can cost thousands of dollars, the Harmony Bundle offers more music theory education for a fraction of the price. 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